Speeches by Huq.

“Ealing has long had a big Iranian diaspora. In 1978, when England did not qualify in the world cup and Iran did, a lot of my classmates were supporting the latter; now, they are my adult constituents, and they have been caught up in all this. Could my right hon. Friend tell me what steps he is taking to ensure the safe…”

“No, I am not giving way. At my advice surgery, people have pointed out the unfairness of the £10,000 cost of Dignitas. We know that the status quo is imperfect, but let us not remedy it with something that will make things worse. We need to get this 100% right if we are going to do it all. Although well intentioned, th…”

“I rise to support amendments 34 to 36 and new clause 6, tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Walsall and Bloxwich (Valerie Vaz), who sadly cannot be here today. Health inequality shapes life expectancy and outcomes —covid deaths illuminated that—but it is absent from the Bill. A younger me would have been 100%…”

“I totally agree. We know that Esther Rantzen and Jonathan Dimbleby want the Bill to be implemented, but our role is to be voices for the voiceless, so I totally agree with her. As opposed to the vague, ever-changing qualifying criteria that are held up as safeguards, at least these amendments would put ethnic minority …”

“No, because I will not get any more time. Given the cost of care, people could convince themselves that elderly relatives would be better off out of the way, in order to get the younger generation on the ladder. We know from the experience of other places that once assisted dying is allowed, the scope broadens—depresse…”

“Will I get more time? [Laughter.]”

“Order. I think that someone will probably end up falling off the call list; there are people standing to speak who were not on the list and who were not standing at the beginning of the debate. Let us see how we go.”

“Order. I am afraid that we will now move on to the Front Benchers, starting with the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“Order. I call the shadow Minister.”

“Order. A number of Members are bobbing, so we will calculate how long everyone will get. To start, I call Kirsty Blackman.”

“I call Keir Mather MP, who is making his Westminster Hall Dispatch Box debut as Minister for the day.”

“Actual Minister!”

“I will call Tim Farron to move the motion. As is the convention with 30-minute debates, only interventions are permitted, not whole speeches, because we need to allow time for the Minister to reply, as well as for all those lovely interventions that are coming.”

“indicated dissent.”

“Order. Given how many people wish to speak, we will start with a two and a half minute limit.”

“The aim is to take the three Front Benchers from 5.09 pm, which means that the time limit is dropping down to two minutes each.”

“It is brilliant that the Brexit logjam that has cast a long shadow over this House for so many years has been smashed by this Prime Minister. Could he indicate when we might hear a bit more about the youth experience scheme that has been so yearned for and so welcomed by the universities and the English language teachi…”

“The Minister, who is a good man, recognises that the 70-day aid blockade has made starvation widespread in Gaza. During the recess, I was on a delegation with the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). We were nearby in Egypt, and we heard real fears that annexation of both Gaza and the west bank is near-inevitable.…”

“In the last year or so, we have seen the demise of the night czars of two major cities—Amy Lamé in London and Sacha Lord in Manchester—and those posts were not replaced. Does that give the suggestion that this stuff is being a bit sidelined, shunted aside, or downgraded?”

“With a maximum mark-up or something?”