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Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Mar 2024)

Richard Graham: Millions of people around the UK and Europe have been inspired by the brilliance of Six Nations rugby. Premier league clubs like Gloucester Rugby, which were funded during the pandemic through loans authorised by the Prime Minister, the then Chancellor, have always been grateful for being kept solvent, but he will know that some clubs’ finances are fragile, and that the current loan...

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Richard Graham: I am struggling a bit with the right hon. Lady’s figures. My own calculations suggest that this year, pensioners will see an increase of £900 from an 8.2% increase in the state pension as a result of the triple lock. In all, I think, pensioners will be getting £3,700 more than they were in 2010. That is a huge increase in their income, alongside all the help with the cost of living and...

Scotland: Marine Energy Sector Support ( 6 Mar 2024)

Richard Graham: What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the adequacy of support for the marine energy sector in Scotland.

Scotland: Marine Energy Sector Support ( 6 Mar 2024)

Richard Graham: The Minister knows that successive Energy Ministers have hugely helped the development of the marine energy sector in Scotland, as elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is an opportunity in the next round of the renewables auction to allow for wave technologies alongside tidal stream technologies? Will he encourage the Scottish Government to speed up approvals...

Israel and Gaza (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: The scale of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is beyond words. The Times journalist Amal Helles has reported that Gaza is a place now with no schools, no jobs, no homes and no streets, yet the United Nations is saying that the reduction in the number of food trucks from January to February is 50%. Apparently, the average is 62 a day, compared with 500 a day before October. Can my right hon....

Northern Ireland (26 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: Will the Minister give way?

Northern Ireland (26 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: I am grateful to the Minister. The hon. Member for Foyle (Colum Eastwood) earlier described the statement as a “love letter to the DUP”, but I saw it more as a love letter to Northern Ireland, and the huge opportunities that can be seized from realising what he and his colleagues, working with all parties in Northern Ireland, have managed to pull together. Does he agree that an...

Post Office Management Culture ( 8 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Post Office Management Culture ( 8 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: The hon. Gentleman is making some very good points, as did the hon. Members for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) and for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows). All of us who have been in the House for a while share the feelings that all three Members have expressed of horror and great anxiety, given the cases that we are dealing with. However, roughly 3,000 people work for Post Office Ltd,...

Flooding ( 6 Feb 2024)

Richard Graham: It is very appropriate that this debate is led by my distinguished neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson), whose constituency has consistently suffered worst in every major flood for some time. He is making a strong case for responsibility for flooding, and of course he and I know that the protections since 2007—the Mythe waterways, the Walham substation and the...

Northern Ireland Executive Formation (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: May I join the shadow Secretary of State in hugely welcoming this great achievement by the Secretary of State, by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) and by all the other party leaders with whom he successfully agreed to re-establish devolved Government at Stormont? As the son of a Northern Ireland Unionist family, I believe it will only be good for the...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: May I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the work that he has done, both on this arrangement in general, and more specifically in promoting our mutual trade and investment agreements with nations in Asia? It is the 67th year of Malaysian independence; this is the first trade and investment agreement that we have ever had with that very encouraging far-eastern nation, with which we can...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: Moving away from eggs, which I do not think will be the major export from Malaysia or other far-eastern members of the trans-Pacific partnership, let us look at the opportunities for Scotland. In the last year or so there have been bumper sales of Scottish whisky. Whisky sales in Singapore are up by some £90 million, and in Malaysia they are up over £30 million. The opportunities arising...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: I was just making the point that taxation raised here is spent on important issues in the United Kingdom. That of course includes, under the Barnett formula, significant subsidies by the English of Scotland.

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: My hon. Friend has made a number of absolutely correct statements about the benefits of the agreement. To bring it alive in the specific context of our first ever trade and investment agreement, with Malaysia: because we will be working closely with their ministries, we will see opportunities for joint marketing in ways that we have not often seen around the world. It is worth remembering...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: On service exports, my hon. Friend will know, as do many colleagues on the Conservative Benches, that education is one of our major service exports. We have five universities operating in Malaysia. We have a number of schools operating around south-east Asia and in all the other nations involved in the trans-Pacific partnership. All those will benefit from this agreement. Does he see that, as...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: Interestingly, the shadow Minister is trying to have his cake and eat it. He is saying that the Government have made extravagant claims for the importance of CPTPP, while recognising that it will have a useful, modest role. As for the statistics that the Department might produce, does he agree that it would be difficult for the Department to project accurately what might happen over the next...

Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] (29 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: The Business Secretary is making a powerful case on why accession to the CPTPP will be transformative for our country in so many ways. She alluded to the importance of business with Malaysia. This is not just about trade; it is also about investment. The importance of Malaysian investment over here is symbolised by Brabazon on the edge of Bristol, and by Battersea power station. Does she...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Employment and Unemployment (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) aged 16 to 64 who were economically inactive between February and April 2010, (b) aged 16 to 24 who were employed between February and April 2010 and (c) aged 16 to 24 who were unemployed between February and April 2010.

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: Clause 2 - Safety of the Republic of Rwanda (16 Jan 2024)

Richard Graham: May I posit a slightly different approach? As my right hon. Friend says, all of us on the Government Benches want to do something about the problem. There are Opposition Members who are quite happy to subcontract our immigration decision making to the evil people smugglers operating small boats across the channel, but we are united on trying to do something. The only issue on which we differ...


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