Business of the House

Mr Speaker, my verse gets worse and worse.

I thank the right hon. Lady for reminding us tha...

I look forward to receiving my right hon. Friend’s response to my Committee’s report. Mr Speaker,...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her question, which she raised in a point of order yest...

My hon. Friend the Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) again sends his apologies...

I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s questions, which are particularly thoughtful. I think...

I did feel my toes a little stood on, I must admit; I felt the trampling of the Leader of the Hou...

If it is acceptable, I shall ask my question in English. May I ask the Leader of the House where ...

I think it should be policy in this House that every question makes a reference to Southend being...

Let us go to the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, Ian Mearns.

I am very grateful, Mr Speaker, and I take it a Geordie accent is acceptable. Can I thank the Lea...

The plans for Westminster Hall will be brought forward in the motion for our general proceedings ...

Merci à vous, Monsieur Speaker. I am sure my right hon. Friend would agree with me that we have a...

My hon. Friend raises a key question. The strategic review has taken place, but the fire safety w...

Despite the heroic efforts of schools and their staff, children and young people have had to adap...

The Government’s record on schooling is actually extremely good. There is a £1.7 billion covid ca...

Workers at the LIBERTY steel company are really afraid for their jobs; 5,000 staff and others in ...

The hon. Gentleman raises a very important point and I think everyone shares his concern for peop...

I was first elected as a councillor to the County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, so I am glad to hea...

Serious concerns have been raised about the Electoral Commission, not least by my hon. Friend and...

Following the Home Secretary’s announcement that the elections for Mayors and police and crime co...

Everyone knows that first past the post is better for democracy because the most popular candidat...

This House has legislated to spend 0.7% of our GDP to support the world’s poorest. The Leader of ...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for this question. I participated in the passage of that pie...

Later this year, England will be hosting the rugby league world cup, including the first ever phy...

Nothing more important.

Mr Speaker, you have given me a very clear steer on how I should answer the question. Just in cas...

Rugby league.

Many of my constituents who currently find themselves in unsaleable flats owing to fire safety co...

I can broadly answer my hon. Friend’s question. If, because of exceptional circumstances beyond t...

Rape prosecutions are at their lowest ever recorded level, while only one in seven victims has an...

The hon. Gentleman raises an extraordinarily difficult point that has troubled many Governments f...

My local council is Labour-led, and it is using places in my constituency such as Yarm, Kirklevin...

The incompetence of socialist councils knows no bounds. Their inability to run things properly or...

It is absolutely right that, as we emerge from this pandemic, we need to learn lessons. In partic...

I completely understand why the hon. Lady raises that point. It is an extremely fair one. It is n...

In 2019, Stanley Park was voted the best park in the UK, being described as a

“beautiful, t...

My hon. Friend is right to praise the value of parks and open spaces. Who was it who called the p...

Betting firm Football Index is now in administration, with its licence suspended by the Gambling ...

The hon. Lady raises a matter of concern across the House, as is gambling more generally and the ...

I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As chairman of the ...

Mr Speaker, I am glad to say that those who occupy premises on the parliamentary estate are allow...

And tarantulas!

Indeed, allegedly, some people even keep tarantulas, though I do not believe that that particular...

Parliament needs to really do its job and take stock of the coronavirus legislation. Many will be...

I think that there has been a great deal of scrutiny in this House throughout the pandemic. My ri...

On 2 June 2018, a 17-year-old boy called Tavis Spencer-Aitkens was brutally murdered in my consti...

What my hon. Friend reports is deeply troubling and so horribly sad for Tavis’s family. It must j...

My constituent lost his job, and 16 weeks later he is still waiting for his first universal credi...

The universal credit roll-out has been a remarkable success during the pandemic with, I think, 91...

Next week is the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh attaining its independence from Pakistan at the e...

The UK and Bangladesh share a close relationship based on strong historical and people-to-people ...

Today the Government announced that plug-in grants for the purchase of new electric vehicles will...

The answer is that there is a limit to taxpayers’ money, and that as more electric vehicles are p...