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HANSARD Floating Offshore Wind: Celtic SeaWe have 27 minutes remaining, but this is not an invitation to make a 27-minute speech. The hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Jayne Kirkham) should take a few minutes to…12 Dec 2024HANSARDSEND Pupils: SupportA National Audit Office report published in October highlights that special educational needs places in independent schools can cost two and a half times as much as in state…09 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning Committees: ReformWe have had trouble with house building because the speed with which houses are built has been dictated by developers. What we need to see, when planning permission is granted, is…09 Dec 2024HANSARD SyriaWhat discussions are taking place with Turkey, because the SDF in the north and the east of Syria is doing an important job in containing Daesh fighters, and it is essential that…09 Dec 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ7. A year ago today, this House defeated the then Government over the contaminated blood scandal compensation scheme. It is welcome that the present Government have set aside…04 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAccording to the Local Government Association, local government spending on public services is down 42% on what it would have been had it kept pace with demand and costs since…03 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.03 Dec 2024HANSARDFishing IndustryOrder. I have had a number of requests from people who want to leave before the Front-Bench responses. I cannot allow that to happen—certainly not in the large numbers that have…28 Nov 2024HANSARD Respect Orders and Antisocial BehaviourI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Does she agree that the biggest boost to antisocial behaviour we have seen in recent times was the cut of 21,000 police officers by the…27 Nov 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperI welcome the statement from my right hon. Friend, and particularly what she said about the coaches and assistance for young people getting into work. What she describes seems to…26 Nov 2024HANSARDCOP29When I consider this sort of issue, I tend to think of my grandchildren and what the world will be like for them in years to come. I listen to my right hon. Friend talk about our…26 Nov 2024HANSARD Infected Blood InquiryI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Michael Payne) for his maiden speech. It is clearly special for him to represent the area in which he grew up. He has so…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Infected Blood InquiryI could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman. I am trying to make my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General aware of the strength of feeling out there that needs to be…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Infected Blood InquiryI am fully aware of the consultation that took place, but what Sir Brian Langstaff describes is the ongoing involvement of the victims in the process, by their being part of an…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Infected Blood InquiryMy right hon. Friend rightly pays tribute to Sir Brian Langstaff. Everyone should be grateful to him for what he has done. In recommendation 14 of his second interim report, he…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Infected Blood InquiryOn that point, the National Audit Office is directly accountable to Parliament through the Public Accounts Commission. Is the intention to create a similar sort of arrangement, as…19 Nov 2024HANSARD Future of the Post OfficeI am a veteran of virtually every debate, urgent question and statement on this issue over more years than I dare to mention. I welcome the statement by my hon. Friend the…13 Nov 2024HANSARD Social Security Advisory Committee: Winter Fuel PaymentThe advisory committee made several recommendations related to getting assistance to people who should be in receipt of pension credit. Could the Minister indicate whether the…12 Nov 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyI declare an interest: for nearly 20 years, I have been the chair of trustees at the Samuel Montagu youth club in my constituency, and I have also been a senior play leader on an…12 Nov 2024HANSARD Future of FishingOrder. Hon. Members keep referring to “you”. You are speaking through the Chair, so when you say “you”, you mean me. It is a mistake that I have made, but I remind you not to use…05 Nov 2024