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HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsOf course I agree with my hon. Friend. People would have been charged to go from Ealing to Acton, and possibly to use the A23, which goes to Brighton. It is good that that has…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsThe hon. Member, and former council leader for where we are now, speaks with authority and passion and makes total sense on this. We need a collaboration between residents,…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsI completely agree that we have a climate emergency, we have our net zero obligations and we have an obesity crisis, but doing this without a consultation has just got people’s…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsMy hon. Friend speaks so much sense. It is true that it feels that this catastrophising, saying, “Emergency, emergency, we have to do it by the end of September”, with no time for…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsI thank my hon. Friend for a point that deserved to be made at length. She makes the point about the main roads, and those are people too. They feel two-tiered now: their house…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsGoodness me, the hon. Lady tells a chilling story. In Ealing, at least initially, there are no fines—maybe I should not be saying that—so that people get used to it. There is a…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsMy hon. Friend is right. Pedestrians often feel they are at the bottom of the food chain. Actually, walkers have contacted me saying that they have got nothing out of this.…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsThe hon. Gentleman speaks so much sense. We are at one on Heathrow—actually, I think all three of us who have spoken so far are—and he is right. In theory, these people are not…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsThe right hon. Lady makes a really good point. We have relied on cabbies—remember that taxi exam, the knowledge? That is completely invalidated by these changes. She makes a…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London BoroughsMy hon. Friend has read my mind. Impact assessments are missing in all this. There have been no baseline data or traffic surveys. It would be good to have a clear point of…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI have heard what the Prime Minister said about congregational worship for faith groups, and it strikes me sitting here that the measures taken at Ealing abbey—four to a pew with…02 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsFinancial support packages, tackling homelessness, rail nationalisation and honouring Marcus Rashford—there is plenty that this Government have done on covid that I applaud, but…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAbortion Clinics: Protection from Intimidation or ProtestThat is a very encouraging reply. Right now, up and down the country, women are being intimidated and police are having their time taken up by 40 Days for Life, an anti-choice…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAbortion Clinics: Protection from Intimidation or ProtestWhat discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on protecting women attending abortion clinics from intimidation or protest.21 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateCases in Ealing have shot up, doubling in the past week and making it now the capital’s coronavirus capital. May I therefore commend the Secretary of State’s approach to the…15 Oct 2020HANSARD SudanFor us both. Harriett Baldwin, if you wish, the Floor is yours to respond.15 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportLondon, which is now on a watch list, is not only our financial centre but our cultural capital. [Interruption.] I believe so. It is the nation’s beating heart. Despite the £1.57…06 Oct 2020HANSARD CCRC Decision on 44 Post Office ProsecutionsWill the Minister join me in thanking all those at the Post Office and Royal Mail who have kept us all going throughout this crisis? As we know, a disproportionate number are from…05 Oct 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder if I might seek your advice. Exactly a week ago in this Chamber, I asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care about the…28 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for the history lesson. I accept that there was some tinkering under the Brown and Blair Governments, but he must admit that it was under this…25 Sept 2020