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HANSARDClosure of High Street Services: Rural AreasIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) on…05 Feb 2025HANSARDOff-grid Communities: Energy PricesMany of my constituents, as well as being off grid, have homes built of non-standard materials—clunch or wattle and daub—and those homes are also often listed. What support will…04 Feb 2025HANSARDOff-grid Communities: Energy Prices6. What steps he is taking to support off-grid communities with energy prices.04 Feb 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) on securing the debate. I refer hon. Members to…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsI agree with the hon. Member, and we need to look at the salaries for the trainers as well. We stand ready to support the Government to get more houses built, including in rural…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMinisters have talked quite a bit today about expanded powers for magistrates courts. Could the Secretary of State tell me what additional funding is being made available and what…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI agree entirely that we need to retrain in order to ensure that everyone can benefit from this transition.24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am an unpaid director of Reach community solar farm. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI agree entirely with my hon. Friend. Freya and the many other constituents I know have written to all of us should be assured that we are working together across this House. In…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI absolutely commend those restoration projects in the right place. As I say, in the fens we need the food as well as the wetlands, so we have to do the right thing in the right…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI agree with my hon. Friend and will come to that in a few minutes. Wetter winters and drier summers mean that our farmers cannot plant when they plan to, and sometimes they miss…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Education, Health and Care PlansI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Marie Goldman) on securing this debate. Like many others, I am horrified by the amount of correspondence I get about this…22 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Places of Worship SchemeI congratulate the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Bradley Thomas) on bringing us this important debate. Ely and East Cambridgeshire has many beautiful listed places of worship. They…22 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for introducing the Bill. I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Just after…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI entirely agree. We had a similar frustration when looked at revising our local plan, because we wanted to put things in about energy efficiency.17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI agree, because we were advised that we could not do what we wanted with our local plan, as it would have gone beyond the national planning policy framework. The local community…17 Jan 2025HANSARDRural CrimeWill the Minister meet me to discuss the effect that rural crime, particularly hare coursing and, as we have heard today, theft from farms and sheds, has on residents in Ely and…13 Jan 2025HANSARDRural Crime18. What assessment she has made of the impact of crime on rural communities.13 Jan 2025HANSARDRailway Capacity10. What steps she is taking to increase railway capacity.09 Jan 2025