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HANSARD Organ Donation and Transplantation StrategyI am always delighted to take questions from the hon. Gentleman. I absolutely agree that if there is parity in all four corners of the United Kingdom, there is an opportunity to…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Organ Donation and Transplantation StrategyI thank the hon. and gallant—and mayoral—Member for his intervention. He has been an extraordinary champion on this matter; a significant amount of my research has been on the…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Agriculture: Sustainable Intensification and MetricsI congratulate my hon. Friend on the excellent speech that he is giving; I particularly agree with the point about land sparing and sharing. His vison for the future, and the idea…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Agriculture: Sustainable Intensification and MetricsMy hon. Friend makes the point about his opposition to rewilding and about the need for productivity. Does that mean that he is leaning further towards the idea of regenerative…22 Feb 2022HANSARDChildren with SEND: Access to Specialist SupportAs lockdown has been scaled down, I have been visiting primary and secondary schools to talk about mental health. What steps have been taken to improve mental health access…31 Jan 2022HANSARDUltrafast Broadband: Devon and SomersetI start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby). She has been a fastidious campaigner on this issue and has made extraordinary moves to bring…11 Jan 2022HANSARDCareers Guidance in SchoolsI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Esther McVey), who has been an extraordinary champion in this area; the fact that so many of us are here today pays…11 Jan 2022HANSARDCareers Guidance in SchoolsThat is very timely; I know how much of a champion my hon. Friend is for local schools, working with educators, parents and employers alike to make sure we can find the right…11 Jan 2022HANSARDPublic HealthI appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, but that is not what the results of the survey of NHS staff in the healthcare and social care workforce found, which was…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) and I thank him for his reassurance that the Whips have not pushed him in that direction. The…14 Dec 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateA few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon produced a 70-page report that outlined whether or not coronavirus vaccine certificates actually worked. That report presented absolutely…08 Dec 2021HANSARDAffordable Housing: Planning ReformIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives (Derek Thomas), because this is a long overdue debate on a subject…07 Dec 2021HANSARDAffordable Housing: Planning ReformIf my hon. Friend is going to stop promoting people coming to Cornwall, he is very welcome to promote them coming to Devon. However, he makes a serious point about the fact that…07 Dec 2021HANSARDAffordable Housing: Planning ReformI am sorry to interrupt and have two bites of the cherry, but my hon. Friend is making a really important point. I understand that somewhere else in Cornwall has introduced such…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI have written to the Minister to invite her down to south Devon to meet Landworks, a local organisation that helps those who have been rehabilitated to re-enter society. Will she…07 Dec 2021HANSARDBosnia and Herzegovina: Stability and PeaceAs has been mentioned by the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), I am privileged to chair the all-party parliamentary group on the preventing sexual violence in conflict…02 Dec 2021HANSARDFree Trade AgreementsThe point and purpose of trade deals—I hope the Minister will agree—is that they are not static, and the forecasts are just an indication of what will come; they will be able to…02 Dec 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsOn that point, what weight does the hon. Gentleman give to the Specialised Committee on Fisheries? Does he think that will be the conduit for coming up with some of those…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman. Just as he should not judge a book by its cover, neither should he just look at those headlines and think that it is all doom and…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsIf it is not too embarrassing to the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard), may I say how sorry we are to see him return to the Back Benches? He has been a…30 Nov 2021