Speeches by Wheeler.

“On the lack of an injunction, we have heard previous evidence, and your evidence clearly, but on a narrow point, did you at any point tell the PCA or the PHSO that you were not seeking an injunction, that it was not in your mind that it was not something you were seeking? Did you communicate that?”

“I think you have touched on a few of these points already, but I want to tease them out. It is about the decision to hold off on laying the report. From what you have said, there were two points, one resulting from mediation and giving time for a resolution to be found and then later there was a point at which you made…”

“Yes.”

“Unless anyone has a follow-up to my question, this might be your final one. You have touched on conduct and campaigning in the vicinity of polling stations. In the context of our inquiry, and to give you a little bit of a picture of what that looks like for internal elections, the polling station will be a Committee ro…”

“I will keep my remarks brief, because many valued voices are yet to be heard in this debate. I welcome the Bill. Northern Ireland has a special place in my heart. It gave me my mum and treasured memories of time with family, and it will always feel part of me, but it also left the younger version of me with many questi…”

“Many of my constituents use the Warburton toll bridge to get to work, visit family and go about their everyday lives. However, residents in Irlam and Cadishead have been arbitrarily excluded from the local resident discount scheme, meaning that they have to pay the full price while many who live further from the bridge…”

“Finally from me—honest—is there a difference between passing reference to a case and its particulars, and continued and repeated reference to and discussion of the arguments that might be made in a case?”

“Okay. I think I know the answer to this question, as you have all alluded to it, but I want to quickly confirm something: do you think the risks of prejudicing a trial are higher in certain cases—for example, jury trials—than in other types of cases?”

“Or come close to collapsing.”

“Turning to prejudicing a trial, given your experiences as Attorneys General, in what circumstances do you think that comments in the House could prejudice a trial and lead to it being abandoned? Did this ever happen, or come close to happening in the past, to your knowledge?”

“My hon. Friend is making an incredibly powerful point. Does she agree that for Sara and for my constituents who are on short or zero-hours contracts, the meat of the amendment, which would introduce the bureaucratic farce of an offering of an offer, instead of a right, would ruin the meaningful change in the Bill and t…”

“I thank my good and hon. Friend for giving way. Millions of workers, including those on zero-hours contracts, stand to benefit from the measures in the Bill. Does she agree that the amendments tabled by Liberal Democrat peers on the right to guaranteed hours are an unworkable bureaucratic mess that opens up scope for a…”

“Throughout the year I have been working with residents in Astley in my constituency. Four large warehouses, each measuring up to 60 feet high, are being built close to hundreds of houses and a primary school. Although they have planning consent from the local authority, residents are rightly concerned that the consulta…”

“To pick up on something you touched on, I think there is broad agreement around aims, and the desire not to see an empty Chamber or to damage the quality of debate. You touched on how, currently, it is governed by convention, and the enforcement of those conventions relies—possibly quite heavily—on the discretion of th…”

“We are coming back to the earlier debate that was slightly curtailed while we took a detour through Claire’s questions. If there were to be published call lists, do you see any potential downsides? I know there is a concern about a potential risk of the Chamber being sparsely populated if Members knew exactly when they…”

“I fully agree with my hon. Friend that the probation period is the core of the answer to the question from the hon. Member for Bridgwater (Sir Ashley Fox). Does my hon. Friend agree that a large part of the fear we see is due to scaremongering and misinformation spread by Opposition Members?”

“On accessing the rights in the Bill, does my hon. Friend agree that, for people going about their busy daily lives at work and possibly struggling to make ends meet, there is a fundamental difference between a right to a contract with guaranteed hours and a right to request one?”

“I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and to my proud membership of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and the GMB. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (Justin Madders), who has just popped out for some well-earned tea, f…”

“Last week I had the privilege of visiting the outstanding Red Watch at Eccles fire station, where officers’ professionalism and dedication were plain to see as they talked me through their lifesaving work. The station is home to one of only two specialist water incident units across Greater Manchester, which can often …”

“With the existence of both—or as it is, principles in practice—are there any examples of where the codification has ended up in conflict with a principle, with friction between the two?”