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HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryVictims must be at the heart of the grooming gangs inquiry. Does the Minister agree that getting the right chair is absolutely key to ensuring that that happens? Does she also…21 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. I was delighted to welcome the Education Secretary to St Mary’s Catholic primary school in Derby, the greenest school in the country, where every classroom looks out on to…20 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersI thank my hon. Friend for her contribution and for making that powerful point. That is why the Government are doing so much to reduce the backlog. Work in prison also comes with…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Having a range of options for people is really important, but she also makes it clear that shorter sentences can prevent…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersThe hon. Lady makes an important point. That is one of the reasons that the RFA has created its tracking system: to have tangible evidence of the efficacy of the work that we…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersThat is another fantastic initiative. I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. Impressively, some of the partner agents and partner charities working with the RFA have…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceFor years in Derby, we have been pushing for this kind of long-term investment—investment that the fantastic community of Chaddesden richly deserves. It will take time and hard…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersIn my early years as a barrister, I sometimes came across defendants who knew the criminal justice system better than me. Their antecedents—their list of previous convictions—was…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersMy hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Investing in education and work is a key part of preventing reoffending. Frustratingly, without rehabilitation the alternative is a return…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersIt is not a bona fide Adjournment debate unless the hon. Member has intervened, so I thank him for his intervention and his insight. I fully agree with him. As well as having seen…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersI thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. There is some really fantastic work being done, which I will come on to, and it is essential that we find ways of enabling even more…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Work for Serving PrisonersI agree, and I want to see work in prison start as early as possible—not just at the end of a prisoner’s sentence but during it. I was proud to stand on a manifesto pledge to get…15 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillMadam Deputy Speaker, put yourself in the place of a victim of crime. You want to go out for a walk with your family, out to the park or to the other side of town, but you are…16 Sept 2025HANSARDRegional Transport InequalityI am just about to finish. If the UK is a body, Derby is geographically at its heart and is asking to have the same chance as everywhere else to be connected. We need to maintain…11 Sept 2025HANSARDRegional Transport InequalityI beg to move, That this House has considered regional transport inequality. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate. It was originally due to take place…11 Sept 2025HANSARDRegional Transport InequalityI think we can all agree that the better the technology and the real-time information that is needed, the more people will be encouraged to use our buses. We absolutely need to…11 Sept 2025HANSARDRegional Transport InequalityI am grateful for the support that my hon. Friend, alongside many colleagues, has shown for electrification and the benefits that it can bring. It would be a fitting celebration…11 Sept 2025HANSARDRegional Transport InequalityI thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate. I thank my many colleagues who spoke passionately and persuasively for better transport options for their…11 Sept 2025HANSARDDefence Industrial StrategyThis morning, I was at the Nuclear Skills Academy in Derby. It is a partnership between Rolls-Royce and the University of Derby that teaches the skills needed to create the…08 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThe crime of group-based child sexual exploitation is probably the most heinous imaginable. It is so brave of victims to speak out, seek justice and drive change so that other…02 Sept 2025