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HANSARD Business of the HouseWill my right hon. Friend find time in this place for a debate on the consumer protections to householders when builders either go bust or simply disappear midway through a…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesI start by expressing my thanks to Mr Speaker for granting this Adjournment debate. It is not the first time we have debated the issue of foetal valproate spectrum disorder in…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but I am absolutely confident that the Minister will be very pleased to meet both Janet and Emma. I look forward to her agreeing to do…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesOf course, the hon. Gentleman is right. One of the serious issues to do with sodium valproate has been the lack of warning and information provided to women of child-bearing age.…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesI will go on to say how important valproate is and how it is imperative that women keep taking the medication, but they need to do so in collaboration with their GP and in…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesI thank the hon. Member for that intervention. I remember being in this Chamber when a predecessor of my hon. Friend the Minister made a full apology in line with the…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesI will, one final time.07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesThe hon. Lady is absolutely right, and I will come on to say that none of us is advocating that valproate be banned.07 Dec 2022HANSARD Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: FatalitiesThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The illness can continue down the generations, and that is not yet well understood but it is causing real fear for the families who…07 Dec 2022HANSARD International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against WomenThat will not give me an extra minute. I pay tribute to former Ministers who have worked so hard on this issue, some of whom are sitting in this room today, including Ministers…01 Dec 2022HANSARDWorld AIDS DayIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Lloyd Russell-Moyle), who speaks with such passion, knowledge and indeed experience. I vividly remember being in…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Unadopted Roads: New Housing EstatesI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and I assure you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I do not intend to intervene all afternoon. My hon. Friend makes an important point about…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Unadopted Roads: New Housing EstatesMy right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point about the guidance that the DFT has already published and given to major house builders. The point I want to make is that…01 Dec 2022HANSARD International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against WomenI join the Minister in his comments about my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford), but I will not let him gloss over what she said about women’s right to…01 Dec 2022HANSARDRural Broadband2. What steps her Department is taking to expand broadband coverage in rural areas.01 Dec 2022HANSARDRural BroadbandI assure the Minister that the people of Nether Wallop, Over Wallop and Barton Stacey do not feel that Project Gigabit is delivering for them. They have seen changed criteria; an…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseMy constituent Lizzie has a minor blood clotting disorder that means she needs a referral to a consultant before she can be prescribed hormone replacement therapy for menopausal…01 Dec 2022HANSARDWorld AIDS DayThe hon. Gentleman makes such an important point. Does he agree that we cannot shy away from talking about sexual and reproductive health in the developing world, because that is…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Unadopted Roads: New Housing EstatesThis is such an important debate. My hon. Friend highlights the issue of drainage. May I draw the Minister’s attention to the situation at Knights Meadow in North Baddesley in my…01 Dec 2022HANSARD Unadopted Roads: New Housing EstatesMay I just ask the Minister whether any of those powers will apply retrospectively, or is this just going forward? Will my hon. Friend the Member for South West Bedfordshire…01 Dec 2022