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HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationLast week, the Chancellor spoke a lot about fairness and levelling with the British public, but does the Budget actually pass the fairness test? Even before the challenges of…09 Mar 2021HANSARDWomen’s Health StrategyLast year, the all-party parliamentary group on sexual and reproductive health in the UK, which I chair, produced a report called “Women’s Lives, Women’s Rights” on women’s access…08 Mar 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseHull is the country’s fourth most deprived council area, but for some reason it is not in the 100 priority areas for the community renewal fund, which is supposedly based on…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateHow many of the 900 United Kingdom citizens to whom my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) referred who left the country to fight for and support Daesh have been brought…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, I asked a question at Prime Minister’s Question Time. My question was: Is the 40% cut to Transport for the North’s budget…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Rough SleepingCouncils have duties to the homeless but are underfunded by £2 billion by this Government. Hull City Council, which did an amazing job with rough sleepers during the pandemic, is…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Points of Orderindicated assent.25 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsIs the 40% cut to Transport for the North’s budget part of the Prime Minister’s plans for levelling up the north?24 Feb 2021HANSARDFuture of Health and CareHaving been in Parliament in 2010, I voted against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s flawed reorganisation, the failure of which has led us to today’s announcement. As well as sharing…11 Feb 2021HANSARD Building SafetyThe Secretary of State has referred to fairness and the need for building companies to step up and I understand that he is introducing a levy on those companies, but what more is…10 Feb 2021HANSARD Local Government Finance (England)Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am very pleased that both the Secretary of State and the shadow Secretary of State opened the debate by paying tribute to the vital role that local…10 Feb 2021HANSARDSupport for University Students: Covid-19The Minister will know of the magnificent efforts of student doctors, nurses and many other healthcare students who are working in NHS covid wards as part of their studies. I am…03 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateStaff at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital have been magnificent during this pandemic. They are used to making people better, however, and the number of deaths is…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEducational Settings: ReopeningFollowing the question from the Chair of the Education Committee, the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), for many months the Children’s Commissioner, who leaves her…26 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs we have heard, by mid-October more than 600 health and social care staff had already died from covid. Professor Andrew Goddard, the president of the Royal College of…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Commonwealth War Graves Commission StaffI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. I rise as a Commonwealth war graves commissioner to express the commissioners’ concern about and our respect for…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Sexual ExploitationI beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to criminalise paying for sex; to decriminalise selling sex; to create offences relating to enabling or profiting from…09 Dec 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the Secretary of State for agreeing last week to provide four military planners for Hull and the Humber after the three Hull MPs asked for help due to the very high rates…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanFood poverty in my Hull North constituency is already a huge issue. Will the Secretary of State guarantee that under the new agricultural transition policy we will not see higher…30 Nov 2020HANSARDRaw Sewage and Storm Water: Discharge into WaterwaysWhat recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the discharge into waterways of raw sewage and storm water by water companies.26 Nov 2020