Desmond Swayne MP: speeches 2025

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15 Sept 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source
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Will the Secretary of State give way?
15 Sept 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source
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On that point, will the Minister give way?
15 Sept 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source
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What can the Secretary of State say to those in the boatbuilding industry who have made representations to me about protection from day one? When someone takes on a craftsman, it can take quite a long time to establish whether he is any good and up to the job.
15 Sept 2025 · Employment Rights Bill · Hansard source
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Let me take the Secretary of State back to zero-hours contracts. The seasonality of the hospitality industry and, indeed, boat building down in my constituency, where large numbers of students are taken on, means that scheduling for guaranteed hours is very difficult, particularly when those students benefit from the provision, because they want to partake in races and other seasonal activities of a leisure nature.
9 Sept 2025 · Government Debt Interest Payments · Hansard source
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23. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of Government debt interest payments on public finances.
9 Sept 2025 · Government Debt Interest Payments · Hansard source
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So why does the Chancellor think that the United Kingdom is being charged more in interest even than Greece?
3 Sept 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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T3. Why has the Minister chosen to champion the rights of the residents of the Bell hotel over those of the local community?
2 Sept 2025 · Eating Disorders: Prevention of Deaths · Hansard source
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Order. There will be a formal time limit of one and a half minutes, and I will not be able to call everyone.
2 Sept 2025 · Eating Disorders: Prevention of Deaths · Hansard source
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Order. I call the spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.
2 Sept 2025 · Eating Disorders: Prevention of Deaths · Hansard source
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Order.
2 Sept 2025 · Violence against Women and Girls: Pornography Prostitution · Hansard source
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Order. I urge the hon. Member to give the Minister some time to respond.
2 Sept 2025 · Violence against Women and Girls: Pornography Prostitution · Hansard source
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I will call Joani Reid to move the motion, and I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind Members that they may make a speech only with the prior permission of the mover of the motion and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the mover of the motion to sum up afterwards.
2 Sept 2025 · The Battle of Britain · Hansard source
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I suggest six minutes for Back-Bench speeches.
1 Sept 2025 · Middle East · Hansard source
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What action will His Majesty’s Government take if the Government of Israel proceed with their plan to build in the E1 corridor?
1 Sept 2025 · Ukraine · Hansard source
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Given the red carpet treatment afforded to Putin, will the Secretary of State remind our principal ally that it is our co-signatory to the Budapest memorandum?
1 Sept 2025 · Borders and Asylum · Hansard source
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The only effective measure of the Government’s actions is the number of crossings, isn’t it?
16 Jul 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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Q2. Jack Straw told us that the Human Rights Act 1998 places on us no expectation that we will remedy a declaration of incompatibility issued by a court, so the Prime Minister is wrong to say that the legacy Act is struck down. His own proposals, which open the door to compensation to Gerry Adams and place in jeopardy our own servicemen, present enormous difficulty to those of us who have served—that is increasingly the case on the Prime Minister’s own Benches. Will he consider that?
15 Jul 2025 · Welfare Spending · Hansard source
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On the question of facts, will the Minister give way?
14 Jul 2025 · Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution · Hansard source
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When Jack Straw introduced the Bill that became the Human Rights Act 1998, he made it clear from the Dispatch Box, in terms, that Parliament was not under any obligation, in any way, to introduce a remedial order after a declaration of incompatibility by a court. There is no need to win another court case. Parliament is supreme. The Act stands.
10 Jul 2025 · UK-EU Trading Relationship · Hansard source
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15. What assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new UK-EU trading relationship.
10 Jul 2025 · UK-EU Trading Relationship · Hansard source
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Yesterday on “Farming Today” at 5.45 am, it was put to a shellfish farmer that it was going to become much easier for her to export her produce to the European Union. Her response was, “Yes, but we are told that the changes will be two or perhaps four years away, if they happen at all.” Given what we have negotiated away, can those changes be expedited?
8 Jul 2025 · Government Resilience Action Plan · Hansard source
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Will the preparations take into account the lasting, disastrous consequences of lockdown, and the blithering absurdity of face coverings?
3 Jul 2025 · Project Spire · Hansard source
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A number of Members this morning have lobbied for expenditure to repair their churches, and the hon. Lady has told them to lobby the Government—the Department for Culture, Media and Sport—for that money. At the same time, the Church has already spent £5 million on this project, with the aspiration of taking it to £1 billion, when the Charity Commission has yet to deliver its verdict on whether that is within the charitable objectives allowable. How has that been allowed to happen?
3 Jul 2025 · Project Spire · Hansard source
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6. What statutory powers the Church plans to use to facilitate Project Spire.
3 Jul 2025 · Charities: National Insurance Contributions · Hansard source
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8. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to employer national insurance contributions on charities.

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