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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend the shadow Minister for refocusing what I was saying, and he is absolutely right. Some of our worries in relation to children apply regardless of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)On that promise, I will give way.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)This is in danger of turning into a much longer speech than I anticipated.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Member is right about the difficulty with defining the term smartphone. People talk about a brick phone, a feature phone, a basic phone, a Nokia, a smartphone and an…11 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsThe Government talk a lot about growth, and we often debate economic growth both here and in the main Chamber, but when we talk about farming, we talk instead about food…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsWill the Minister give way?10 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I assure the hon. Lady that on this occasion I am not holding her Liberal Democrat party membership card against her. That is not the basis on which I am making these points. The…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I want to ask the Minister about two things. First, he talks about the disadvantage gap widening at the present time. Entirely coincidentally, I happen to have the numbers on key…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I suppose, having said that the hon. Lady can correct me, I cannot really stop her.06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)Will the Minister confirm that the new clause will also apply to the small group of young people who are leaving the young justice system and returning to their home area?06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)Will the Minister allow me?06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have never been so warmly welcomed. [ Laughter .] We talked a few sittings ago about the NHS number and the database of children, and there are a lot of wide-open questions…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)That is a view. It is a perfectly legitimate view that some people hold, but it is not a view that I hold, nor is it a view that we have held historically in this country. Going…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)As I said earlier, there are all manner of datasets. I do not have my full Excel complement with me today, but I can trade with the hon. Lady and counter what she said with other…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I do mean these questions genuinely, in the spirit of line-by-line scrutiny of the Bill and trying to ascertain unintended…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)Does the adjudicator also have a say in allowing a school to open?06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I know! [ Laughter. ]06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)Before the hon. Lady corrects me, I did not say she was doing that.06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I rise to speak to amendment 48, which stands in the name of the hon. Member for Twickenham. There are two main reasons people seek to limit school admissions on the basis of…06 Feb 2025