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HANSARD Roadworks: Journey TimesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Lewis Cocking) on securing this important debate. The…30 Oct 2024HANSARDDraft Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. Although the draft regulations may be touted as innovative legislation, I am sure the Minister will be the first to…29 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsCountryside Alliance research shows that rural households spend up to £800 a year more on fuel than urban households, so further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for…29 Oct 2024HANSARD Israel: UNRWA BanFurther to the very serious point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) about UNRWA staff’s involvement in the evil attack on 7 October, terror…29 Oct 2024HANSARDDraft Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes (Amendment) Order 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I draw the Committee’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The draft order, as…29 Oct 2024HANSARD Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesWith more and more children requiring SEND provision, the scale of the challenge is undoubtedly large. The previous Conservative Government did offer a beacon of hope for children…24 Oct 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseYesterday I was pleased to welcome the wonderful Dawn Dines and the Stamp Out Spiking charity to Parliament to showcase their awareness campaign that launches next Monday. Spiking…24 Oct 2024HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationFurther to the answer the Minister gave a few moments ago, UNRWA supplies were found in the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s underground hideout. As my hon. Friend the Member for…22 Oct 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Energy Projects and Food SecurityMid Buckinghamshire.22 Oct 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Energy Projects and Food SecurityIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. In following the hon. Member for York Outer (Mr Charters), I will start by putting the other side of the argument that…22 Oct 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Energy Projects and Food SecurityI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention and congratulate her on squeezing her speech into it. I would argue that, yes, a balanced approach is right and important, but…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRecognition of Positive Impact5. What steps the Church is taking to recognise the positive impact of individual members of the clergy in the communities they serve.17 Oct 2024HANSARD Government’s Childcare ExpansionI am incredibly proud of the previous Government’s massive expansion of the childcare offer, and I am genuinely pleased that the new Government are carrying on with it. When it…17 Oct 2024HANSARDRecognition of Positive ImpactI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that answer. I am full of praise for the hard work and dedication of all our clergy, but sometimes an individual goes above and beyond. That is…17 Oct 2024HANSARDSteel IndustryI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Immingham set out, the last Conservative Government took many concrete steps to…16 Oct 2024HANSARDSteel IndustryI am not quite a Minister yet, but I will give way.16 Oct 2024HANSARD Driving Test AvailabilitySir Roger, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today and I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Bracknell (Peter Swallow) on securing this important debate. Like…16 Oct 2024HANSARD Driving Test AvailabilityI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. As I stressed, the pandemic blew a hole—it did so in virtually every walk of life—in the availability of driving tests. We got a…16 Oct 2024HANSARDSteel IndustryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I thank and congratulate the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice) for securing this debate in…16 Oct 2024HANSARDSteel IndustryThe Minister just said that she will review the options. I hope this is a binary yes/no question: is there a ministerial direction in the upcoming steel strategy to include a…16 Oct 2024