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HANSARDCovid-19: Rural Bus RoutesThe Government have announced a £5 billion package to support buses, including 4,000 energy-efficient buses. Will the Minister look at local routes in my area, such as the 15 and…22 Oct 2020HANSARD Vaccine Misinformation OnlineThe hon. Gentleman is making great progress, and he is talking about an issue that is of severe importance to my constituency, which has a 10% lower than average vaccination rate…19 Oct 2020HANSARD Vaccine Misinformation OnlineMy hon. Friend is making a very important point. I am sorry to have two bites at the cherry, but the point is that there is a knock-on impact from what people read online and then…19 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillI thank the hon. Lady for making that very important point, and I take her guidance incredibly sincerely. That brings me to the point made by my hon. Friends the Members for East…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillMy hon. Friend has just given a horrific account of what an eight-year-old girl went through in beauty pageants. May I just ask her where the research came from and how she got…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillAbsolutely. Any place of education has a role to play in the Bill. Again, we will make sure we are expressing that both now and in the future. Social media has made things very…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillAbsolutely, and one might say exactly the same about tattoos as well. Someone is at the time perhaps going for something that looks cool and is a fad, but then maybe 20 years down…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillThis goes back to the intervention that I made earlier about the datasets used by cosmetic companies on adverts. It is extraordinary to read that “80% of all women think this…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillMy hon. Friend is curiously prescient in his intervention. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on the preventing sexual violence in conflict initiative, I have discussed…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillThat ties in succinctly with the point about enforcement for practices that are undertaking these procedures. That will be an important part of ensuring that those who offer these…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillI hope that my hon. Friend will take it as a compliment when I say that she is ageing beautifully.16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillThat is indeed the case. Importantly, we must not let this be a fad of the time. It has to be something that is thought out. If there is a medical reason for someone undergoing an…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillAbsolutely. I hope that that can be done from a professional point of view. I also hope that Members of Parliament, who have learned from this debate, can go into schools to…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott). She is a fantastic champion on this issue and her constituents…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillMy hon. Friend is making an important point. I wonder how he envisages the practicality of creating a register of all the businesses that currently practise in this area. Given…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillHello, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend is making a very important point. What does she think about the industry taking the appropriate steps to ensure that it is in tune with…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillWhere would my hon. Friend go?16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillWe are, in one respect, the last generation to have lived in a time without social media. We recognise the difference between before and after social media, so we at least have a…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillIt has always struck me as particularly worrying when adverts say that 50% or 80% of people say that something is successful, but with only a very small dataset. That is happening…16 Oct 2020HANSARDBotulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) BillMy hon. Friend is again making an important point about ensuring that registered practitioners undertake these practices. Could she just add a few more points on whether she…16 Oct 2020