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HANSARDSolar PowerDoes the Minister agree that households exporting to the grid should be paid a fair rate? Will she ensure an explicit minimum price for exported electricity to allow the market to…12 Feb 2019HANSARDWork Capability Assessments5. If she will make it her policy that work capability assessments must be conducted by public sector employees.11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightWhat will it take for this Secretary of State to get the sack? Let me see if the following would cause the Prime Minister to issue him his P45: breaking EU procurement rules. Does…11 Feb 2019HANSARDWork Capability AssessmentsI thank the Minister for her reply and for giving me time to recover my breath. As a constituency MP, I am sure that she, like me and many others, will know many constituents who…11 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Mobile Roaming ChargesIf there is no deal, it will be because the Government have made a conscious choice to go down that route. Has the Secretary of State attempted to assess the cost implications if…07 Feb 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You will not have heard my earlier exchange with the Secretary of State for International Trade when I asked him to provide the House…07 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State has shared with business a progress report on trade deals. I have been trying to obtain that information from him for months; is he willing to share that…07 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: No DealThank you for granting this request, Mr Speaker. I rise to propose that the House should debate a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration: the…05 Feb 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018The Prime Minister now no longer favours the backstop arrangement she negotiated and instead is in favour of alternative arrangements. Will she set out for the House what those…29 Jan 2019HANSARDCitizenship RightsAlthough waiving the £65 charge is, of course, very welcome, it still leaves EU citizens as second-class citizens in a country they have chosen to make their home—if not the…24 Jan 2019HANSARDEU Free Trade AgreementsDonald Rumsfeld’s words spring to mind in relation to roll-overs. We have the known knowns: the countries that are up for a deal, such as Switzerland. We have the known unknowns:…24 Jan 2019HANSARD Proxy VotingI welcome the Leader of the House’s statement. It starts to reduce the perception that the mother of Parliaments is frozen in time, although of course, if a Member shouts “Object”…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Leaving the European UnionWhy does the Prime Minister continue to claim that the only way to rule out no deal is either to vote for her deal or to revoke article 50? She knows that that is not the case. A…21 Jan 2019HANSARDHouse of Commons Chamber: Electronic Voting SystemI thank the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues for their questions—I think electronic voting will be my specialist subject on “Mastermind”. He has come up with a new angle, and I…17 Jan 2019HANSARDHouse of Commons Chamber: Electronic Voting SystemThe Commission has had no discussions on the costs of installing an electronic voting system in the Chamber. Its responsibility in this matter is limited to the financial or…17 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActBrexit, and the way it is being handled, is a national embarrassment. Worse than that, it is a damaging international embarrassment. That great tactician, David Cameron, devised…15 Jan 2019HANSARD Leaving the EUIt was the Prime Minister’s absolute conviction in 2017 that it was not in the country’s interests to hold a general election. It is now the Prime Minister’s absolute conviction…14 Jan 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightThe train timetable fiasco, the drone disruption, the Manston lorry park carry-on and, now, ferrygate—the Secretary of State is the embodiment of the Peter principle. On the…08 Jan 2019