Points of Order

Debate between Gavin Robinson and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 17th July 2023

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am now going to bring in Gavin Robinson—but I think we all know the answer, by the way.

Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson
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Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Clearly the purpose of a Delegated Legislation Committee is to fast-track matters that contain no controversy, and this exchange alone would suggest that there are issues worthy of exploration. We have heard the suggestion that the Committee would sit for 90 minutes, but we know that within two hours the Chamber will be incredibly busy with Divisions. There is no practical or reasonable prospect of the Committee’s dealing substantively with these issues affecting the Windsor framework. I should appreciate it, Sir, if you could deal with that in your response.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Gavin Robinson and Lindsay Hoyle
Wednesday 7th December 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson (Belfast East) (DUP)
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Would the Solicitor General recognise that whenever people in this country try to have a debate around mandatory minimum sentences there is an automatic superficial reaction that talks about the need for judicial discretion, yet there are crimes for which we as a Parliament should be clear as to the appropriate sentence that people ought to expect? [Interruption.]

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I just want to remind Members not to walk in front of other Members—[Interruption.] Mary Kelly Foy, you walked right in front of the Member who was asking the Minister a question. Please can we all wait, to help each other?

Conduct of Business After the Whitsun Recess

Debate between Gavin Robinson and Lindsay Hoyle
Wednesday 20th May 2020

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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And Public Health England. I call Gavin Robinson.

Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson (Belfast East) (DUP)[V]
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I am grateful to be called in this urgent question. I am thankful to the Leader of the House, because I know that he recognises that we all have an equal duty to represent our constituents, but the travel to and from Westminster is not equal for us all. Indeed, taking a plane from Belfast is not as socially distant as we would like. I ask the Leader of the House to consider the issue that will be most vexatious and difficult to solve, which is voting. I ask him whether remote voting can continue, given that the ability to travel between Westminster and Northern Ireland is severely constrained, with less than two planes per day from Northern Ireland to London when ordinarily there would have been more than 20.