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HANSARDPlastic Food and Drink PackagingI completely accept that. Cutting down on food miles and getting better at using food when it is available, and from close to where it is supplied, might be part of the solution…24 Oct 2019HANSARDPlastic Food and Drink PackagingI agree, and I intended to refer to the report picking up on that point, so I thank my hon. Friend for the intervention. First, therefore, let us get that issue properly sorted…24 Oct 2019HANSARDThe Climate EmergencyWe have heard lots about what we have not achieved, but it is worth pointing out that in the last two weeks the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has sold at…17 Oct 2019HANSARDReforming ProbationGood probation can be the means to transform young people’s lives and help to rehabilitate them in communities. We do not have a prison in Cornwall, but we have many people who…08 Oct 2019HANSARDGovernment Plan for Net Zero EmissionsI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) for her excellent opening remarks, and for putting this subject back on the agenda. I also commend my…08 Oct 2019HANSARD Social Care FundingI started the year encouraged by the 10-year plan and now by this weekend’s infrastructure investment. They are both welcome. Certainly, in Cornwall and on the Isles of Scilly,…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Health Infrastructure PlanI welcome this fantastic announcement. Our fantastic NHS staff are expected to deliver modern NHS services in buildings that were designed for a completely different era.…30 Sept 2019HANSARD Brexit Readiness: Operation YellowhammerIn his statement, my right hon. Friend referred to the measures that were taken to ensure that fish caught today along the coast of Cornwall would be sold the following day in the…25 Sept 2019HANSARDNHS FacilitiesThe Minister will be aware that our general district hospital was closed to new admissions in recent weeks, and the reason given was delayed transfers of care. Ever since I was…23 Jul 2019HANSARD NHS Workforce: EnglandI am addressing the point the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West made about the importance of working cross-party, as we will in this Chamber. I will come to the bursary…17 Jul 2019HANSARD NHS Workforce: EnglandI appreciate that valuable intervention. I had a conversation with the former Secretary of State for Health about how, when the student loan was introduced, there might have been…17 Jul 2019HANSARD NHS Workforce: EnglandI will when I have finished this point. Whatever the solution, we must recognise the added pressure on existing staff.17 Jul 2019HANSARD NHS Workforce: EnglandI said that in humour, which is why I talked about my own skill—or lack of. It is a curious thing, though, to hear people talking about the crisis in staffing when so many of them…17 Jul 2019HANSARD NHS Workforce: EnglandI congratulate the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Eleanor Smith) on securing this debate on an issue that she and I have discussed—her office is near mine in Norman…17 Jul 2019HANSARD Small and Village School FundingI am grateful for the opportunity to speak, Sir David, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Neil O’Brien) on securing the debate. I have 56 schools in my…17 Jul 2019HANSARDDefence SpendingI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Anne-Marie Trevelyan) on securing the debate. As someone who represents RNAS Culdrose in my constituency, I cannot…16 Jul 2019HANSARDZero-carbon EconomyPublicly owned buildings such as schools and hospitals can access interest-free loans in order to retrofit their buildings and put on solar panels and so forth. What consideration…16 Jul 2019HANSARD Climate Change, the Environment and Global DevelopmentI have been visiting schools for a long time now, and everyone I have spoken to wants a plastic-free school, but the pupils tell me that many of the items that are supplied to the…10 Jul 2019HANSARD Climate Change, the Environment and Global DevelopmentMy hon. Friend is right that we need to take people with us and ensure that this works for them. Does she agree that if we provide enough charging points for electric vehicles and…10 Jul 2019HANSARD Climate Change, the Environment and Global DevelopmentI thank the hon. Lady for her enthusiasm and for the opportunity to intervene. She will be aware that the Committee on Climate Change has said that this is about upscaling and…10 Jul 2019