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HANSARD Town and Country PlanningWill the Minister give way?30 Sept 2020HANSARDSupport for Self-employed and Freelance WorkersWill my hon. Friend allow me to assert the fact that some people who are self-employed have been able to get back to work, but many involved in large industries such as culture,…17 Sept 2020HANSARD History Curriculum: Black HistoryI am very glad that my right hon. Friend has brought this subject to the House and I would normally speak if I could, but I spoke yesterday so I will not. Can she confirm that…08 Sept 2020HANSARDHousing Developments: West SussexMay I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) that I am glad he secured this debate? I fear the penalty may be that he will be taken into…07 Sept 2020HANSARDBBCMay I remind the Minister that the BBC has chosen the option that he put forward as a Back Bencher on 11 June 2019, at columns 552-53 of Hansard, when he pointed out that the cost…21 Jul 2020HANSARDLeasehold and Commonhold ReformWhat his timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals on leasehold and commonhold reform. [R]20 Jul 2020HANSARDLeasehold and Commonhold ReformMr Speaker, if you and the Minister came to Worthing station and walked from there to my flat, you would walk past a site where Homes England could help Worthing Borough Council…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of DeathTo ask the Foreign Secretary if he will make a statement on whether he will use the UK’s constructive dialogue with the Government of Bahrain publicly to raise the cases of two…09 Jul 2020HANSARDBahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of DeathThe House will be grateful to the Minister. I want to make it plain that the first constituency case I took was of someone who I thought had been wrongly convicted in this…09 Jul 2020HANSARDEconomic UpdateI welcome the positive approach that the Chancellor and the Government are taking. Were we to ask them, I think many MPs who will not be able to ask a question today would share…08 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I hope you will allow me to ask the Prime Minister also to welcome the birthday of the Primate of England—the 2007 Yorkshireman of the year—the Archbishop of York, who…10 Jun 2020HANSARD Parliamentary Constituencies BillI am aware that boundary changes can make a difference to MPs and their prospects. When the boundary changes came in before the 1997 election, the ones proposed in my former seat…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Housing MarketThe Secretary of State is right to talk about people living their lives. Most of the people going to new homes will be going to leasehold ones. When will he, and we, act to ban…13 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI ask if we can all recognise the loving care by social services staff and NHS staff, especially those who have to go on hot or cold visits to people’s homes—not only the…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19As the honorary president of the British International Freight Association, I thank the Foreign Secretary for his words about the freight forwarders and their job in keeping goods…17 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19There are many young people in my constituency, but when I was first elected it had the highest proportion of people above retirement age in the country. Most of those people are…16 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI agree. I also think it would be a good idea in the medium term if the Government and the investment sector found ways of taking freeholds and landlordism away from some of the…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI think the most challenging speech after the Chancellor’s was the one by the Leader of the Opposition, and he discharged it well. The most challenging to listen to was the one by…11 Mar 2020HANSARDBBC Licence FeeI say to the Government, through my hon. Friend, that the question underlying all this is the one identified by the Canadian broadcasting pioneer Graham Spry in 1932: “It is a…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' AccessI do not think that anything has happened so far that matches what Alastair Campbell did in trying to get political editors sacked and saying that the then Government would not…04 Feb 2020