Business of the House

I call the shadow Leader of the House.

I thank the Leader of the House for the forthcoming business.

I would like to address the S...

May I start by saying how delighted I was to attend yesterday’s service of thanksgiving and dedic...

I call the Father of the House.

I thank my right hon. Friend for what she has said. Eight days ago, on 28 June, before the debate...

I thank my hon. Friend for his question. He should know, because I think the letter would have be...

I call the Scottish National party spokesperson.

I thank the Leader for giving us the business and, again, endorse the remarks that the shadow Lea...

I join the hon. Gentleman in congratulating Dame Katherine Grainger on the incredible job she did...

Madam Deputy Speaker, we first came across each other as colleagues during a review of the Mental...

I pay tribute to all the work my hon. Friend has done on this. It has enabled Members across the ...

I call the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee.

It will be a short advertisement from me this week. The Backbench Business Committee is very much...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his helpful advert for the Backbench Business Committee. I encoura...

May we have a debate on acquired brain injury so that I can highlight the work of my constituent,...

I thank my right hon. Friend for raising this important matter and I pay tribute to her constitue...

I want to raise the issue of back-of-house drug testing at UK festivals. For years, the testing o...

I thank the hon. Lady for raising the issue yet again. She will know, because she alluded to it, ...

It would be better to get inflation down by expanding supply, rather than hitting mortgage holder...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that very helpful suggestion. He will know that, as Treasury que...

For some time, we have been promised a transport Bill in this parliamentary session to establish ...

The hon. Lady will know, given where we are on a number of important Bills, that business is dyna...

Biomass plants do not provide a viable electricity producing solution for the UK’s net zero trans...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. She will know that suppliers have to dem...

I wonder whether the Leader of the House could contact her colleagues at the Ministry of Defence?...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I know that several Members of the House have raised...

May I associate myself with the comments about Piper Alpha? Over the years, I have been heavily i...

I thank my right hon. Friend for raising that important matter. It is raised very regularly in bu...

The deputy leader of the SNP has said that she will not stand again at the next election because ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her question. Other Members have also raised that matter. As a conseque...

We mark World Hepatitis Day on 28 July. I would like to take the opportunity to pay tribute to ca...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising awareness about those very important areas. She will know that...

This week is Alcohol Awareness Week, with a theme of alcohol and cost. The ultimate cost is alcoh...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this important matter, which he may also wish to raise wit...

May we have a debate about rural colleges? I remind the Chamber that I am a former student of the...

I am sure the whole House will want to join my hon. Friend in thanking Hugh for his long list of ...

In her answer to me on 8 June 2023 about risk-based exclusions, the Leader of the House said that...

As the hon. Lady will know, that is a matter for the Commission. I hope the Commissioners will no...

The Defence Committee report on women in the armed forces highlighted the existence of military s...

I thank my hon. Friend for the work she does on those and related matters. I know it is much appr...

Residents in Tyrrell Court in Wakefield got a shock this year when their social landlord, Wakefie...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this issue, which is similar to those that other hon. Memb...

The recent transfer of the administration of Help to Buy equity loans from Target to Lenvi has be...

I thank my hon. Friend for looking at this important issue. We have helped 837,000 people on to t...

The upgrade to Lodge Hill junction in Abingdon, an infrastructure project that is key to nearly 2...

I shall certainly ensure that Treasury Ministers hear what the hon. Lady has said. We have these ...

Ultra-processed food is linked to obesity because it is high in fat, sugar and salt and is highly...

As my hon. Friend will know, obesity is of huge concern to the Department of Health and Social Ca...

I thank the Leader of the House for taking up the issue I raised the other week about legal aid f...

As the hon. Gentleman will know, we are focusing on measures that will reduce the backlog. We are...

Last week, I met my constituent Rose Elgie, who attends St Teresa’s Primary School in Darlington....

My hon. Friend will know that we have a number of incredible forestry programmes around the world...

Billions of pounds were wasted on useless personal protective equipment, and there is no plan in ...

First, the covid inquiry is under way at the moment. It will determine what particular things it ...

A recent freedom of information request has revealed that, in the past seven years, Labour-run Ro...

My hon. Friend is right that the Government are putting our money where our mouth is. We need to ...

I will assume that the hon. Gentleman asked for a debate or a statement.

I did.

Good.

As the longest serving Member on the Labour Benches, I have seen some real changes in my 44 years...

The hon. Gentleman will know that I take a great deal of interest in ensuring that those in Depar...

Labour-led Cheshire East Council has proposed to close all libraries for at least one and a half ...

Order. It is quite important to ask the Leader of the House in such a way that it is relevant to ...

I remind my hon. Friend that DLUHC questions are on Monday—it will be jam-packed. I agree with he...

Wholesale energy prices for suppliers may have returned to normal, but Bonar Yarns in my Dundee c...

The hon. Gentleman will know that we take that type of matter seriously. He will know that, becau...

Can we have a debate about section 106 developer levies? Labour-run Kirklees Council is taking in...

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. We need to have transparency on this, which is why ...

Can we have a debate on the negative impacts that Labour-run Bradford Council’s clean air zone ta...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. Across the country, there are good and s...

May we have a debate in Government time on a very sad record that will be broken by the end of th...

The hon. Lady will know that, although there is more to do to ensure that everyone can have a war...

The excellent prehabilitation and cancer care team at Medway Maritime Hospital have shared data w...

I encourage my hon. Friend to raise this matter directly with the Secretary of State on Tuesday, ...

Evidence has emerged from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that the Pfizer covid vaccine rolled...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, which is appropriate for business questions because ...

The UK Government are determined to level up constituencies like Ynys Môn, and I am delighted tha...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on getting this investment into her constituency and on not only pu...

The motherhood pay penalty means that mothers with two children take home 26% less income than wo...

I thank the hon. Lady for her question, but I do have to correct her, because the Government Equa...

Like all our constituencies, Southend West has countless NHS heroes, such as Tracy Reed. This wee...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on mentioning a few of the unsung heroes in her constituency —I am ...

Yesterday, it was reported that some 150 Christians were killed in Nigeria’s Plateau state in the...

Again, I thank the hon. Gentleman on behalf of all of us for continuing to raise these matters ea...

I thank the Leader of the House for answering the business questions.