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HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsThere are loads in Ealing as well, although a lot less than there used to be. Local householders—as the Minister will know as a local—also get leaflets through the door asking for…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsThere may be bad apples out there, but that does not detract from the fact that during the votes my hon. Friends the Members for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) and…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsWill the Minister give way?19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsThe hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) was first.19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsMy apologies: I think the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) wanted to intervene next.19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsMy hon. Friend is so right. He is from a capital city; I mentioned cities at the beginning. I understand that the number of language schools in Cardiff has boomed from a small…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsThe hon. Lady, who is from the lovely city of Bath and is a polyglot herself, is completely right. When I was a kid in 1984, we did a trip to Le Touquet on a group passport of…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of the UK’s departure from the EU on language schools in the UK. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Nokes.…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsOkay. Minister, I had a bit more, which I will try to cover in a couple of sentences. The other thing that worries me is that this hostile environment has prevailed at other…19 Jul 2022HANSARDLeaving the EU: UK Language SchoolsI completely concur with the hon. Member. We have all heard about the backlog—perhaps the Minister will talk about it—of people waiting to get passports at this time of year when…19 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI have no confidence in this Government. The public have no confidence in this Government, and nor do Government Members, 59 of whom put in their own letters to say they had no…18 Jul 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion Therapy8. Whether her Department has undertaken an equalities assessment of the exclusion of transgender conversion therapy in the Government’s forthcoming legislative proposals on…13 Jul 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyThere is a respectful debate to be had on single-sex spaces and on trans people in sport, but the Government’s failure on their promise of a full ban on conversion therapy, which…13 Jul 2022HANSARDState Pension: Cost of Living11. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the state pension in meeting the rising cost of living.11 Jul 2022HANSARDState Pension: Cost of LivingThis is about the pensions Act, Mr Speaker; I asked about this on Thursday. Does the Minister not see that this looks really bad to the general public in a cost of living crisis…11 Jul 2022HANSARDState Pension: Cost of LivingIt is good to see the Minister back; there is nothing like organised labour to effect progress. In reality the state pension has not managed to keep up with the multiple crises we…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Functioning of GovernmentThe Independent reports that the PM and Tory Ministers resigning are entitled to £420,000 of severance pay. At the same time we have a Government gripped by paralysis and we have…07 Jul 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend makes a really good point. When is a protest not a protest? These women are subject to harassment. There is a time and place for protest. If someone wants to attack…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)I was just saying that the situation is different in Scotland; in England, these services are not usually provided in hospitals. The hon. Member for Dover described a clinic in a…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Lady is persistent, isn’t she?21 Jun 2022