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HANSARD Privatised Probation SystemI know that the Minister has done a lot of work on brain injury in prisons. Is it not vital, where prisoners with a brain injury have started some form of rehabilitation in prison…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Stronger Towns FundI like the Minister, but I simply cannot recall a ministerial statement that has angered me more. My constituency, the Rhondda, is one of the poorest in the land. My council,…04 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsSeveral British overseas territories are still refusing to implement full transparency and to have public registers of ownership. Why are the Government refusing to obey the…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for Educationrose —26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationIt is strange that but a couple of handfuls of Members are here to discuss one of the largest budgets that the Government dispose of. We never analyse the expenditure very closely…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI have constituents who were housed by Rhondda Housing Association. They were on the old benefits, but because they have been moved by the housing association to new properties,…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationWill the Minister give way?26 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe first thing that South Wales police raised with me when I was elected in 2001 was the problem they were experiencing with obtaining up-to-date information from other police…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationThere is something I do not understand here. Not only is there the five-week starting period, but what is now evident is that there is an 11-week starting period. Someone who is…26 Feb 2019HANSARDEmployment and Support Allowance: UnderpaymentsAs the Minister knows, I have met a lot of people who suffer from acquired brain injury. Quite often, they find that the system does not really meet their needs, because the…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Relationships and Sex EducationWell, I for one say hoo-bloody-rah—well done! I am absolutely proud of what the Government are doing, because in September 2010 I introduced a private Member’s Bill to this…25 Feb 2019HANSARDSunbed Use: Health ImplicationsThe hon. Lady is making an important speech. In all honesty, I think of sunbeds as pernicious death machines. They rely on people’s vanity, but we all have elements of vanity in…13 Feb 2019HANSARDSunbed Use: Health ImplicationsIs this particularly an issue in this country because so many people are genetically made for British weather? We have freckles, fair hair and fair skin, which is far more prone…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]I am glad I took that intervention. It is unusual to get an intervention from the Chair, but I think we welcome this new style of chairing.12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]I think the hon. Gentleman has just read, in some weird way, what I was about to say—he has a very special mental capacity of his own if he is able to read my notes from that…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]Yes. The Government have effectively already said that, but to be really nasty, we should have had the code before today, in all honesty, even if it was only in draft form, so…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]Yes. People will also attribute bad intention to the person when what is happening is that the short-term memory is simply not functioning properly. For instance, someone with…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend makes a very important point. I know the role she has played, in particular in the all-party group on the armed forces, and of course in the NATO Parliamentary…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]I beg to move amendment 1, page 5, line 10, at end insert— “(3A) Before making any regulations under subsection (3)(b), the Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a report…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend makes a very good point. One of the things about rugby league and about rugby union, which I know rather better, being from south Wales— [ Interruption. ] I do not…12 Feb 2019