Speeches by Campbell.

“I am sure that the whole House will join me in wishing Andrew Horth the very best of luck in his campaign for a Christmas No. 1, and in acknowledging my hon. Friend’s role in that endeavour. I place on record our thanks to the work of Derbyshire Mind and all the other charities that do such vital work for men’s mental …”

“First, I join the shadow Leader of the House in sending our condolences to the friends and family of Lance Corporal Hooley, who died while serving our country and in the cause of keeping the flame of freedom alive. As we approach Christmas, I want to recognise the contribution that charities make across our country. Ho…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for raising such an important point, and therefore amplifying it, so that it is heard by Members across this Chamber and anyone who happens to be listening. Roadworks have been raised with me many times in these sessions, and rightly so. We know how disruptive street works can be for local commun…”

“My hon. Friend raises such an important matter, and I join him in celebrating the crucial lifesaving work done by mountain rescue teams in his area and across the country. His is a very beautiful area for both residents and the many visitors he gets. Unfortunately, mountain rescue teams are very active at all times of …”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising such an important point, as is his custom in this House. As he knows, the UK is committed to defending freedom of religion or belief for all, both offline and online. The Foreign Office regularly engages with Governments directly to raise areas of concern. I will make sure that th…”

“I know that the whole House will join me in congratulating Dave Taylor and the dedicated volunteers at the Royal British Legion in Gravesham; I am sure we can all find similar examples in our areas and constituencies. Despite some of the circumstances, it has been a very good year for the poppy appeal. I pay tribute to…”

“That is probably more a Treasury matter than a matter for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It will be the Second Reading of the Finance Bill next Tuesday, and I am confident that Committee stage of the Finance Bill will take place in the new year, once we return from the recess; the hon. Lady may…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for raising the work of the Courtyard Pantry Enterprise, because small businesses are at the heart of our economy. We are committed to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises through our small business plan, which will break down barriers to starting a small business. We are working across …”

“The situation that the hon. Gentleman describes is by no means acceptable, and systematic failures have been highlighted time and again. Preventable tragedies cannot be ignored, and families show extraordinary courage in bringing forward these matters. In the new year, we are setting up the national maternity and neona…”

“I know that my hon. Friend is a great campaigner for her constituency. I can assure her that these are not trivial matters, and I congratulate her on getting developers to take this matter seriously and to provide residents with the grit bins they want. That is not an easy achievement, and she should be commended for i…”

“The answer to the second question is yes. To the first one, it is a provisional yes; I just need to go and check. Probably it is a double yes.”

“They always do, Tom. There are more Liberals there than you can shake a stick at.”

“Going back to what you said before, I was going to be glib and say, “That’s politics, isn’t it? Your opponent is trying to unseat you and is looking at how you spend your time and what you answer questions about,” but there is a wider issue. I am certainly not offering to go away and come up with a solution to it, but …”

“Yes. I cannot give you a precise date, because I do not have one, but I think it is a fairly open secret that this is a long Session. It is not an unusually long Session; the first Session of the coalition Government in 2010 was of equal length, and we have done a great deal in this Session. There will be somewhere in …”

“It will be interesting to see what comes out of what happened in the Adjournment debate yesterday. I knew it was happening, but I did not see it; I will go away and have a look at it. I would gently say that, in my experience—for obvious reasons, I don’t put questions down in the way that I did—Departments might strugg…”

“I do not think there is a simple answer to that. I do not hide the fact that my preference is for annual Sessions, which I would quite like to get back to, but that has probably gone. We still have the short November recess because the Sovereign’s speech was inevitably in November. We knew when the Session started and …”

“Thank you for the work that you have been doing. We need to be careful about the changes that we make. I will come back to the overarching reason why that is the case, but I understand that you will do a further inquiry into proxy voting at some point in the future. Is that the plan?”

“The secretariat of the Modernisation Committee needs to keep a tally of what other Committees are doing to avoid duplication. If PACAC is doing an inquiry, Modernisation and Procedure don’t need to do the same inquiry. At the end of the day, Mary, it is about trusting colleagues who are off looking at something that ha…”

“Thanks, Mary—that is a good question. I said before that in my mind it is a hub and spoke model. The overall answer to your question is that we should work really closely. I meet Cat. I am happy to talk to anybody about the work of any Committee, but this Committee is very close to a lot of what we do. I want to work t…”

“It is really important to do that. I spend a great deal of time talking to the Opposition parties. I will talk to anybody, but particularly the Opposition parties and their representatives to try to get consensus. It is not always possible, but I like to work on a consensual basis if possible. From my fairly limited ex…”