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HANSARDMaccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanLet me just say from the outset that all forms of bigotry are abhorrent. A Dutch police report into the disorder in Amsterdam at the Ajax versus Maccabi Tel Aviv fixture…20 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsColleges are the backbone of working-class communities such as mine in Clackmannanshire, but the funding model for colleges in Scotland is fundamentally broken because of SNP…20 Oct 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseAs an enthusiastic but error-prone goalkeeper, and having been a golf professional for 23 years, many will say that I have still to find a sport that I am any good at and they…16 Oct 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillThis year, Petroineos—that is, Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos and PetroChina from the Chinese state—closed the Grangemouth oil refinery. Closure was not about some passionate quest for net…15 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. For Palestinians, if suffering decades of oppression and apartheid, thousands being killed, and millions confined in an ever-reducing area as their homes are stolen and…02 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ12. On 11 June, Alexander Dennis announced that it was planning to stop bus manufacturing in Scotland. My hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk (Euan Stainbank) and I have met the…16 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMore than 100 INEOS chemical employees are to lose their jobs at Grangemouth because the refinery has closed. The £200 million commitment to Project Willow does not help them in…15 Jul 2025HANSARDWelfare SpendingPessimism is understandable when brutality is overpowering. Just over a year ago, the British public tried to shake off that pessimism and emerge from the brutal reality of life…15 Jul 2025HANSARDWelfare SpendingI thank the hon. Gentleman for that point, which I will come on to. He has clearly had advance sight of my speech. The Government should of course lift the two-child cap…15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesWe live in a country where wealth is hoarded by the few while poverty is the fate of the many. Yes, the Government have taken some welcome steps, addressing non-dom status and…15 Jul 2025HANSARD Glaucoma AwarenessIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I extend my thanks to the hon. Member for Leicester South (Shockat Adam) for securing this important debate. When the…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Glaucoma AwarenessThat is not the first time I have heard that. I have another optician friend, who said that that has been a regular occurrence in his career. Someone may not know that they have…09 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. PeoplePlus has just won the contract for prison education in Scotland and England. PeoplePlus was sold to Talent International, a subsidiary of swipejobs, in which US and…08 Jul 2025HANSARDPrison Officer Morale: Pension AgeThe last Government hiked up prison officers’ pension age to 68, and then walked away from negotiations that were set up to partially reverse that unfair and unrealistic policy.…08 Jul 2025HANSARDPrison Officer Morale: Pension Age6. What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of lowering the pension age of prison officers on prison officer morale.08 Jul 2025HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age: Financial RedressI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey) for bringing forward this debate, and for her contribution, which was excellent, as usual. It was quite the…03 Jul 2025HANSARD West Bank: Forced DisplacementIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. Thanks go to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this vital debate. Sixty-one years…02 Jul 2025HANSARD Refugee Citizenship RightsI thank the Minister for her comprehensive response and many hon. Members present for their wonderful contributions. Refugees are victims of war, famine, oppression and…01 Jul 2025HANSARD Refugee Citizenship RightsI thank my hon. Friend for his contribution. Absolutely: more safe routes are a necessity, in the name of human decency. British citizenship is a key building block of…01 Jul 2025HANSARD Refugee Citizenship RightsThe hon. Gentleman is a champion on this topic, and his parliamentary record stands up there with the very best—although I did not vote for him to be my MP. I thank him very much…01 Jul 2025