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HANSARD Israel: UNRWA BanThe Government have to accept that the far-right Government of Israel are laughing behind their hands at us at the moment. They know that they are operating under the comfort…29 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyThat is absolutely the case. As a visitor to the Isles of Scilly, my hon. Friend knows that that is a significant problem, because people cannot commute to the Isles of Scilly to…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyMy hon. Friend makes an important point. It is not just the housing impacts; it is the wider societal and community impacts property investors have on local communities. I hope…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyI am grateful to the hon. Member for that intervention. Indeed, she anticipates something that I will come on to in a moment. Going back to that pre-history, we managed to make…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Independent Water CommissionWhen the Conservatives privatised water, they created risk-free, money-printing emporiums that could pollute our coasts, including my west Cornwall coast, at their convenience.…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyI beg to move, That this House has considered the regulation of holiday and second homes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I am delighted to have secured the opportunity to…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyIndeed I do agree, and I am grateful for that intervention emphasising the points that I and many of those present wish to make. Although we are talking about Cornwall and the…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyThe hon. Member is absolutely right. On the one hand, we are trying to address the desperate housing needs of local families. We have in excess of 20,000 families on the local…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Holiday and Second Homes Regulation: Cornwall and Isles of ScillyI just want to re-emphasise that many people who own second homes in Cornwall make a significant contribution to the local community, and indeed a financial contribution, because…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Renewable Energy: CornwallI am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way and for the case she is making today. I fully endorse everything she has said. She mentioned the previous Government’s effective ban…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Access to Primary HealthcareOn that point, will the Minister give way?16 Oct 2024HANSARD Gaza and LebanonI strongly endorse the words of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (Andy McDonald). I note that the Minister perpetually uses the word “condemn” when she refers…15 Oct 2024HANSARDNHS Urgent and Emergency CareI wish the Minister well in her efforts to address this issue, because it is extremely serious. There are very often more than 20 ambulances queueing outside Treliske hospital,…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Spice-spiked VapesI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this important subject in the House this evening. This is not just a problem in London: in Cornwall, 750 illegal vapes have been…15 Oct 2024HANSARDCornwall and Isles of Scilly: Transport Needs9. If she will meet authorities in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to discuss transport needs in those areas.10 Oct 2024HANSARDCornwall and Isles of Scilly: Transport NeedsFollowing the points raised by the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Jayne Kirkham), may I point out that a great many other challenges have been revealed since the general…10 Oct 2024HANSARD Renters’ Rights BillI warmly welcome the Bill. It is right that we should regulate to avoid bad practice in the sector, but does the Secretary of State agree that measures should be available to…09 Oct 2024HANSARD NHS Performance: Darzi InvestigationOn top of coming clean to the public and making a change from the way the previous Government treated the country, will the Secretary of State also assure the House that the…07 Oct 2024HANSARDAnniversary of 7 October Attacks: Middle EastThe Prime Minister said that I stand with Israel. I stand with peace; I stand with the Israeli people and with the Palestinians and the Lebanese equally. This is not mere…07 Oct 2024HANSARDShort-term Lets: RegulationI congratulate the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Rachel Blake). I think I got the name of her constituency right; I come from Cornwall, so I do not know…12 Sept 2024