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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI fully take on my hon. Friend’s earlier point about who holds the responsibility for applying those duties and how they mix together. That is a complex issue and one that I…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI have given way twice already and I am very conscious of time, but I will give way one last time.28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is right: I do have that role, and it does present significant safeguarding risks and resource challenges. The hon. Member for Walthamstow said earlier that…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Dame Rosie. I would like to echo what my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes)…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI was horrified to hear that those on the Opposition Benches feel that this is about xenophobia and racism, scapegoating and dog-whistle politics. This is a simple matter of…07 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Inactivity: Towns and CitiesI do not know whether my right hon. Friend saw my article in The Times a few weeks ago, but it discussed opportunities for towns, such as Mansfield, that have specific local…06 Mar 2023HANSARDNHS Workforce ExpansionIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I will try to skip the partisan rhetoric and get to the crux of some of the issues. I start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Labour Market ActivityI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind words and for giving way. I should mention that I co-wrote that article with Adam Hawksbee of Onward. The right hon. Gentleman is…28 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningI was not planning to go through everything we discussed in the previous sports debate, but we talked at length about that issue, and my right hon. Friend is absolutely right that…21 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningBefore the Minister sits down, will she allow me to highlight a point about extracurricular sport? I am really grateful for the update, because I was not aware of the detail of…21 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. We all know about the recent economic challenges around long-term planning, but the sooner we can have longer-term security around staffing the…21 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningIt is a pleasure to bring this issue to the Floor of the House and to be able to discuss opportunities to open up school sports facilities to the wider community. It is an issue…21 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningThat is certainly an option. Where taxpayers are funding those facilities, they should be able to use them. In cases such as Manor Academy, where schools do not feel able to do…21 Feb 2023HANSARD Sport in Schools and CommunitiesI appreciate my right hon. Friend’s engagement on this subject recently with my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon and me. He mentions funding for opening up grassroots…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Sport in Schools and CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman is entirely right. Not just pitches but other facilities such as clubhouses provide a social space, and investment in them makes a great difference in leading…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Sport in Schools and CommunitiesIt is a pleasure to take part in the debate. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson) for giving me a mention in his speech, and for the ideas that…10 Jan 2023HANSARDNHS Winter PressuresIt is pleasing to hear from across the House a focus on capacity in domiciliary care, which is a huge priority. Ultimately, that is where we want people to end up: independent in…09 Jan 2023HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationIt was an accident.13 Dec 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillDoes the hon. Member not accept that, if we allow every area to dictate the way it has devolution in the way it would like to have it, we would end up with a ridiculous hotchpotch…23 Nov 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy right hon. Friend knows Cornwall better than I do; I know it only as a holiday destination. I leave him to make the case for his particular place. I am sure that the Government…23 Nov 2022