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HANSARD NHS Funding BillI am very grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. Amendment 2 concerns spending on mental health services and the Secretary of State’s plans to achieve parity of esteem. Mental illness is…04 Feb 2020HANSARD NHS Funding BillIt is not within the Bill’s scope to press the Government on the need to have funding restored to smoking cessation services so that they can have multimedia campaigns to reduce…04 Feb 2020HANSARDOutsourced ContractsI am not sure that that is happening. Latest figures show that the Army is currently more than 10% under strength and that the full-time trade-trained strength is well below the…03 Feb 2020HANSARDOutsourced Contracts7. What recent assessment he has made of the quality of service provided under contracts outsourced by his Department.03 Feb 2020HANSARD HomelessnessHomelessness is a crisis and it has been a growing crisis under successive Tory-Lib Dem and Tory Governments in the past 10 years. Members from across the House have articulated…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessHealth is of course an element, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that the most recent Labour Government, which left government in 2010, had almost eradicated homelessness, but we…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessI will not, no. My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) lost his own dad to alcoholism. We heard a longer speech from him on this subject in…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In response to my question about health inequality and the need for a new hospital in Stockton, the Prime Minister told MPs that the gap…27 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsQ15. Last week, the Prime Minister did not know anything about a plan to dump radioactive waste in my Stockton North constituency, but I hope that he remembers what I told him a…22 Jan 2020HANSARDEngagementsQ12. Will the Prime Minister support Tees MPs and the Mayor in opposing the dumping of nuclear waste at Port Clarence in my constituency?15 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local Governmentrose —14 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentI always welcome additional finance for special needs, but schools in Stockton also know what they are going to get. They are going to get a £6.2 million reduction or shortfall by…14 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentWill the Secretary of State give way?14 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentMay I add my congratulations to those who have made maiden speeches? I, too, have loved the geography lesson. I was a proud local councillor for 17 years and held senior roles in…14 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentI have just been reflecting on the fact that 44% of the flights at Teesside rely on Flybe, as do, as we heard earlier, 90% of those at Southampton and two thirds at another…14 Jan 2020HANSARDFlybeIt’s a £6 million loss!14 Jan 2020HANSARDFlybeTeesside International airport tripled its losses to nearly £6 million under the stewardship of the Tees Valley Mayor last year—after he had paid tens of millions of pounds of…14 Jan 2020HANSARDCouncil HomesThe Conservatives’ deep cuts to new council and social housing are part of the reason why homelessness has risen so rapidly over the last 10 years. Every day, hundreds of us see…13 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You may not be aware that Hitachi at Newton Aycliffe, which employs many of my constituents, has today announced that it is making a…09 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Teesside also celebrates your election to the Chair, Mr Speaker. This morning, Israel’s Supreme Court confirmed its Government’s decision to deport Human Rights Watch’s…05 Nov 2019