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HANSARD Local Radio: BBC ProposalsI very much hear what the right hon. Gentleman says. What I value about local radio is that it holds me to account. It is already investigating what local councils are doing and…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI beg to move, That this House has considered the Infected Blood Inquiry. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate, ensuring that this important issue is…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI hope that the Minister will respond to that particular point when he speaks later. I want to go back to those who have been infected and affected and are still alive. I hope…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryAbsolutely. The House is probably united in that view. We want justice now. We know that the report of Sir Robert Francis KC, which the former Paymaster General commissioned, on a…22 Jun 2023HANSARD Local Radio: BBC ProposalsI congratulate the right hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning) on securing this debate, and on his excellent opening remarks. I absolutely agree with what the hon.…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryAbsolutely. I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. Progress has been made. The interim payments last year were very welcome—absolutely—but we need to do more. As I was…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI am very grateful. This is about people. It is about mums and dads, sons and daughters, and aunts and uncles. We have to remember that. It is about those individuals and their…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI could not agree more. The biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS turned into a scandal. Prevarication, obfuscation and delay—that is what victims met for decades.…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryI thank all hon. Members for their contributions. They described so many individual cases, so many lives and so much suffering. The Minister has set out the Government’s position,…22 Jun 2023HANSARDStop and SearchIn 2021, the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into how much progress had been made in tackling racism in policing since the landmark Stephen Lawrence inquiry found, as a cross-party…19 Jun 2023HANSARD Abortion: Offences against the Person ActThank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing an urgent question on this important matter of public policy. As we know, earlier this week a mother of three children was sentenced to a…15 Jun 2023HANSARD Abortion: Offences against the Person Act(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make a statement on section 58 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.15 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Leader of the House was in the Chamber for my urgent question and I know she was listening very carefully, so will we be able to have a debate in Government time to look at a…15 Jun 2023HANSARD Nottingham IncidentI thank the Home Secretary for making this statement today and for the information that she has been able to pass on to the House. I look forward to further updates in the coming…14 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderHave the police specifically requested these new powers? The deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Ade Adelekan, has said about recent slow-march protests…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker, I know that as a Parliament we are keen for members of the public to come to this place and see us at work. However, yesterday the Home…18 May 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI thank the Leader of the House as her words last week seem to have done the trick. The director general of the BBC has agreed to meet a cross-party group of MPs to talk about the…18 May 2023HANSARD Rail ServicesAcross the Humber we welcome today’s announcement, but many fed-up passengers will say, “After years of terrible service, why has it taken so long?” Could the Secretary of State…11 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. The Paymaster General and I have been having a parliamentary tussle to get some basic factual information about the steps the Government are taking following the…11 May 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseThis week, the 10 MPs representing Humber constituencies wrote on a cross-party basis to the director-general of the BBC expressing our opposition to the plans to cut local radio…11 May 2023