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HANSARD Driverless CarsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. While we are talking about the names of our cars, let me say that I have not named mine KITT; being a fan of “Star…26 May 2021HANSARD Driverless CarsBeing a keen follower of my hon. Friend, I have seen many of his tweets and followed many of his speeches—we all know too well the fears of judgment day. Seeing the robots on the…26 May 2021HANSARD Driverless CarsMy hon. Friend has mentioned building back better. This entire innovation is about building back greener and fairer to allow more people to get back into employment. He mentioned…26 May 2021HANSARD Driverless CarsMy hon. Friend is being very kind in giving way, but I will correct him because in AXA’s figures 90% of road traffic accidents were caused by driver error. When we also factor in…26 May 2021HANSARD Driverless CarsWe have talked about the improvement of the economy thanks to driverless vehicles but, with the introduction of the super deduction and freeports, what does the Minister think the…26 May 2021HANSARDBelarus: Interception of AircraftI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Tom Tugendhat) for securing the urgent question and the Foreign Secretary for his statement on this very serious…24 May 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseWith Greater Manchester police in special measures for poor leadership, I wish to reaffirm and put on record my support for our bobbies on the beat. With the Government’s…20 May 2021HANSARDIsrael and Gaza: CeasefireOf Hamas’s many deplorable aspects, its cynical locating of military infrastructure within densely populated civilian areas is perhaps the worst. This was confirmed again…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateThe importance of the Post Office has increased in every community across this country, especially as high street banks continue to close, as is the case in Radcliffe in my…19 May 2021HANSARDAntisemitic AttacksToday, Jewish people in my constituency and around the world will be gathering to mark the festival of Shavuot, and I wish them all a good and a safe Yom Tov. As the Member with…17 May 2021HANSARDA Brighter Future for the Next GenerationChildren’s attainment in literacy is going backwards, as is children’s mental health, and children are needing to go through potty training again. There are fears over people’s…13 May 2021HANSARDA Brighter Future for the Next GenerationTo talk about levelling up is truly to talk about education. I thank the Secretary of State for the investment in secondary education that he has made in my constituency with the…13 May 2021HANSARDA Brighter Future for the Next GenerationIt is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Kate Griffiths) and several members of the Education Committee, which I am fortunate to sit on. I echo the comments…13 May 2021HANSARD Violence in Israel and PalestineThe events in Jerusalem have triggered emotive responses here in the UK, and we need only look at the protests last night to see that. My constituents and others have seen in the…12 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI would like to start by thanking everyone across Radcliffe, Prestwich and Whitefield for their work on the vaccine roll-out, which is allowing us to go through the road map and…12 May 2021HANSARDUniversity Students: Compensation for Lost Teaching and RentI thank the Minister for literally being on call on evenings and weekends to answer any questions we have had on universities on a case-by-case basis. University should be some of…15 Apr 2021HANSARD Strength of the UK’s Armed ForcesLet me start by paying a few tributes. If my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Sara Britcliffe) was in her place today she would certainly mention the long history of the armed…14 Apr 2021HANSARDLobbying of Government CommitteeI do not know how to respond to that, really. I will try to be brief, and it is much easier when we take the petty and cheap politicking out of it. What we have here is an issue,…14 Apr 2021HANSARD Strength of the UK’s Armed ForcesI thank my right hon. and gallant Friend for his point because it leads me on to what I was about to say. The nature of our armed forces has very much become part of our soft…14 Apr 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety ReviewWhat progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the independent medicines and medical devices safety review.13 Apr 2021