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HANSARDIndustrial Action on the RailwayI think the House will appreciate that the way to deal with increasing rail safety and reducing risk to rail workers is not really across the Floor of the House but between the…20 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationI have been listening to my hon. Friend with interest. How is Channel 4’s future brighter when it stands by itself if it is sold to a competitor? What is the gain?14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationIt is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Ochil and South Perthshire (John Nicolson). I do not think he needed to bring in party politics in the way that he did. I do not…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationAre those the most recent figures that the Department has? Many of us have been asking Channel 4 what its revenues were in the year that finished last year, and the growth in its…14 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyI apologise for not being able to miss a meeting that I have at five o’clock. My hon. Friend has talked about the vile way some people are treated, which probably includes the way…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Housing and Building SafetyI appreciate my right hon. Friend’s response to the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury). Not today, but will he and his colleagues turn their minds to how to…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOfwat: Strategic PrioritiesNot many in the House will have been able to attend the reception for World Oceans Day, where I congratulated Surfers Against Sewage on their 32 years of work trying to make sure…09 Jun 2022HANSARDPrivatisation of Channel 4The Secretary of State said that she wanted to remove the straitjacket from Channel 4. Except for the opportunity to borrow, which I did not know Channel 4 had asked for, the only…26 May 2022HANSARD Address to Her Majesty: Platinum JubileeI stand here between two Crowns: symbols of the fact that the Queen is an important part of the lawmaking process. We thank the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister for…26 May 2022HANSARDDebate on the AddressI will not at the moment. So far, I have only spoken about the speech of the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber; I have not started giving mine. Nothing I will say need…10 May 2022HANSARDDebate on the AddressMay I say to the parliamentary leader of the SNP, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford), that it is a delight to follow him? Sometimes it is more of a…10 May 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. If it is convenient to the House, I withdraw my previous motion to you. The point I want to raise now involves your role, Mr Speaker, in…28 Apr 2022HANSARD Points of Orderrose—28 Apr 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am happy to come first and last, because I have a second one on column 799 from yesterday about the Electoral Commission. My first one is about…28 Apr 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I put it to you that the House should have an urgent opportunity to debate the missing written statement or oral statement on the future of…28 Apr 2022HANSARD Points of OrderIf the other point of order is about the urgent question, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am happy to wait.27 Apr 2022HANSARDChannel 4 PrivatisationThe Minister may or may not have been convinced by the words that she read out, but I do not think that they convinced the House. Channel 4 is in the best state that it has been…27 Apr 2022HANSARD Points of OrderMay I say first, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I think we have the sense from both the Chair and the Chamber that the House would wish this to be an oral statement that the…27 Apr 2022HANSARD Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of PrivilegesI think the big distinction with Owen Paterson is that, when outside investigation showed what he had done was wrong, he did not accept it.21 Apr 2022HANSARD Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of PrivilegesPart of this is about the Prime Minister. My habit over 46 years has been not to make a public or private comment about a party leader, whether mine or someone else’s, and I do…21 Apr 2022