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Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Civil Rights
Questions: The Devon local authorities on the Social Mobility Commission’s index start with South Hams, which is 49th out of 324, yet North Devon is 238th. What is my right hon. Friend doing to level up such regional inequalities?;   E-scooters can be difficult for people with sight loss to identify and avoid, especially when they are ridden illegally on a pavement, because they operate quietly. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of the illegal and unsafe use of e-scooters on people with a visual impairment?; Will my right hon. Friend congratulate my constituent, the jewellery designer Monica Vinader, whose roots are in North Norfolk and whose head office is on the Holkham estate, on winning the 2022 Queen’s award for enterprise and sustainable development? Does she agree how wonderful it is to see women in business promoting ethical and sustainable business practices around the country?; Some black women in Southwark are disproportion- ately at risk of HIV, but are statistically less likely to access designated sexual health clinics. Does the Minister agree with the report of the all-party parliamentary group on HIV and AIDS that access to PrEP needs to be improved for this group specifically, through maternity units, at GP clinics and in community pharmacies?
Dehenna Sheridan Fareham (Conservative, Centre-right): I first got involved in politics when I was 16. One of my many motivations for joining David Cameron’s Conservatives was his socially liberal stance on LGBT+ issues. One of our party’s proudest achievements, in my view, is introducing same-sex marriage. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that, whatever the outcome of the leadership election is over the next few weeks, she and her Department will continue to prove that the Conservative Government are on the side of LGBT people?
Engagements — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am proud of the investment this country attracts from around the world. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about people from offshore investing in the UK, and I am absolutely thrilled to see we have had £12 billion of tech investment alone coming in over the last couple of months. It is possible that he is referring not to me but to some of the eight brilliant candidates who are currently vying for my job. Let me just tell him that any one of them would wipe the floor—[Interruption.]
Engagements — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Any one of the eight candidates would wipe the floor with Captain Crasheroony Snoozefest. In a few weeks’ time, that is exactly what they will do. They will unite around the winner and do just that.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): To the best of my knowledge, everybody in this Parliament and everybody in this House pays their full whack of tax in this country. Members across the House should cease this constant vilification of each other. I think people pay their fair share of taxes, and quite right Thanks to the tax yield we have had, we are able to support the people of this country in the way we are. We have been able to increase universal credit by £1,000, and from tomorrow we are putting £326 into the bank accounts of those who need it most. Thanks to the policies we have pursued, as I have just told the House, we have unemployment at or near record lows. That is what counts The Opposition are very happy to see people languish on benefits. We believe in getting people into good jobs, and I am looking for one.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think everybody who has played a part in the last three years has done a remarkable job in helping this country through very difficult times. I just want to say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the next leader of my party may be elected by acclamation, so it is possible that this will be our last confrontation over this Dispatch Box. [Interruption.] It is possible. So I want to thank him for the style in which he has conducted himself. It would be fair to say that he has been considerably less lethal than many other Members of this House, Mr Speaker, and I will tell you why that is. He has not come up—[Interruption.]
Engagements — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Questions: The convicted double child rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork was granted parole last year by the independent Parole Board in the face of enormous opposition from whistleblowers and my South Leicestershire constituents. Only two months after he was released, he was recalled to prison for having breached his licence conditions. He has another Parole Board hearing scheduled for September.The Prime Minister and I have communicated about this matter on numerous occasions, and he has assured me that he would do everything in his power to deal with this situation. Will he confirm before he leaves office that his Government will make all the necessary submissions that they can lawfully make to the independent Parole Board to make sure that this dangerous man is kept behind bars?;   After securing almost £14 million in my towns fund bid for Cheadle, I was delighted last week to get the green light for our new Cheadle rail station and £4 million for our state of the art eco-business park. I have had tremendous support from the Cheadle towns fund board and local community, who understand how important it is to have connected towns and villages, bringing investment and high-tech jobs to our area. I am ambitious for Cheadle and I want to secure the redoubling of the Mid-Cheshire line and the extension of Metrolink through my constituency. Will my right hon. Friend join me in thanking the towns fund board and station working group for their support and agree with me that improving connectivity is key to economic growth and the future of our levelling-up agenda?
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Well, no, Mr Speaker. What we have—and I know that every single one of the candidates will want to deliver this—is a Bill to fix the problem of the protocol. I accept that there is a problem, and I hope that the whole House will support the Bill.
Sri Lanka — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Amanda Anne Milling (Conservative, Centre-right): I will, of course, write to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West) after this urgent question. What I would say is that we are well within the timeframe for responding to the letter itself.
Sri Lanka — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Amanda Anne Milling (Conservative, Centre-right): The UK’s police training in Sri Lanka has focused on the role of women in the police service and on improving responses to sexual and gender-based violence. Police Scotland has confirmed that it will not seek to participate in any future programmes in Sri Lanka.
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As you know, the Government are at present in caretaker mode pending the election of a new Prime Minister. Is it your view that this caretaker mode extends to the Government’s interaction with Parliament? There are several pieces of potentially problematic—
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
William David Wiggin (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Would you be kind enough to pass on my thanks to Mr Speaker, who wisely and rightly curtailed the debate on special forces during Prime Minister’s Question Time? Those people are the bravest, most wonderful constituents I could ever hope to represent, and the attack on them and on Sir Mark Carleton-Smith by the BBC was without evidence, so curtailing that debate was very welcome.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I beg to move amendment 1, page 1, line 3, at end insert— "(za) comes into effect only in accordance with section 26(2A) to (2D);" This amendment is linked to Amendment 2 to clause 26, which would require parliamentary approval for bringing into force any provisions of this Act.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew William Murrison (Conservative, Centre-right): I admire the elegant way in which my hon. Friend has set out the three tests. However, the Joint Committee has been working at this for a long time and it has failed to make progress. At what stage, and in what circumstances, does he envisage that we could proceed on the basis of the provision we are debating at the moment? It seems to me that we have exhausted the possibilities and we are in the position of having to do this now to defend the Good Friday agreement. So why on earth is it necessary to have an amendment that would put another hurdle in the way of Ministers’ trying to resolve this?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that would be fine at this stage. My hon. Friend refers to "grave and imminent peril". Does he not agree that at the heart of this entire problem lies the issue of the democratic deficit? I will not go into it now, but I will explain later that I think this is about the manner in which legislation is pouring into Northern Ireland from every side, like a tsunami, as we said in our European Scrutiny Committee report; we talked about starting with a small number of cars and turning into a motorway. The bottom line is that that is a grave and imminent peril, because of the constant and perpetual legislation, week in, week out, with no time or opportunity for people in Northern Ireland to say anything at any time.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I respect what the right hon. Gentleman is saying. He referred to the importance of an objective test. Does he agree that that may not be enough for proper parliamentary scrutiny, which we must have for the regulations, and that before the Bill completes its passage in this House, the Government ought to produce the evidence base that might support the ground that he asserts—that the necessity test is met? That might make it easier for many people to accept the provisions of the Bill, rather than giving a blank cheque, which is the concern, as I am sure he will understand. That might make the passage of the Bill through the other place easier, because at the moment enactment could be a long way off. If the situation in Northern Ireland is so grave, would we wait until enactment or some other measure?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Michael Tyrone Ellis (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. "Urgent" does not necessarily mean "immediate"; it means, "As soon as we can reasonably and practically do it." I think he knows that. I will come to article 16 in due course, but we are going as fast as we can given when the House is sitting Additional parliamentary procedures after Royal Assent would risk delays to the regime coming into force, and undermine the certainty and clarity that we are looking to provide through the Bill. That would risk undermining the aim, which we all share, of seeing an Executive back up and running and delivering for the people of Northern Ireland, and risk real harm to businesses and citizens.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): Further to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), is the concession by the Government that "urgent does not mean immediate" not a plain acknowledgement of the fact that necessity does not apply, because it means there is no grave and immediate peril, which is one of the tests for necessity?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): I am listening with great interest to the series of amendments that my right hon. and learned Friend has been dealing with and asking Members to withdraw. Has he noticed that amendment 1 is neither chicken nor egg, and that there is no reference in it to any evidence test? I am slightly surprised that at the moment, we are not quite clear as to whether it is going to be suggested that that amendment be withdrawn.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Before the Minister comes to his next point, I draw to his attention that a great many people wish to speak in the debate. A lot of people have a right to do so because they are proposing amendments to which I would like to give them time to speak. The Minister has had the floor for 41 minutes. I hope that he might soon be able to draw his remarks to a close, possibly by addressing just the essential parts without the peripheral parts. In that way, there might be enough time, as we have only an hour and a half left of the debate.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. We had three hours for this debate. The first four speeches have taken more than two hours. We have about 55 minutes left and 10 people wish to speak. I do not have the power to put on a time limit, but you all have the power to act decently, and speak for four or five minutes and no longer. I hold you all to honour. You should take four to five minutes, otherwise you are preventing other people from speaking. I call Sir Geoffrey Cox.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Charles Geoffrey Cox (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not know, but it is no use the hon. Gentleman’s using the tactic of deflection to try to put me off my question to him. The democratic problem is what I put to him, and Labour has no answer to that problem. If the party is to be taken seriously, it needs concrete proposals that might work. On that note, Dame Eleanor, I will conclude.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): This has been a most useful debate. I will not press my amendment 1 to a vote tonight, because amendment 2, which is scheduled for debate on the third day of Committee proceedings, will permit the Committee to revisit the topics if matters develop I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment proposed: 26, in page 1, line 3, at end insert— "(za) requires Ministers of the Crown to set out a legal justification for altering the effect of the Northern Ireland Protocol in domestic law".—(Layla Moran.) This is a paving amendment for NC8. Question put, That the amendment be made.
Schools Bill — House of Commons, 2022-07-13
Topic: Other
Nigel Martin Evans (Conservative, Centre-right): There are a number of petitions to be presented, and I hope that it will be of assistance to the House if I set out how we shall proceed. Once the first petition relating to the Schools Bill has been read to the House with its prayer, subsequent petitions on the same topic should not be read out in full. Members should give a brief description of the number and location of the petitioners and state that the petition is "in the same terms". When a Member has presented their subsequent petition, she or he should proceed directly to the petitions bag at the back of the Chair. I will call the next Member immediately after their predecessor has finished speaking. We will start with John Howell.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I know that both Members have taken an active involvement in this issue and, like all the House, are looking forward to seeing the outcomes of our Gambling Act 2005 review. It remains a priority for the Department, and we will publish a White Paper setting out conclusions and a vision for the sector in the coming weeks.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Other
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I know how passionately and seriously the hon. Gentleman takes this issue, as do we on this side of the Chamber. That is why the review was comprehensive and covered many, if not all, of those areas that he mentioned. I ask him to be slightly patient, because we will be responding to the review in due course.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): Again, this is a topic that has consumed the attention of the whole House. The gambling review was looked at separately from the specific issue of loot boxes, where we recognise there are also issues and concerns, and we have been conducting a review. I reassure the hon. Gentleman that protecting children, both on loot boxes and in the gambling review, is front and centre of our thoughts.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend makes an important point about ensuring that the review we conduct and the conclusions that come out of it are comprehensive, but it is important, as technology evolves and changes, and becomes ever more sophisticated—as it does, particularly in the online gambling and gaming space—that we keep a close eye on developments, and we will be doing that going forward.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the ministerial team for their continued good work. Specifically on fixed odds betting terminals, would it not be a pragmatic and sensible consideration to display the average return rate for five seconds at the beginning of play, so that users can make an informed decision to weigh up enjoyment against the likely returns?
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. The White Paper will be looking at those issues, and the Gambling Commission of course looks at those kind of issues on an ongoing basis. He raises important points about targeting, in particular of the most vulnerable in society, and it is something of which we are very aware.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Laurence Anthony Robertson (Conservative, Centre-right): When the Government publish the White Paper, which I very much look forward to, will they ensure that it makes it clear who will be responsible for the issue of affordability—the Government or the Gambling Commission?
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): Again, I cannot pre-empt the conclusions of the review, but my hon. Friend makes an important point. The Secretary of State in particular is aware of that and we will be communicating more in due course. Affordability is an important point.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I hope the hon. Lady will wait to respond to the gambling review. I appreciate her giving a comprehensive list of all the policy areas and manifesto commitments on which the Government are committed to delivering. She could have gone further and mentioned safe standing, the delivery of the Commonwealth games, which start in three weeks’ time, or the Euros—well done to the Lionesses for last night. I thank her for giving a list of the Government’s achievements.
Gambling Review White Paper — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for the final part of his comments and for drawing attention to the fact that we constantly review the lottery. We have made significant changes over time, such as to the age limit for who can play it. As he is aware, people can use a credit card if the ticket is bought with other shopping. That is the norm in many other countries, but we constantly review those exact areas.
Betting and Gaming Industry and Racing: Economic Contribution — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Questions: What recent estimate she has made of the economic contribution that (a) the betting and gaming industry and (b) racing make to the economy.
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): In 2019, the last full year of gambling data unaffected by covid, the gambling industry contributed £8.3 billion to the economy, or 0.4% of gross value added. The sector employs approximately 98,000 people and pays £2 billion a year in gambling duties. According to the British Horseracing Authority, racing has direct revenues in excess of £1.47 billion and makes a total annual contribution to the UK economy of over £4 billion.
Betting and Gaming Industry and Racing: Economic Contribution — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Questions: What recent estimate she has made of the economic contribution that (a) the betting and gaming industry and (b) racing make to the economy.
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): Again, I assure the right hon. Gentleman that the gambling White Paper was comprehensive, and the response will be comprehensive. We have taken evidence and information from across the entire sector, so views such as those he has represented we are absolutely taking into account during the consideration.
Short-term Holiday Lets: Licensing — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady will be aware that, just last week, we announced a review of this very area. It is vitally important, particularly in tourism-affected areas of the country, and I know that her city, which I have had the pleasure of visiting, is one of them.
Short-term Holiday Lets: Licensing — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): I am always delighted to meet the hon. Lady. She raises some important points, articulating precisely the need for the review, which we have brought in because we are very aware of some of the issues she raised. Some of the individual entities—Airbnb and so on—are already taking action on antisocial behaviour and the number of people who can be at parties. We expect, and require them actually, to continue to be responsible for and responsive to their customers and, indeed, local communities. We have not pre-empted the conclusions of the review, so I ask her to please contribute to that review.
Short-term Holiday Lets: Licensing — House of Commons, 2022-07-07
Topic: Housing
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) is absolutely right to identify the issue that she has in York and in other parts of the country, but will my hon. Friend also bear in mind that these lets generate income for the area too, and many restaurants and other places would probably go out of business were it not for some of these lets?