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HANSARDFan-led Review and Football White PaperI will take a self-denying ordinance and avoid bad football puns in asking my question—20 Feb 2023HANSARDFan-led Review and Football White PaperThank you; I will. My right hon. Friend the Minister is aware of the huge degree of unanimity across the House on the need for urgent reform, given the many crises that we know…20 Feb 2023HANSARDEnvironmental Improvement Plan 2023There are very many farmers in my constituency who love the Kentish countryside and are proud to be custodians of it for this generation. At the same time, they have to run…01 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State will be aware of the exemption proposed for artificial intelligence from copyright restrictions on text and data mining. I have been struck since I became…26 Jan 2023HANSARDChannel 4It is clearly new year, new politics when the Opposition secure an urgent question to praise a Minister because the Government have got a policy right, and I echo their…09 Jan 2023HANSARDAsylum SystemPotentially one of the best parts of our asylum system is the safe route created for Afghans who helped British forces during the war in Afghanistan. They are often full of…19 Dec 2022HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationI strongly support the measures announced by the Prime Minister and, in particular, his framing of the issue as a matter of fairness, because tough but fair border controls and…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Social CareI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of social care within local communities. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for allowing me this debate, and it is a…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Social CareI will cheer everyone up by not taking the opportunity, which I think would be available to me, of winding up for the next 45 minutes; I will simply make two brief points that…24 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. In the care White Paper the Government committed to investing £300 million in supported housing for people with long-term health conditions, the numbers of whom are likely to…21 Nov 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementI congratulate the Chancellor on his statement. In particular, I welcome the fact that he listened to his own representations about the need for an NHS workforce plan. I also…17 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. I welcome the agreement that the Home Secretary has signed with the French Government. It is a contribution to dealing with the asylum crisis and therefore allowing hundreds…14 Nov 2022HANSARDAsylum Seekers Accommodation and SafeguardingMy right hon. Friend will know of my deep unease about the use of a hotel in Ashford, which has been opened recently, as part of the dispersal from Manston, so I was pleased to…07 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. More than 13,000 people who are in hospital today would be out of hospital if the care system had the necessary capacity, and most of them could go back to their own homes if…01 Nov 2022HANSARDBBC Local Radio: Proposed Reduction in ProvisionAlong with many of my constituents, I am a huge admirer of the news and analysis provided by Radio Kent. It is particularly important these days when local commercial radio has…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEast Kent Maternity Services: Independent InvestigationThis report is a terrible read, particularly, obviously, for bereaved parents, who have gone through untold anguish, including some at the William Harvey Hospital in my…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Health and Social Care UpdateI welcome my right hon. Friend to her new post, and I welcome her statement. I especially welcome the social care discharge fund, but, as she knows, the problems of under-capacity…22 Sept 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty the QueenLike many others, I suspect, my initial reaction on hearing of the Queen’s death was not just sadness and regret, but a peculiar sense of uncertainty. How could the world continue…10 Sept 2022HANSARDBill of RightsI congratulate my right hon. Friend on resisting the siren voices in this House and outside telling him to withdraw from the European convention on human rights altogether. His…22 Jun 2022HANSARD NHS Dentistry in EnglandI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again and allowing me to continue this tour of woe around the country. I can tell him that the situation is equally bad in…22 Jun 2022