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HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Further to that point of order, Mrs Cummins. Since we are having further points of order, I want to say to the Minister, and the shadow Minister, how grateful I think most of the…07 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Leader of the House will have heard me ask the Prime Minister a question yesterday about the threat to food security posed by a string of monstrous pylons that will run down…22 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsBritain’s food security, compromised by cheap foreign imports, now faces a parallel threat: all kinds of industrialisation of the countryside, from large solar plants to…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Independent School Fees: VATI am grateful to the Minister for giving way; I learned as a shadow Minister and a Minister that it is better to be gracious. The Minister will understand that one of the best…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]Hegel said, “What is reasonable is real, and what is real is reasonable.” In facing the very real threats that pervade, it is certainly reasonable that we equip those missioned to…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend has been immensely generous both in giving way and in his earlier comments about my role. Will he briefly deal with the issue of the other bodies with the…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]Our agreements are becoming rather less unusual. I do not know whether that gives the hon. and learned Lady any pleasure, or whether it causes her pain. None the less, she is…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend mentioned the ISC’s scrutiny of these matters. He will understand the concern about widening the number of people who can play the role previously played…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseI do not need to join the new organisation pointed out by the shadow Leader of the House because, as my friends the hon. Members for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery), for Caithness,…08 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformIn congratulating my right hon. Friend—my personal friend—on this welcome, excellent statement, may I ask her to forgive the ferocity with which my right hon. Friend the Member…07 Feb 2024HANSARD Police Grant ReportI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for the very good meeting he had with Lincolnshire MPs yesterday. As he is an outstanding Minister, he will appreciate that Lincolnshire,…07 Feb 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI think the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) has got a point about ACOBA, and so does Lord Pickles. Happily, I have never breached ACOBA’s rules or any…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingThe hon. Lady will be surprised to learn that I agree with some of what she has said. It would certainly be wrong of such companies to lobby Ministers on any interests that they…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseAs T. S. Eliot opined, time present and time past are inseparable, for we are what we remember—who we have known, where we have been, what we have done. When dementia robs people…25 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2024It is typical of the diligence of this Minister that he has brought this instrument to the House. He is right to do so, for he will know that it is vitally important, in the terms…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKI take my right hon. Friend’s point about commerciality, but the truth is that we can and should protect those core industries that are at the heart of our manufacturing capacity.…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKIs not the truth of the matter—I admired, by the way, the shadow Secretary of State’s rhetoric—that Port Talbot is a victim of climate militancy and extremism? Net zero zealots do…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The more that we make in this country—the more food we grow; the more products we produce—the more essential our manufacturing base becomes,…23 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillHe definitely is not. The amendments that disapply the Human Rights Act are fundamental to the Bill’s success. May I just say as an aside—it is, of course, entirely relevant to…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy right hon. Friend is, of course, right that it contradicts the long-established custom and practice that was the accepted basis for the rule of law in this country. He cites…17 Jan 2024