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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Committee on Standards

"I am regretful at rising to speak in this debate. Although we have political adversaries in the House, we are also all colleagues who work together in the same place. I have the utmost sympathy for the family tragedy that hit the right hon. Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson) …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 May 2020
Liaison (Membership)

"I beg to move amendment (a), leave out paragraph (3) and insert—

“(3) The chair of the Liaison Committee shall be a current chair of a Select Committee.”.

This amendment stands in my name and the names of many other Members of this House.

It would have been best if …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Business of the House

"When will the Secretary of State for Health next come to the House to update us? People will have seen reports on last night’s news that two patients at King’s College Hospital in my constituency have been diagnosed as positive with coronavirus. That has immediately raised questions in the minds …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2019
Tributes to the Speaker

"Mr Speaker, you are my fifth Speaker now, and I can say from that experience that you have been a remarkable Speaker of this House. You have been a champion of Parliament and a reformer. As other hon. and right hon. Members have said, you have thought about opening up …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jan 2019
Proxy Voting

"Thank you for your kind words, Mr Speaker, but this has been a collective endeavour. First, I would like to pay tribute to the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson), who has been a champion of this for pressing reasons and reasons of principle. I thank her for securing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Proxy Voting

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately), because she is an example of exactly why this change is needed.

Proxy voting was not an issue back when the House of Commons was overwhelmingly male. When I came in, it was 97% …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Business of the House

"I thank the Leader of the House for her really active and committed support for the conference of women MPs from all around the world, which will take place in this House on 8 November this year. I should also like to return to a matter that was raised with …..."
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Written Question
Absent Voting
Monday 4th June 2018

Asked by: Baroness Harman (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, whether she plans to take steps to implement the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Procedure Committee, Proxy voting and parental absence, published on 9 May 2018, HC 825.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

I am grateful to the Procedure Committee for its work on proxy voting and the proposals that they have made in their report. The Government is currently considering the recommendations in detail and will respond to the report in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Feb 2018
Independent Complaints and Grievance Policy

"I join other hon. Members in commending the work of the Leader of the House and thank her for the way she has gone about it. Her approach has been very serious and committed but also inclusive, involving—right at the heart of the process and on an equal footing—the shadow …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Feb 2018
Baby Leave for Members of Parliament

"I beg to move,

That this House believes that it would be to the benefit of the functioning of parliamentary democracy that honourable Members who have had a baby or adopted a child should for a period of time be entitled, but not required, to discharge their responsibilities to vote …..."
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