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HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeI welcome the Paymaster General’s statement today. I would also like to put on record my thanks to Sir Brian and pay tribute to the campaigners who never gave up. I pay tribute to…21 May 2024HANSARDService AccommodationMy hon. Friend will agree that it is important that our service accommodation be of high quality, but we should also support members of our armed forces in buying a home for…20 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsHaving endured an induced coma and six rounds of chemotherapy, 17-year-old Leoni Miller launched her new business at a WayfinderWoman event last month. Will my right hon. Friend…15 May 2024HANSARDSmartphones and Social Media: ChildrenI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important and timely debate and on the excellent speech that she is making. She talks about the scorching number of hours that…14 May 2024HANSARDChildren with Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesIn all my years in teaching, before I came to this place, I experienced only one episode of violence at the hands of a student when they hurled a chair at me across the classroom.…29 Apr 2024HANSARDHospice FundingMy hon. Friend is making a moving and powerful speech, and he makes me recall my experience at Chestnut Tree House, which provides hospice care for children across Sussex. It is…22 Apr 2024HANSARDHospice FundingMy hon. Friend is so right in what she is saying. In my constituency of Eastbourne, people are not just prepared to run for the St Wilfrid’s Hospice, but they will walk over coals…22 Apr 2024HANSARD Women’s State Pension AgeI thank my right hon. Friend for coming so swiftly to the House in the wake of the ombudsman’s important report, which, as other hon. Members have said, requires a response. I pay…25 Mar 2024HANSARDState Pension Changes: WomenThe hon. Gentleman is paying such a beautiful and wonderful tribute to that group of women that I feel I must rise to mention the more than 4,000 WASPI women in my constituency,…12 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Lady makes an important point about the need for clarity. She has now said the word “practices” five times, and she has said: “Conversion practices are abuse.” So that I…01 Mar 2024HANSARDDraft Carer's Leave Regulations 2024
Draft Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024To start, I am 100% behind all the important measures that the Minister has outlined. I was pleased to work with the hon. Member for North East Fife on the Bill Committee to bring…21 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims of Crime: Support9. What steps his Department is taking through the criminal justice system to support victims of crime.20 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims of Crime: SupportI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for all the sterling work that he has just outlined, which is making such a huge difference to victims everywhere. I wish to talk about a…20 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ8. I made a promise to a grandad in my constituency, after he told me that he had not dared to speak up when his grandson came home saying, “Today, we were learning if we were in…10 Jan 2024HANSARDReducing Taxes6. What steps his Department is taking to reduce taxes.19 Dec 2023HANSARDReducing TaxesRecord funding is going in to support the cost of childcare, to allow more parents to stay in the workforce. This is very welcome, but the tax burden on single-earner households…19 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ2. If there is one place where everyone should feel safe, it is in their own home, but the reality is that for some of the most vulnerable people, home is precisely where they…06 Dec 2023HANSARDDraft Wine (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2023Hear, hear!04 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI thank my right hon. and gallant Friend for his question. I cannot explain the increase in Eastbourne, but I imagine that the increase is across the land. There will be an…28 Nov 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI am pleased to welcome the Bill, and many of the measures to tackle serious organised crime and antisocial behaviour that it contains. These are important issues that are often…28 Nov 2023