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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Standards

"I, too, thank the Leader of the House for so quickly coming forward with a proposal to enact the sole recommendation of my Committee’s third report of this Session. The Committee agreed its report on 12 June, and here we are, barely a month later, seeking to put its recommendation …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Privilege

"My comments will be necessarily brief, given the role that I play as Chair of the Committee of Privileges. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) for the comments he has made and the respect with which he is conveying this motion to the Committee.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme

"May I begin by welcoming the Government’s motion to put the assurance board on a proper footing, and to introduce a clear policy framework under which the ICGS will operate? As some colleagues have said, the ICGS is an extremely important parliamentary workplace scheme, covering all members of the parliamentary …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"I rise to speak to new clause 74 in my name. First, I thank all Members from parties across the House who signed up to my new clause. I also thank Mr Speaker and his team for the novel offer he made this morning on how we might have dealt …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"I welcome the hon. Lady’s suggestion, and I would welcome more resources going into local planning teams, but what we have here is a problem, which she may well encounter in her own constituency. Hon. Members should be very careful indeed when developers promise X, Y and Z affordable, social …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"When a developer pledges to build 40% minimum of affordable housing and obtains outline planning permission on the basis of that pledge, and then, less than 20 months later, seeks to reduce the 40% to 0%, is that acceptable?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"I would welcome that. The Government need to take into account Lutterworth East and to ask themselves why a Labour parliamentarian and a Conservative parliamentarian have had to go begging to the Government to look into the matter. The Government purport to want to see more social housing, more affordable …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Parthenon Marbles: British Museum Act 1963

"I will make a further point first.

Let me be clear: this is not a debate about returning all the treasures in the British Museum. If it were, we might be here for another century. I put on record that I collect antiquities, so the idea that they should all …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Parthenon Marbles: British Museum Act 1963

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his very valued view. I reiterate that this debate has nothing to do with how the marbles came to be acquired by the British Museum. The hon. Gentleman may well be right to quote that individual. My only interest in this debate is to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Parthenon Marbles: British Museum Act 1963

"Most certainly not. I thank my right hon. Friend for his valued contribution. That is precisely the issue that I do not wish to debate. He may well be absolutely correct to say that these sculptures are of such western significance, and that the way in which they were acquired …..."
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