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HANSARDReading for PleasureIn all four libraries in my constituency this week, Mid Sussex babies and toddlers will be enjoying themselves at rhyme time; I hope that will be the start of many happy years of…10 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John, and I welcome the Minister to her place. The Liberal Democrats welcome this simplified process. There are strong…04 Mar 2025HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyThe adoption and special guardianship support fund provides excellent value for money in Mid Sussex for Beacon House, which is a specialist mental health and trauma clinic.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDChurch of England: SafeguardingI thank the hon. Member for securing this important debate and for setting out what has happened in such measured terms. Mr X is a constituent of mine. I spoke to him this…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and for the excellent way in which he is setting out the problems faced by many family businesses in Tunbridge Wells. In Mid Sussex, I…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Government bring forward emergency legislation to seize frozen Russian assets and ensure they are repurposed to support Ukraine in the wake of Trump’s talks with Putin?…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.25 Feb 2025HANSARDDefence and SecurityWith some of our European allies likening our predicament in 2025 to that of 1938, the increase in defence spending announced today by the Prime Minister is welcome, but I am…25 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeDoes the hon. and learned Gentleman agree that, while legislation can go so far, we have a broader responsibility as adults in society and as parents—myself included—to make sure…24 Feb 2025HANSARDHIV Testing WeekIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Allin-Khan. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) on his opening…13 Feb 2025HANSARDCardiovascular Disease: PreventionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on his characteristically detailed and impassioned…13 Feb 2025HANSARD Police Grant ReportAlthough I represent a Sussex constituency, when I knock on doors in towns across my constituency I often discover that I have Met police officers living in my patch. I vividly…05 Feb 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Local GovernmentI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank the Secretary of State for answering so many questions this afternoon—she has been on her…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Children in CareOn the point about early intervention and prevention, I thank the Minister for agreeing to visit Sussex later this year to meet me and an organisation called Pause, which works…04 Feb 2025HANSARDAstraZenecaThe Financial Times reports that, during its negotiations with the Government, AstraZeneca raised concerns about the vaccine plant, but also about the rejection of one of its…03 Feb 2025HANSARDCareer Breaks: Parents of Seriously Ill ChildrenI recently spoke to my constituent Kat from Hassocks, whose son Teddy has battled life-threatening neuroblastoma since July 2022. Kat told me that although her employer went above…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Thank you, Mr Speaker.“We’re saving the government millions.”Those are the words of Stephanie from Burgess Hill, a full-time carer for her 89-year-old mum. With carer’s…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Youth Mobility Scheme: EUIn 2016, the Home Office said that youth mobility visa holders contributed an average of £7,600 to the Exchequer’s coffers every year; that amounts to more than £10,000 today.…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Sir Desmond, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) on securing this really important debate. I…28 Jan 2025HANSARDAirport ExpansionThe expansion of Heathrow feels a bit like the Schrödinger’s cat of expansion at the moment—it is both happening and not happening, depending on what one’s perspective is today. I…28 Jan 2025