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HANSARD BBC World Service FundingI thank the hon. Lady and all those who have contributed for their self-discipline and collaboration, which has enabled us to make it through with everyone speaking. I now come to…26 Jun 2025HANSARD BBC World Service FundingI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for not mentioning the thing he has just mentioned. [ Laughter. ]26 Jun 2025HANSARD BBC World Service FundingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We have finished early, so now everyone can get into more coffee queues with Ministers. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House…26 Jun 2025HANSARD National Security StrategyThe right hon. Gentleman’s long experience will tell him that sometimes in government the grander the language the less significant the actual announcement. But if on this…24 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Maureen Burke) and many others who have given brave testimony of their own personal experience in this matter.…20 Jun 2025HANSARDHS2 ResetThe Secretary of State knows that HS2 runs through my constituency, and she will accept that what makes my constituents particularly angry about what she has described is that HS2…18 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful for the consideration the Secretary of State has already given to finding a fairer and more effective way of compensating those injured by a covid vaccination, but…17 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillIn view of the pressure on time, I will limit my remarks to amendment 141, in my name. The Bill, as we have heard, seeks to do many things, but one of them is to accelerate the…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe policy of successive UK Governments has been that the United Kingdom will recognise the state of Palestine when it is conducive to the peace process and the ultimate…04 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am conscious of the confines of the Minister’s role in the process, but what assessment have the Government made of the capacity of a panel to investigate for itself anything…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI understand the hon. Lady’s point and I have seen her amendments on the subject, which are very sensible. We need to think about the way in which the panel process will actually…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIn view of the number of hon. Members who wish to speak in the debate, I will restrict my remarks to amendments 47, 48 and 49, which stand in my name and the names of others. The…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI certainly am, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am doing my best, I hope as briefly as I can, to explain these technical amendments in a hugely important Bill, in a part of the Bill that…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. I think we can expect that the psychiatrist on the panel will subject the requirement on mental capacity, in particular, to some…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI understand my right hon. Friend’s point, but I am not sure I entirely agree with him. I think some of the procedural problems I am describing would have existed even with the…16 May 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthThe Secretary of State knows that High Speed 2’s central purpose is to deliver economic growth, but she knows, too, that it is taking far longer and costing far more to deliver…15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsAlthough the Government should have volunteered to defend their position, I accept, having held ministerial responsibility for the prison estate, that they had no good options at…15 May 2025HANSARD Ministerial Code: ComplianceI think it would be fair to say that this is not the first Government who have disregarded this particular provision of the ministerial code, but may I put it to the Leader of the…14 May 2025HANSARDChurches and Religious Buildings: CommunitiesWe have five more speakers and about 10 minutes left, which means, I am afraid, about two minutes each.13 May 2025HANSARDChurches and Religious Buildings: CommunitiesI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. We will need to move to Front-Bench speeches at just before 10.30 am, so if colleagues can keep their speeches to around three minutes,…13 May 2025