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HANSARD The Modern Commonwealth: Opportunities and ChallengesMay I suggest to my hon. Friend that, as and when Commonwealth parliamentarians get together, they ought to work how to force on to the agenda the scandalous discrimination…07 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it customary for the Member who is speaking to provoke a Minister into looking at her directly and then to say that he is somehow interrupting…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillEssentially, what the House understood by the Minister’s first remark and his reformulation is that short-term temptations can lead to situations that are adverse and undesirable.05 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityIf the Minister will not say this, may I? That increase does not go to half our overseas pensioners, including those in South Africa, Canada and Australia and other places—50…04 Mar 2019HANSARDRetirement of the Clerk of the HouseIn the absence of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) and the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner), both of whom have served here longer than…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Cairncross ReviewI say with too little pride that when BBC Children in Need showed a programme about MPs playing football, I let in a goal at Wembley, but Gordon Banks let in more. When it comes…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Teacher Recruitment and Retention StrategyAs I said in October 1990 when I raised the question of leadership with the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher—especially mentioning Peter Dawson, who had run Eltham Green…28 Jan 2019HANSARDVenezuelaIt is only two weeks since the BBC 2 film “Revolution in Ruins”, on the legacy of Hugo Chavez, was broadcast, previewing what became worse with Maduro. Will my right hon. Friend…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayThis House, and the memory of those who died in the holocaust, have been honoured by the speech that we heard from the hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin), and I thank him…24 Jan 2019HANSARDTower Blocks: Dangerous CladdingI agree with my hon. Friend that it is not a very bright idea to be partisan about this, given that the majority of the non-private blocks are probably in Labour-controlled…22 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActThe UK is to leave the EU. That decision was taken two years ago. The question is whether we crash out or support the withdrawal agreement, to be followed by a period of…15 Jan 2019