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HANSARD Australian BushfiresWelcome back to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I declare my interest as set out in the register, not least my personal connection by marriage to Australia, with many friends…09 Jan 2020HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local EnvironmentI beg to move, That this House has considered the effect of waste processing facilities on the local environment. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone.…23 Oct 2019HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local EnvironmentI do agree. I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and for her Adjournment debate on the Floor of the House, which I referenced in my letter to the then Environment…23 Oct 2019HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local Environmentindicated assent.23 Oct 2019HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local EnvironmentThe Minister will have to forgive me if I am treading on the next paragraph of her speech, but the issue here is the retrospective view. Planning permissions and environmental…23 Oct 2019HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local EnvironmentI very much agree, because I have had exactly that issue: a company that went into administration was bought by an overseas company, and activity on the site continued with the…23 Oct 2019HANSARD Waste Processing Facilities: Local EnvironmentI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. That is part of the puzzle. National and local planning frameworks should better reflect some of these issues when decisions are…23 Oct 2019HANSARD Portishead RailwayDoes the Minister recognise that the Mayor of Bristol is doing some extraordinarily important work in trying to meet our air pollution targets? As we have been discussing this…16 Oct 2019HANSARD Portishead RailwayI am pleased to be here to support the right hon. Gentleman’s case for the Portishead line. Does he agree it is part of what should be a much broader rail network? It is about…16 Oct 2019HANSARDScience and Technology CommitteeI thank the right hon. Gentleman for pointing out the importance of the report, not just to tackling climate change, but to bringing together the two questions of technology and…05 Sept 2019HANSARD Resignation of UK Ambassador to USAIt is important for the House to pause and reflect on the fact that this is the first time in modern British history that a third country has been able to dictate who should be…11 Jul 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseA number of my constituents transferred from AstraZeneca to Avara Pharmaceuticals when the Avalon Pharmaceuticals site north of Bristol was sold. They did so because they were…11 Jul 2019HANSARD Adult Community ServicesI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. Does she agree that the complexity of the procurement process and the difficulty that she—an expert in this…26 Jun 2019HANSARDSocial HousingDoes my hon. Friend agree that the market has failed in constituencies such as mine, where it is getting more and more expensive to either rent or buy, and that we therefore need…13 Jun 2019HANSARD Parliament as a WorkplaceI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham West and Penge (Ellie Reeves) for securing this important debate, and other colleagues for their contributions. I wanted to speak in…13 Jun 2019HANSARD WhatsApp Data BreachI declare my interest, as set out in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am sure the Minister will want to encourage the increasing number of her colleagues who have…15 May 2019HANSARD Facial Recognition and the Biometrics StrategyUnsurprisingly, I agree entirely. This is part of a much broader conversation about designing technology with ethics at the very start, not only in facial recognition but in…01 May 2019HANSARD Facial Recognition and the Biometrics StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The debate is a broader one about technology. How do we engage the public with these issues? I am an evangelist for technological reform,…01 May 2019HANSARD Facial Recognition and the Biometrics StrategyI thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), my hon. Friends the Members for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) and for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah), and the…01 May 2019HANSARD Facial Recognition and the Biometrics StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, not least because I spoke at great length today. I did not mention earlier that we took evidence in the Select Committee from the Biometrics…01 May 2019