Desmond Swayne: As we approach the six-month point, what action can the Church take to encourage members of their congregations to step forward—and the congregations themselves to support them—where some initial sponsorships are not renewed?
Desmond Swayne: What steps his Department is taking to help restore devolved government in Northern Ireland.
Desmond Swayne: But there is no prospect of restoring devolved government until the protocol has been resolved. Is that not the case?
Desmond Swayne: The Minister said that the rise in price was a result of the attack on Ukraine. It is much more than that: it is a deliberate part of the attack on Ukraine. Is not the essential ingredient of any scheme that the Government bring forward that it encourages customers to reduce their consumption?
Desmond Swayne: I present a petition in the same terms. The petition states: The petition of residents of the constituency of New Forest West, Declares that the petitioners reject the imposition of an expensive, disproportionate, invasive and ill-judged registration and monitoring system for home educated children, which undermines the long-standing statutory recognition of the primacy of parents in...
Desmond Swayne: My father’s last six months were horrible and frightful. Yes, I did want him to die more quickly, to end his suffering. However, he did not. He wanted to come home. I would therefore not change the law. We have heard much about the polling, but the fact is there is nothing new there. Ever since we started polling on this question, there have been large majorities in favour of changing the...
Desmond Swayne: I was speaking about the Dutch figures, not Oregon, but my hon. Friend is right that it depends on us. I last debated this issue at Durham University earlier this year against Baroness Meacher. She wanted to confine the debate clearly and specifically to the terms that she had set out in her Bill, with all the provisions and the safeguards, such as that it has to be within six months of the...
Desmond Swayne: I have given way enough and my right hon. Friend has had his say. I accept entirely that people are put in a dreadful position if they have a terminal diagnosis. They have the capacity to end their lives but they want to live a bit longer and are worried about the loss of that capacity to end their lives, putting their friends and relatives in a difficult position. But it is a mistake to...
Desmond Swayne: To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to tackle institutional racism.
Desmond Swayne: The decision to refuse to ordain Calvin Robinson was a missed opportunity, but my hon. Friend is both a fair-minded and God-fearing person. I hope I can rely on him to ask the bishops to pray, reflect and reconsider.
Desmond Swayne: Taking back control is to apply to the European Court of Human Rights too, isn’t it?
Desmond Swayne: Madam Deputy Speaker, can I refer you to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests? Rents are rising because of a shortage of properties in the market as landlords flee from it. Has the Minister considered that these measures may have the very reverse effect of that which he intends?
Desmond Swayne: Notwithstanding the niceties of this particular judgment, we are going to have to grasp the nettle and extend the principle of taking back control to the convention, aren’t we?
Desmond Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to further deliver the Covid Pass Programme.
Desmond Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for a Covid Pass.
Desmond Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that park home residents receive the full benefit of the support available to households to help meet the rise in the cost of energy.
Desmond Swayne: We already have the most important lesson, which is to avoid lockdowns, isn’t it?
Desmond Swayne: May I suggest some powers that the Secretary of State might like to grab?
Desmond Swayne: I suggest that the Secretary of State addresses a problem to which national parks are particularly prone, where a historic lawful development certificate is acquired because a caravan was previously located there, affording huge development on the basis of permitted development rights over which the national park authority and the planning authority have no control. That is a power that needs...
Desmond Swayne: Why is the Secretary of State’s departmental leadership team advertising for a deputy director, delivery, for the Covid Pass programme? What is that about?