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HANSARDGas Prices and Energy SuppliersThese skyrocketing gas prices will have a devastating impact, not just on the public but on businesses, which will eventually have to pass those rises back on to the public. Does…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsThe Minister has spoken about catch-up funding, and I got to see at first hand some of the great work being done at Denton Community College with its summer school over the summer…23 Sept 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseEarlier this year, I sky-dived for Florence, a beautiful seven-year-old girl from Dukinfield who sadly has a life-limiting degenerative condition called GM1. This Sunday, I will…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Violence Against Women and Girls: Police ResponseI welcome the Minister to her new post. On this issue, there has to be a culture change in society as well as in the police and the criminal justice system, because the common…22 Sept 2021HANSARD School Building ConditionsI perfectly accept what the Minister is saying, but does he recognise that one of the flaws of the condition survey is that it is basically sending somebody to look at the school?…21 Sept 2021HANSARD School Building ConditionsI completely agree with my hon. Friend. To some extent it is a separate debate. I agree with her that education has to be the key to levelling up communities like mine and hers,…21 Sept 2021HANSARD School Building ConditionsI absolutely do agree. I do not know my hon. Friend’s school, so I take her word that it is in the kind of condition that Russell Scott is in. I could list other schools in my…21 Sept 2021HANSARD School Building ConditionsThe advice that I have is that that will be very difficult and probably a futile task by the local authority. One of the real issues that rankles, not just with me but with the…21 Sept 2021HANSARD School Building ConditionsI beg to move, That this House has considered school building conditions. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. I asked for this debate due to a profoundly…21 Sept 2021HANSARDVeterans and Military Charities: Additional SupportThe Minister must know that 79% of charities believe that the responsibility to support veterans should lie more with the Government and the armed forces themselves. Will he…20 Sept 2021HANSARDPensions UpdateThere is no glossing over this announcement. The suspension of the triple lock will come as a blow to many pensioners in Denton and Reddish—it is a broken promise from this…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareWords I never thought I would say: the Prime Minister is right, we cannot fix the NHS without fixing social care. But we cannot fix social care without fixing local government,…07 Sept 2021HANSARDMusic EducationDoes the Minister understand that music should be not just taught as music but used to teach a whole range of other subjects? Let me take him back to the previous Labour…06 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.06 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsRussell Scott Primary School in Denton had an extensive £2.7 million refurbishment a few years back. Unfortunately, the work was done by Carillion just before it went bump. Some…06 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: FCDO UpdateEarlier, the Prime Minister said to the House, “tell them that this country and the western world were protected from al-Qaeda in Afghanistan throughout that period”. The Foreign…06 Sept 2021HANSARDVoter ID: Electoral ParticipationI thank my hon. Friend for that answer. He knows that in the 2019 general election there were over 47 million people registered to vote and only six convictions for electoral…22 Jul 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseI once said in a debate on the 1950s-born women’s pension issue that wasps are a nuisance. They are pests and they buzz around. If we bash them away, they get angry, and when they…22 Jul 2021HANSARDVoter ID: Electoral ParticipationWhat recent assessment the Committee has made on the potential effect of proposed voter ID laws on electoral participation.22 Jul 2021HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman published the long-awaited report on the state pension changes affecting…21 Jul 2021