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HANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of tackling illicit activity in high street shops. It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. Before I…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityAbsolutely. My hon. Friend is completely right that we need to tackle those dodgy shops. I am pleased that the Government have made a range of announcements on that, but I will…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityI am glad my hon. Friend raised that issue. He shared with me some photographs of paraphernalia that looks just like a packet of Skittles or a packet of sweets. It is completely…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityYes. It is a really positive development, because it allows His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, trading standards and the police to investigate properly in those 12 months and…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityMy hon. Friend makes a really good point about the challenges that seaside towns face. I agree that this blight is affecting the whole country, so we need to look at all the…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. Local authority trading standards were underfunded and under-resourced by between 30% and 40%, according to some estimates, during…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityI agree that it sounds like a very helpful proposal. On the subject of permits and businesses, there is much more the Government can do to restrict the permitting of high street…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Why are they wrapping the windows? The first question must be: what are they trying to hide? We want our town centres to be welcoming,…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityI agree, and I hope the Government are looking to close some of the loopholes at Companies House and strengthen oversight of fake directors who are abusing the system. Finally, I…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityWe can see the scale of the problem across the country from how many people have come to the debate today from different nations, cities, towns, seaside resorts and rural areas.…17 Jun 2026 · 3d agoHANSARDTopical QuestionsI have been contacted by a number of residents including Stuart from Quarry Bank and Stephanie from Homer Hill about the dangerous use of modified e-bikes and e-scooters in parks…11 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.11 Jun 2026HANSARD Road Safety: West MidlandsOne of the key issues in my constituency is street racing. All over the Black Country we have young men driving in gangs, causing a menace and many accidents, so I was pleased…09 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Industry (Nationalisation) BillInterestingly, there is also a Coker facility in my constituency, and I have had several other businesses write to me on this subject. Only last week I visited the London Screw…08 Jun 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingI beg to move, That this House has considered gambling advertising. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris, particularly as you have taken such an interest in…23 Apr 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingI will not accept that. Having met lots of people with lived experience of gambling and having seen the evidence in our report, I know there is a clear link between gambling…23 Apr 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingThe hon. Member is completely right: gambling regulation is devolved in Northern Ireland, and the problem there is similar to the one we have in the rest of the country; in fact,…23 Apr 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingThe hon. Member raises the scale of public interest in this issue in Northern Ireland, and the number of people who are fed up and have had too much of gambling adverts,…23 Apr 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingI am terribly sorry to hear my hon. Friend’s story about her constituent. It does sound like another failure of the self-exclusion system. We have heard similar stories in other…23 Apr 2026HANSARDGambling AdvertisingI am afraid that is not correct. The Gambling Commission has not written to me challenging my figures. Members of the gambling industry have written to the all-party group…23 Apr 2026