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HANSARD Garden Bridge: FundingThe Minister is detailing all the different reports, but we need one now that we have the final winding-up costs and the final bill. Those reports are historical. This looks like…15 Mar 2019HANSARD Garden Bridge: FundingDoes the Minister think that the £3 million a year running costs being financed by events on the bridge was a good model? Does he agree that that would have been doing things the…15 Mar 2019HANSARD Garden Bridge: FundingIt has been a busy week for us all at work, with the intractable impasse of Brexit preoccupying most, but life goes on outside this unsolvable Rubik’s cube. I want to draw…15 Mar 2019HANSARDTeaching and Support Staff: Recruitment and RetentionI was back for assembly at my alma mater, Montpelier Primary School, this morning. It is an outstanding school, but it is coming under pressure from churn, with Brexit moving…11 Mar 2019HANSARDTeaching and Support Staff: Recruitment and Retention13. What recent assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the levels of (a) pay and (b) workload on the recruitment and retention of teaching and support staff.11 Mar 2019HANSARDCharity RegulationSome £43 million of public money going on a bridge across the Thames on which zero construction occurred has led us all up the garden path and now we know that the trust is being…07 Mar 2019HANSARDCharity Regulation7. What steps he is taking to help increase public trust in charity regulation.07 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsDoes the hon. Gentleman agree that the £33 million for something that never materialised—the phantom ferry contract—is not dissimilar to the £30 million that the Secretary of…05 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingMy hon. Friend speaks with great experience on these matters. She reminds me of my own experience at East Acton Primary School, which I visited on Friday. In London, there are not…04 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe Prime Minister says that she wants to unite the nation and this House, and she has again presented us today with her deal, no deal or no Brexit. Her deal faced the biggest…26 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryThe hon. Gentleman is making some moving points about bias and discrimination. Does he agree that unconscious bias can be something that people have not thought of, that it needs…25 Feb 2019HANSARDSantander Closures and Local CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman makes a good point about the insensitivity of the one-size-fits-all letter that everyone was sent. We are losing two branches in my seat—not only in Acton High…14 Feb 2019HANSARDSantander Closures and Local CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman talks about internet transactions and shrivelling high streets. Does he agree that another solution for the Government is to look at business rate reform? The…14 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUWe are now 45 days away from the projected departure date, and we still have no clarity and no closure on a deal that the Prime Minister negotiated when there were 135 days to go.…12 Feb 2019HANSARDIn-work Poverty19. What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.11 Feb 2019HANSARDIn-work PovertyCrash-era debt was owed to commercial lenders and stemmed from lifestyle desires, but Turn2us reports that the bulk of its 9,000 users in Ealing are in-work adults who are…11 Feb 2019HANSARDVoter ID Pilot SchemesWhat with the £1 billion-plus of Northern Ireland contributions secured by the Democratic Unionist party, the knighthoods for the European Research Group, and now the…06 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial ViabilityAccording to the Sutton Trust, 1,000 children’s centres have closed over the past decade. Now, West Twyford children’s centre, which is a small centre in an isolated area, cannot…04 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial Viability15. What assessment he has made of the effect of the Government’s policy on funded childcare on the financial viability of childcare settings.04 Feb 2019HANSARDState Pension Age: WomenMy hon. Friend is making an impassioned, compelling and informed case. We have all had letters from people complaining not necessarily about what has been done, but about the way…31 Jan 2019