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HANSARD Adoption and Special Guardianship Support FundOn Friday in my surgery, a constituent came to talk to me about her eight-year-old adopted son who was born withdrawing from the drugs that his birth mother took during pregnancy…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Scunthorpe SteelworksThe news from Scunthorpe is deeply concerning. Jobs are at risk and our thoughts are with all those who now face uncertainty. The world is becoming more dangerous and we need to…27 Mar 2025HANSARDAviation Sector: SupportIf it is tough decisions the Minister wants, I invite him to look at what happened in the Budget of broken promises. Air passenger duty went up significantly. For example, a…27 Mar 2025HANSARDAviation Sector: SupportI add my birthday wishes to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). Significantly muddled messages are being sent to the aviation sector. On the one hand, the Climate Change…27 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillThe point the Minister makes is one that certainly in Buckinghamshire I would challenge. I do not think any Labour Members were there, but there was a good cross-party meeting a…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Barking (Nesil Caliskan) in what is a critical and important debate that will affect my constituency in Mid Buckinghamshire very…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillBefore I give way to the hon. Gentleman, I just want to say that we in Buckinghamshire feel that we have probably already done our bit with a new town, as it is now a…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. Milton Keynes is very close to me. I visit Milton Keynes all the time. I have many friends in Milton Keynes. It is a…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillI totally agree with my hon. Friend. The point she makes is absolutely right and it applies equally to my constituency as to hers. In my constituency, the backbone of our economy…24 Mar 2025HANSARD Shipyards: Economic GrowthI am grateful for the points that the hon. Lady makes. The point from my earlier comment still stands—I was the shadow Minister over the summer; I survived my party’s…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Shipyards: Economic GrowthIt is a debate, so by all means.18 Mar 2025HANSARD Shipyards: Economic GrowthI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention, and it is absolutely good news that Harland and Wolff has survived, but throughout the entire summer, not long after the new…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Shipyards: Economic GrowthThat is indeed good news. The Conservative party, as His Majesty’s loyal Opposition, has supported the Government’s increases in defence spending. We moderately disagree on the…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Shipyards: Economic GrowthIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate the hon. Member for Glenrothes and Mid Fife (Richard Baker) on securing this debate on the often…18 Mar 2025HANSARD HS2 Mitigation Projects: InflationI am grateful to the Minister for his comments, but does he accept, as a point of principle, that that was not an arbitrary amount of money offered to the church as a top-up for…14 Mar 2025HANSARD HS2 Mitigation Projects: InflationI am grateful for the opportunity to raise this important issue in the House. I want to focus on the impact that inflation has had on the ability of different institutions to…14 Mar 2025HANSARD HS2 Mitigation Projects: InflationMy hon. Friend and fellow Buckinghamshire Member of Parliament is absolutely right. Day in, day out, we see the impact of thousands of heavy goods vehicle movements having churned…14 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh Street BusinessesWell, that was no answer to my question whatsoever. It is almost as if Labour Members have not realised that they are in charge and that it is their decisions that are having this…13 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh Street BusinessesYesterday, the owner of the hugely popular Rumsey’s, which is celebrating 21 years on Wendover high street in my constituency, emailed me to say: “We estimate the changes coming…13 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy right hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. If we look at the detail of this Bill, it is very clear and obvious that the Government are trying to make it as…12 Mar 2025