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HANSARDSpring Budget 2024: Welsh EconomyWelsh women!17 Apr 2024HANSARDSpring Budget 2024: Welsh EconomyMy hon. Friend is making a really powerful point about the cost burdens being imposed on local councils. My own local council of Rhondda Cynon Taf faces some of these burdens, and…17 Apr 2024HANSARDSpring Budget 2024: Welsh EconomyOn that point about the Tories telling us we have never had it so good and Wales is benefiting, will the right hon. Member join me in being disappointed that, apart from the…17 Apr 2024HANSARD Digital Skills and CareersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Caroline. I will be brief. It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate; I congratulate the hon. Member for East…16 Apr 2024HANSARD Digital Skills and CareersThe hon. Member makes a really important point. I am concerned by the lack of digital skills among parliamentarians and legislators, particularly as we are trying to catch up…16 Apr 2024HANSARD Digital Skills and CareersThe hon. Member is being very generous in taking interventions. She is making a really powerful point. The tech for the future needs to be built by everybody who will be using it.…16 Apr 2024HANSARDSafer Streets FundThank you, Mr Speaker, and on behalf of the whole shadow Home Affairs team may I place on record our sincere condolences on the loss of your father? Following the horrific killing…15 Apr 2024HANSARDIran-Israel UpdateEveryone in this House is united in wanting to see the fighting in Gaza come to an end as soon as possible, with a sustainable ceasefire in place. As the Prime Minister rightly…15 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. The Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill, which was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (Wayne David) and which the Government now support, is…26 Mar 2024HANSARD Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) BillYes, absolutely. I am speaking on behalf of all the people in Pontypridd. As I was saying, the Bill represents yet another devastating attack on devolution. This Government…22 Mar 2024HANSARD Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) BillIt has been good to be in the Chamber to discuss the Bill. I have listened intently to Members on both sides of the debate. I must begin by emphasising that Labour Front Benchers…22 Mar 2024HANSARD Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) BillIn the last few weeks I have been diagnosed with adult-onset asthma, which is on the rise. We know that 30% of cases are triggered by allergies, and that much of this is linked…22 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillIt is not in the Bill.01 Mar 2024HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Recommendations2. What progress he has made on considering the recommendations of the second interim report of the infected blood inquiry.29 Feb 2024HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: RecommendationsMy constituent Gerald Stone, a victim of the contaminated blood scandal, is 80 years old. He is in and out of hospital and is having to take morphine for the insurmountable pain…29 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe experience of the last two years has taught us that energy security is now national security. The more we can generate our own renewables, the less reliant on tyrants we will…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseThe former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss), has been in the US peddling conspiracy theories, claiming that the “deep state” brought…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsMy hon. Friend mentions some of the issues being tackled by Mr Speaker, but they are also being tackled by you, Madam Deputy Speaker. You are also standing down at the next…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsI place it on the record how disappointed I am that not a single man is speaking in the debate today. We all have a role to play to empower, inspire and enthuse the next…29 Feb 2024HANSARDMeaslesThe Minister is right to point out that one reason for the decline in people coming forward to take up the MMR vaccine is the rise of dis- and misinformation about the vaccine—not…22 Jan 2024