Speeches by Ghani.

“I call the previous Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Kearns.”

“I must draw the House’s attention to the fact that financial privilege is engaged by Lords amendment 2. If that Lords amendment is agreed to, I will cause the customary entry waiving Commons financial privilege to be entered in the Journal. Before Clause 1 Purpose: improvement of passenger railway services”

“With this it will be convenient to discuss: Lords amendment 2, and Government motion to disagree. Lords amendment 3.”

“Order. I can tell from the number of contributions that this debate is important to many colleagues. However, Members should be here at the beginning of the debate if they wish to make interventions.”

“I call the shadow Minister.”

“We now come to a maiden speech. I call Anna Gelderd.”

“The hon. Member for South East Cornwall gave a very authentic, powerful speech. She should be proud, as her mother and grandfather would be. We now come to the Front Benchers.”

“Order. As many colleagues are interested in this debate, may I encourage interventions to be relevant to the debate that is taking place?”

“I call the shadow Leader of the House.”

“I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“As it is his birthday today, I call Tim Roca.”

“Order. I want to get the remaining 20 colleagues in, so please keep your questions short—and, Leader of the House, keep your answers short too.”

“I think I should put it on the record that I am from a family of Gooners.”

“We got nearly 60 Back Benchers in, so thank you so much for keeping the questions short and thank you to the Leader of the House as well.”

“The Chair of the Backbench Business Committee will know that that was not a real or appropriate point of order, but I appreciate his desire to ensure that Back Benchers can raise local issues in all the sections of the estate, so I am grateful to him.”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving notice of his intention to raise this point of order. Mr Speaker has not received notice of the Government’s intention to make a statement on this subject today. I would add that Mr Speaker has repeatedly made it clear that Ministers must make important policy statements to this Ho…”

“I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“I call the shadow Minister.”

“I call Jim Shannon.”

“Order. You only have two minutes.”