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HANSARDPeople with Disabilities: EmploymentSarah Jeffers in Tooting requires a specialist wheelchair owing to her cerebral palsy. The Department for Work and Pensions has told her that she is required to pay £17,000 to…13 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s Health and WellbeingThere has been an alarming rise in the need for the use of baby banks for children. While I am proud that organisations such as Little Village in Tooting are doing such amazing…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am sure that the whole House will join me in condemning the abhorrent racist abuse directed at England footballers during their match last…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Gaza Border Deaths: UNHRC InquiryI, too, have met the fantastic Dr Loubani. As an emergency field doctor myself, I cannot fathom what it must be like to listen over the radio waves as your colleagues die, and to…22 Mar 2019HANSARDEducationI am here on behalf of Balham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in my constituency, which knows that it has guaranteed funding until 2020, but is deeply concerned about what…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Gambling-Related HarmIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. All Members have made incredibly valuable comments. I especially pay tribute to the hon. Member for Inverclyde…19 Mar 2019HANSARD Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) BillLet me begin by joining colleagues in sending thoughts and prayers to all those affected by the abhorrent attack that took place in Christchurch today. I know that the whole House…15 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementBy 2021, this Government will have cut £1 billion from the Metropolitan police budget. That is why I wrote the Chancellor a letter, signed by every single London Labour MP, asking…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool Funding: DistributionI am here on behalf of Balham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in my constituency, which knows that it has guaranteed funding until 2020, but is deeply concerned about what…11 Mar 2019HANSARDChildren Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords]I would like to start by belatedly wishing everybody a happy International Women’s Day. I am sure Members across the House took part in events in their constituencies. It is an…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesIt is for the very reasons that my hon. Friend so beautifully articulates that I am using this platform to raise this issue. This is no longer about my father; this is about every…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I am sorry that his constituent has had to live through that for eight years. I know how terribly difficult it has been to…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I entirely agree with him. This debate is about safeguarding all our vulnerable adults, including his constituents and all the…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesThank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and thank you for being in the Chair for my first Adjournment debate, which concerns such an important matter. The UK has a…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesI am just finishing. With an ageing population and an increase in degenerative illnesses, this issue will only get worse. As parliamentarians, we must act now to ensure that even…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesWill I be invited?26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesI thank the hon. Lady—I will call her my hon. Friend—who is tireless in fighting against loneliness and for people to have dignity in their communities, and she makes the most…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Care HomesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that this is about scrutiny, but it is also about saying that a Care Quality Commission rating is not good enough, because vulnerable patients…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Sport in the UKI thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. We have made it clear that we need to take the decision away from Whitehall. What the Labour party is proposing with the safe standing…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Sport in the UKThe hon. Lady makes a most excellent point. If you can see it, you can be it. I firmly believe that, and in my position as shadow Minister for Sport I have always pushed for…04 Feb 2019