Lindsay Hoyle MP: speeches 2024

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29 Oct 2024 · Cost of Living: Support for Pensioners · Hansard source
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Order. What is the hon. Gentleman standing for? I hope he is not. I call Blake Stephenson.
29 Oct 2024 · Cost of Living: Support for Pensioners · Hansard source
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I think the Minister got it in the first two minutes, never mind the last three.
29 Oct 2024 · Northern Powerhouse · Hansard source
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Order. The hon. Gentleman is a very good Member who has been here a long time. Please try to look at me occasionally; it would be helpful.
29 Oct 2024 · Sudan · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Foreign Secretary.
28 Oct 2024 · Middle East · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Foreign Secretary.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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Order. Just a minute, please! One of us will have to give way. The hon. Gentleman is one of the most senior Members of Parliament. He should be looking at me when he is asking a question, not at the Minister. Come on, Clive: I am better-looking.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I say to all Members that mentioning other Members cannot be done without giving notice. I presume the right hon. Lady’s second question will be on a different issue.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Secretary of State.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I presume the shadow Secretary of State let the hon. Member for Ilford South know that she was going to mention him on the Floor of the House.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call the Chair of the Select Committee.
28 Oct 2024 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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But not in this instance! [Laughter.]
28 Oct 2024 · Housing Supply · Hansard source
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I call the Father of the House.
28 Oct 2024 · Housing Supply · Hansard source
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Order. I do not want to hear a conversation all the way through.
28 Oct 2024 · Housing Supply · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Minister.
28 Oct 2024 · Speaker's Statement · Hansard source
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Before the next business, I have a short statement to make. In media interviews last week, the Chancellor announced that she intended to introduce changes to the fiscal rules relating to the funding of day- to-day spending through tax receipts, and to the measurement of public debt. These are major new policy announcements, with significant and wide-ranging implications for the Government’s fiscal policy and for the public finances. It is evident to me that they should therefore have been made in this House in the first instance, and not to the world’s media. This principle is clearly and unambiguously set out in paragraph 9.1 of the ministerial code. While this can hardly be described as a leak—the Chancellor herself gave interviews on the record, and on camera—the premature disclosure of the contents of the Budget has always been regarded as a supreme discourtesy to the House; indeed, I still regard it as such. I am very disappointed that the Chancellor expects the House to wait nearly a full week to hear her repeat the announcements in the Budget statement on Wednesday. I have always defended the undoubted right of this House, including the Opposition parties and Back Benchers in all parts of the House, to be the first to hear major Government policy announcements. When such announcements are made, Ministers should expect to face proper, sustained scrutiny from the elected Members of this House, not American news channels. I can assure the Government that that is still my firm view, and that I will use the powers I have to make sure the House is able to hold Ministers to account. I am glad that there will be a statement later on fiscal rules—perhaps that is no coincidence. Hon. Members may be wondering how they will get a seat on Wednesday, but to be quite honest, the way it is going, they will not need one, as we will have heard it all already. This is not acceptable, and I do not want it to continue. I want this House—Government and Opposition—to be treated with the respect it deserves. It is totally unacceptable to go around the world telling everyone rather than Members of this House. They were elected by the constituents of this country and they deserve to be treated better. When the Conservatives were the Government, it was Labour complaining to me. Get your acts together, on all sides, and treat Members with respect.
28 Oct 2024 · Local Authority Funding · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Secretary of State.
28 Oct 2024 · Local Authority Funding · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
28 Oct 2024 · Broadband Access and Mobile Signal · Hansard source
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Order. Mr Jermy, you started to bob and then you stopped, so I was not sure you had a question, but please let us hear it.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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I call the Chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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I remind the House that the case of Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash is sub judice and no reference should be made to it in the House.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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Order. The urgent question was purely about Hong Kong. I know that there is a slight connection.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Minister.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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That completes the urgent question. In fairness to the Foreign Secretary, I would just say that we did have a meeting—he is absolutely correct—about the situation facing some Members of this House. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that those sanctions are lifted, and that was part of the conversation.
28 Oct 2024 · China: Human Rights and Sanctions · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

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