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HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentWill the Minister give way?19 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageNo one who cares about the future of our children and our grandchildren will gainsay the importance of carbon capture, but does the Secretary of State not understand that he is…18 Mar 2025HANSARDSentencing Council GuidelinesComing to this fresh, as one without a legal background, it seems to me that there are matters here of very great importance that ought to be properly debated by this House. Does…17 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh Street BusinessesThe high street trader John Lewis Partnership is announcing its annual results today. It is a highly successful business but this year it will not be paying a dividend to its…13 Mar 2025HANSARDFarmingI would like to take the right hon. Gentleman back to the point that he was making before he was interrupted. Earlier today, at Business and Trade questions, the hon. Member for…13 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineThe Leader of the Opposition has quite rightly and properly shown her support for the Prime Minister’s position, and I hope he will take comfort from the fact that he has the…03 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI understand that the Home Secretary is visiting Calais today. I hope that she will not only see the beaches from which illegal immigrants depart for the United Kingdom, but visit…27 Feb 2025HANSARDUkraineSome of us are old enough to remember Hungary in 1956 and some of us are old enough to remember Czechoslovakia in 1968. None of us wants to see Ukraine sacrificed on the same…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. First, I should declare a non-pecuniary interest as a freeman of the City of London. A constituent has raised with me the concern that…24 Feb 2025HANSARDBiomass GenerationI suppose we shall be told that half a loaf is better than none, but this strikes me as a half-baked half-loaf, to say the least. The Minister has spent an hour this afternoon…10 Feb 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Local GovernmentSome of us have been around the local government reform circus on a number of occasions in the past, and I fear that the Secretary of State will find that this piecemeal approach…05 Feb 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030Given that the British taxpayer is paying billions of pounds in subsidies to fell trees in Canada and ship the wood across the Atlantic to burn in the Drax power station, can the…04 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House for her further commitment to the development of aviation in the south-east, which I am sure will extend to the development of Manston airport in…30 Jan 2025HANSARDAirport ExpansionManston airport in Kent in my constituency has been fallow and the subject of legal action for far too long, but that is happily now behind us. We hope and expect that within the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillWith great respect to the hon. Lady, who is fortunate to represent a beautiful place, the Poole that I knew is not the Poole that she now knows—not even in the town, never mind in…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillI congratulate the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) on her good fortune in having secured a place in the ballot and been able to introduce a Bill that I believe will be…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillGive me time, young man. At the risk of going down that path, I should like to take a short ramble down memory lane. I was brought up in Poole, in Dorset. My grandparents’ house…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillAs one of few who can remember when the dinosaurs became extinct, I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her generous remarks earlier. Is this not about the future of our children and…24 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Places of Worship SchemeMr Western, I probably ought to indicate that I have proudly served in the past as a member of the Ecclesiastical Committee, although I do not regard this as just an Anglican…22 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Places of Worship SchemeWill the Minister accept that the volume of tourists that he has just referred to is essential to many listed buildings, particularly places such as Canterbury cathedral? That…22 Jan 2025