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HANSARD Royal British LegionIt is a pleasure under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) for securing this important debate, and for his work…01 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Under the Police Regulations 2003, officers in Hertfordshire receive an allowance of up to £3,000, and those in Bedfordshire receive £2,000. Officers in Cambridgeshire are not…31 Mar 2025HANSARDSpring StatementThe Chancellor has made much of the Government’s investment in defence and desire to make the country a defence industrial superpower. I am keen to pitch for a slice of the…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI appreciate that the Minister’s curt responses suggest that she is struggling somewhat with her brief, but does she actually know how many gangs have been smashed? If she does…25 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe aspect of the Bill I would like to focus on is the nationally significant infrastructure project reform. This Labour Government claim that their reforms will make “targeted…24 Mar 2025HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. On Saturday 22 March, 11 Labour MPs campaigned in my constituency, the majority of whom neglected to inform me. I am well aware that Labour is…24 Mar 2025HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Ensuring Effective Functioning of the Courts6. What steps she is taking with the Crown Prosecution Service to help ensure the effective functioning of the courts.20 Mar 2025HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Ensuring Effective Functioning of the CourtsThe effective functioning of the courts relies on sound and sensible sentencing guidelines. In just 12 days, such guidelines will no longer exist and a two-tier sentencing system…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of knife crime amongst children and young people. First, let me place on the record my gratitude to the Backbench Business…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleKnife crime among children and young people has, for too long, been a stain on this country and our communities, and a blight on our collective social conscience. The increasing…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleI wholeheartedly agree. Areas that traditionally have not been plagued by such violence are increasingly finding it rippling out into their communities. It is no longer just in…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleI wholeheartedly agree. Children seem to find themselves in a general atmosphere in which there is a constant need for validation and for them to twist themselves into something…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleI agree. The law simply does not act as a deterrent to many of these people. They are far more scared of their immediate surroundings and the danger posed to them in everyday life…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleI agree, and I will mention later the interventions to try to get people in a more collegiate and embracing atmosphere. Role models are a valid issue. Sadly, my speech is already…20 Mar 2025HANSARDKnife Crime: Children and Young PeopleThat is a very valid point. The social media companies themselves know full well that this content is there and could easily create an ability to moderate it. These are billion…20 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI appreciate the hon. Member referring to pension credit uptake. If all the people who are eligible to take up pension credit do so, how much will it cost the Government?19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentAt what point would the uptake of pension credit eliminate the savings from cancelling the winter fuel payment? At what number would the uptake overtake that payment?19 Mar 2025HANSARD Welfare ReformGiven the announced changes to the personal independence payment, what assessment has the Secretary of State made of the potential impact on injured service personnel claiming the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn response to a written question to me last week, the Minister confirmed that no nationally significant infrastructure projects have been consented to that will use greater than…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseLast week, it was announced that £600,000 of funding had been secured to resurface Huntingdon High Street, improving not only the look and feel of the high street but its…13 Mar 2025