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HANSARDEngagementsLast month, together with fellow north Staffordshire MPs, I hosted an event, a tea party, to welcome Ukrainian refugees living in north Staffordshire. Will the Prime Minister join…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsConservative-run Staffordshire Moorlands District Council has an excellent track record of delivering for my constituents while keeping council tax low. We have put in a bid to…18 Jan 2023HANSARDChannel 4Happy new year to you, Mr Speaker. I thank my right hon. Friend for her answer today and for the sensible decision she has taken on Channel 4, which is exactly the right thing to…09 Jan 2023HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationMy right hon. Friend is right to identify that illegal immigration and the associated people smuggling are global problems that need global solutions. May I press him to use his…13 Dec 2022HANSARDProtection from Sex-based Harassment in Public BillI have a hard act to follow in my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes), who made an excellent contribution. I also congratulate my right…09 Dec 2022HANSARD StandardsMay I add my view, as Chair of the Procedure Committee? I feel that the amendments are absolutely fine, and we should be happy to see them passed tonight.18 Oct 2022HANSARD Voting by Proxy (Amendment and Extension)Let me start by thanking my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House for finding time for the debate. It is very welcome that time is provided in the House for us to debate these…12 Oct 2022HANSARD Voting by Proxy (Amendment and Extension)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?12 Oct 2022HANSARD Voting by Proxy (Amendment and Extension)I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is a valuable member of the Committee. I want to reassure him that many people who are not here are watching the debate. My hon. Friend the Member…12 Oct 2022HANSARD Voting by Proxy (Amendment and Extension)It is wonderful to see my hon. Friend at the Dispatch Box. Could I ask for his commitment that the Government will facilitate that vote to allow the pilot scheme to be carried…12 Oct 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI welcome my right hon. Friend to her new role and join her in the tributes that she paid to the staff and others in this place who made the lying in state such a special…22 Sept 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank the hon. Lady for her comments and her warm welcome for the report. The Committee considered these matters carefully; they are extremely sensitive. Members were not always…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. The issue of whether this was an appropriate workplace to bring children into was raised time and again. Overwhelmingly, the evidence and…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallThis morning, the Procedure Committee published its first report of the new Session, concluding two inquiries: the first on extending eligibility for proxy voting to those with…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank my friend, the Vice-Chair of the Committee, for his comments. He is right: we did want to decouple the requirement not to be in the Chamber from the proxy vote. We heard…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. As a long-serving member of the predecessor Procedure Committee, I know he will have looked at these issues when it considered the issue…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI never thought I would be in a debate discussing breastfeeding with the hon. Gentleman, but there we go; there is a first time for everything. I assure him that all the…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank my hon. Friend for her question. I also pay tribute to her and to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) for giving their oral evidence on what is a contentious…30 Jun 2022HANSARDProxy Voting and Presence of Babies in the Chamber and Westminster HallI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. As Chair of the Procedure Committee, I should make the point that positive abstentions are not really the done thing in this place,…30 Jun 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseIn two weeks’ time I will be hosting my first in-person event since the pandemic, which is a pensioners fair to bring together those organisations and agencies that help to…30 Jun 2022