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HANSARD Food SecurityI will hear nothing negative said about Cambridge, given my connection with King’s College; I have never knowingly been to Croydon, so I cannot comment on it. What is certainly…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityWith the perception for which my hon. Friend is already becoming known in the House, she anticipates the next part of my peroration. She represents an area that I know well; it is…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityI know that some of those proposed developments are in the constituency of my hon. Friend, to whom I am happy to give way.30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityPope Benedict said that “food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the…30 Jul 2024HANSARDMill Field Housing Development Proposals in Market DeepingI rise to present a petition on behalf of my constituents, just shy of 2,000 of whom have signed a petition calling on the House of Commons to protect Market Deeping’s much loved…30 Jul 2024HANSARDLebanonI welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his place; he is not technically a right hon. Friend, but he has been a personal friend of mine since my original attempt to stop him being…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Building HomesI welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I welcome the Secretary of State to her new role. I appreciate that she will not have time today to wax lyrical about her…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityI see that the hon. Gentleman is gagging for a bite already. I give way to him.30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityI was in the Chamber when my hon. Friend held that debate; I rushed there when I saw his name on the screen, as I so often do. He was right to highlight the National Grid…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityThe previous Government, albeit belatedly, changed planning guidance to give additional protection to grade 1, 2 and 3a land of the kind that I described. Furthermore, they said…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityI do not make a habit of saying kind things about Liberals of any description, but I am going to say something quite kind to the hon. Gentleman because he is right to draw…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseI welcome the Leader of the House to her place, and may I say initially that I am sure she is a very good mum, actually? When the Government abandoned the plan to process illegal…25 Jul 2024HANSARD Criminal LawI welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have only three brief points to make. First, we need an honest debate in this place about the purpose of prison. It is true…25 Jul 2024HANSARDImmigration and Home AffairsIt is a great pleasure to serve in the Chamber with you in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. I wish the new Government Front-Bench team well. They know that I have high regard for…23 Jul 2024HANSARDImmigration and Home AffairsI imagine you will not allow me to talk about the fall from the state of grace and the character of sin, Mr Deputy Speaker, but let me say briefly to the hon. Lady that human…23 Jul 2024HANSARDImmigration and Home AffairsCommunity sentences can play a part, that is true, but my hon. Friend will recall that the problem I described earlier of misunderstanding crime as an illness to be treated has…23 Jul 2024HANSARD Debate on the AddressI would not normally intervene having just entered the House, but knowing that my friend, the hon. Member for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey), was speaking, I felt I ought to come…17 Jul 2024HANSARD AI Seoul SummitI thought the shadow Minister was wise to draw attention to the potential benefits of AI in particular for health research and treatment—notably brain injury, a subject in which…23 May 2024HANSARDNational Grid Proposals: North East LincolnshireMy hon. Friend is generous in allowing me to intervene to emphasise the case for South Holland and The Deepings, which faces exactly the menace he describes. What is proposed…23 May 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday in the House, every single Member was moved by the account of my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay)…23 May 2024