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HANSARDClonoe InquestI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for bringing this debate before the House, and for the quality of his exposition. Does he agree that this case highlights the single biggest…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryThe Minister knows the regard I have for him, but when he says he has appeared at the Dispatch Box many times with this information, he knows that it has had nothing to do with…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]rose —01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I just want to raise a small point. When I was doing some work on this matter for a previous Government, looking at what we could do with our regulations and standards on leaving…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am interested in the hon. Gentleman’s argument. I have been in this House for a little while; I have sat on both sides of the House, and I have been in government. I have never…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Foreign Influence Registration SchemeAlthough I welcome the Government’s invoking and activation of the FIRS scheme, like a curate’s egg, it is good, but there are missing bits. The elephant in the room—and it is a…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend was asked just now whether the previous Government were likely to have introduced this legislation. May I set the record straight? Had we done so, the Secretary of…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I have campaigned for greater regulation of bicycles, which have got away with killing individuals, not to mention e-bikes. I want to pick the Secretary of State up on a…01 Apr 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsThe hon. Member is talking about a critical area for us all. Those minerals are best described as the oil of the 21st century: who controls them controls the way we live our…26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsWill my hon. Friend give way?26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsOf course, that is a wish, not a reality. We have no way of ascertaining whether suppliers are buying from slave labour, and there is no punishment available should they be doing…26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsI need to deal with this point through my hon. Friend. The reality is that the Government already accept something on which I worked with them when they were in opposition, which…26 Mar 2025HANSARD UK-China RelationsMy hon. Friend is making a very good speech, but this is not just about human rights abuses. There is a reason that China uses slave labour—and it came from nowhere 10 or 12 years…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillI am grateful to be called at this point, Madam Deputy Speaker. Others will want to speak, so I will be as brief as I possibly can. As I said earlier, the Minister is incorrect in…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillThat is not altogether correct. The Minister will know full well that the Procurement Act can only be enacted once a supplier has had a conviction under section 54 of the Modern…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy condolences to my right hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman). Interestingly, his comments and his eulogy to his father at this particular…20 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThe Treasury always says to every new Government, “We have this jolly good idea. Just get rid of the winter fuel payment and save yourselves a lot of money.” We looked at that…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Paymentindicated dissent .19 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI will be as brief as possible because I know that others want to get in. Let me start with a general point. I have sat here long enough—not today, of course, but over the…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI take my right hon. Friend’s point into consideration. The point I was making is that we have had deaths on the street yet cyclists could not be prosecuted for having killed…10 Mar 2025