Business of the House

I thank the Leader of the House for outlining the business for next week, but it is somewhat surp...

I thank the hon. Lady for that tour de force across all areas of government. I shall try to do ju...

A country that does not control its own armed forces cannot be sovereign. Before the EU referendu...

My hon. Friend raises a matter that is clearly of grave concern to him. What I can say is that th...

It is good to be back for the annual Daily Mail fortnight. I hope that everybody has had a good b...

I have to take issue with the hon. Gentleman: I think the Prime Minister can dance. I draw his at...

I will be briefer than the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) in quickly r...

On my hon. Friend’s last point, if he would like to write to me with the details, I could take it...

I thank the Leader of the House for advance notice that the Backbench Business Committee will be ...

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, and I thank him very much for ...

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the future funding of football in the United ...

My hon. Friend always raises an important point, and winning the World cup in Qatar is definitely...

Will the Leader of the House look at early-day motion 1036?

[That this House notes that Rem...

I certainly agree with the hon. Lady that it will be a very special day to commemorate the enormo...

The Boundary Commission has reported to the Government on parliamentary constituencies, but that ...

My hon. Friend is right. The boundary commissions submitted their final reports to Ministers on 5...

I am sure, Mr Speaker, that you will have seen the 2010 film “The King’s Speech”, portraying Geor...

The hon. Lady raises a genuinely interesting point, and I urge her to seek an Adjournment debate ...

Staffordshire County Council has generally done an excellent job over the last few years both in ...

My hon. Friend is a strong voice for his area. He will be aware that we have backed councils in E...

I stand in front of Jo Cox’s memorial. Is the Leader of the House picking up a growing concern am...

On the hon. Gentleman’s first point, of course I would be delighted to meet with colleagues who a...

May we have a debate on the new data showing that service sector activity reached a three-month h...

We should all celebrate the excellent economic news that we have had recently, in particular the ...

On Tuesday, in evidence to our Exiting the European Union Committee, the deputy permanent secreta...

The hon. Lady raises a really important point, and I would like to spend a moment explaining exac...

I am grateful to the Leader of the House for indicating that 9 October will be a Back-Bench busin...

I am delighted that my hon. Friend has taken this opportunity to lobby the Chairman of the Backbe...

On 20 June, Bishop James Jones published his report on Gosport hospital, which revealed the reall...

The right hon. Gentleman raises a worrying issue. We were all shocked by the level of unexplained...

Many reports suggest that residential leaseholders face bills of thousands of pounds to replace t...

My hon. Friend is right that buildings with unsafe cladding systems must be made safe without del...

As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Russia, I have talked for a long time about the ...

I can only reassure the hon. Gentleman that there will be no risk of that happening during a gene...

The level of gun and knife crime, particularly in London, dramatically increased before and durin...

My hon. Friend is right to raise this worrying issue. In London, crime has risen 4%, with violent...

May we have a debate on mental health services in our universities? There were recent reports of ...

I share the hon. Lady’s grave concern about this issue. The prevalence of suicides and self-harmi...

The need to protect freedom of speech and expression is hugely important, as is the need to prote...

My hon. Friend raises a valid point about who pays for the right of individuals and groups to exe...

A couple of weeks ago I had the huge honour of going along to the “I Am What I Am” show at the Ab...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on raising that wonderful-sounding organisation. “I Am What I Am” so...

Last Friday I was honoured to attend an event in Dunblane to commemorate the heroism of Lieutenan...

We will never forget the service and sacrifice of those who served during the first world war. I ...

Bobi Wine is a charismatic, brave and popular Ugandan musician, and he is an MP under his real na...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Last year I took part in a group of female Commonwe...

Will the Government make a statement on what can be done to strengthen planning law to allow loca...

My hon. Friend will be aware that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is do...

The Leader of the House may be aware that before the summer recess The Telegraph exposed Governme...

We all need to be extremely careful about the use of data, and there is no doubt that those breac...

It is very welcome that the Government are investing £1 billion in the midland main line, includi...

My hon. Friend is highlighting some of the improvements the Government are determined to make to ...

It would appear that suicides as a result of gambling addiction are not recorded as such by coron...

As so often, the hon. Lady raises a serious and important point. It is not a matter for me, but i...

Despite savage budget cuts by the Scottish Government, Scottish Borders Council is prioritising m...

My hon. Friend is a strong voice for his constituency and I join him in praising Scottish Borders...

Another business questions and another week in which we have had no sight of and heard no mention...

We have already introduced and passed some of the Brexit legislation: 23 Government Bills have re...

Three days after the summer recess, the Home Office’s asylum accommodation provider, Serco, annou...

I am sorry to hear about the particular case the hon. Gentleman raises. He will be aware that asy...

Recent research from Swansea University shows that more and more students are paying other people...

The hon. Lady raises a really important point. We have Education questions next week, when she ma...

Yesterday, we had an amazing debate in Westminster Hall about serious organised crime and the exp...

All Members would agree with the hon. Gentleman that this is a really concerning matter. He will ...

In July 2017, the Government announced that they were going to lift tolls on the Severn bridge th...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman will agree that the purpose of abolishing the tolls is to boost th...

It has been revealed that a third of children in Grimsby did not reach the expected levels in the...

I am very sorry to hear the statistics in the hon. Lady’s constituency. However, I am sure she wi...

During exchanges on the statement on public sector pay on 24 July, I was given assurances by the ...

The hon. Gentleman might wish to raise that matter at Treasury questions next week, but what I ca...

Many packaged bank accounts now come with travel insurance, but many people only discover what th...

That is a really good point. We all have experiences of being sold extras that then somehow do no...

My constituent Andy Woodburn’s mother-in-law Nadia is Ukrainian, and her last visit to the UK coi...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on raising this constituency case—it is something that he often...

I note how many Members across the House are currently face down with their smartphone or tablet....

I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman that we all spend far too much time on technology, and ...

Today’s Resolution Foundation report calling for universal credit roll-out to be stopped is the s...

Universal credit is designed to help. It is a better, simpler and more flexible system that helps...

My private Member’s Bill, the Terminal Illness (Provision of Palliative Care and Support for Care...

I wish the hon. Gentleman great success with his PMB. The House approved 13 sitting Fridays for t...

On whole swathes of the Isle of Arran in my constituency, there is no mobile phone coverage at al...

The hon. Lady raises a very important point. In the 21st century, it is key that we get proper co...

Many constituents have contacted me, worried that the Government are going to drop their proposal...

I think that we have all received quite a number of requests for information about the pensions d...

Nationally, nine in 10 crimes are sadly going unpunished, including murders in Southwark, where o...

As I said earlier, the Mayor of London is responsible for policing and priorities, and he has a £...

Today Leah Sharibu, the only girl out of the 119 kidnapped by Boko Haram in February this year wh...

The hon. Gentleman raises a very serious issue about the appalling abuses of religious freedom. T...

May we have a statement on the introduction of mandatory calorie counting on menus? Health profes...

The hon. Gentleman raises an incredibly important point. There is obviously a discussion to be ha...

I call Paula Sherriff.

Thank you, Mr Speaker —you are very kind. I hope that everybody has taken the opportunity to visi...

It is a splendid exhibition—absolutely first-class. I am sure that the Leader of the House would ...

I think, Mr Speaker, that you were trying to earn the hon. Lady’s suggestion that you are extreme...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I know that we are about to hear a statement from the Secretary ...

Well, if that is so—the hon. Lady will appreciate that I was not in a position to know about it a...

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I was going to refer to the matter, which has just be...

I thank the Secretary of State for that. Needless to say, it must not happen again, but I thank h...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is on a completely different matter, and it goes to the poi...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. Obviously I heard both his business question t...