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HANSARD Nightclub SafetyI welcome today’s extremely important debate. I agree overwhelmingly with what other Members have said. I came to speak in this debate because I was contacted this morning by a…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyWycombe!08 Nov 2021HANSARDHousehold Support FundLike my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Greg Smith), I pay tribute to Buckinghamshire Council for all that it has done with the Helping Hand scheme. Does the Secretary of…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyI hope the hon. Gentleman will not mind me saying that any fair-minded person listening to my remarks will not suggest for a moment that I have pretended what he suggested. What…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Nightclub SafetyAs I have said, my instinct is with the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Gower, but I have been asked to swallow my pride and to not demand that fellow men as a class change…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Committee on StandardsIs the plain truth not that if the amendment passes today, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson) could actually find himself in an even worse…03 Nov 2021HANSARDBlack History MonthWill the hon. Lady give way?28 Oct 2021HANSARDBlack History MonthI begin by declaring my non-pecuniary interest as chair of the advisory board of Conservatives Against Racism For Equality. I do not think there is any point shying away from the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBlack History MonthI am glad that the right hon. Lady has reminded us about the death of Cynthia Jarrett. As she reflects historically, she reminds us all of the appalling experiences that people…28 Oct 2021HANSARDBlack History MonthI very much welcome what the Minister has said. I say this slightly tongue-in-cheek, but it feels to me that he is bound to be accused of being woke for what he has announced.…28 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportI think the point is that many motorcycle parts are safety-critical, but we actually want to get on with routine and ordinary maintenance of our motorcycles. I know that the…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportOf course I will. I will not pretend to the right hon. Member that I have never taken the baffles out of my KTM, with its magnificent V-twin engine, but the point is that I put…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Motorcycling: Government SupportI am extremely grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, Mr Robertson, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin) on having…26 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyThe cost-effectiveness of heat pumps is critically dependent on the cost of electricity, and there is good reason to think that the overall of cost of renewables to the bill payer…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions) (No. 3)I refer to the declarations I have made relating to the Covid Recovery Group. When we rammed this Act of Parliament through, I stood over there in Committee and said it would…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Human Rights: KashmirWill the hon. Gentleman give way?23 Sept 2021HANSARD Human Rights: KashmirI congratulate the chair of the all-party parliamentary Kashmir group, the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams), on her work. I am grateful for the…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Human Rights: KashmirWill the Minister give way?23 Sept 2021HANSARD Human Rights: KashmirMy hon. Friend is making a powerful case; this will give him a little more time in a moment. Does he agree that we need to say to those people in India, and indeed in Pakistan,…23 Sept 2021HANSARD UK Gas MarketUnlike the Opposition parties, my right hon. Friend knows that we cannot just keep spending billions of pounds every time there is a major problem, but I have to say that he also…20 Sept 2021