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HANSARDDecriminalising AbortionI am most grateful to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I thank the Petitions Committee for this crucial debate. I also thank Gemma, the thousands of people who have…02 Jun 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Environmental ImpactWe know that AI has the power to transform civilisation, but its huge drain on the environment is a problem. For example, ChatGPT has an estimated 57 million daily users, but for…14 May 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Environmental Impact5. What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of AI on the environment.14 May 2025HANSARDChurches and Religious Buildings: CommunitiesIt is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) and the right hon. Member for…13 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI thank the Minister for her mention of my new clause and her commitment to ending the financial burden on young children and their families who have a right to citizenship. What…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI want to speak in support of new clause 37, which stands in my name, but I will begin by addressing the political theatre that often surrounds immigration. Politicians constantly…12 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) for securing this important debate—as always, she is right. Like many hon. Members, I…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleDoes my right hon. Friend share my concerns that, by the Government’s own estimates, 300,000 people will be pushed into relative poverty by 2030 and, as a result, will need to…07 May 2025HANSARDPrime MinisterRents in my constituency are becoming exceedingly unaffordable. The most recent Office for National Statistics data estimates that the average rent has risen by 10% in the past…01 May 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ10. Rents in my constituency are becoming exceedingly unaffordable. The most recent Office for National Statistics data estimates that the average rent has risen by 10% in the…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI beg to move, That this House has considered Black Maternal Health Week 2025. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. Before I get to the crux of this debate,…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI thank all Members present in this afternoon’s debate for their thoughtful and balanced contributions. It is not very often in the House that we are generally in agreement, so I…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekDoes the hon. Lady accept that, given that she is not of an ethnic minority and has not looked at the information given by a number of women from ethnic minority backgrounds who…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. These figures have been circulating for decades, but it was only after a successful parliamentary petition launched by Five X More that we…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI did not say that the people in the NHS are racist; I said the NHS has a problem with institutional racism. I hope the hon. Member will accept that there are distinctions between…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI am just challenging her point. Just because for one or two reasons she may not have seen any institutional racism in the NHS, that does not mean it does not exist. Further, the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI just want to check whether the hon. Lady understands that structural racism is about not the number of people within an organisation, but the way the organisation is set up and…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Black Maternal Health Awareness WeekI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention; he is absolutely right. I re-emphasise the point that black, Asian and minority ethnic women are more likely to suffer from common…29 Apr 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ8. I am sure the Prime Minister will join me in celebrating the opening of the new Brixton blood donation centre in my constituency, which in three months has seen over 3,700…23 Apr 2025HANSARD Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK ParliamentariansFor me, the most important aspect of our country is not our flags or even our institutions, but our people, and our people—the elected representatives of thousands of British…07 Apr 2025