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HANSARDTopical QuestionsCheshire East council area has pockets of severe deprivation, centred largely around my constituency. Under the previous Government, local government funding allocations never…24 Nov 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ15. Crewe railway station is the gateway to the north, and indeed the shop window for my constituency, with an average annual footfall of 4.5 million people. I am working with…19 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI thank the Home Secretary for her statement, and for taking the bold action necessary to tackle the chaos and lack of control that we inherited in our asylum system. Does she…17 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployer National Insurance Contributions: Business ImpactOpposition Members spend a lot of time complaining about the difficult decisions taken by this Labour Government, so I wonder whether the Chancellor can remind them what we have…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsWill the hon. Member give way?04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am going to make some progress. Opportunity is exactly what the repurposing the high street grants delivered by our Labour council in Cheshire East has delivered. These are…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Conservative Members do not like it, but what I am articulating is the lived reality of my constituents and the impact of the Conservatives’…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about restoring old buildings, and that is exactly what is taking place in Crewe. Alongside this, a rolling programme of cultural events from…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsThe subject of high streets is one that matters deeply in constituencies like Crewe and Nantwich, where the story of decline is slowly but surely being rewritten into one of…04 Nov 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI completely agree. The most common reason I hear from my constituents for their inability to get on the housing ladder is that astronomical rise in house prices.28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxThe hon. Gentleman said that this tax cut would benefit everybody. Can he tell me how it would benefit people who do not currently pay it because their property is not worth…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI thank the hon. Member for that intervention. Look, we will await the Budget to see the OBR’s forecasts, but I will take no lessons from the party opposite on economic…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxThe Minister is right to say that the Opposition have not been clear about how they would fund this tax cut, but there are some clues. The shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury,…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI start by acknowledging a point that many Members across the House have made. Many of us would not defend the principle of stamp duty; indeed, if it did not already exist, it is…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxThe hon. Member is right to point out that the Conservatives had 14 years in government. Now they are in opposition, they want to talk about all the magical savings that they…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI will make some progress. The motion tells us everything we need to know about the priorities of the Conservative party today. In the context of the vast majority of options that…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxIt was those families in the middle who suffered most at the hands of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget, so I would expect Conservative Members to apologise to those families in my…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Trade Union Workplace AccessI thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. Does he agree that in sectors such as social care, which are facing recruitment and retention crises, better trade union…22 Oct 2025HANSARDDefibrillatorsI sincerely thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Sam Rushworth) for securing this important debate. I will focus on the maintenance of defibrillators, which is…02 Sept 2025HANSARDDefibrillatorsMy hon. Friend has almost taken the words out of my mouth, because I was about to move on to some of the steps that we could take to address this issue. She is absolutely right.…02 Sept 2025