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HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsI was not bobbing; I was just going to intervene.04 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs well as being home to both GCHQ and NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters, Gloucestershire has the largest concentration of cyber-tech businesses and aerospace…13 Feb 2025HANSARDClosure of High Street Services: Rural AreasIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for securing this…05 Feb 2025HANSARDClosure of High Street Services: Rural AreasI am very fond of my hon. Friend’s constituency. I recall a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon for a stag do, when my friends and I embarked on one of its many ghost tours—I have to say…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Gambling HarmsI absolutely agree, but we should not leave it to gambling companies to make that statement. We should instead take action. Gambling is not symbiotic with sport, and the companies…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Gambling HarmsIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger) for securing this important debate. Tewkesbury is home to the…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Avian InfluenzaFor my daughter’s second birthday, I took her to the wonderful Birdland in Gloucestershire, which has hundreds of different exotic and rare birds. Could the Minister please tell…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI invite the Minister to join the APPG for fair elections. She will see that there is a very clear correspondence between first past the post and the lack of engagement over time.30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsMy hon. Friend speaks of low turnout. I would be grateful for his opinion on whether a switch to an electoral system of proportional representation would be to the deficit of any…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsIt is an honour to sit on the fair elections all-party group, which is so well chaired by the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel). It is also an honour to…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Women’s Health StrategyI represent almost 40,000 women, and they and the men who love them would invite the Minister to state explicitly that the Government will not draw down their access to women’s…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsNo, for two reasons: the Liberal Democrats defied the odds, but there are many other smaller parties who are not adequately represented; and, as I will come to later, 58% of…30 Jan 2025HANSARDDraft Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Draft Gambling Levy Regulations 2025The Liberal Democrats support the regulations. The stake limit will help to address gambling-related harm associated with online slots, which have rapid, repetitive play patterns…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI did not manage to make this point in my speech, but whereas one in five young people will be involved in a reportable road traffic collision in the year following their test,…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I commend the hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) for securing this important debate. Just three weeks after the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. “We had reached the bottom. It is not possible to sink lower than this; no human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably…23 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillMy hon. Friend has so eloquently put across the pragmatism that we can enjoy from Liberal Democrats in working across parties for the benefit of our constituents, and I thank him…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI pay tribute to my neighbour and hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for so boldly taking up this cause. His so-named sunshine Bill, which to my mind reflects…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillEarlier, the hon. Member for Waveney Valley (Adrian Ramsay) lamented—in good faith—the drawdown of environmental pledges in 2016. Of course, that was not the coalition Government;…17 Jan 2025HANSARD UK Air DefenceThe Minister represents a city and a football club that are close to my heart. I also thank the right hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) for bringing forward this…16 Jan 2025