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HANSARD Sure Start: IFS ReportSince 2012, all five Sure Start centres in my constituency, serving the most disadvantaged areas, have closed, with devastating impacts on early years interventions in those…05 Jun 2019HANSARDPost-18 Education and FundingIt is good, I am sure, that we have agreement across the Chamber that more money should go into lifelong learning and further education, but we want to hear a guarantee from the…04 Jun 2019HANSARD International Education StrategyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich West (Mr Bailey) for securing this extremely important…22 May 2019HANSARD Licensing in DurhamI beg to move, That this House has considered licensing in Durham. May I say what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship again, Sir Christopher? The Licensing Act 2003…15 May 2019HANSARD Licensing in DurhamIn general, I am saying that the licensing policy of the county council needs to be massively changed, but there are two areas in which I thought the Minister might be able to…15 May 2019HANSARD Licensing in DurhamI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. At the end of my speech, I should perhaps have made it clear that one of my big asks is for us to try to understand how we can get…15 May 2019HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Preparation for Digital Services) BillI thank the Minister for that intervention, because perhaps I was not clear: I was not suggesting that those measures necessarily needed to be in this Bill, but they do need to be…13 May 2019HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Preparation for Digital Services) BillThis is probably the easiest summing-up that I have experienced so far in the Chamber. I thank the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), my hon. Friend the Member for…13 May 2019HANSARD Non-Domestic Rating (Preparation for Digital Services) BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will do my best to keep to what is in the Bill. However, the Government cannot continue to rely on a system of ever-increasing council tax bills…13 May 2019HANSARDArchitects Act 1997 (Swiss Qualifications) (amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Good—we can make progress. It is a pity that we have to put time in to preparing for a no-deal exit that the Government could clearly have taken off the table much earlier.…09 May 2019HANSARDArchitects Act 1997 (Swiss Qualifications) (amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The Minister is nodding, so I assume that I have got that right. The current process will be frozen immediately before exit day, hence the need to plan ahead. The reason that…09 May 2019HANSARDArchitects Act 1997 (Swiss Qualifications) (amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I thank the Minister for outlining what the statutory instrument contains. It is clear that it follows on from the SI…09 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s Future Food InquiryWill the Minister give way briefly?08 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s Future Food InquiryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Rosindell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) for securing this important debate, and…08 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s Future Food InquiryMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. There was a universal free school meals pilot for two years in County Durham, and it transformed behaviour in school. It was incredibly…08 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s Future Food InquiryYes.08 May 2019HANSARDHigher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019Can the Minister tell us how many of the respondents who were in favour of the new fee regime were smaller providers seeking to enter the market? Of course, based on what he just…01 May 2019HANSARDHigher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019I, too, was on the Higher Education and Research Bill Committee and at the outset we raised a number of issues with the funding regime for the OfS. Despite what I have just heard…01 May 2019HANSARDHigher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019Yes, from the Government. We can talk about the sources of Government money. Why are these costs going up? In a response to me in 2016, the then Minister made it clear that fees…01 May 2019HANSARDHigher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019Just for the sake of clarity, I would not wish the Minister to get the impression that we do not think that ensuring a strong role for our universities in their local communities…01 May 2019