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Debate between Julian Lewis and Lindsay Hoyle(1 week, 4 days ago)
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Sir Julian Lewis (New Forest East) (Con)
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You may have noticed that I briefly exited the Chamber to see whether copies of the SDR were available in the Vote Office, and I was told, quite rightly, that no, they would be made available immediately after the Secretary of State had made his statement. If we were to have the press conferences the day after statements—not the day before, or on the same day—everybody would have time to read the report, we would have an initial stab at it, with very little sight of it on the day, and then we could go into it in more detail subsequently, as we usually do.
Mr Speaker
I am sure that that is a good point of clarification on the way forward.
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Debate between Julian Lewis and Lindsay Hoyle(4 months ago)
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Sir Julian Lewis
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Is there any way within the rules of order that I can point out how the divisiveness of the exchanges that we have just had illustrates what happens when a line is not drawn under bitter historical conflicts?
Mr Speaker
I think the right hon. Gentleman has just done that for us, and I think I have heard enough—let us move on.
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Julian Lewis and Lindsay Hoyle(5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
There will be wizardry in the way this question from Sir Julian is delivered.
Sir Julian Lewis (New Forest East) (Con)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Does the Minister accept that it would greatly assist the police to investigate crime in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and indeed elsewhere, if they were not spending an estimated 60,000 hours investigating and recording so-called non-crime hate incidents?