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HANSARD Prisons (Substance Testing) BillIt is nice to see you in person.16 Oct 2020HANSARD Prisons (Substance Testing) BillNo, trust me, I have no experience. That is why I found the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 rather an exciting piece of legislation to be responsible for. The hon. Gentleman is…16 Oct 2020HANSARD Prisons (Substance Testing) BillI am grateful to you for allowing me to speak, Madam Deputy Speaker—I love Fridays. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Dame Cheryl Gillan) on bringing…16 Oct 2020HANSARD NHS Hysteroscopy TreatmentI am really grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and it is really good to see you. This is the eighth time I have raised in this House the way women are treated by the NHS when…24 Sept 2020HANSARD NHS Hysteroscopy TreatmentI just point out that Rebecca turned up last week to an appointment, and there was no information. She did not even know that she was having a hysteroscopy. That was last week.24 Sept 2020HANSARD NHS Hysteroscopy TreatmentThe reason I am here tonight is to continue the campaign, because it has been going on for some years. I first spoke about this in an Adjournment debate, and an hon. Gentleman I…24 Sept 2020HANSARD NHS Hysteroscopy TreatmentThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is a delight to see him in his place, too. I will come to the lack of pain relief for women and just how damaging it can be for them,…24 Sept 2020HANSARDXinjiang: UyghursThe Uyghurs have been systematically persecuted for decades. Concentration camps have been built for millions and we now have clear evidence that the Uyghur population is being…29 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Brent Central (Dawn Butler) for giving us the opportunity to speak about this today. It is a pleasure to follow the sage, sad and…18 Jun 2020HANSARDSchool ExclusionsIt is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. Some hon. Members here will know that I have spoken a number of times in the past year about county lines and…26 Feb 2020HANSARD Equality of Funding: Post-16 EducationIt is a genuine pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. Unusually for me, I want to start not by talking immediately about Newham—I shall get to it later: I want to…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Local Government Finance (England)I am staggered, to be honest, because I think that council tax is a regressive tax. Each adult in Newham has lost 50% of the grant that was given by the Government, in an area…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Leaseholders and CladdingIt is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. This is an extraordinary issue that is causing terrible problems to many constituents and I am sorry that I…12 Feb 2020HANSARD Leaseholders and CladdingI thank the Minister for the extensive detail that she is giving, but will she address the gentle point that I made? Even if the Minister had another five minutes, that would not…12 Feb 2020HANSARDEquity of Economic OpportunityThis is beyond parody. The reality is that after 10 years of Tory rule, the five richest families in this country own more wealth than 13 million of us put together. Fourteen…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillI repeat that Ministers have discretion, and therefore, if they do not use that discretion, we will hold them to account for that for as long as we possibly can—as I will, while…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillOn that point of trust, the phone calls to my office today are about a flight tomorrow to Jamaica, and some of my constituents believe that this Bill is being used as some kind of…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillIt has been two years since the Windrush scandal. We still have not had an official response to an independent review, and the injustices continue. Tomorrow, one of my…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Persecution of ChristiansWe have substantiated claims about the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims in China. Can the Minister tell me whether there are going to be any real actions against the Chinese…06 Feb 2020HANSARD Persecution of ChristiansI am absolutely delighted to have this opportunity to raise the plight of persecuted Christians. The last time I raised this issue in the House, in a debate just like this one, I…06 Feb 2020