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HANSARD Regional Transport InfrastructureIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I will try desperately hard to confine my comments to just three minutes. I would like to start by being kind to the…05 Mar 2019HANSARDSchool FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I thank everyone for their contributions, which I found incredibly powerful. We hear so much about the cuts as…04 Mar 2019HANSARDFuture High Streets FundOne of the problems the Minister might encounter in improving the high streets could be described as a roadblock, because it is a roadblock: the problem is that our roads are just…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). Many people have made incredibly important points about the cuts in so many different areas—FE, schools…26 Feb 2019HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Right to WorkMy constituent Ehi Izevbaye has been in the UK for more than 14 years with no right to work and he has a 10-year-old daughter. He has been repeatedly turned down for leave to…25 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt the last Transport questions, I asked the Minister for help in persuading First Group to lend Hull Trains a new train six months early. Does he agree that the fact that I have…14 Feb 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseEndometriosis is a condition that affects one in 10 women, and it is incredibly painful. It involves cells that should be growing inside the womb growing outside it. Please may we…14 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionUnfortunately, the Minister has failed to address the other point that the hon. Member for Mansfield (Ben Bradley) made, which was about children with social and emotional…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionThe different curricula offered to children in nurture care are more bespoke and suitable for those children. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the progress of those children…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. Does he share my concern in this respect? Nurture groups sound absolutely fantastic and definitely suitable for the children. I…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionOn school ethos, is the hon. Lady as concerned and deeply disturbed as I am by recent comments in the press about “flattening the grass” policies? The CEO of one academy trust…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionOne thing that we would perhaps all agree on is that the pupil premium has been effective in providing additional money and giving teachers additional support. Does my hon. Friend…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionI was going to intervene just before the hon. Gentleman mentioned isolation rooms. One of the points in our Education Committee report was about buddying a mainstream school with…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionI agree with hon. Members that the 2014 Act raised aspirations, but there were a few issues with it. First, it raised the entitlement to the age of 25, without any additional…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionThe hon. Gentleman is making an absolutely excellent speech. It is quite surprising for me to find myself agreeing so wholeheartedly with a Government Member, but the point that I…13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative Provisionrose —13 Feb 2019HANSARD Primary Schools: Nurture and Alternative ProvisionThe hon. Gentleman is making an incredible speech. I am proud to serve with him on the Education Committee. On the importance of nurture groups, does he agree that schools across…13 Feb 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit Roll-outAs the Minister knows, universal credit has now been rolled out in Hull. A constituent, who has had an incredibly troubled life, came to see me on Friday. During his time he has…11 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey). I have spoken about the problems of antisocial behaviour in my constituency a number…05 Feb 2019HANSARDCervical Cancer Smear TestsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank everybody who signed the petition and all the women who have come to listen to the debate. I know that…28 Jan 2019