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HANSARDHuman Trafficking and Modern SlaveryIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) on bringing forward this important debate and…29 Mar 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury). There are many things in my right hon. Friend the Chancellor’s Budget that I welcome, but I…15 Mar 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationMy hon. Friend makes a good point, and I applaud him for bringing that up in the middle of what I have just been saying on these issues. What have we done so far with these taxes?…15 Mar 2023HANSARDSuicide Prevention and the National CurriculumI thank the hon. Member for giving way, and my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) for bringing forward this very important debate. As my hon. Friend the Member…13 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Wellbeing Services: East of EnglandOn that point, I would like to bring up Clacton. We have a new community diagnostic centre, which is absolutely brilliant. I thank the Minister for that, but there was supposed to…01 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Wellbeing Services: East of EnglandThis morning I met Paul Scott, the CEO of EPUT. He assured me that, even though it is has been cumbersome and there have been problems with staff reporting back and so forth, the…01 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Wellbeing Services: East of EnglandDoes the hon. Gentleman not appreciate that it would be far better to have a 5% wage rise when inflation is down at 2%, which would make the rise much more effective? One of the…01 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Wellbeing Services: East of EnglandDoes my right hon. Friend agree that since we have been devolving powers and money to local integrated care systems, centralised NHS England appears deeply inefficient in many…01 Mar 2023HANSARDHealth and Wellbeing Services: East of EnglandA moment back, the hon. Lady mentioned inadequate GP services and how some GP services fail, but is it not the job of us MPs to get involved? There were failing GP services in…01 Mar 2023HANSARDTrade Envoy for the Commonwealth9. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a trade envoy for the Commonwealth.09 Feb 2023HANSARDTrade Envoy for the CommonwealthAs chairman of the 1922 committee’s Back-Bench foreign affairs policy committee, I recently shared our report with ministerial colleagues. One of its recommendations was the…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Levelling-up Fund Round 2: Bidding ProcessIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Anne McLaughlin) for securing the debate. I support the…07 Feb 2023HANSARDLevelling-up Missions: East of EnglandDoes my hon. Friend agree that some coastal regions around the country suffer from pockets of deprivation that are unrecognised because the central hinterland looks wealthy?31 Jan 2023HANSARDLevelling-up Missions: East of EnglandDoes my right hon. Friend not believe that the investment in Haughley and Ely is relatively low? We are not asking for a lot of money. It would unblock the blockage; it would take…31 Jan 2023HANSARDLevelling-up Missions: East of EnglandIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing this great debate. He is…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-KarabakhIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) for bringing this incredibly…24 Jan 2023HANSARD BBC Local RadioI appreciate the sentiment about independence, and the point about commercial pressures being removed by the licence fee being part of the BBC’s set-up. Most importantly, I would…17 Jan 2023HANSARD BBC Local RadioI take my hon. Friend’s point absolutely. BBC local radio is a training ground for our national reporters, as in the old days repertory theatre was for the likes of me. The loss…17 Jan 2023HANSARD BBC Local RadioIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I have an interest to declare as I worked for the BBC for many years and am occasionally in receipt of very small…17 Jan 2023HANSARD British Council Contractors in AfghanistanIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship today, Ms McVey. I very much welcome the debate that my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron) has secured,…11 Jan 2023