Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the Help to Buy scheme gives timely responses to enquiries from homeowners.
Harriet Harman: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I associate myself with everything you said about Sir John, and also what the Leader of the House and the shadow Leader of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell)—who I welcome to her position—said. I do not intend to repeat everything that everybody has already said, but to warmly and very personally thank Sir John and pay...
Harriet Harman: The hon. Member has demonstrated himself to be a male ally, and we would not underestimate the importance of having male allies on this. There is an opportunity for the Minister to be not a force of resistance but a male ally and to follow the example of the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant).
Harriet Harman: I thank the right hon. Member for her initiative in bringing forward this debate; I absolutely agree with every word that she has said and how she has put the case. I say to the Minister that if he does what the right hon. Member is asking, we will give our full support. At this stage in a Government it is sometimes difficult to do good, but if he accedes to the right hon. Member’s...
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the requirement for musicians to ensure that their instruments comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulations when travelling to EU countries on the revenue generated by musicians.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to reduce the impact of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulations on UK musicians seeking to (a) work and (b) tour in the EU.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of negotiating a waiver to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulations for UK musicians looking to (a) tour and (b) work temporarily in EU countries.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department is taking steps to help support UK-based touring musicians with the requirement to obtain an ATA Carnet for taking their instruments and equipment to the EU.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2023 to Question 189475, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that there is no loss of earnings to the UK haulage industry due to EU rules on cabotage since the UK left the EU.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department will notify the English National Opera of the outcome of its funding application for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 financial years.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the impact of the requirement for musicians to obtain an ATA Carnet when taking their instruments to the EU on their earnings.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of negotiating an ATA Carnet waiver for UK musicians wanting to tour in the EU.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the current average processing time is for the (a) ca3837 Self-employed and temporarily working in a country within the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland and (b) CA3822 Employees temporarily posted to a country in the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland forms.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to process A1 forms, which are required for anyone temporarily working in a country within the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, on musicians seeking to (a) work and (b) tour in the EU.
Harriet Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to digitise the system for submitting and processing A1 forms.
Harriet Harman: I thank the Leader of the House for tabling the motion, which arises out of the special report of the Privileges Committee. When it approved with an emphatic majority the report of our inquiry into Boris Johnson, the House made it clear beyond doubt that honesty in our Parliament matters, that Ministers are required to be truthful and that there will be consequences for any Minister who is...
Harriet Harman: The hon. Gentleman named himself on Twitter by calling the Committee a “witch hunt”, and that was in the public domain. The thread ahead of his tweet was quite clear, so we simply put it in our report. We took what was in the public domain and put it in our report. Our special report makes it clear that it is not acceptable for a Member of this House who does not want a particular outcome...
Harriet Harman: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) is saying that he does not believe the Privileges Committee’s inquiry into Boris Johnson was a witch hunt, I warmly welcome the fact that he has said so. I thank him for putting it on the record that he does not believe our inquiry was a witch hunt.
Harriet Harman: The points and issues that we included in the annex to our report were put in the public domain on Twitter. Indeed, the hon. Gentleman himself put into the public domain that, in relation to the Committee, there was a question of “malice and prejudice”. He felt it was important to put that on to the public record.
Harriet Harman: I think the hon. Gentleman will be making a speech.