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HANSARDSpikingThat is exactly the point. The Act talks about chloroform and laudanum, not Rohypnol, GHB or the various other date-rape drugs that are either dropped into glasses or injected…14 Dec 2023HANSARDSpikingOf course I agree with my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right. That brings me to the Home Office’s own campaign, Enough, which, people will be relieved to hear, is my closing…14 Dec 2023HANSARDSpikingI remind Members that if they wish to contribute they should bob.14 Dec 2023HANSARDSpikingThank you, Mr Efford, not just for calling me to speak but for stepping in after I stepped in earlier. This debate is an object lesson in multitasking. I thank the Backbench…14 Dec 2023HANSARD Sexual Harassment of Surgeons and Other Medical ProfessionalsThe hon. Lady is highlighting a very important issue. She made a point about reporting, which is certainly an enormous challenge. The Women and Equalities Committee heard from…13 Dec 2023HANSARD Sexual Harassment of Surgeons and Other Medical ProfessionalsI thank the Minister for giving way, and welcome him to his new role, appreciating that he has only been in it a few weeks. I gently say to him that there is a real challenge in…13 Dec 2023HANSARDLGBT Veterans Independent ReviewI welcome the Minister’s statement. Last week, I met Fighting With Pride and one of my constituents, who I will not name because he has not given me permission to do so. Three…13 Dec 2023HANSARDDisabled People: InequalityI reassure my hon. Friend that she is more than enough for me. There was a really worrying article in The Times a few days ago that talked about the invisibility of disabled…13 Dec 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI know my right hon. Friend is as shocked as I am by some of the working practices of SSE in providing power to commercial premises. My constituent Philip Liddell of ACE Liftaway…30 Nov 2023HANSARD Housing Associations: ChargesI very much appreciate having been granted this debate tonight. I reassure the Minister that I come here not in anger, not in sorrow, but with deep, deep concern at the charges…22 Nov 2023HANSARD Housing Associations: ChargesThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. He is right to highlight how some housing associations have grown and grown. Somebody came to my constituency surgery last week to…22 Nov 2023HANSARDDisabled People: Additional CostsMy hon. Friend will be aware that funds are made available to get disabled people into employment via Access to Work. However, there are significant delays in those funds being…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Youth Programmes and GirlguidingMy hon. Friend makes a very important argument about the centres being lost forever. When I visited the fifth Romsey girl guides over the summer, the girls there made the point…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Youth Programmes and GirlguidingI thank my right hon. Friend the Minister for giving way. The subject of my intervention is perhaps not entirely relevant to what he has just been saying, but I feared that he was…19 Sept 2023HANSARDEnergy-intensive Industries: DecarbonisationEnergy-intensive industries come in many forms. Can my right hon. Friend provide any reassurance that the Government will review the classifications of what constitutes an…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseWe have not had a debate in this House specifically on the issue of sodium valproate since 2017—it has been debated combined with other issues—yet the Medicines and Healthcare…14 Sept 2023HANSARD Non-disclosure Agreements in the WorkplaceI apologise for not having been here at the start of the debate; I was chairing somewhere else. The hon. Lady used words that I had not yet heard today in this Chamber: “he”,…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Camp Hill Line Railway Stations, BirminghamOrder. I gently remind the hon. Member that this is a debate on the Camp Hill line railway stations in Birmingham, not Transport for the West Midlands. He might like to make sure…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Camp Hill Line Railway Stations, BirminghamOrder. I am sure they are, but the subject of the debate is the Camp Hill line railway stations.19 Jul 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsThat brings us to the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman.19 Jul 2023