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HANSARDTackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living IncreasesIn this Queen’s Speech, the Government are faced with the twin challenges of the cost of living crisis and a climate crisis, in a period when we are emerging from the greatest…17 May 2022HANSARDFootball GovernanceI would also like to thank our friend, the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch), for such excellent work on the review. Players give their lives for football. My…25 Apr 2022HANSARD Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of PrivilegesI will not speak for long, as I do not want to delay the House. I will merely give a perspective on both the principle of the motion and the standing of the House in relation to…21 Apr 2022HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevAlex Lebedev owns Lebedev Holdings, which owns 75% of the Evening Standard . He supported the invasion of Crimea, on which he held a number of events in 2014. We do not know…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Support for Black Victims of Domestic AbuseMy hon. Friend is making a customarily excellent speech on a really important issue. I gave evidence to the Macpherson inquiry over 20 years ago. A number of the recommendations…28 Mar 2022HANSARD Cost of Living Increases: PensionersI spoke to my constituent Maggie Stead today. Maggie has been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. She told me that she cannot afford her rising bills on her state…21 Mar 2022HANSARD Jack Ritchie: Gambling Act ReviewAs my hon. Friend rightly points out, the regulations are out of touch with the online age. For young people gambling marketing is all-pervasive online in video games and…21 Mar 2022HANSARD Cost of Living Increases: PensionersWill my hon. Friend give way?21 Mar 2022HANSARDBiodiversityHow bio- diversity and renaturing is undertaken in the UK will be guided by the convention on biological diversity. Biodiversity has experienced a catastrophic collapse globally.…10 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Flood Reinsurance (Amendment) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Robertson. I thank the Minister for introducing the draft regulations. In recent years, we have seen a sharp increase in…09 Mar 2022HANSARDDraft Flood Reinsurance (Amendment) Regulations 2022The Minister is doing very well. I am sure she will give a full response to all my queries. People up and down the country, whether homeowners, renters or farmers, are all keen to…09 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsMy right hon. Friend knows that in Leeds dozens of spiking cases have been reported just to me as an MP. I took action alongside the Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin. We had…02 Mar 2022HANSARDSanctionsAs somebody who had a grandparent born and raised in Ukraine, this war does come emotionally quite close to me, as it does to everybody of Ukrainian descent in this country. From…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe Minister seeks to take public opinion as a whole, but people have had to take these matters into their own hands because air quality is killing their children, and because of…28 Feb 2022HANSARD SanctionsLast time I saw the Minister, he was about to enter the UN Security Council, and I thank him for how strongly he represented our country at that point. Are the Government…22 Feb 2022HANSARD SanctionsMy right hon. Friend mentions the UN. At the UN last week, I met Lesia Vasylenko and Alona Shkrum, two Ukrainian MPs who impressed on me the importance of sanctions on Russian…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseLast week I met Lesia Vasylenko and Alona Shkrum, two Ukrainian MPs, who urged me to press the Government to impose economic and financial sanctions, particularly on proxies of…21 Feb 2022HANSARDTOEIC English Language TestsI have English language schools in my constituency that are of very high quality and are very robust, and they have dozens of former students whose lives are in limbo because of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDLaboratory Animals: Animal Welfare ActIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak for the official Opposition today. As it stands, this issue is a Home…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders Bill: LGBTQ+ PeopleThe hon. Member mentioned Uganda. In 2014, it passed an anti-homosexuality Bill into law, which created a big outpouring of refugee communities. The problem that many Ugandan…02 Feb 2022