Business of the House

Now that we have flushed that through, we will go back to Valerie Vaz.

I am going to stay away from the lavatory jokes.

I thank the Leader of the House for the bu...

The right hon. Lady is absolutely right, as you are, Mr Speaker, to thank Rui Duarte for his amaz...

This Government have given unprecedented amounts of financial support to businesses and local aut...

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. As we try to encourage people back on to our high s...

Good morning, Mr Speaker. Those who observe these Thursday morning exchanges will know that I hav...

Thank you, Tommy.

As always, the hon. Gentleman brings a little ray of sunshine into the Chamber, and we are gratef...

Childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate. It leads to a range of long-term health cond...

My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. The relationship between obesity and other comorbidit...

I thank the Leader of the House for his response to my letter, although I am afraid to say that I...

The hon. Gentleman mentions protected time. It is always a difficult balance in this House to ens...

May I have a statement on the public scrutiny of planning applications? Understandably, the oppor...

I think there is not a single Member of this House who has not had, in his or her constituency, a...

I want to support the comments of the shadow Leader of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member...

The hon. Lady is right. Responses from correspondents in Departments is not the correct way to tr...

May I associate myself, Mr Speaker, with your kind words to Rui, and to the House staff for all t...

My hon. Friend raises a very important matter. Standing up for the right of 12 years of quality e...

There has been a significant increase in the number of individuals in Vietnam imprisoned for non-...

The hon. Gentleman is an absolute champion of freedom of conscience and has brought before this H...

Alcohol addiction can not only destroy lives but end lives. Five years ago, I lost my older broth...

My hon. Friend raises a very difficult issue. It is true to say that overall alcohol consumption ...

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders described the Government’s target to ban the sale ...

Huge advances are being made in the ability to provide zero-emissions cars, and market forces are...

Under current Government and parliamentary procurement rules, purchases of less than £10,000 do n...

It is very important that companies such as Churchill China and Steelite have the opportunity to ...

The House rises next Wednesday, but just two weeks later, on 5 August, it will be one year since ...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right to ask for a debate on this issue, and I note what she says abo...

May I join the call of the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. Member for Gateshe...

Reclining.

I hear some heckling that suggests I was sometimes accused of reclining when I was sitting in tha...

The Conservative manifesto at the last election promised a fan-led review of governance of footba...

I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman paid such close attention to the Conservative party manife...

I am very grateful to the Leader of the House for announcing the recommencing of Westminster Hall...

My hon. Friend raises an important point and he is right to ask for those debates. As I say, we c...

Is it not time that we had a debate on the appalling performance of the Health and Safety Executi...

We had questions earlier on Ministers not responding to letters. I think for public bodies to fai...

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the illegal harvesting of shellfish? He will ...

My hon. Friend raises an important and tragic issue. The Morecambe bay tragedy shone a light on t...

The first line of a new report warning of up to 120,000 additional coronavirus deaths this winter...

The hon. Gentleman may want to go on to MemberHub in a moment, because he could apply to put in a...

My right hon. Friend knows how good Sedgemoor District Council is, but I do not know if my right ...

It is wonderful to see somebody from God’s own county. The more we hear from Somerset and about S...

May I ask the Leader of the House for an update on the integrated review? In welcoming the decisi...

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has said that he is having a deep dive into foreign po...

May I take this opportunity to thank my hon. Friends the Members for Edmonton (Kate Osamor) and f...

May I congratulate the hon. Lady on the birth of her child in February? There is no greater joy t...

May I make a controversial statement—that we live in a parliamentary democracy? As regards wearin...

As I understand it—although I will be corrected if this is not right—it is a made affirmative sta...

Further to the comments of the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, may I say to the Leader...

On the issue of Israel, the Government remain committed to a two-state solution. Any moves toward...

Yesterday the Intelligence and Security Committee elected my right hon. Friend the Member for New...

The right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) was playing ducks and drakes with the Labour...

It is with deep sadness that my work over the last few weeks has exposed the significant risks of...

There will obviously be an opportunity for the hon. Lady to raise this matter at the Adjournment ...

The Cumberlege review said that the Primodos drug should have been taken off the market in 1967, ...

The hon. Lady gives me the opportunity to congratulate her personally, or as personally as one ca...

The Leader of the House did not answer the question from the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr B...

I announced the business forthcoming at the beginning of the statement.

My right hon. Friend will be only too aware of the recent Turkish ruling that Hagia Sophia, that ...

We have noted President Erdoğan’s decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque, and while that has...

“Business needs certainty” appears to be the Government’s default response when they have nothing...

Order. Leader of the House.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Government are still in negotiations with the European Union about how...

I want to get through the list. If we speed up, we will get through it.

Our key workers have kept the nation going throughout lockdown and I want to see local and nation...

May I begin by commending the local electrical firm for doing that? I wholeheartedly agree that w...

British Airways has treated its workers disgracefully, threatening to hire all 42,000 and rehire ...

That ties in with the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman)...

Our pilots and cabin crew have been through a difficult number of months, but many have focused t...

My hon. Friend has managed to convey congratulations. He is right to do so. I hope he will give t...

The Government sat on the Dame Mary Ney review into funding oversight of our further education co...

The Chancellor made announcements with regard to the additional funding that will be made availab...

May we have a statement from a Minister in the Department for Transport on the operation of local...

My hon. Friend raises a crucial question. Local authorities have changed their traffic rules, and...

We said that others would follow if action was not taken following the British Airways fire and r...

One of my roles is always to try to facilitate meetings between Members of this House and Ministe...

My constituents are starting to get a little impatient that some key public services are not reop...

Things are reopening in a staged way to try to ensure that it can be done in a way that does not ...

I thank the Leader of the House. The House is suspended.

12.6 pm

Sitting suspended.