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HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty the QueenThe overwhelming theme of the past two days has been our late Queen’s unparalleled service, duty and dedication. Those are qualities that are particularly understood and valued in…10 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsMay I, too, warmly welcome our new Prime Minister to her role, and indeed all her Front Benchers to theirs? September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and, as my right hon.…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Women’s Health Strategy for EnglandAs one of the former Health Ministers who carried the baton on this strategy for some time, I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s words and his commitment. It is so…20 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome both the Secretary of State and the new Minister to their places and warn them that the one statistic that they will hear me say time and again is that cancer is the…19 Jul 2022HANSARDFemale Entrepreneurs5. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support female entrepreneurs.13 Jul 2022HANSARDFemale EntrepreneursI thank the Minister for that answer, but the fact is that if women were starting and scaling businesses at the same rate as men it would add a staggering £250 billion to the UK…13 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on taking his new position; we rarely have a new Minister so capable of hitting the ground running. He makes a crucial point about clearness and…12 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen it comes to female offenders, trauma-informed and gender-responsive programmes are the only way to break a cycle of crime and incarceration. Tomorrow, the brilliant charity…05 Jul 2022HANSARDChildren who lose Parents to SuicideI was really disturbed to learn recently that there is evidence to suggest that children who lose a parent to suicide have a much greater risk of going on to take their own life…04 Jul 2022HANSARDChildren who lose Parents to Suicide6. What steps his Department is taking to support children who lose parents to suicide.04 Jul 2022HANSARD Women’s Rights to Reproductive Healthcare: United StatesFor me, the former First Lady, Michelle Obama summed this up in her open letter when she said that, when we do not understand our history, we are doomed to repeat its mistakes. As…28 Jun 2022HANSARDRape: Criminal ProsecutionsI have absolutely no doubt of my hon. Friend’s commitment and dedication to this cause, and I am grateful to her for that. A lot of the figures she quotes are encouraging, but the…28 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is vital that we do not forget the painful lessons we learned in the wake of Hurricane Irma in 2017, a key component of which is always to have a naval presence in the region…21 Jun 2022HANSARDDementia Care: Social Care WorkforceI am really grateful to my hon. Friend for her commitment to train social care staff in dementia. Timely and accurate diagnosis is really important to ensuring that people living…14 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill my right hon. Friend reassure the House of the parity of esteem between veterans with physical injuries and those with psychological illnesses sustained during service? Will…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI support the Government’s commitment to levelling up, to boosting jobs, to boosting our high streets, to boosting economic opportunity, and to enhancing our standard of living.…08 Jun 2022HANSARDBenefits Recipients: Effect of InflationAmong those worst impacted by the cost of living rising is the army of unpaid carers who do so much not only to support their friends and loved ones but to ease the pressure on…06 Jun 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesInformal carers across the country will have been dismayed to hear that legislation to introduce the right to unpaid carer’s leave was not in the Queen’s Speech. It was a 2019…12 May 2022HANSARDChildhood Cancer OutcomesI beg to move, That this House has considered improving outcomes for childhood cancer. I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for allowing us this debate, and to all…26 Apr 2022HANSARDChildhood Cancer OutcomesMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point: there is such a huge impact on families who support a child through cancer and we need to look at how we support them in the round. I have…26 Apr 2022