Speeches by Ghani.

“I call Richard Foord, a member of the Select Committee.”

“The final question goes to the ever-patient Chris Vince.”

“We now come to the Select Committee statement on behalf of the Work and Pensions Committee. Debbie Abrahams will speak for up to 10 minutes, during which no interventions may be taken. At the conclusion of her statement, I will call Members to ask questions on the subject of the statement. These should be brief questio…”

“Ms Abrahams, would you like a sip of water before you continue?”

“Not at all.”

“I know that the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) takes her work incredibly seriously, and we could see the emotion when she delivered her statement.”

“On coroner services in the west midlands, I call Jim Shannon.”

“Order. Members can see that a number of people wish to contribute, so there will be a time limit of four minutes.”

“I am keen to get everybody in, so I will have to reduce the speaking limit to two minutes.”

“Order. I call Warinder Juss.”

“I thank hon. Members for working with me—we got all the Back-Bench contributions in. We now come to the Front Benchers. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I call the shadow Minister.”

“I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.”

“I call the shadow Minister.”

“Order. Unless questions and answers are very short, many colleagues will be disappointed.”

“Questions and answers will have to be much shorter so we can get more colleagues in.”

“To help the Minister for a moment, because colleagues are looking bewildered: I do not know who was or was not invited to the Minister’s 60th birthday party, in case they are feeling a little left out.”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving notice of his point of order. He is entirely correct to say that the House took an urgent question earlier today on the provisions of the ministerial code. Those provisions make clear that when the House of Commons is sitting, major Government announcements should be made to the Ho…”

“That is noted, and no doubt on the record again, as it has been previously. Thank you. I will continue with the business. Lords amendment 2B agreed to. Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2) Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to…”