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HANSARD Business of the HouseThat’s wrong as well. It was 1341.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentMy constituents are not looking for handouts; they want to be able to stand on their own two feet. They are ambitious and want to get on in life and provide for their children,…25 Jul 2019HANSARD Youth Servicesrose—24 Jul 2019HANSARD Youth ServicesI am grateful. Young people from the poorest backgrounds are four times more likely to suffer a traumatic or acquired brain injury. There is lots of evidence that those teenagers…24 Jul 2019HANSARD Female Offender Strategy: One Year OnHas my hon. Friend seen another set of statistics, which are taken from work done at Drake Hall women’s prison in Staffordshire? Some 64% of women prisoners who had been screened…24 Jul 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Transport)No, the Minister does not always look quite like that. This proves yet again what many of us have felt for a long time: that Brexit is proving far more complicated than anybody…23 Jul 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Transport)It’s a strange old world, isn’t it? This must be the strangest Parliament in many years. We are debating Bills that are no more than clauses, in effect, and we now have on the…23 Jul 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Transport)Very frequently in the measure, the words “notified body” are replaced with “approved body”. Why is that so common a feature?23 Jul 2019HANSARD Batten DiseaseThere can be very few things as painful for a parent as knowing, once their child has been diagnosed, that there is potential treatment out there that may make a radical…22 Jul 2019HANSARDSituation in the GulfI, too, warmly commend the work of the right hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Sir Alan Duncan), although I think it is a bit over the top to resign from office just to avoid…22 Jul 2019HANSARDNon-invasive Precision Cancer TherapiesI commend the Minister for everything she has said, but it is slightly easier to put new kit in and build new buildings than it is to develop new staff. The biggest difficulty is…18 Jul 2019HANSARDNon-invasive Precision Cancer TherapiesI completely concur with what you just said, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Kate Hollern) made a very warm and touching speech, which only…18 Jul 2019HANSARDPublic Administration and Constitutional Affairs CommitteeStatistics are obviously absolutely vital if this country is to develop good policy on a whole range of different subjects, not least medicine. However, statistics are sometimes…18 Jul 2019HANSARDPersecution of Christians OverseasYou can still turn up.18 Jul 2019HANSARDBullying and Harassment of MPs’ Parliamentary StaffWhen someone arrives here—perhaps straight out of university—to work for a Member of Parliament, that MP may be their first employer, so all the bad ways that they learn from them…17 Jul 2019HANSARDBullying and Harassment of MPs’ Parliamentary StaffI am not questioning the integrity of the Leader of the House, and I am sure that he is not questioning mine. It is just that this debate has been around for quite a long time,…17 Jul 2019HANSARDBullying and Harassment of MPs’ Parliamentary StaffI do not understand why there is any debate about this bit. I think that the vast majority of Members, when they arrived in the House, would welcome with open arms the idea of a…17 Jul 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am not sure that the Vicar of Bray is the right person to cite, because he changed his religion whenever the regime changed, as I remember it, and the Minister has proved…17 Jul 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI’m sure that’s a compliment.17 Jul 2019HANSARD Resignation of UK Ambassador to USAIf you’re invited.11 Jul 2019