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HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, you and the Prime Minister will be welcome in the Arun district of my constituency, where developers are trying to build over every vineyard, horticultural nursery and…20 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is good to hear inclusive politics. May I ask the Leader of the House whether, following consultations, there might be a statement before or after Easter on inclusivity in…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am glad to follow both Front Benchers, who have given a lead to the House. It is interesting to consider whether it would have been right 90 years ago to identify as a threat…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsIt is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry). I was waiting to hear how the experiment with higher taxation is going. I…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI probably did, you know. I am that sort of person. There are many things on the environmental side that I will not go into due to the limitations on time. I hope that the…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Security of Elected RepresentativesIt has been an honour to listen both to the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis), and my right hon. Friend the Minister. I stand with three…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In my question to the Leader of the House about the announcement of the winning designer of the holocaust memorial project, I referred…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseFollowing the comments made by the shadow Leader of the House about risk-based exclusion, I am glad that motion is not coming forward next week, as there should be more…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Leasehold Reform and New HomesI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Neil O’Brien) and to the hon. Member for Selby and Ainsty (Keir Mather). They both spoke well yesterday on Report on the…28 Feb 2024HANSARD Leasehold Reform and New HomesI should have said that I am a leaseholder. Let us say that one of my grandchildren was buying a freehold property where there was a requirement to pay charges. The idea that the…28 Feb 2024HANSARDUkraine: Military EquipmentThe Minister says the training started in 2014, which is the year after the House took, in my view, the wrong decision in the Syria vote; it led to Russia giving help to Assad,…27 Feb 2024HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI draw to the hon. Lady’s attention and that of the Minister the article by Patrick Hosking in The Times today, which deals with estate management companies and estate management…27 Feb 2024HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI agree with a large part of what the Opposition spokesperson, the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Matthew Pennycook) said, and with nearly all of what my hon. Friend the…27 Feb 2024HANSARDNational HIV Testing WeekI am glad the hon. Lady is making the important point that women are particularly at risk of non-diagnosis. She rightly mentions some Labour people who made important…08 Feb 2024HANSARDNational HIV Testing WeekAt the conclusion of the debate, I am going to take an HIV test. I do not expect it to have a surprising result, but I think that unless people like me set an example, we cannot…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Protest MeasuresIt is an honour to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis), who has just put a question to my right hon. and gallant Friend the Minister for Security.…08 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformThe House enjoyed the words of the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting), although I am not sure how many he wrote himself; some may have seemed…07 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandAs one who in living memory served as a Minister responsible for the environment and for agriculture in Northern Ireland because the Northern Ireland political process was not…01 Feb 2024HANSARDMedia BillThe House will have listened with interest to the Minister’s response to the points made by Members from across the Chamber, but the Government have got to try to sort this out…30 Jan 2024HANSARDMedia BillI am grateful to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for previewing the suggestion that time-shifted excerpts from listed events be available…30 Jan 2024