Australian Bushfires

I thank the hon. Gentleman very much indeed for that. We are grateful to him for laying out his t...

Climate change.

Of course, the hon. Member asked about climate change. On that, the most important thing is that ...

It is a great pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the Minister’s s...

I thank my hon. Friend for his question. He is perhaps soon again to be the Chairman of the Selec...

It is a pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. It has been very hard watching A...

I thank the hon. Lady: our hearts go out to her friends and family in Australia. Sometimes in the...

Would the Minister like to say how many Britons have been killed or otherwise caught up in this e...

I am really pleased to say that no UK nationals have been killed and we are not aware of any who ...

When the fires are extinguished, there is going to have to be a moment for learning lessons and d...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question, and I will of course do that.

It is a pleasure to see you back in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

What has been obvious...

I thank my right hon. Friend—who is a very good friend—for that question. Interestingly, sometime...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I was really quite shocked ...

Please forgive me for suggesting that talk is cheap. Australia is a signatory to the Paris agreem...

I welcome you back to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Does the Minister agree that this is...

I could not agree more with my right hon. and learned Friend. My constituent Helen Jackson is rai...

I congratulate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and direct my remarks to you in the Chair, because with...

It is great to hear of how much work is going on behind the scenes in Parliament, but I stress ag...

I welcome you back to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

We should remember that on new year...

Those are wise words from my hon. Friend. The UK policy on climate change has been dramatic: we a...

It is a pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The suffering in Australia...

I am afraid that the hon. Lady is asking the wrong person that question.

It is good to see you back in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The upcoming foreign policy...

I thank my hon. Friend—a candidate to be Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee—for that interest...

I welcome you back to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The huge scale of the fires must le...

The hon. Lady asks a very intelligent question. The answer is that I cannot give her that assuran...

Congratulations on your return to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I strongly welcome the U...

It is my pleasure to try to answer my hon. Friend. They are there for a five-day period, meeting ...

Congratulations on being re-elected, Madam Deputy Speaker; we are very pleased to see you in the ...

The hon. Gentleman asks a good question. We know that of the animals affected a number are cows t...

It is great to see you back as part of the Speaker’s team, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Would the ...

My hon. Friend—my Derbyshire friend—makes an interesting suggestion. We have great ties with the ...

You will be aware, Madam Deputy Speaker, how thrilled I am to see you back in the Chair—your righ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman—I hope I may also call him my friend—for his question. Interestingly, ...

I welcome you to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

May I offer my deepest sympathy at all t...

Very regrettably, it is widely reported on social media that 75% of the fires were started by ars...

It is a real pleasure to see you back in your rightful place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I spent...

My sympathies are with the hon. and learned Lady’s friends who are out there right now. It is wit...

Congratulations on your re-election, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Australia is a vast country that...

I hope that my hon. Friend’s nephews in different parts of Australia stay safe. I am glad he asks...

Welcome back to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I declare my interest as set out in the registe...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman’s wife’s family are safe. I am sure he is in constant contact.

Congratulations, Madam Deputy Speaker, on your re-election to the Chair.

I was in Victoria ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his up-to-date information, he having visited so recently. I have aske...

May I, too, congratulate you on your re-election, Madam Deputy Speaker?

As others have said...

That is absolutely key. As has been alluded to, COP25 was perhaps not as successful as it might h...

I welcome the news that the Minister has given. Having also lived in Melbourne in Australia and h...

I know that a number of my hon. Friend’s constituents have written to her, and they will have a r...

Congratulations on your election, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that your generosity to Northern I...

Absolutely. I cannot thank the hon. Gentleman enough for that very good question. We all know tha...

May I add my welcome and congratulations to you on resuming your post, Madam Deputy Speaker?

My hon. Friend asks a question that I asked my officials earlier, so it is clearly one of the bes...

I thank the Minister for her statement and commend the support that we are offering to our allies...

I am so delighted that the hon. Lady has been made a dame in the new year’s honours—quite right t...

Congratulations on your re-election, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Like so many, I have family memb...

Indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point; if she will forgive me, I will f...

Welcome back, Madam Deputy Speaker.

While we sympathise with those caught in this environme...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He has moved to where one of the microphones is, so ...

We have heard much about the scale of the fires in Australia. Will my hon. Friend join me in comm...

I thank my hon. Friend for his question and welcome him to this place. I will indeed join him. Th...

We are a nation of animal lovers. Our first concern, of course, is always the impact on people an...

Indeed. Having mentioned my constituent Helen Jackson, I am very grateful to the constituents of ...