Speeches by Barker.

“On a point of clarity, you said that you were appointed midway into this; just remind us of your appointment date, please.”

“The Charity Commission is continuing with its claim. If the court were to grant permission for the case to proceed, what action would you take?”

“The Speaker’s Counsel pointed out that the proper mechanism to challenge a report with which you disagree is through a political process and PACAC. You have spoken to this quite a bit, but is there anything else that you wish to add about why you did not think that was sufficient? I just want to make sure that you have…”

“Do you appreciate that whether contempt has been committed or not is a matter for the House, rather than you?”

“In your letter on 4 July to Speaker’s Counsel, Mr Rechtman writes that your conduct cannot amount to contempt of Parliament. What internal discussions took place when the possibility that you may be committing contempt was raised with you?”

“I rise to support the Bill. I start by thanking the Prime Minister for delivering on our manifesto promise to bring the Hillsborough law before the House. As a Liverpool MP and someone who had family and friends at Hillsborough —they fortunately all came home—I would not have accepted anything that was not accepted by …”

“Will the hon. and learned Member give way?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. As co-chair of the APPG for ending homelessness and the co-sponsor of this debate, I thank all colleagues who have attended; our new Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Alison McGovern); Crisis, the secretariat for the APPG; and our fantastic…”

“I would like to preface my comments by saying that everybody in this place was horrified by the attack on the synagogue in Heaton Park, and that my comments today are purely based on safety. A year before the Hillsborough disaster, safety concerns at Sheffield Wednesday’s stadium were raised by an official, but the ex-…”

“I welcome this Labour Government’s £22 million investment in Fairfield in my constituency, which was ignored by the Conservatives. Does the Minister agree that it is crucial for this programme to provide not just new money, but new powers for local people to decide how it is spent? Will she confirm, for the avoidance o…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. Let me begin by paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool West Derby (Ian Byrne) for securing and leading this important debate. His personal testimony of that fateful day in April ’89 is a moving one. He has used his voice in this place to c…”

“Thank you. That is really helpful.”

“Thank you for being with us today. You have said that outside interests are not regulated and that there is very little monitoring—although you touched on potential complaints, Dr Sorabji—but are solicitors, barristers and judges required to document information on outside interests, hours worked and level of earnings?…”

“Would that ever be defined and drilled down to earnings from their barrister role?”

“So they would not be required to register anything else?”

“Okay. Dr Sorabji?”

“May I place on the record my sadness at the loss of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre? I know it will be felt across my city of Liverpool. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife and three young children. The six-week statutory maximum for the use of bed-and-breakfast accommodation is being ignored. Under the directio…”

“Let me start by saying how shocked I am that the Minister has intervened, near the end of the debate, to say that he will be removing the whole of clause 5 from the Bill. While I am grateful for the concessions, this has further laid bare the incoherent and shambolic nature of the process. It is the most unedifying spe…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her excellent intervention, and I absolutely concur with her views. We must be crystal clear on what we are voting for tonight: we are voting for the Bill as it stands, unamended. The late changes, combined with the compressed parliamentary timetable, mean that MPs will have just a single day…”

“No, I will not. It is with sadness that I will vote for the reasoned amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell), and I will vote against the Bill. I implore my Government to do the right thing: to pause, take a breath, and let us get this right. Before entering Parliament I had ser…”