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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe number of the long-term sick has risen from 2.1 million pre-pandemic to 2.8 million today. This huge increase started in spring 2021, at the same time as the roll-out of the…18 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseDespite consistently delivering some of the highest economic growth in the country, North West Leicestershire remains without access to the rail network, leaving my constituents…14 Mar 2024HANSARDUK Food SecurityI draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Can the Minister explain how his Department’s policy of taking good agricultural land out…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HousePublic petition 648609 called for a debate on ending the UK’s membership of the World Health Organisation, but a debate was refused by the Petitions Committee despite the petition…07 Mar 2024HANSARDFarmingWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseI have always opposed capital punishment on the principle that it is wrong to take a life, so it cannot be right for the state to take a life in revenge. Events have caused me to…29 Feb 2024HANSARDNew NuclearNuclear power plants come with a huge up-front capital cost. Even small modular reactors have a considerable price tag, so it is important that the Government get their…27 Feb 2024HANSARDIllegal Migration: Co-operation with FranceWill the Minister update the House on the number of illegal migrants who have crossed the channel and are currently being accommodated in hotels at the expense of the public…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Yew Lodge hotel in the north-west Leicestershire village of Kegworth continues to accommodate 230 male illegal migrants. How much longer will this blight be inflicted on my…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationAfter 14 years of campaigning on behalf of my constituents, Mr and Mrs Rudkin, and the other sub-postmasters who were victims, I welcome our now having almost a weekly update on…26 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Horizon ScandalThe Minister is a perceptive man: he must see the problem of his reassuring the House from the Dispatch Box on a Thursday, after the Secretary of State’s reassurances at the…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseDespite huge and growing public interest and concern over excess deaths, there remains a reluctance to engage with the issue, or in some cases even to acknowledge it, by Front…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature DeathsI hope that the Minister will address that, and of course this will go on. Cardiac deaths were already the biggest killer in our country, but we have a mysterious 10% increase. I…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature DeathsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. That is a 40% increase. Ask and ye shall receive. The previous steady reductions followed major improvements in public health policy, reductions…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature DeathsFive minutes?22 Feb 2024HANSARD Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature DeathsI thank the hon. Member for Watford (Dean Russell) for securing this important debate, and for sharing his personal experience of suffering a heart attack. I am delighted to see…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature DeathsNo, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am just rather surprised. We often have three hours for Backbench Business debates, but we have ended up with an hour.22 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesI thank the Secretary of State for her prompt statement, and for laying out her version of events about the dismissal of Mr Staunton, the Post Office chairman. We have to accept…19 Feb 2024HANSARDArmed Forces RecruitmentThe rise of so-called “woke” culture has been infecting our society for many years and it should be unsurprising that it is now infecting our military. Does the Minister think…19 Feb 2024HANSARD Antisemitism in the UKLet us be clear: antisemitism, like other forms of racism, has no place in the UK or elsewhere and the perpetrators of antisemitism should face the full force of the law. Does the…19 Feb 2024