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HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI will give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is going to tell me why we should.26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI tell you, there are two things about this legislation—26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI said “two”. I said that there were two things about this legislation.26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI agree that it would be better if children were able to avoid either first-hand or second-hand smoke. We have to stop young people themselves smoking. Sadly, too many people do…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipBefore I call our final two speakers, may I thank colleagues for their brevity, particularly Clive, Paul and Brian—and Jim, whom I did not give much choice in the matter? That has…24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipSpeak for as long as you like!24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipOrder. I advise the hon. Member that I would like him to wind up his speech in a few moments so that I can get the other speakers in, so it would probably be better if he did not…24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipI call Brian Mathew. You have four minutes.24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipMuch appreciated. Jim Shannon, you have two minutes.24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipThank you, Minister. I call Paul Davies to wind up the debate.24 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: UK MembershipOrder. The hon. Gentleman knows to speak through the Chair. He is just about getting away with it. That was a good exchange, but let us continue.24 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister and I disagree on much—the family farm tax, the national insurance jobs tax and the cut in winter fuel payments—but we surely agree that the common good is…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThose of us who have been in government know that when new Ministers come to power—perhaps as innocent and heartfelt as the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell)—often ideas…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWomen’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationIn working alongside the hon. Member for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey) and the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) for today’s debate, I met many WASPI women, and have…17 Mar 2025HANSARDWomen’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationI am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making a powerful and eloquent case. He is absolutely right that the issue goes beyond even the just case of the WASPI women to…17 Mar 2025HANSARDWomen’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationOur greatest Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, said that “power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the people.” Being held to account cements the…17 Mar 2025HANSARDWomen’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationI rise for two purposes. The first is to put it on the record that the hon. Lady, alongside others, has made an outstanding contribution to this campaign; she has been a notable…17 Mar 2025HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 21 May 2024, the former Defence Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison), published records…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Gentleman is coming to his exciting peroration, so I just wanted to say that he is absolutely right about the feckless behaviour of corporate businesses that disregard…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the problem in universities. It has particularly found form in no-platforming speakers deemed to be unacceptable or to make…11 Mar 2025