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HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI am always happy to meet my hon. Friend. We sit on the Petitions Committee together and I am sure we can happily have that chat. To clarify, I am not saying that the material is…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI absolutely agree with the hon. Member, who makes a good point. Many people who produce children’s content might also produce adult content. For example, many authors write books…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI am grateful to the hon. Member for that intervention, and I absolutely agree with him; in fact, that is the part of my speech I am moving on to, so I am grateful to him for…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI suspect that I will come on to both Members’ points. I will finish this point, and if they still want to intervene, I will gladly give way. Many of the examples that have been…18 Mar 2024HANSARD Children’s Cancer Care: South-EastIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) on securing this debate. As a constituency MP and…13 Mar 2024HANSARD Children’s Cancer Care: South-EastMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is a key concern, which is precisely why we want to avoid that happening. It is also worth stating that St George’s does not just have 25…13 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT History MonthIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship at the end of this debate, Mr Robertson. I thank all participants, but particularly the co-chair of my APPG, the hon. Member for…07 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT History MonthI agree with the hon. Lady and my co-chair of the APPG. She is absolutely right and I think it demonstrates that, sadly, no matter how much engagement and how much compromise is…07 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT History MonthI pay tribute to the FCDO’s work in this area. I was invited by the British embassy in Prague to go and speak with our sister party and parliamentarians in Czechia last year, to…07 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT History MonthI could not agree more with the hon. Lady. The Bill we were debating last week was the product of extensive hard work and compromise, including meeting people who were both…07 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT History MonthI beg to move, That this House has considered LGBT History Month. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. LGBT History Month was in February, and as…07 Mar 2024HANSARD St Helier Hospital Improvements and New Hospital: SuttonI could kick myself for forgetting to mention that we have not only those incredible services but a brand-new working partnership between the Royal Marsden, an incredible cancer…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillAs we have heard throughout the debate, Dr Hilary Cass has said that there is no reason to delay a Bill on conversion therapy; she has said multiple times that there is no reason…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI gently suggest to the hon. Member for Canterbury (Rosie Duffield) that if she genuinely thinks that those on her side of the debate are the only ones who get abuse on social…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that we have to give space for that free discussion. Current NHS data suggests that people referred to gender identity clinics will take about…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillWe have to get the Bill to Committee so that we can thrash that out. My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but that is the point of passing legislation: we make definitions and we…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI do not think anybody should be told what they should do. That is the entire reason I am backing the Bill. I totally accept that there will be people who will never, ever believe…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Member is giving a powerful speech. On the Cass review, does he want to highlight the fact that Dr Hilary Cass has said that absolutely nothing in her work should stop a…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillAs my hon. Friend well knows, there was no definition offered at the time, but that is exactly what this Bill attempts to do: to bring forward a definition. I want to pick up on a…01 Mar 2024HANSARD St Helier Hospital Improvements and New Hospital: SuttonIt is a pleasure to have the opportunity to raise in this House my local hospital, St Helier Hospital, once again, and of course the delivery of a new hospital in the London…01 Mar 2024