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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the Secretary of State for her offer to help cut waiting lists in Scotland. I listened to the frankly delusional statements from the SNP Benches about the state of the NHS…05 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is making a very powerful point and I commend him for the amount of work he has obviously done to reassure people. I think we are all…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillWill the hon. Member give way?01 Mar 2024HANSARD Angiolini Inquiry ReportLike others, my thoughts today are with Sarah Everard’s family on what must be a very difficult day for them. Lady Angiolini’s report is damning, but one of the saddest things…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsThis debate is important for a number of reasons. The language that we use in everyday life can be very careless, and is becoming increasingly so in this place. I wonder whether…29 Feb 2024HANSARDInternational Women’s Day: Language in PoliticsThe hon. Lady is making a terrific point. She reminds me of something I read by Mariella Frostrup in The Times this week, referencing the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s…29 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Board and GovernanceI am sure that the Minister will agree that everything we are seeing and hearing about the Post Office inquiry is further undermining the confidence of those who were affected by…28 Feb 2024HANSARDIsrael and GazaI hope the Minister will agree that there is clear consensus in this House that we want an end to the horror that we are seeing in Gaza and to the misery of the Israeli families…27 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI think that, at the moment, very few people, not only in this House but across the country, would differ from the sentiments being expressed by the Scottish National party…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Antisemitism in the UKI welcome the comments today from the Government in clamping down on the astonishing and worrying spike we have seen in antisemitic incidents since 7 October. Antisemitism is vile…19 Feb 2024HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI appreciate that the Government have been trying to tackle violence against women and girls, specifically with the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Unfortunately, amendments that would…07 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformToday’s statement by the Health Secretary will have been listened to with great interest by my constituents in Edinburgh West, who share a lot of the same concerns, face the same…07 Feb 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth Forecasts: 2024 and 2025The UK economy is set for slower growth than previously thought. The International Monetary Fund predicts that next year we will have the second worst growth in the G7. In…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI am actually more concerned with redundancy payments, which this debate is about. The level of ministerial salaries is something that should be debated on its own, and should be…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew) in this debate, which—I have to take issue with the Minister on this—is important. It is an opportunity…06 Feb 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth Forecasts: 2024 and 20256. What recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of economic growth forecasts for 2024 and 2025.06 Feb 2024HANSARDDisability Action PlanThere is much to welcome in the plan, but there are also a few things that are missing. One specific thing that the Minister has included in her 14 areas for action is helping…05 Feb 2024HANSARDFraud and Economic Crime: ProsecutionI thank the Solicitor General for providing detail about what is happening, but, since the pandemic, fraud has cost the public purse more than £21 billion, much of that related to…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Afghan Relocations: Special ForcesI appreciate the Minister’s comments and his commitments today, but it is more than two years since the chaos of the collapse of the operation in Afghanistan and this surely has…01 Feb 2024HANSARDFraud and Economic Crime: Prosecution9. What recent steps her Department has taken to increase prosecution rates for fraud and economic crime.01 Feb 2024