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HANSARDSchool FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Christopher. Over the past few months, I have conducted two surveys in my constituency about the adequacy of school funding and…04 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingI thank my hon. Friend for that point, which I will reinforce later in my speech. All the respondents expected further cuts to be made in the future. Some 43% of schools had…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressDoes the right hon. Gentleman regret signing off the Hinkley Point nuclear power station? Surely that will be a stranded asset in the future.28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressTime is short for this debate and for the planet. I am going to speak up for the 3,000 young people who came out in Leeds two weeks ago on the youth climate strike and all the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressTime is very short, so I am going to continue. After the second world war, we got together and we rebuilt this continent. We need to rebuild a planet free of emissions. That needs…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesWill my hon. Friend give way?26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesFirst, I wish to pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) for her courage and alacrity in her speech. Some constituents came to me about their mother,…26 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUOn that point, have we not, as a member of the European Union, been at the forefront of combating climate change through the UN process? Leaving the EU will set us back. Should we…14 Feb 2019HANSARDSantander Closures and Local CommunitiesThe reasons that Santander gave the hon. Gentleman for the closure of its branch in Axminster are the same reasons it has given for the closure of branches in the market towns of…14 Feb 2019HANSARD Communities: Charities and VolunteersMy local council for voluntary service, Voluntary Action Leeds, wrote to me. It said clearly that volunteering is not part of the benefits system, and that people are being…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Communities: Charities and VolunteersI worked on social impact bonds prior to entering this place. One of the big barriers that social enterprises face in drawing down social impact bonds is the lack of expertise in…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Universities: Financial SustainabilityStaff at the universities in Leeds talk to me constantly about the twin threats they face: first, financial sustainability; and secondly, Brexit, including the issues of Erasmus,…11 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsQ2. My constituent Rachel wrote to me saying:“My husband can’t live day to day without insulin. He’s trying to build up a supply by putting in prescriptions early, but there are…06 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is unconscionable that the workers who clean his offices and the security guards who keep the Ministry of Justice safe are not paid…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Sport in the UKI am grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning basketball. I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on basketball. The UK and Team GB are on track for Olympic…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Sport in the UKI am sure the Minister knows that basketball is the second most played team sport in the UK and reaches hard-to-reach groups in urban communities. I pay tribute to the Department…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Fashion IndustryI pay tribute to my hon. Friend, our Committee Chair, for her foresight in bringing this inquiry forward at this time. It is absolutely the right time. Does she agree that it is…31 Jan 2019HANSARDEquitable LifeI should like to thank my hon. Friend and neighbour for making the case for Equitable Life members. I should also like to pay tribute to my constituents, Ray and Marjorie Dunn,…31 Jan 2019HANSARD World Cancer DayI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. On the question of diagnosis, I congratulate Leeds Teaching Hospitals and the University of Leeds; their…30 Jan 2019