Graham Stringer MP: speeches

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10 Sept 2025 · Stockton and Darlington Railway: 200th Anniversary Festival · Hansard source
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I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. I am not going to impose a time limit, but I am going to call the Front-Bench speakers to respond to the debate from 5.10 pm. With half an hour, the four people standing can work out how much time they have.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Before I call Melanie Ward to move the motion, it is self-evident that this debate is well subscribed. At the moment, just based on the numbers who have put in to speak—there are some hon. Members who have turned up who have not put in to speak, which does not mean they cannot be called—it looks as though the speech limit will be around one minute 30 seconds. If there are more interventions, that may have to be reduced.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order. I call Warinder Juss.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order. Will Members remain bobbed for a second so that we can calculate the time for speeches? I remind Members to bob after every speech. The speech time will be one minute and 30 seconds.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order. Sir Alec, you are an experienced Member. Can we move to ordinary parliamentary debate? I have not had any reports.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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We have caught up on time, so the Minister has a decent amount of time to speak. I ask him, if possible, to find a couple of minutes at the end for the proposer to wind up.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Just before I call the Minister to respond, we have done really well on the timings so far. However, if hon. Members are going to make interventions, can they be short and to the point, please?
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Thank you. I call Brian Mathew.
10 Sept 2025 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Access · Hansard source
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Order.
9 Sept 2025 · Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill · Hansard source
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I sincerely congratulate my hon. Friend on his new position. I have to say to him that I have never found it a satisfactory basis for arguments or positions in this Chamber to say that those on the other side are doing it. However, I do think it is important that we are consistent. When we were in opposition and the Conservatives were in government, they made the Foreign Secretary a Member of the House of Lords, and we created about it. We shouted about how someone in a senior Cabinet position should be directly accountable to this House. We now have a super-active Attorney General making many controversial decisions. Does my hon. Friend agree with me that we should be making the case that the Attorney General should be in this House, not the other place?
2 Sept 2025 · Pony and Trap Racing: Regulation · Hansard source
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Order. I will call Sarah Green to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will be no opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention for 30-minute debates.
2 Sept 2025 · Defibrillators · Hansard source
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We come now to the Front-Bench contributions. I ask spokespeople to keep their speeches to about eight minutes, which will leave a very short time for the Member in charge to respond to the debate.
2 Sept 2025 · Defibrillators · Hansard source
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Order.
2 Sept 2025 · Defibrillators · Hansard source
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Order. Will hon. Members leave as quickly as possible so that we can move on to the next debate? Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).
2 Sept 2025 · Defibrillators · Hansard source
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We have a good attendance this morning. If hon. Members bob after a speech, whether or not they have put in to speak, that will enable us to do the complicated calculation of how much time we have. Rather than relying on me doing mental arithmetic on the hoof, the Clerk will calculate a reasonable solution. Right—we will start with a three-minute time limit, which might have to be reduced. The actual calculation comes out at two and a half minutes, so I hope hon. Members will bear that in mind.
2 Sept 2025 · Defibrillators · Hansard source
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Order. There are three hon. Members left wishing to speak. We have done quite well, but I am going to reduce the time limit to one minute and 30 seconds, which still means taking a bite out of the wind-up speeches.
1 Sept 2025 · Borders and Asylum · Hansard source
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I do not envy the Home Secretary trying to clear up the mess that the last Government left on migration. I doubt, however, that the measures she is currently putting before the House will be as successful as she and I wish them to be. They do not really deal with the fact that many migrants are not coming from war-torn countries; they are coming from France, which is not persecuting them in any recognisable form. The reason is demand pull from this country—migrants believe they will have a better and an easier time, and get through the system more easily, in this country than they would in France or in other European countries. Denmark has been successful in reducing the demand pull. If the Home Secretary’s measures are to be as successful as she wishes them to be, will she look more closely at what Denmark has done to improve the situation?
15 Jul 2025 · West Coast Main Line · Hansard source
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First, the Minister of State in the House of Lords made it clear yesterday that since the cancellation of HS2, there is no plan for capacity. Does my hon. Friend agree that there must soon be a plan to increase capacity, preferably based on something like HS2? Secondly, the point made by the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) about trains being cancelled north of Preston is true, but although I am sure he did not mean to do so, he seemed to be letting Avanti off the hook. We should remember that not only is Avanti taking many millions of pounds out of the public purse, but it has been caught on tape laughing at the public purse and saying how easy it is to rip off the Exchequer. The sooner Avanti is taken out of the system, even before there are capacity increases, I am sure it will benefit all of us who travel on the route.

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