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HANSARDDisabled People: Covid-19The charity SignHealth has been working to provide British Sign Language translation for covid sufferers in health settings free of charge since the pandemic began. It has…23 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirusMy disabled constituent Ian Kenny has been trying to get a home test since 8 September. He cannot drive so he cannot get to a test centre. He has symptoms but has been told there…15 Sept 2020HANSARDProtection of Jobs and BusinessesThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and that might mean some of the niceties go out of the window. My right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary is absolutely right to have identified the…09 Sept 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]I appreciate the opportunity to speak briefly in this important debate. There have been some excellent contributions from hon. and right hon. Members, and it is always a pleasure…08 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningWe heard this morning that disadvantaged children and boys were likely to be most behind as a result of missed school. I also saw on the BBC a fantastically articulate child who…01 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend knows better than most that covid has an unequal impact on the black, Asian and minority ethnic community, on the elderly, on men and, indeed, on the…22 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesThe recommendations in the Marmot review and the Marmot review 10 years on would be a good place to start when addressing health inequalities impacting BAME communities. Is 10…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Windrush Lessons Learned ReviewI really welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to openness, transparency and scrutiny. Will she let us know whether her Department will therefore publish equality impact…21 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus ResponseI am sure it will come as no surprise to my right hon. Friend that some of the solutions come from Southampton. I commend Synairgen’s work on the treatment it is producing. I wish…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Department for Transport has been absolutely right to empower local councils such as Southampton City Council to introduce temporary cycle lanes and bus lanes during the…09 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewWe have heard a great deal about my hon. Friend’s agenda for women, and I hope that the Women and Equalities Committee will have a chance to scrutinise it at some point. I…09 Jul 2020HANSARDThe EconomyIt is a pleasure to contribute to this afternoon’s debate. I pay tribute to the measures that the Chancellor announced. My right hon. Friend has worked incredibly hard to ensure…08 Jul 2020HANSARD Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Departmental SpendingI am taking from my own time by intervening, but my hon. Friend has said “businessmen”, “salesmen”, “salesmanship” and “salesmen” again—will he please acknowledge that there are…07 Jul 2020HANSARD Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Departmental SpendingI want to talk about the entrepreneurs—the people who learned to trade, finessed it working for other people, then took a risk and set up on their own, rented premises and went on…07 Jul 2020HANSARD CoronavirusPeople working in aesthetics—the professionals who tattoo on eyebrows for alopecia sufferers or tattoo on the nipples of cancer patients who have had reconstructive surgery—have…07 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI welcome the opportunity to speak once more on the Domestic Abuse Bill—I have done so several times now. It is an honour to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI thank my hon. Friend for that commitment and look forward to the consultation coming forward. It is important that we have the opportunity to look further at how these emergency…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Does she agree that some of the posters we have seen during the course of covid, emphasising that domestic abuse is something that…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillYou get an extra minute.06 Jul 2020