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HANSARD Acting Parliamentary and Health Service OmbudsmanAt this juncture of the evening, at the risk of making myself even more unpopular with colleagues, I intend to speak briefly to the motion. I was prepared to allow the Minister at…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Acting Parliamentary and Health Service OmbudsmanThe question for my hon. Friend is: will the Prime Minister sign off on the name that was put to him by the recruitment panel in January?25 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is with regret that I have tabled early-day motion 412. [That this House has no confidence in Mr Speaker.] May I ask the Leader of the House about a procedural point, as my EDM…22 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI beg to move, That the House sit in private. Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163). The House proceeded to a Division.21 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On such a serious debate and topic and on a personal note from me, having given Mr Speaker a great deal of support in his…21 Feb 2024HANSARDProcedure CommitteeI thank my right hon. Friend for ably chairing the Procedure Committee in its deliberations and for compiling this topical and timely report. Will she assure Members such as…25 Jan 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseI bring some sad news to the House this morning: my Conservative predecessor, Sir Thomas Arnold, died on Tuesday. He is known to many on the Conservative Benches for his years of…16 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsI have a cheerful question that I know my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will find impossible to resist. He will be aware of the work that I have been doing with No. 10’s UK…06 Sept 2023HANSARDPoints of Orderrose—17 Jul 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Could you confirm that any Member is entitled to go along to a Delegated Legislation Committee to speak?17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillWill the Minister give way?17 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy good friend the mental health Minister—the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield)—will know that I have been…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Reigate (Crispin Blunt) hon. Friend misspoke; it was the Communities Secretary.11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceI am afraid that the hon. Gentleman highlights one of many cases across our constituencies. I perfectly well understand his constituent’s sense of injustice. Hopefully this debate…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceI beg to move, That this House has considered the Business Banking Resolution Service. It is an extraordinary pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard, and to…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceThe hon. Lady makes a valid, important and sensible point. I will touch on a suggestion towards the end of my remarks. In the course of its inquiry, the Treasury Committee…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceAbsolutely so. The courage of those small and medium-sized business owners is not to be underestimated. I have dealt with constituents whose cases go back decades. They have had…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceI thank the Minister for his constructive reply to this important and timely debate. I can respond positively to that kind offer to meet the APPG. Such a meeting would be…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Business Banking Resolution ServiceAs ever in these debates, the quality of interventions is superb. The hon. Lady pre-empts exactly what I was going to say. If she will forgive me, I will come on to that in a…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way on that point?03 Jul 2023