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HANSARDTransport for the NorthIt is quite simple, is it not? The Government are slashing Transport for the North because they are slashing transport for the north, abandoning the much-promised ambitions for an…24 Nov 2021HANSARD Bus Services: North-east EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I start by wholeheartedly congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist) on securing this debate.…24 Nov 2021HANSARD Bus Services: North-east EnglandI thank my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for that intervention; she is absolutely right. As well as the challenge of climate change, the quality of air in Newcastle is of…24 Nov 2021HANSARD Bus Services: North-east EnglandI, too, have seen the buses when they were parked in Westminster for a show and tell by the manufacturers. What I have not seen is the buses on the streets of Newcastle.24 Nov 2021HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsThe Home Secretary knows that the UK receives fewer asylum seekers—these are not people applying via the resettlement scheme—per head of population than the European average, yet…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Domestic Building Works (Consumer Protection) BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) on bringing forward the Bill. I very much join him in his opening tribute to the building trades, which are not…19 Nov 2021HANSARD Integrated Rail Plan: North and MidlandsIt is not rocket science: the road to levelling up, however we define it, goes by rail. That is the only way the north can achieve the level of economic integration necessary to…18 Nov 2021HANSARDStrengthening Standards in Public LifeThe Leader of the House has said that the reason the Government tried to tear up the rulebook was that their and his judgment was clouded by the situation of a friend. Does my…17 Nov 2021HANSARDLife SciencesThe “Life Sciences Vision” has dementia as its first mission. The Conservative manifesto committed to doubling research funding in a dementia moonshot, but the Budget ignored it.…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillAs always, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and as a telecoms engineer, it has been sad to see the lack of an industrial strategy for our telecommunications capability,…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI both agree and disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. I agree totally that national security is not a function of the market, and the fact that we have a network that is not…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I promise not to take advantage of it to set out at length what we could be doing to diversify. I would just say to the…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI thank colleagues in the other place who have worked hard to improve the Bill. National security is the first duty of any Government and Labour will always put our country’s…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillNot to break the rules, but to work with other nations whose values we share, and in the long term to develop and support companies in this area.08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillMy right hon. Friend, as always, makes a really good point. That is where an industrial strategy would have come in. It was predicted and we had time to build up alternatives. To…08 Nov 2021HANSARDTackling the Digital DivideWill the Minister give way?04 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State and the Chancellor press-released that the Budget would invest in northern transport, but once again the north-east was entirely overlooked. It costs more…04 Nov 2021HANSARDTackling the Digital DivideI thank the Minister for giving way again. I hope that she will not finish without addressing my question about a digital inclusion strategy. The vast majority of her speech has…04 Nov 2021HANSARDTackling the Digital DivideI thank the Minister for giving way and making such efforts to communicate with us. With regard to her comments about the public switched telephone network, while it is true that…04 Nov 2021HANSARDTackling the Digital DivideOn the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) about the holding factors in rolling out superfast broadband, the Minister mentioned skills. I…04 Nov 2021