Nusrat Ghani MP: speeches 2025

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26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. Our constituents want to hear the Chancellor.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. The noise is far too high.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. There is far too much noise. I expected so much better from you, Dr Luke Evans; you are meant to be a leader in your community. Simmer down.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. We do not need commentary from the Back Benches. Mr Dewhirst, you are so loud; it is remarkable how far your voice carries.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Before I call the Chancellor, I will make a short statement. For a number of weeks, and yet again yesterday, there have been extensive briefings to the media on the Government’s fiscal policy and public finances. This disappointing trend in relation to Budget briefings has been growing for a number of years under successive Governments, but it appears to have reached an unprecedented high. Weeks ago, we saw the Chancellor delivering a speech in Downing Street setting the scene for the Budget, and specific policy announcements have been briefed out to the media in advance of today’s financial statement. [ Interruption. ] I do not need any help from Members. It seems that just a moment ago, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s analysis appeared online. This all falls short of the standards that the House expects. The premature disclosure of the contents of the Budget has always been regarded as a supreme discourtesy to this House and to all the democratically elected Members, not to mention to Mr Speaker, and to me, the Chairman of Ways and Means. The Government’s own “Ministerial Code” cannot be clearer. Paragraph 9.1 states: “When Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament.” I have always upheld the right of this House and its Members to be treated with respect, and to be the first to hear major Government policy announcements on behalf of their constituents. As Chairman of Ways and Means, I have responsibility for overseeing the House’s consideration of the Budget statement and the ensuing resolutions; that is described in paragraph 36.33 of “Erskine May” as “the most important business of Ways and Means.” I want hon. Members on both sides of the House to have adequate opportunity to hold the Chancellor to account, rather than their hearing and reading about new policies daily in the media. Like many, I expected better. Before I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I remind hon. Members that copies of the Budget resolutions will be available to them in the Vote Office in Members’ Lobby at the end of the statement, and online. I also remind hon. Members that interventions are not taken during the Chancellor’s statement, nor during replies from the Leader of the Opposition or the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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We now come to the motion entitled “Income Tax (Charge)”. It is on this motion that the debate will take place today and on the succeeding days. The questions on this motion and on the remaining motions will be put at the end of the Budget debate on Tuesday 2 December. I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer to move the motion formally.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. Mr Rankin and Ms Morton, your voices carry right across the Chamber—try to take a breath every so often.
26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source
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Order. It is so noisy in here we can barely hear the Chancellor. Everybody needs to calm down.
25 Nov 2025 · Uckfield Community Hospital Surgical Unit · Hansard source
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The hon. Member for East Grinstead and Uckfield (Mims Davies) is a strong campaigner on behalf of Uckfield community hospital and its services, which my constituents in Sussex Weald will have used and would want to use, so I too look forward to hearing the Minister’s response.
25 Nov 2025 · Uckfield Community Hospital Surgical Unit · Hansard source
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I call my constituency neighbour, Mims Davies.
25 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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I call the shadow Minister.
25 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. It is not a point of order for the Chair, but she has most definitely put her point on the record.
25 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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Order. The time limit for speeches is now three minutes.
25 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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Colleagues who have contributed to the debate should be here for the wind-ups. That is a notice. I call the shadow Minister.
24 Nov 2025 · Critical Minerals Strategy · Hansard source
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I ask colleagues to keep their questions short.
24 Nov 2025 · Critical Minerals Strategy · Hansard source
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I will definitely be paying close attention. I call the shadow Minister.
24 Nov 2025 · Critical Minerals Strategy · Hansard source
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.
24 Nov 2025 · Critical Minerals Strategy · Hansard source
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Please keep questions short. They are not speeches.
24 Nov 2025 · Point of Order · Hansard source
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I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. Government Departments must reply promptly to questions; one whole year is very shameful indeed. The delay outlined by the hon. Member would suggest that something has gone seriously wrong in the Treasury in relation to answering this question. I assume that those on the Treasury Bench will relay the point to colleagues forthwith. I suggest that the hon. Member also ask the Chair of the Procedure Committee to look into the matter, because nobody should be waiting one whole year for a response to correspondence. English Devolution and Community Empowerment (Programme) (No.2) Ordered , That the Order of 2 September 2025 (English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Programme) be varied as follows: (1) Paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Order shall be omitted. (2) Proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading shall be taken in two days in accordance with the following provisions of this Order. (3) Proceedings on Consideration— (a) shall be taken on each of those days in the order shown in the first column of the following Table, and (b) shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table. Proceedings Time for conclusion of proceedings First day New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the subject matter of, and amendments to, Part 1 and Part 2 The moment of interruption on the first day Second day New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the subject matter of, and amendments to, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6; remaining new Clauses and new Schedules; remaining proceedings on Consideration One hour before the moment of interruption on the second day (4) Proceedings on Third Reading shall be taken on the second day and shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on the second day. —(Stephen Morgan.)
24 Nov 2025 · Point of Order · Hansard source
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Did I hear the hon. Member correctly when she said one whole year?
24 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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Order. May I urge hon. Members to make short interventions?
24 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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Order. Mr Holmes, before you flick through any more pages, it is obviously very interesting to hear you speak, but over 25 Members are hoping to contribute.
24 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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I am trying to calculate the time; I hope that we have more than one speaker bobbing.
24 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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Marvellous. As we have four more speakers and we definitely have to finish business by 10 pm, Back Benchers are on a speaking limit of 10 minutes.
24 Nov 2025 · English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill · Hansard source
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