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HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Casey ReviewLike many London MPs, I deal with constituency cases—from modern slavery to stalking—in which ethnicity, gender or sexuality is a factor, but the victims complain that those…21 Mar 2023HANSARD Palestine Statehood (Recognition) BillI congratulate the hon. Lady on her Bill and I hope that it makes some progress. She is right about the preconditions, particularly when the Government in Israel are effectively…17 Mar 2023HANSARDHS2: Revised Timetable and BudgetThe consequences of this announcement for Old Oak Common include doubts about the capacity of the Elizabeth line; limited interchange between lines at the station, especially for…14 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAfghan refugee children who were about to take their GCSEs in schools in my constituency have been forced to move 200 miles from the hotel they have spent the last 18 months in to…07 Mar 2023HANSARDOffenders (Day of Release from Detention) BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Simon Fell) on getting the Bill this far. On Second Reading, my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin…03 Mar 2023HANSARDSocial Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. On new clause 6, he knows that I have an interest in freedom of information, and I introduced a private Member’s Bill to do just this.…01 Mar 2023HANSARDPrisoner Skills DevelopmentLast month, the chief inspector of prisons wrote a paper on why prison education is so poor. He said it is not a priority, prisoners are not taken to classes, there is an…21 Feb 2023HANSARDWater Company PerformanceIn July 2021 several hundred properties in my constituency suffered a combination of surface and sewer flooding, some for the third or fourth time in 20 years, despite these…21 Feb 2023HANSARD Voter IdentificationI now ask constituents when I knock on doors whether they know about producing voter ID, and so far this year not one has known about the requirement and not one has been in…21 Feb 2023HANSARDNational HIV Testing Week 2023I agree entirely with what the hon. Member is saying. This might be a matter that the Minister can respond to or that the hon. Member’s Select Committee can take up. A lot of the…08 Feb 2023HANSARDNational HIV Testing Week 2023It is right that we are talking about testing and recommitting to targets, but this is part of a strategy on prevention. I will put to the Minister the same point as I put to the…08 Feb 2023HANSARDSupport for Ukraine’s JudiciaryThree weeks ago, the Secretary of State for Justice told me from the Dispatch Box that Russian war crimes would be pursued via Ukrainian domestic courts and the International…01 Feb 2023HANSARD Building SafetyThe Secretary of State said nothing about leaseholders in smaller buildings, nothing about leaseholders who have bought their freeholds, and, above all, nothing about social…30 Jan 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ8. A week ago my constituent Alireza Akbari was executed by order of the regime in Iran. In the three years preceding and the days following his murder, the UK Government made…25 Jan 2023HANSARDWagner Group: Sanctions RegimeAre the Government serious about tackling the use of SLAPPs? Threats of libel action by the Conservative party chairman over his tax affairs, use of the non-disclosure agreement…25 Jan 2023HANSARDUnaccompanied Asylum-seeking ChildrenWe persuaded the Home Office that the accommodation in which it placed asylum seekers in my constituency was below acceptable standards, and it moved them earlier this month.…24 Jan 2023HANSARD Probation Service: Chief Inspector’s Reviews into Serious Further OffencesI am sure the Minister will have read the reports on London probation services published last October and November, so he will know that the chief inspector found that three…24 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingI entirely agree with what the hon. Lady has said about the ENO, but it is a one-year reprieve. After that, what it pointedly said is that it wants to “continue to make incredible…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I congratulate him on this debate. This is at best half thought-out, and at worst an act of Luddism. I suspect that what we have seen…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingMy hon. Friend makes a very good point: there is a lack of transparency. I am very lucky that the two main theatres in my constituency, the Bush and the Lyric, have maintained…18 Jan 2023