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HANSARDBus Service Improvement Plans: North-west EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for that important intervention. As he says, services being cut means communities being cut off from one another. The millions of people who use buses and…09 Mar 2022HANSARDBus Service Improvement Plans: North-west EnglandI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and absolutely agree that greening our transport infrastructure is a really important part both of meeting our climate objectives…09 Mar 2022HANSARDBus Service Improvement Plans: North-west EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I could not agree more, particularly when we look at the deregulation of bus services, with operators in some regions scrabbling…09 Mar 2022HANSARDBus Service Improvement Plans: North-west EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I thank my hon. Friends the Members for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders), for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury),…09 Mar 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe bus industry is hearing that the Government are contemplating the removal of current covid subsidies for bus companies from April or shortly afterwards. That would be…10 Feb 2022HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayI rise to speak today to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, which, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, commemorates the 6 million Jews murdered during the…27 Jan 2022HANSARDDowning Street Garden EventA constituent of mine, who I will call Malcolm, got in touch this morning having been fined with a £100 fixed penalty notice for breaching the coronavirus regulations. He accepts…11 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI do not have the data on my person at this point, but ultimately more jobs are at risk in Warrington North’s nuclear sector if we do not approve the building of new nuclear.…10 Jan 2022HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI welcome the return of this important Bill from Committee and I am pleased to support it, as is the Labour party. Indeed, although our NHS is the Attlee Government’s greatest…10 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsGroundbreaking research published yesterday in the Journal of Psychopharmacology , from King’s College London in partnership with Compass Pathways, has now established that…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to follow up on my hon. Friend’s comments about what the Bill means in relation to the Equality Act 2010. As someone who is Jewish, one of my key areas of concern is what…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. The amendment would make it clear and explicit in the Bill that the legal protections afforded to academics for…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)As we have heard about the broad range of individuals and organisations covered by the Bill, any student society that sought to invite a holocaust denier or genocide denier on to…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 32, in clause 1, page 2, line 20, at end insert— “(7A) The objective under subsection (2) does not apply to any person or body that— (a) has made any…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am interested in the examples that the hon. Member has raised as things that should be protected as part of academic freedom, but I would draw the distinction back between…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister may find herself promoted and able to follow through on the assurance she has given today, so perhaps the vote is the right way to make sure that we sort that out.15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)On amendment 27, I am interested in what form of words other than “within their field of expertise” could be used to act as a safeguard, because we might see cases in which…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that really important contribution. As we have heard from a number of witnesses, holocaust denial—as I said, I am sure that everyone present finds it…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q You referred to this earlier, so I am interested to know what you think that the Bill, if enacted, would mean for cases such as that of Professor David Miller at the University…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Hillary, is there anything you would like to add? Hillary Gyebi-Ababio: It is important, especially in reference to your first question and whether we think about discrimination…13 Sept 2021