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HANSARDMusic Education in SchoolsXYZ Music Academy teaches over 2,000 children across Buckinghamshire on a weekly basis, employing 18 tutors. Its online primary school music curriculum “XYZ Primary” helps primary…23 Oct 2023HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI do agree with the fundamental principle of expanding accessibility and the ability for people to take part in local government, particularly those heroes who are completely…17 Oct 2023HANSARDAccess to GPs: Rural Communities8. What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of access to GPs in rural communities.17 Oct 2023HANSARDAccess to GPs: Rural CommunitiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that answer, but I have repeatedly raised with Ministers the specific case of an innovative model from Long Crendon Parish Council to use land…17 Oct 2023HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillIt is always a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), who as ever spoke with sense and clarity. I have been heavily involved with this…17 Oct 2023HANSARD Prison CapacityThere was a great deal to be welcomed in my right hon. and learned Friend’s statement, but can I unpack the capacity question? When he is successful in deporting more foreign…16 Oct 2023HANSARDEarly Years ChildcareI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr Walker) on securing this important debate. At the outset, I should declare that two of my three children are below…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), synthetic fuels—by that, I mean genuinely synthetic fuels made from green hydrogen and…16 Oct 2023HANSARDZero-emission Vehicles, Drivers and HS2After I have spent years arguing that HS2 was wasteful and too destructive and that we could not afford it, the Government have finally agreed with me and scrapped the line north…16 Oct 2023HANSARD West Coast Main Line FranchiseWhile I appreciate the points that the rail replacement Minister makes about recent improvements in Avanti, does my right hon. Friend accept that the failures of Avanti in recent…19 Sept 2023HANSARDSchool Building ClosuresMy right hon. Friend has been absolutely right to act decisively to put the safety of children first. As the list of affected schools has grown today, what reassurances can she…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2Even when this project had arms and legs and eyebrows going across the whole country, it was always accepted that the business case was very weak and that, as a nation, we cannot…18 Sept 2023HANSARDPrison Staff Vacancies: England and WalesI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that answer, but the damning report into HMP Woodhill, just adjacent to my constituency, was clear that staff shortages were a huge…12 Sept 2023HANSARDPrison Staff Vacancies: England and Wales13. How many staff vacancies there are in prisons in England and Wales.12 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (Fifth sitting)I draw the Committee’s attention, as I did in the evidence sessions, to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I will not take up too much of the Committee’s…12 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (Third sitting)Before we begin, may I say for the sake of transparency—I do not think that this is a fully declarable interest—that Steven Barrett is known to me as a councillor in…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ6. I was delighted when the Prime Minister said last year that, on his watch, we would “not lose swathes” of farmland to solar applications, instead rightly arguing for solar to…06 Sept 2023HANSARDHS2: CostHS2’s costs have ballooned since it was first conceived under the last Labour Government. As my right hon. Friend has said, owing to pressure from the Treasury the project has had…05 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (First sitting)As per my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, I have been on a trip to Israel funded by Conservative Friends of Israel, and James Gurd is personally known to me.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education SettingsIn the face of changing evidence, the cautious approach is clearly the right one, but, as has been acknowledged, that leads many pupils, including some at Waddesdon School in my…04 Sept 2023