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HANSARD Long-term Medical ConditionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. It is my first time speaking from the Front Bench, so please bear with me if I get my papers mixed up. I thank my…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Long-term Medical ConditionsI agree, and I will come to comorbidities and some of the strategies in the 10-year plan later in my speech. My hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Alison Hume)…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Long-term Medical ConditionsI acknowledge that those with long-term health conditions such as arthritis will rightly be very worried about what is happening, considering that only a Green Paper, rather than…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Long-term Medical ConditionsThank you. In fact, the waiting list has been cut by over 200,000 since we came into office. Another topic touched on a lot was social care, its effective use and access to it.…12 Jun 2025HANSARD Long-term Medical ConditionsI was coming on to Baroness Louise Casey’s report to the Prime Minister. I will try to get an answer from the Departments she is working with. Hon. Members will be aware that we…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)Is it not that they are grouped together, so we vote on them as a group?14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)I know we vote on new clause 104 later. But will we vote on amendments 75 and 82 now?14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)So therefore we have been going through the groupings, rather than the amendment paper.14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)Further to that point of order, Dr Huq. Opposition Members are very interested in their amendments, but I am keenly and acutely interested in Government amendment 48 and schedule…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)But we have not voted on amendment 5.14 May 2025HANSARD Easter AdjournmentIt is a pleasure to close the debate. I will try to do so very swiftly, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I wish you and all those listening a very happy Easter. Let me begin by paying…08 Apr 2025HANSARDInternet Connectivity13. In Wellingborough and Rushden, organisations such as Serve and the Teamwork Trust offer digital support for the excluded, but for low-income households, access to the internet…22 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 22 May.22 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsI, too, welcome the hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) back to the House and wish him well in his duties. I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks. The…22 May 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillUnlike with trading standards, many cash-strapped families and young people fall for online scams, because they are on the hunt for bargains on Facebook Marketplace and, to a…30 Apr 2024HANSARD Checks on Goods Entering UKWhy have the Government refused to implement a tonnage-based approach, as the EU does, which would support small and medium-sized importers, particularly in Wellingborough? Not…29 Apr 2024HANSARDDefence SpendingComing from a naval family, it is important to me that Labour is also wanting to reach 2.5%. Our ambition is no less than that of the Government. The Defence Secretary has said…24 Apr 2024HANSARDHospice FundingAs a former hospice fundraiser—it is what I did before I came here —I am grateful to the hon. Members for Hastings and Rye (Sally-Ann Hart) and for Darlington (Peter Gibson) for…22 Apr 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Food Bank Use14. What recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes in the cost of living on levels of food bank use.18 Mar 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Food Bank UseWhile on the campaign trail, I met the Daylight Centre and SERVE Rushden. Both have seen their service users increase in number, even with the extension of the household support…18 Mar 2024