Caroline Nokes MP: speeches

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• 5 Feb 2026 · Road Safety · Hansard source

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  That brings us to the Front-Bench contributions. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 5 Feb 2026 · Road Safety · Hansard source

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  I call Anna Dixon, who will speak for up to 15 minutes.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Member for that point of order. He will know that declarations of interest are not a matter for the Chair. However, he might be advised to refer that to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for investigation.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. He has very clearly brought into question the probity of the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe). He might want to withdraw that. It is of course a matter for the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to declare that, which he could now do by putting any interest on the record.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  Order. Will the hon. Lady make sure that she refers to the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister, please?

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I thank the hon. Member for putting that on the record. If there are no more points of order, I call Wendy Morton.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  The hon. Gentleman will have heard my earlier comment that it is a matter not for the Chair but for the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards if he has failed to declare interests during the debate.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  Order. That is not a point of order; it is a point of debate. I do not think it is appropriate during points of order specifically on the Intelligence and Security Committee to raise that matter. It is not for the Chair to rule on comments by other Members during the course of the debate.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I will now announce the result of today’s deferred Division on the draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026. The Ayes were 392 and the Noes were 116, so the Ayes have it. [The Division list is published at the end of today ’ s debates.]

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that point of order. As he will know, the powers of the ISC are not a matter for the Chair. However, the Minister on the Front Bench will have heard his comments and will have every opportunity in winding up to respond to that specific point and to provide the entire House with the clarity that I believe it is looking for on that point.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  Order. There are several other points of order. I am keen that we do not conduct the debate via points of order, so, if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me, I will take two further points of order and then respond to his point of order. Hopefully we might then have an answer.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I did ask the Member to withdraw his comments. He now has the opportunity to do so.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Minister.

• 4 Feb 2026 · Lord Mandelson · Hansard source

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  Order. I count two uses of the word “you”. I have not said anything; it is the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Alicia Kearns) who has made a comment, but any intervention needs to be via the Chair.

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. May I gently remind the hon. Lady that this is a very specific debate about the removal of the two-child limit and not a wider debate on tax policy?

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  I call the shadow Minister.

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. For the assistance of Back Benchers who still wish to speak, I am about to remove the time limit. [ Interruption. ]

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. Not “you”—I have not spoken in this debate!

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. I respectfully remind the hon. Gentleman not to use the word “you”. He was suggesting that he might like to have a fight with me, and that would not end well.

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Order. It is not me who is being referred to; it is the hon. Gentleman.

• 3 Feb 2026 · Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill · Hansard source

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  Will the Serjeant at Arms investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby?

• 2 Feb 2026 · High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill · Hansard source

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  With this it will be convenient to discuss the following motion on the Select Committee: That the following provisions shall apply in respect of the Select Committee to which the High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill stands committed by virtue of paragraph (10)(a) of the Order of 20 June 2022 (carry-over): 1. The Committee is to have five members. 2. The members of the Committee are— (a) those who are members of the Committee by virtue of paragraph (10)(a) of the Order of 20 June 2022 (carry-over), and (b) two other members who are to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. 3. Any alteration to the membership of the Committee shall be on the nomination of the Committee of Selection. 4. In carrying out its functions under paragraphs 2(b) and 3, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the principle that— (a) three members of the Select Committee are to be Members from the party represented in His Majesty’s Government, and (b) two are to be Members from opposition parties.

• 2 Feb 2026 · High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill · Hansard source

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  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• 2 Feb 2026 · High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill · Hansard source

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  I call Grahame Morris.

• 2 Feb 2026 · High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill · Hansard source

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  Division off. Question agreed to. Ordered, That the following provisions shall apply in respect of the High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill if proceedings on the Bill have not been completed before the end of this Session or any subsequent Session of this Parliament (each a “qualifying Session”). Suspension at end of qualifying Session 1. Further proceedings on the Bill shall be suspended from the day on which the qualifying Session in question ends until the Session that follows it (“the new Session”). 2. If a Bill is presented in the new Session in the same terms as those in which the Bill stood when proceedings on it were suspended in the qualifying Session in question— (a) the Bill so presented shall be ordered to be printed and shall be deemed to have been read the first and second time; (b) the Standing Orders and practice of the House applicable to the Bill, so far as complied with or dispensed with in the qualifying Session or a relevant earlier Session, shall be deemed to have been complied with or (as the case may be) dispensed with in the new Session; (c) any resolution relating to the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 that is passed by the House in the qualifying Session or a relevant earlier Session shall be deemed to have been passed by the House in the new Session; (d) the Bill shall be dealt with in accordance with— (i) paragraph 3, if proceedings in Select Committee were not completed when proceedings on the Bill were suspended; (ii) paragraph 4, if the Bill has been reported from the Select Committee but proceedings on the Bill in Public Bill Committee were not begun when proceedings on the Bill were suspended; (iii) paragraph 5, if proceedings in Public Bill Committee were begun but not completed when proceedings on the Bill were suspended (and see also paragraph 9); (iv) paragraph 6, if the Bill was waiting to be considered when proceedings on it were suspended; (v) paragraph 7, if the Bill was waiting for third reading when proceedings on it were suspended; (vi) paragraph 8, if the Bill has been read the third time and sent to the House of Lords. 3. If this paragraph applies— (a) the Bill shall stand committed to a Select Committee of such Members as were members of the Committee when proceedings on the Bill were suspended in the qualifying Session; (b) any instruction of the House to the Committee in the qualifying Session or a relevant earlier Session shall be an instruction to the Committee on the Bill in the new Session; (c) all petitions submitted in the qualifying Session or a relevant earlier Session which stand referred to the Committee and which have not been withdrawn, and any petition submitted between the day on which the qualifying Session ends and the day on which proceedings on the Bill are resumed in the new Session in accordance with this Order, shall stand referred to the Committee in the new Session; (d) any minutes of evidence taken and any papers laid before the Committee in the qualifying Session or a relevant earlier Session shall stand referred to the Committee in the new Session; (e) only those petitions mentioned in sub-paragraph (c), and any petition which may be submitted to the Private Bill Office and in which the petitioners complain of any amendment proposed by the member in charge of the Bill which, if the Bill were a private bill, could not be made except upon petition for additional provision or of any matter which has arisen during the progress of the Bill before the Committee in the new Session, shall stand referred to the Committee; (f) any petitioners whose petitions stand referred to the Committee in the new Session shall, subject to the rules and orders of the House, be entitled to be heard upon their petition by themselves, their counsel, representatives or parliamentary agents provided that the petition is prepared and signed in conformity with the rules and orders of the House; and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard through counsel or agents in favour of the Bill against any such petition; (g) the Committee shall require any hearing in relation to a petition mentioned in sub-paragraph (f) above to take place in person, unless exceptional circumstances apply; (h) in applying the rules of the House in relation to parliamentary agents, any reference to a petitioner in person shall be treated as including a reference to a duly authorised member or officer of an organisation, group or body; (i) the Committee shall have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from day to day minutes of evidence taken before it; (j) the Committee shall have power to make special reports from time to time; (k) three shall be the quorum of the Committee. 4. If this paragraph applies, the Bill shall be deemed to have been reported from the Select Committee and to have been re-committed to a Public Bill Committee. 5. If this paragraph applies, the Bill shall be deemed to have been reported from the Select Committee and to have been re-committed to a Public Bill Committee in respect of those clauses and Schedules not ordered to stand part of the Bill in the qualifying Session. 6. If this paragraph applies— (a) the Bill shall be deemed to have been reported from the Select Committee and from the Public Bill Committee, and (b) the Bill shall be set down as an order of the day for consideration. 7. If this paragraph applies— (a) the Bill shall be deemed to have been reported from the Select Committee and from the Public Bill Committee and to have been considered, and (b) the Bill shall be set down as an order of the day for third reading. 8. If this paragraph applies, the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through all its stages in this House. Other 9. If proceedings in Public Bill Committee are begun but not completed before the end of a qualifying Session, the chair of the Committee shall report the Bill to the House as so far amended and the Bill and any evidence received by the Committee shall be ordered to lie upon the Table. 10. For the purposes of paragraphs 2 and 3 above, each of the following is a relevant earlier Session— (a) Session 2021-22; (b) Session 2022-23; (c) Session 2023-24; (d) except where the qualifying Session is this Session, each Session of this Parliament before the qualifying Session; (e) where the new Session is the first Session of the next Parliament, each qualifying Session 11. In paragraph 1 above, the reference to further proceedings does not include proceedings under Standing Order 224A(8) (deposit of supplementary environmental information). 12. In paragraph 3 above, references to the submission of a petition are to its submission electronically, by post or in person. That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House. High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill: Select Committee Ordered, That the following provisions shall apply in respect of the Select Committee to which the High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill stands committed by virtue of paragraph (10)(a) of the Order of 20 June 2022 (carry-over): 1. The Committee is to have five members. 2. The members of the Committee are— (a) those who are members of the Committee by virtue of paragraph (10)(a) of the Order of 20 June 2022 (carry-over), and (b) two other members who are to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. 3. Any alteration to the membership of the Committee shall be on the nomination of the Committee of Selection. 4. In carrying out its functions under paragraphs 2(b) and 3, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the principle that— (a) three members of the Select Committee are to be Members from the party represented in His Majesty’s Government, and (b) two are to be Members from opposition parties.—( Heidi Alexander .)