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HANSARDPolling Stations: Blind and Visually Impaired VotersAll voters, including blind and visually impaired voters, should be able to vote independently and secretly. In its reports on elections in 2024 and 2025, the commission found…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDPolling Stations: Blind and Visually Impaired VotersAs I have said, the commission will review what happened in the May 2026 polls and make any further recommendations it feels necessary as a result. The hon. Lady makes two…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDPolling Stations: Blind and Visually Impaired VotersI will certainly make sure the commission hears what the hon. Gentleman has said. He will appreciate that judgments on these things are often for returning officers or for those…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) Bill (Allocation of Time)Will the Home Secretary give way?17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) BillI think we agree about the threat we face and about its scale. We do not need to spend the four hours allocated for this debate sharing that agreement, as the hon. Member for…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) BillI will come to exactly that point about the carve-outs. It is, I think, evident from a close reading of the Bill that the Government’s approach to the first of the new offences it…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) Bill (Allocation of Time)I am bound to say that the Home Secretary, for whom I have huge respect, is wrong to suggest that she cannot take interventions because of a lack of time—she has decided that…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) BillI was going to ask the Home Secretary later but, as she has raised the matter, perhaps I can ask her this now. On proposed new section 17C of the National Security Act and,…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARD National Security (State Threats) BillMy right hon. Friend and Committee colleague is right in what he says, and I will come back to how and why we distinguish what the Bill proposes from the proscription regime. On…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDNational Security (State Threats) BillWe need to be clear about which provisions relate to which offences. The offence that I think the Minister has heard concern expressed about, and to which amendment 3 relates, is…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDNational Security (State Threats) BillI am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way again. I hope she accepts that I am genuinely trying to ensure that I have understood correctly how the test is supposed to…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDCommunity HospitalsI am grateful to all Back-Bench contributors to the debate. We now move to the Front-Bench speeches, beginning with the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDCommunity HospitalsOrder. I thank the hon. Lady for opening the debate, and remind all Back-Bench colleagues who wish to speak that they should continue to bob—not right now, but as the debate…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDSocial Media Ban for Under-16sThere is a great deal to welcome in what the Secretary of State has said, but she will know that detail really matters, so can I ask her two points of detail arising from her…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI will focus my remarks on clauses 1 to 3 of the Bill and the breadth of the powers that they give to the Secretary of State. I start with the meaning of a “steel undertaking” in…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI understand the logic of the hon. Gentleman’s argument. He has referred several times to the series of proposals being made in Committee by the Conservative party, as outlined by…08 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI recognise that the hon. Gentleman does not normally engage in the detail of legislation, but if he did, he would know that this is the Committee stage, where we look at the…08 Jun 2026HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenThe Minister is aware of my concern about the interaction between whatever the Government choose to ban and the workings of the Online Safety Act 2023 that we already have. I know…08 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI do agree with the point that the hon. Lady makes, and I think that that argument was put very forcefully and eloquently by the hon. Member for Pontypridd, which she may have…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think we may have to wait for the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister to explain the position from the Government’s perspective. I can say only that what was put in front of…03 Jun 2026