Desmond Swayne MP: speeches 2025
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- 16 Jan 2025 · Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme · Hansard source
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The scheme was designed to address a perverse incentive in the VAT rules that favoured demolition and rebuild at a time when we were unable to change those rules. Post Brexit, we can now do so. Will the Church Commissioners draw that to the attention of those on the Treasury Bench?
- 14 Jan 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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T2. Why are the Government acting with such dispatch to secure the agreement with Mauritius? What is the rush?
- 13 Jan 2025 · Children’s Social Media Accounts · Hansard source
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No; all remarks are addressed to the Chair.
- 13 Jan 2025 · Children’s Social Media Accounts · Hansard source
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Do, but do it to the Chair.
- 13 Jan 2025 · Children’s Social Media Accounts · Hansard source
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Order.
- 7 Jan 2025 · Northern Gaza · Hansard source
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The Minister must be aware that there are hon. Members on both sides of the House who were equally as frustrated with the form of the previous Administration as they are with this one. He says that he has brought pressure to bear on the Israeli authorities. When that pressure manifestly fails to deliver, is there a plan?
- 7 Jan 2025 · Pro-democracy Campaigners: Arrests · Hansard source
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The Chinese Government respect one thing: strength. So long as they continue to perceive that we are cringing, they will treat us with the contempt they believe we deserve, so how many Hong Kong officials have we sanctioned?
- 7 Jan 2025 · Counsellors and Psychotherapists · Hansard source
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11. Whether his Department plans to improve integration of counsellors and psychotherapists into the mental health workforce.
- 7 Jan 2025 · Counsellors and Psychotherapists · Hansard source
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Is there a plan to maintain service provision where psychotherapists and counsellors operating in the charity sector have been hit by eye-watering cost increases as a consequence of the national insurance increase?
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