Business of the House

The hon. Lady makes a very important point about the number of deaths from covid. It is right tha...

I will just say that I am meeting the chief executive of the rugby league in about 10 minutes, an...

I echo your words, Mr Speaker, but very much include you and your brilliant team in the praise th...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this, because it has been raised with us all as const...

We now go to Pete Wishart via video link.

As you have rightly noted, Mr Deputy Speaker, I am participating virtually in what will be the la...

You are a wonderful man.

Yes, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that Mr Speaker has been the pilot who weathered the storm, ...

Cash is used by many people to buy essentials, and constituents of mine such as Joseph from Drayt...

I thank my hon. Friend, whose constituency I much enjoyed visiting last week. He has a fine and b...

I am afraid to say that today is the second of two days running that are sad days for the Scots. ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for the distinction with which he chairs his Committee and manages to ...

Button batteries are found in many household items, from hearing aids and LED lights to birthday ...

My hon. Friend raises a very important and sad issue, and I know that the whole House will want t...

I once said in a debate on the 1950s-born women’s pension issue that wasps are a nuisance. They a...

The WASPI campaigners—they are in all constituencies—have campaigned hard and long in the cause t...

I am working with South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, Business West, Wildfowl & Wetlands Tr...

My hon. Friend is right in so much of what she says and is aligned with Government policy. The 10...

Next week will mark two years since the Prime Minister promised to build Northern Powerhouse Rail...

The integrated rail plan will soon set out exactly how major multi-billion-pound rail projects, i...

This morning I met the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, which will be running a campaign in the...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the campaign that she is leading and supporting on behalf of the...

May I add my sincere thanks to all parliamentary staff across the estate, including our own staff...

I reiterate what we have achieved already: since 1990, emissions are down by 44% and we have grow...

Does the Leader of the House agree that, while it is rightly a matter for the Boundary Commission...

Yes. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the Boundary Commission is independent, and it is im...

I recently met Adam, who owns and runs The House of Botanicals, an award-winning small business i...

Brexit has already proved to be a great success. We are already doing extremely well by not being...

Southport is under attack from the vindictive policies of Labour-controlled Sefton Council, which...

I hear gossip that my hon. Friend is actually working in collaboration—whisper it quietly—with th...

I have asked the Leader of the House this question before, but I will ask it again. Hammersmith b...

The hon. Lady is right to campaign for this, but wrong to focus on the Government. The Conservati...

I am sure, Mr Deputy Speaker, that many of us in this House are looking forward to the possibilit...

“Scoop” is such a wonderful and amusing book, so I am very tempted to crib from the Prime Ministe...

Forest Hill in my constituency is one of the highest points in London yet there are multiple flig...

I am not unsympathetic to the hon. Lady because as airports get back to normal there will of cour...

I am sorry I am not in the Commons today to thank the staff personally and also particularly to t...

The last person summoned to the Bar of the House—the gift of Jamaica, if one inspects it closely—...

In recent weeks, nations across the globe, from China to Germany, have been hit by flash flooding...

May I reiterate the sympathy that everyone in this House feels for people whose homes are flooded...

And we will use such technology now.

May I welcome the decision by the Government to implement a single unitary local authority in the...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s support for the proposals approved by my right hon Friend the ...

The Leader of the House will be aware that cuts in fire and rescue services across the country ha...

“Leave It to Psmith” was my recommendation last time, and I entirely agree with the hon. Gentlema...

Parliament created the Greater London Authority deliberately with an elected Mayor and an elected...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who was himself a distinguished member of the Greater London Aut...

This time last week, I shared in the Chamber just a small snippet of the racial abuse that people...

Following our exchanges last week, I wrote to the Home Secretary to inform her of what the hon. L...

I apologise to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and to the Leader of the House for not being present in pe...

I join my hon. Friend in very much commending the fantastic work that Paul Goff and Wade Cooper d...

On summer reading, may I recommend that Ministers read Members’ correspondence and respond to it?...

The hon. Gentleman has come up with the best summer reading list of all of us and makes his point...

I speak in my capacity as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on state pension inequali...

My hon. Friend is an effective campaigner on this issue and is right to raise it. The Department ...

On 8 July, civil violence and unrest became rife in South Africa after former President Jacob Zum...

We have been thanking people for their attendance and work for the House, and we ought to thank t...

I wish that today we could all be at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells in my constituency to c...

My hon. Friend raises an important issue. I, too, am a rural MP with dairy farmers among my const...

May I add my thanks, as you did, Mr Deputy Speaker, to everyone in the House who has kept us goin...

May I begin by congratulating the hon. Lady on receiving an honorary doctorate from the Universit...

May I, through you, Mr Deputy Speaker, add my thanks to Mr Speaker and every member of staff of t...

My right hon. Friend touches on one of the key constitutional rights that we have as Members of P...