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HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillIt may be helpful to deliver that kind of guidance. The problem we all have to face is that, in the end, decisions made by senior civil servants without reference to a policy…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillA guarantee that everybody in the health service receives the same uprate as their opposite numbers in the rest of Great Britain would be welcome. I think the hon. Lady knows,…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillThat has to be right. We have a duty to ensure not only that we dispatch the legislation where it is appropriate to do so, but that we monitor its impact to make sure that no…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillThat is a fair point. There is nothing in this Bill that talks about post-legislative scrutiny. We need some capacity to measure the impact of the legislation after it leaves this…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillI am not being generous with my time because we have to tease out these important issues, and we have to get answers to give us some certainty that the scheme is both necessary…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillThat seems logical, but—I am not a lawyer, so the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I am not right—the problem is that the judge has ruled that, because the scheme is not in…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and to the extent that some of those affected were in court this morning. Specifically, I understand that the judge said that he will…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillThe hon. Lady makes a valid point. Obviously, it is not a small difference; in fact, it is a huge difference to those on what could be described as the receiving end, those at the…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillLike the hon. Gentleman, I very much welcome this piece of good news, but it has to be set against the fact that we do need to see renewal in many towns, and I want to return to a…06 Mar 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) BillI am grateful that the Minister is being so generous with his time. None of us has any brief for those who have done extraordinarily well out of all this; they should not have…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Point of OrderFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the Secretary of State for her gracious clarification of her position. Will she take this opportunity to recognise…06 Mar 2019HANSARDSecurity SituationThank you, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State knows that the security situation also depends on trust. When David Cameron was Prime Minister, he recognised the special…06 Mar 2019HANSARDSecurity SituationThe idea that the European arrest warrant should be left to the lottery of whether the Prime Minister gets her legislation through simply cannot be in the interests of the people…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend makes a similar point about the lack of transparency to that which has already been made by a number of Members, including the hon. Members for Belfast East (Gavin…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI have to say to the hon. Gentleman that this does not obviate the absolute necessity for this House to recognise that, whatever people’s views, we have to look at our obligations…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThe Secretary of State is touching on an important point. Of course, the retrospective nature of the Bill and the estimates comparison are significant. With other departmental…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillSome of the principles in this debate do not divide the House. Some are clearly matters of enormous importance. What has come through time and again is that the process of…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI am interested in what the Secretary of State said in response to the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon). I am looking at the Secretary of State’s written statement and the…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillMay I begin by offering a small prediction that, sadly, there will be very little coverage of this debate in the Northern Ireland media or beyond? That is a tragedy, especially…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillWhen John Major was engaged in the talks process leading up to the Good Friday agreement, and Tony Blair even more intensely so, there were many preconditions on the table—of…05 Mar 2019