Business of the House

I thank the Leader of the House for stating the business in the final week before the Easter rece...

I join the hon. Lady in remembering those who died 25 years ago in appalling atrocities. This has...

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the regulation of social media? At the moment...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point and gives a very good description of those who abuse other...

I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the business for next week. I also want to pay tri...

As ever, the hon. Gentleman has a great note to end on. I certainly support his desire to see Gre...

Further to the fishy question from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart),...

Order. We are extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, but I fear—I am going to be generou...

My sincere apologies, Mr Speaker, if there was anything fishy about my reply to the last question...

I am glad to see that Back-Bench business is to return to the House next week after a three-week ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his offer of help with a subject for the debate on 16 April. I wil...

We guard our freedom of speech in the House very dearly, and it is something that you rightly and...

I commend my hon. Friend on raising this important issue. We do of course fully support free spee...

With 1 million homes in this country unfit for habitation, I am absolutely thrilled that the Gove...

First, I commend the hon. Lady on her Bill, which really will seek to improve the quality and fit...

There were many police officers at the remarkable memorial service yesterday for Sean O’Callaghan...

My hon. Friend raises a serious matter, and I understand that the Crown Prosecution Service has p...

Will the hon. Gentleman apply for an Adjournment debate on the matter?

He has already had it.

It is a point I have often made myself. I was being kinder to the hon. Member for Worthing West (...

The Leader of the House might be aware that this Tuesday the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr Wrag...

I am incredibly sympathetic to what the hon. Gentleman says and commend him on taking this work f...

The Government today will announce and approve the takeover of West Somerset by Taunton Deane Bor...

My hon. Friend will be aware that we have had a number of local government debates in recent week...

For the past two years, I have been helping a constituent with her ongoing attempts to have her f...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this matter, which is clearly an important one in her ...

During the snowstorms of the past few weeks, when parts of the country were brought to a standsti...

I join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to the valuable role played by farmers across our economy...

Yesterday, James Douglas, a constituent of the Deputy Speaker, my right hon. Friend the Member fo...

The hon. Lady raises a particular situation that I think we would all be incredibly sympathetic t...

My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House and I have spoken on a few occasions about the impor...

My hon. Friend raises something that is important to all of us in our constituencies, namely the ...

As we approach the end of the financial year, the NHS funding formula is seriously failing the NH...

Our NHS has had over £13 billion more to spend on caring for people since 2010. There are almost ...

Yesterday, I was pleased to entertain Ben McCarthy and Tyler Reeve—two young people from Healing ...

I am delighted to join my hon. Friend in congratulating the recipients of the awards, including t...

Will the Leader of the House grant me support for an early debate on the sad decline of our towns...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his initiative. A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity...

The Leader of the House will know that the independent inspector of Northamptonshire County Counc...

My hon. Friend is concerned, as I am, about what has happened in Northamptonshire County Council,...

The number of ambulance staff and other emergency workers who nowadays are faced with sexual assa...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his private Member’s Bill, which the Government were delight...

This week the Cardiff rugby heritage museum was launched, with over 800 items of rugby memorabili...

I would certainly put my name to such a debate. I would be a big fan.[Interruption.] Yes, I might...

The Leader of the House will have seen the recent report on the surge in addiction to prescriptio...

I think we have all been concerned by the recent reports of excessive use of opioids, and the hon...

The report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, “The cumulative impact of ta...

I take issue with the hon. Lady’s assessment. This Government have been committed to helping peop...

Yesterday was the first day of spring, and the Government said that they would be publishing thei...

I will not be publishing it, but the Leader of the House might, and we will, I am sure, be deeply...

The hon. Lady raises this issue frequently and is right to do so. The Government’s serious violen...

NHS England and Staffordshire police have decided to relocate the children’s sexual assault refer...

The hon. Lady raises an important constituency issue and I encourage her to seek an Adjournment d...

The Leader of the House’s response on police funding was disappointing. The Prime Minister and th...

Whether the source of taxpayer funding is central Government or local government, it is still tax...

As chair of the all-party group on deafness, I have been trying to identify which Department is p...

I can certainly offer to find out on the hon. Gentleman’s behalf and write to him.

I am sure we are all looking forward to supporting Team Scotland at the Gold Coast Commonwealth g...

I hope the hon. Gentleman raised that at DCMS oral questions, which preceded this session. If he ...

On the anniversary of the Westminster attack and nine months after my constituency was attacked, ...

The hon. Gentleman raises a very important point and he is right to say that the Government inten...

Earlier, at DCMS questions, I was directed back to the House in trying to secure a display of Gre...

I am wondering whether this is a matter for you, Mr Speaker. [Interruption.] Perhaps the best thi...

For each of the past three weeks, the Government have failed to lay a money resolution to allow t...

Discussions are carrying on through the usual channels and money resolutions will be brought forw...

May we have a debate on Home Office incompetence? Following urgent and serious allegations—includ...

The hon. Lady might be aware that the turnaround times for Departments’ correspondence are monito...

I declare an interest as the chairman of the all-party group on off-patent drugs. I recently visi...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his commitment to personalised drugs, which are certainly th...

Tomorrow, I am going to visit Barnsley College. Many of its students go on to serve our NHS, yet ...

The hon. Lady will be aware that the statutory instrument refers to postgraduate nursing. The pre...

May we have a debate in Government time on the long-term strategy for drug and substance misuse s...

I completely sympathise with what the hon. Gentleman says. It is vital that we provide support fo...

May we have a Government statement on immigration guidance? My Mount Vernon constituent, Hisashi ...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important constituency issue, as he often does. I am happy to take i...

My constituent, Christine McBain, is one of 167 of my constituents in Glasgow North East who have...

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the importance of these green deals that enable our constitu...

As we speak, in India, an application for an independent medical examination of my constituent, J...

The UK Government, of course, take every step possible to ensure good treatment of UK nationals w...

We have heard descriptions of systematic violence and discrimination against Shi’a Bahrainis. The...

The hon. Gentleman raises a very serious case. I encourage him to seek the opportunity to debate ...