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HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Following Eurovision, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport put a news story on the Government website with a joint comment piece…17 May 2023HANSARDBuses: FundingIn our north-west region, bus services have been cut by nearly 16%. It is not just about the funding amounts that the Minister is reading out; it is about the structures, as my…17 May 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI, too, congratulate the Leader of the House on the assured way in which she carried out her role as Lord President of the Council during the coronation service. I hope she was as…11 May 2023HANSARDMusicians from Ukraine and Europe: UK ToursBesides making it hard for touring musicians to enter the UK, the funding cuts affecting classical music and opera are leading to Britain not being attractive to musicians for…27 Apr 2023HANSARDMusicians from Ukraine and Europe: UK ToursDespite the Minister’s comments, the truth is that the Home Office failed to issue visas on time to five Ukrainian musicians from the Khmelnitsky orchestra, which was due to…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Infected Blood Inquiry UpdateMy constituent’s father died following an infected factor VIII treatment. The family did not feel that they could grieve openly because of the stigma around HIV and AIDS at the…19 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesIs the Minister saying that there is unspent money that could be used or transferred to local authorities? If so, how much is available? I have asked written questions about this,…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesI very much agree. What the hon. Gentleman says is true; I have seen many reports from Muckamore and I know that there are similar issues. It is desperate for the parents and the…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesThere is obviously a considerable amount of detail in both what the Minister is saying and what I covered in my speech. However, the Breightmet Centre in Bolton, where Amy was…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his intervention. That is very much the sentiment I will be expressing in this debate tonight, but I would go further and say we…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesAs I said towards the end of my speech, around one in 12 of the 2,000 autistic people and people with learning disabilities being held in these inappropriate units are being held…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesAs I have said, there has already been a review. NHS England published a report on the 1,770 individual reviews of the care of autistic people and people with learning…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesThe abuse of autistic people and people with learning disabilities is not raised frequently enough in this House. I am glad to have secured this debate today to outline some of…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesThe Minister has mentioned the Building the Right Support delivery board, and I have said that I see it and the plan as vacuous and unambitious. It has been derided by the…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesIt is not just about responsibilities; it is also about the budget to go with those responsibilities. If the budgets were transferred from NHS England, which is shelling out…18 Apr 2023HANSARD In-patient Abuse: Autistic People and People with Learning DisabilitiesI just wonder how the Minister can reconcile the figures as if they were increasing when I have told her that we found, through written parliamentary questions trying to get to…18 Apr 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationIn the Budget, the Government missed an important opportunity to support unpaid carers. There was also no mention of social care and there were no measures to fix the current…21 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationThe Secretary of State talks about childcare measures, but when it comes to people with caring responsibilities, childcare measures are not enough in themselves. Some 1.7 million…21 Mar 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseLast week, the BBC announced appalling proposals to axe the BBC Singers, the UK’s only full-time professional choir, and to cut 20% of the jobs in the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC…16 Mar 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseThe inequality of health outcomes for people with learning disabilities was one of the greatest tragedies of the covid pandemic. Public Health England estimated that the death…09 Mar 2023