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HANSARDTopical QuestionsSo many disabled members of society are unable to demonstrate the minimum academic requirements to get on to many courses, or to secure employment. What steps are the Government…12 May 2025HANSARD Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan: 80th AnniversaryThis is a particularly poignant debate for me to attend today, because this morning I attended the funeral of Betty Webb, a 101-year-old former Bletchley Park codebreaker who…06 May 2025HANSARD Hair and Beauty Sector: Government PolicyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch and Upminster (Julia Lopez) for securing this important debate, about…23 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionWhich legacy is the Minister most proud of: rubbish and rats in Birmingham, or Labour’s breach of its promise to the electorate to freeze council tax?22 Apr 2025HANSARD Adoption and Special Guardianship Support FundThis fund is really important to so many vulnerable children and their families. Although it is disappointing that many families and children have been left in limbo for a good…01 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham City CouncilChelworth Road in my constituency is a road of two halves: on one half of the road, which is in the Wythall division of Worcestershire, the rubbish is collected; on the other…31 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ8. Acorns children’s hospice provides compassionate care to very young cancer patients and their families across Bromsgrove and the villages, yet it faces a staggering £416,000…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillMy hon. Friend makes a great point. In fact, she leads me to a point I want to stress to the Minister, which is about intensive urban densification. Our country faces a real…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI agree wholeheartedly with my right hon. Friend. She makes an important and pertinent point. If we get urban densification right, it is a catalyst for the economic and social…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI will make a little progress, and then I will give way. Linked to urban densification is a pertinent importance to focus on the quality and aesthetic of the development that is…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe hon. Member makes a very good point, with which I do not disagree. We have to strike a better balance—that is the point I am making. That leads me to my second point, which is…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that with regard to good-quality design, not only society but particularly the Government in their relationship with developers have to shift their…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillFirst, as I think the whole House has suggested in the speeches we have heard, our country does need more homes, particularly for young people. The most obvious stake that a young…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe Deputy Prime Minister makes an important point about the access to energy that all our communities require. Particularly prominent in all our minds, at a time when we…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillIf the Government are going to build 1.5 million homes over the course of this Parliament, and we are nine months into the first year of this Parliament, by my calculation they…24 Mar 2025HANSARDDisruption at HeathrowIn any modern economy, it is clear that the resilience of critical national infrastructure faces many risks and threats, and that resilience goes hand in hand with our national…24 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentConstituents across Bromsgrove and the villages, particularly older constituents who have previously been beneficiaries of winter fuel payments, rightly feel short-changed by this…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentFurther to the point that my hon. Friend has just made, does he agree that the Government made promises to the British public that they not only will not deliver, but cannot…19 Mar 2025HANSARD Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillOn home education, does the hon. Lady agree that not only is it a case of getting the balance right between privacy and the right to educate at home, but it is important that home…18 Mar 2025HANSARDSentencing Council GuidelinesJudging by the lack of action, it appears that the Justice Secretary is comfortable with changes that she has described as two-tier coming into effect in just two weeks. We have…17 Mar 2025