Lindsay Hoyle MP: speeches 2025
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- 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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Order. May I just say to people that if we are going to have continuous interventions, and if they continue to make the same intervention, they should not be shocked if they end up at the bottom of the list? I want to help people, because all this does is soak up time. Jim Shannon will be a good example.
- 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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To be quite honest with you, the amendments that we have discussed are the ones that we have got through. On the amount of time allocated, in fairness, we are presuming what will come next. I am going to call the Minister; if a closure motion is moved, I will decide at that moment whether to accept it. The fact that many amendments may not have been spoken to is not unusual, which is why consideration will not last for one day, as per the normal procedure; it will continue over further days, on which further amendments will be discussed, and of course there will be Third Reading at a later date. I call the Minister.
- 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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Order. Please, I really want to get as many people in as possible. If you can come to a conclusion, that would be helpful.
- 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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There is a delay in the No Lobby. Will the Serjeant at Arms please go and inspect?
- 16 May 2025 · Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · Hansard source
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Order. I am really bothered, because today is a day for amendments, and we really need to understand the views they cover. As the Member in charge of the Bill, you will, I am sure, really want to get into the depth of the amendments and not continue in that way.
- 15 May 2025 · Speaker’s Statement: Ministerial Code · Hansard source
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Once again, I have had to grant an urgent question on a matter that was briefed extensively to the media in recent days. I recognise that a written ministerial statement was issued, but I am surprised that the Government did not think that Members would want an opportunity to question Ministers on a very important issue. On Monday, the Home Secretary was unapologetic about the fact that details of the immigration White Paper were given to the media, starting on Sunday morning, before it was laid before this House and long before she came to make a statement. I note that those who now occupy senior ministerial roles were not slow to complain when the previous Government made major policy announcements outside this place. I will continue to uphold and defend the rights of this House—the rights of Back Benchers—to be the first to hear the most important announcements of Government policy and the rights of hon. Members to question Ministers on those announcements in person. That was my position under the previous Government and it has not changed under this Government. It is clear to me that the general principle set out in paragraph 9.1 of the ministerial code is being disregarded more often than it is observed. I will write to the Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to invite that Committee to consider the issues in more detail. If the Government are not going to take the ministerial code seriously, who will? I do not like doing this. I believe that I am here to represent all Back Benchers, and Back Benchers have the right to question Ministers first. I am not interested in Sky News, the BBC or political programmes; I am here to defend you all, and I will continue to defend you. I say to the Government: please do not take MPs for granted. It is not acceptable. I know it is not the fault of the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Sir Nicholas Dakin), who is about to respond to the urgent question, but the message has to go back loud and clear: when you are in the wrong, apologise to Members.
- 15 May 2025 · Speaker’s Statement: Ministerial Code · Hansard source
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You are a good Minister and a nice person.
- 15 May 2025 · Speaker’s Statement: Ministerial Code · Hansard source
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Order. Let me gently say to the Minister: you would not be here at all if I had not granted the urgent question. That is the thing we should remember. You are only here because I have decided that you should be here. Please, do not try to take advantage of a situation that is not of your own making.
- 15 May 2025 · Speaker’s Statement: Ministerial Code · Hansard source
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Order. I do not want to labour the point—but, no, this is not the way we should be acting. The statement should have been brought here on the day the plan was announced. Let us get this very, very clear: this is not about having to grant an urgent question; this is about the Government doing the right thing, rather than somebody else having to drag Ministers here. That is not how we should be working.
- 15 May 2025 · Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Secretary of State.
- 15 May 2025 · Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
- 15 May 2025 · Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits · Hansard source
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I call the Chair of the Justice Committee.
- 15 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call the Chair of the Transport Committee.
- 15 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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That doesn’t always work.
- 15 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call Sir Jeremy Hunt.
- 15 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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In Chorley’s case, work started but it has still not been finished. It was abandoned halfway through.
- 15 May 2025 · Economic Growth · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Minister.
- 14 May 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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That completes Prime Minister’s questions.
- 14 May 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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I call the Leader of the Opposition.
- 14 May 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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The accuracy of what a Member states is not a matter for the Chair, but you have corrected the record in your opinion. We will leave it there for now.
- 14 May 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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I call the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
- 14 May 2025 · Engagements · Hansard source
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It was not my speech; it was the Prime Minister’s.
- 14 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Secretary of State.
- 14 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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Before we come to Prime Minister’s questions, I welcome to the Gallery the Speakers of Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat and St Helena.
- 14 May 2025 · Topical Questions · Hansard source
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Order. We are not going to get everybody in, Secretary of State.
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