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HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. All the complaints I have received are about people giving their information to third-party verifiers. If they had a free, digital,…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. For reasons of timing, I will not repeat what my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Jo White) said about the…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDIt is interesting that my hon. Friend talks about the Estonian experience, as I often hear my constituents’ frustration that they do not know what the Government are doing with…21 Oct 2025HANSARDEnding HomelessnessMy hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. Does she agree that supporting people from rough sleeping into solo accommodation involves a continuum of support from the charity and…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDIs the hon. Member aware of the Government’s statements that the system would be held internally and use sovereign tech?21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDI agree, but there is a lack of detail. When we are at the beginning of the conversation and going out to consultation, which is exactly what we are doing, we have to ask the…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDI think the right hon. Member will find there is a split in the community because there is a lack of detail.21 Oct 2025HANSARDAlleged Spying Case: Home Office InvolvementMr Speaker, I share your frustration at the collapse of the case. Two questions remain top of mind for Members of the House and for people in my constituency. First, what is the…20 Oct 2025HANSARDHomelessness20. What recent progress the inter-ministerial group on homelessness and rough sleeping has made on the development of a cross-Government strategy to end homelessness.13 Oct 2025HANSARD Security Update: Official Secrets Act CaseI welcome the Minister’s clarity on tackling the threats that China poses, including the transnational repression of Hongkongers in the UK. That will be a real reassurance to the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDHomelessnessAs the Minister may know, Milton Keynes used to be called “tent city”. We reduced the number of rough sleepers down to 16 when I was deputy leader at the council. We were able to…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI think that many Members have fundamentally misunderstood the proposal. It is actually about putting power in the hands of the citizen, not the state. The state already holds…13 Oct 2025HANSARDChildren with SEND: Assessments and SupportMilton Keynes has more than 15,000 specialist school places, but there has been a 114% increase in children with EHCPs. Even with the level of specialist provision that the…15 Sept 2025HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainDoes my hon. Friend agree we should be clear that when we say BNO, it stands for British national overseas? We are not talking about Hongkongers or Chinese people; we are talking…08 Sept 2025HANSARDIndefinite Leave to RemainDoes my hon. Friend agree that the Hong Kong community’s contribution to Milton Keynes, to our diversity and strength as an economic powerhouse in the UK, should not go unseen by…08 Sept 2025HANSARDProperty TaxesWhat the right hon. Gentleman has said is not a fact. The reality in my region is that Milton Keynes, the Labour-run local authority, has lower taxes than all the surrounding Tory…03 Sept 2025HANSARDProperty TaxesI appreciate the opportunity to speak in this debate. I want to take on the challenge set by the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Central Devon (Sir Mel Stride), so…03 Sept 2025HANSARDProperty Taxesrose —03 Sept 2025HANSARDSudanGiven the devastation of the United States Agency for International Development, the temporary cuts in official development assistance and the growing desperate situation in areas…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastHappy birthday, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s comments about recognition of Palestine, which, of course, is absolutely what all Labour Members stood on…01 Sept 2025