Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2019 to Question 268974, if his Department will impose a moratorium on development on peatlands pending the publication of his Department's England Peat Strategy.
Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his Department's policy to protect remaining areas of peat moss in the UK from development.
Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the protection and restoration of peat moss in achieving net carbon neutrality for the UK.
Graham Brady: I call Matt Western to wind up the debate.
Graham Brady: I have six Members wanting to catch my eye, so I propose a four-minute time limit on Back-Bench speeches.
Graham Brady: Order. To get in everybody seeking to speak, I will place a four-minute limit on Back Benchers’ contributions.
Graham Brady: May I remind Members that they should address each other in the third person? Anybody who says “you” is talking to me, and I do not think that was what was intended.
Graham Brady: May I first give my deep condolences to the family of Yousef Makki, the young man whose life was tragically taken in my constituency on Saturday evening, and may I also thank Greater Manchester police for their rapid response to give some reassurance to the community? The Home Secretary has spoken of increased resources going to the police. When he meets senior officers in the coming days,...
Graham Brady: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on his policies of the EU returning to duty free arrangements in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and whether the UK will reciprocate to ensure a parity of arrangements for UK businesses.
Human Rights: Democracy, free speech and freedom of association.
Witnesses: Vicky Ford MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Parliament Sir Graham Brady MP, Chair, 1922 Committee Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Disability Julie Elliott MP John Cryer MP, Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party
Graham Brady: Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me. I think the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Sir Vince Cable) should beware that, while perhaps not wishing to do so, he may sometimes be talking up the possibility of panic and spreading gloom and despondency unnecessarily. I have a short time available to me, but I will take less than the six minutes if I possibly can, because my points are few and...
Graham Brady: I will come on to those matters. I have very little time, but I assure the hon. Gentleman that that is my intention in speaking in this debate. First, however, I wish to turn to the amendments that deal with procedure. I entirely accept what my right hon. and learned Friend the Father of the House said: it is the right of this House to change procedure. However, I would make a slightly...
Graham Brady: My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) made it very clear that he welcomed some of the changes that have taken place, as well as the debate that we are having, but that was not a dramatic procedural change; I am talking about things that go right to the heart of how this place is run. As Mr Speaker will recall, many years ago I had the pleasure of serving...
Graham Brady: I would very much like to give way to the hon. Lady, but I have used up my two allowed interventions. We can send the Prime Minister back in a strengthened position, able to say that she has a real mandate from this House, and to ask for real change.
Graham Brady: We now have three Front-Bench speakers to wind up, but I know that the hon. Gentleman who secured the debate would also like to wind up briefly at the end for a couple of minutes.
Graham Brady: If we have time.
Human Rights: Democracy, free speech and freedom of association.
Witnesses: Sir Graham Brady MP, Chair, 1922 Committee John Cryer MP, Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party Vicky Ford MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Parliament Dr Lisa Cameron MP Julie Elliott MP
Graham Brady: Order. Before I call the next speaker, I will explain that we have just over half an hour before the wind-up speeches need to begin. Three Back-Bench Members are seeking to catch my eye. I would rather avoid imposing a time limit, but if the three can consider each other we will avoid it.
Graham Brady: Mr Speaker, there may not be room in the Gloucestershire Echo for the whole of your ruling in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Alex Chalk). I am grateful to allowed to speak so early in the debate, and I will be brief out of consideration for the many Members on both sides of the House who wish to participate. Following the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber...
Graham Brady: Blimey—what a choice. I give way to the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil).