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HANSARD School Pupils with AllergiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer, and it is lovely to swap roles, given the other jobs we hold. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)…30 Nov 2023HANSARD School Pupils with AllergiesIf the point is around the Department believing that this is being done rightly, does the Minister know whether Ofsted, when it reviews schools, takes into account whether or not…30 Nov 2023HANSARD School Pupils with AllergiesWe have a little more time. On that point, would the Minister accept that there is a real problem that, while the auto-injectors are stored in schools, not many staff go through…30 Nov 2023HANSARDRural Councils: FundingMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I am grateful to him for bringing us together on this important topic. On the matter of disparity in funding, does he recognise…29 Nov 2023HANSARDRural Councils: FundingAs a former civil servant, I take issue with the idea that, somehow, civil servants have agreed to a political formula. That is not how it works. Is he really suggesting that…29 Nov 2023HANSARDRural Councils: FundingI am pleased to speak under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Chris Loder) for securing the debate. When my hon. Friend the…29 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWind energy projects have a standard compensation scheme for all local communities, but solar projects do not. Industry will not act, so I urge my right hon. Friend the Secretary…28 Nov 2023HANSARD UkraineUkraine is holding firm against one of the biggest militaries in the world and it still rightly refuses to see the mass loss of Ukrainian life. Will my right hon. Friend reassure…28 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and Hamas: Humanitarian PauseThis is a serious matter. The UK’s priority in the region is security and stability for the whole of the middle east, yet today Netanyahu plans to push forward with a special…27 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesAs of today, I am informed that no more aid will reach Gaza, not because it cannot get to the Rafah crossing or because it is piling up in Egypt, but because the United Nations…14 Nov 2023HANSARDGaza: Al-Ahli Arab Hospital ExplosionThe situation is unbearable, but while the horrors of last night cannot be unseen, we must not look away. Violence is increasing across the region, but also in Europe and the US.…18 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael and GazaSaturday’s terror attack on Israel constituted crimes against humanity—crimes so heinous that they violated our understanding of the depths of human depravity. That depravity…16 Oct 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsA decade ago, the onshore wind industry committed to a community benefit protocol to provide compensation of £5,000 per MW installed per annum to communities for the duration of a…19 Sept 2023HANSARDUyghur Region: Solar Industry SourcingI start by welcoming my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to her place. What conversations has my hon. Friend the Minister had with the Foreign, Commonwealth and…19 Sept 2023HANSARDUyghur Region: Solar Industry Sourcing7. What assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the report by Sheffield Hallam University entitled “Over-exposed: Uyghur Region Exposure Assessment for…19 Sept 2023HANSARDG20 SummitLet me start by putting on record my thanks to you, Mr Speaker, and the parliamentary security and intelligence services for your personal support over the last few months. Here…11 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I absolutely agree. That is why I still urge the Government to bring forward a strategy on rooftop solar—they can do so. Turning to new clause 47, the UK has tough modern slavery…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]A core pillar of this Bill is the delivery of a safe, secure and resilient UK energy system, but no energy system can be safe and secure when it risks undermining our food…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I thank my right hon. Friend, who as always makes very valid points. In my own constituency, one village will be 95% encircled by solar that will be 13 feet high, in one of the…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is absolutely right: farmers want to conserve and to grow the food of this nation. They do not want to turn to solar, which landowners are often doing.05 Sept 2023