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HANSARDNHS Workers: Mental HealthEven before the covid pandemic, our frontline NHS and care staff were already working in overstretched and under-resourced settings. It is heartbreaking to see how the virus has…23 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brent Central (Dawn Butler) for bringing this important debate to the House. I also thank my colleagues who have made such vital…18 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend for her articulate and eloquent intervention. I agree that our BAME communities must never be an afterthought and deserve to have everything in place to…18 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Test, Track and TraceThank you very much, Mr Speaker. If I may, I would like to start by saying a huge thank you, on behalf of us all in the Chamber today and all those watching, to our NHS and care…05 May 2020HANSARDEngagementsQ5. My NHS colleagues on the frontline are already stressed with the pressure that they face. Last night I visited my father in a care home, and I am acutely aware that I may have…18 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19Today I bring a message from my colleagues who are working hard on the NHS frontline. They say that they do not have the protective equipment that they need, nor do they have the…16 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19Staff testing?16 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThroughout the election there were empty promises from the Conservatives, and one of those promises was to tackle the social care system—but there is still no Green Paper. There…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Early Parliamentary General Election BillI have respect for the hon. Gentleman. However, the Labour party did not stand on a manifesto to sell the British public down the river. Does he accept that perhaps our reason for…29 Oct 2019HANSARD Early Parliamentary General Election BillThe hon. Lady and I have both stood on a platform asking for a people’s vote. My constituency is the second youngest in the country. Does she agree that it is essential that…29 Oct 2019HANSARD Harry DunnTonight a family are grieving and going through something that we find incomprehensible, and yet they know that there is a lady over the Atlantic who has all the answers. Does the…21 Oct 2019HANSARD Racism in FootballThank you so much for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. I would like to echo everything that you have just said. Last night, we saw the most horrific racist abuse aimed…15 Oct 2019HANSARD Racism in Football(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to make a statement on the racist abuse that was aimed at England players in their match…15 Oct 2019HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeAs a doctor, I have extremely grave concern for the mental and physical wellbeing of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. While the Prime Minister suffers from a textbook case of moral…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's Role in Creating a Safe EnvironmentI was elected to this place on the day that Jo Cox was taken from us. A week later, we had the EU referendum. I have only ever known a politics of division in this place. It is…26 Sept 2019HANSARDProrogation (Disclosure of Communications)It is an absolute disgrace that tonight we will go home for a number of weeks, after we have already been off for many weeks already. This Government are playing games. Although I…09 Sept 2019HANSARDProrogation (Disclosure of Communications)rose —09 Sept 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Thousands of Tooting residents have signed my local petition against this Government’s dangerous Brexit plans. Like me, Tooting wants to remain. The Brexit Secretary voted…05 Sept 2019HANSARDHealthcare Staffing LevelsMitie recently signed a £150 million contract at St George’s Hospital, but staff are already facing job cuts. My union, the GMB, balloted its members; 99.6% of them voted to take…23 Jul 2019HANSARDClimate ChangeI have worked with flood victims in refugee camps around the world; the despair is palpable and tragic, and it is simply inhumane that these same people will be hit the hardest by…17 Jul 2019