Speeches by Waugh.

“The Heath Secretary said that he will address that in due course, and I am sure that he will before April, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing North (James Murray) set out. The hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) may want to answer the question I put to the Conservative Front Bench. If they are so oppo…”

“If he would like to explain why he voted for it, yes.”

“In the process, you left us with a massive structural deficit.”

“Forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker. Labour is the party taking tough decisions today and refusing to duck the issues that the Conservatives were so timid to grasp, from planning reform to energy security, from welfare reform to removing tax breaks for the richest. In the past four weeks, the Conservatives have made £6.7 …”

“My hon. Friend the Exchequer Secretary rightly said that this Bill was about tough decisions. The Conservative party used to be about taking tough decisions. We may not have liked them, but we respected them because we thought that they were doing things in a pragmatic and consistent way. Earlier this year—in my former…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this fantastic debate. The whole House will benefit from his medical expertise and political commitment to this issue. I had the great honour last week of hosting a meeting in Parliament to hear the heartbreaking testimony of Professor Nizam Mamode, a good friend and former colleague…”

“When the truly shocking net migration figures were published last week, the shadow Justice Secretary and former Immigration Minister, the right hon. Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick), said on Twitter—now known as X—that it was a “day of shame for the Conservative Party” because it had “let the country down badly” and …”

“My constituent Amir Khan’s beloved daughter Sanna was in her first year at university when she died in her sleep from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, also known as SUDEP. Ten people every week die of SUDEP, many of them young people, yet with the right research and more public awareness, this number could be reduc…”

“But have they had difficulties accessing the resettlement scheme?”

“Mohsen, you are a founding father of modern Persian cinema. You have a great record. Hana, too, you are a fantastic filmmaker. Thanks so much for coming today and expressing your wish to help others in a similar situation. Will you say a little about your own experience of threats and attempted harm, and how that is si…”

“Hana, what has your experience been?”

“Jimmy, what difficulties do you think creative artists have had in accessing the current British resettlement scheme? In particular, do you think that some of the people coming over by boat are doing that because there is no other route?”

“I warmly congratulate the Secretary of State on all her hard work to deliver this White Paper, which proves not only that hers is a Department for work but that Labour is the party of work. Whereas, judging from the sea of green opposite, the Tories are a party of slackers. I warmly welcome the fact that Greater Manche…”

“1. What steps her Department is taking to tackle serious and organised crime.”

“I applaud the work of the Border Security Command and the NCA in those operations. Will the Home Secretary join me in thanking Greater Manchester police for their work in tackling organised crime groups, particularly the notorious Adam OCG in Rochdale, whose drug dealing, modern slavery and child exploitation make life…”

“Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The first time I met John Prescott in his role as Deputy Prime Minister was in 1997, when he opened up Admiralty Arch to 60 young homeless people as part of the winter shelter programme. It was a bitterly cold winter, and at the time, the Conservative Back Bencher Crispin Blu…”

“I echo your remarks, Mr Speaker, and those of the Prime Minister about Lord Prescott. He was a true embodiment of working-class values and aspiration. As he always used to say, nothing is too good for the workers. This weekend, I will join Rochdale’s Ukrainian community to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the Holodo…”

“The Rochdale diversity awards, now in their 12th year and run by the brilliant Kashmir Youth Project, are taking place this weekend. Will the Leader of the House congratulate all the nominees, who promote not just the rich diversity of our town, but its community cohesion?”

“I am a former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Week in Westminster” and a graduate of the Cardiff Centre for Journalism Studies.”

“Can I ask both of you what you made of Ms Crack’s remark about the closure of Arabic radio—“it does not feel like a good decision”; that is what my old-fashioned shorthand says here. Given what has happened in Gaza it does not feel like a good decision, does it? What do you think are the viable alternatives?”