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HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyLiberty’s Speciality Steels UK has failed its highly skilled workers. This ongoing situation has been deeply concerning, so I am delighted that the Minister has offered her…02 Sept 2025HANSARDGreen Industries: Supply Chain JobsAs people fly off for their summer holidays, the chances are that the steel in the aeroplane’s engine comes from the Stocksbridge Speciality Steels plant in my constituency. I am…15 Jul 2025HANSARDDeprived Areas: FundingI am grateful to the Minister, who has named Barnsley’s local authority in the £1.5 billion plan for neighbourhoods. The spending review has confirmed neighbourhood-level…14 Jul 2025HANSARDDeprived Areas: Funding18. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.14 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillDoes the shadow Minister really believe that anyone could truly think that the Conservatives ensured that disabled people were well paid when 14 years of their government led to a…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI am grateful to the Minister for accepting so many aspects of new clause 11 and for his assurances from the Dispatch Box. I will not be pressing the new clause to a vote if he…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI rise to speak to new clause 11 and Government amendment 4. This Bill has been transformed since Second Reading. I welcome the Government’s significant changes and hard work. I…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI do agree. The Minister will head up this review, but the voices of disabled people must be front and centre. The measures in this new clause emphasise the need for disabled…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillI do indeed agree with my hon. Friend, and I will be getting to those points shortly. Further, the UN said that the voices of disabled people must be at the front and centre of…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillDoes the right hon. Gentleman not agree that it was 14 years of a Conservative Government that led us to a 29% disability employment gap, a 17% pay gap, 4 million disabled people…09 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Last month, a devastating report by Women’s Aid revealed that a total of 67 children have been killed over a 30-year period by a known domestically abusive parent, in…08 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillIn March 2020, when the Conservative Government looked like an outlier in appearing to pursue a strategy centring on herd immunity, I felt raw, hot fear. Thinking of my toddler…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillAbsolutely, I agree. As a disabled woman, I know the added burden of menstruation, incontinence and pregnancy on disabled women, as those things intersect with their disability.…01 Jul 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI welcome the words of the Secretary of State that recognise the need to enable disabled people to fulfil their potential. Since April, I have engaged with the Government, making…30 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseIn the UK, 2.9 million disabled women are of reproductive age. Tragically, disabled women are 44% more likely to have a stillbirth. As a disabled mother myself, I was devastated…19 Jun 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI rise to support new clause 122, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire and Bedworth (Rachel Taylor). In 2007, Fiona Pilkington drove herself and her…18 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt was fantastic to hear the Government’s commitment yesterday to making the UK a defence industrial superpower. At its peak, Stocksbridge Speciality Steels, in my constituency,…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI welcome the new banking hub in Penistone, which I visited this week. However, other parts of my constituency remain a banking desert. The Stocksbridge and Deepcar Townswomen’s…12 Jun 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]Building better buses is in my blood. Growing up, my dad was chair of Barnsley passenger transport; South Yorkshire had a world-class bus service, thanks to our Labour county…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Victims and Courts BillImagine a school night with a child being repeatedly asked by his father if he had completed his homework. The child replied, in an exasperated tone, “Yes”. His dad came towards…20 May 2025