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HANSARD Population Growth: Impact of ImmigrationMy hon. Friend encourages me to digress, though within the scope of the matter before us. There is a macroeconomic lesson that needs to be taught to the Treasury and the Office…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Population Growth: Impact of ImmigrationOf course, when people arrive in the country, there is no accounting for where they choose to go. They will typically go to places where there is work, understandably; we would,…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Population Growth: Impact of ImmigrationOn a point of order, Mr Paisley. Hyperbole is one thing; calumnies are another. I did not mention people in this country not having children. I did not mention families. I do not…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Population Growth: Impact of ImmigrationHuge, vast population growth may be seen by out-of-touch bourgeois liberals as a quick fix for our economy, but what the vast majority of the public know is that it fuels a…27 Jun 2023HANSARD National Security BillBrevity is my middle name, Madam Deputy Speaker, as I shall illustrate in this short, pithy but powerful address. I have only three points to make. The first is that, as members…26 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonWill the right hon. Lady give way?19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonBefore my hon. Friend moves on to those other things, I want to reinforce the point he has made about calumnies in this House. By far the greatest deception I have seen in this…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPrivilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris JohnsonI heard several of the speeches prior to the right hon. Lady’s, but I am grateful to her for giving way none the less. My hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) made…19 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseRegretfully, the subject of dangerous dogs is salient again. Deep regrets born of the most tragic events.; just last month a 37-year-old man was killed in Greater Manchester;…15 Jun 2023HANSARDStudent VisasI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As the Minister considers work visas, which have exploded, displacing investment in domestic skills…24 May 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 2023I am pleased to hear that. But I do revere Edmund Burke. It was Burke who said: “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” So when the Government…16 May 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 2023I am immensely grateful to the Minister for giving way. Is it not true that every contemporary polity —I am speaking now of democratic countries—has some constraints on protest? A…16 May 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 2023I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way again. I do not, unlike my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis), revere the European…16 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsIt is through Lincolnshire’s roads that foodstuffs grown in our fine county are transported across the nation, but the highways authority struggles to fund the roads because of…10 May 2023HANSARD UK Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots SportBrain injury blights thousands of lives each year. The Minister is to be congratulated, as are his immediate predecessors, for taking the issue more seriously than it has been…02 May 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI rise simply to say that the engagement we have had with my right hon. Friend and his Department throughout this process has been exemplary. It has been a model for how good…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI gave the example of a case that was not about immigration but about something as vivid as the issue of immigration: prisoner voting. Successive Governments—Labour and…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI will not because time does not allow. The amendment I tabled in Committee, which has now been brought forward by the Government, will put in place scientific tests to establish…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillThe hon. Lady will know that I tabled an amendment in Committee which the Government have now refashioned and tabled on Report, precisely because there is a pedigree for such…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration Billrose —26 Apr 2023