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HANSARDTopical QuestionsOur great civil service serves citizens from across the UK, so it should look like them, sound like them, and come from the same towns, cities, regions and nations as the…04 Dec 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityIt is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I want to take a moment to pay huge tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Walsall and Bloxwich…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityI completely agree with my hon. Friend. She articulates the struggle that so many of us find in picking up bits of casework and trying to champion our constituents’ needs and…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityMy hon. Friend raises an interesting and important issue. Far too often there have been departmental silos, and silos within other public bodies, and they are not talking to each…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityThat is a great question. I will take it on myself, as an outcome of this discussion, to write to colleagues to invite them to submit the kind of examples and evidence that we…12 Nov 2025 Bills sponsored (3)