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HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityIt is a privilege to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) for securing this debate, and I congratulate her on opening…14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityI totally agree with my hon. Friend: the continuation of the PRN scheme alongside the EPR scheme is one consideration. We need to protect local and high street businesses. The…14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityWill the hon. Member give way?14 May 2025HANSARD Glass Packaging: Extended Producer ResponsibilityBusinesses really need to know what that rate will be as soon as possible. The financial year has already started, they have very little headroom in their cash flows and they need…14 May 2025HANSARDFlooding: Planning and Developer ResponsibilitiesIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mrs Hobhouse. I commend the hon. Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) for his excellent speech. I have several points to make in the…13 May 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI was concerned to read reports in the newspaper earlier this week that train stations will not be allowed to have step-free access if they have fewer than 1,000 passengers a day…08 May 2025HANSARD Brain Tumours: Research and TreatmentHow well will that work be co-ordinated if it is done on a local, sporadic basis, and how will the repurposing of drugs be co-ordinated centrally if NHS England is no longer…08 May 2025HANSARD Brain Tumours: Research and TreatmentI thank the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) and my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Charlie Maynard) for bringing forward this debate. It has been a…08 May 2025HANSARD Trade NegotiationsI welcome the Minister’s clarification on chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef, but will there be protections in place for egg products? Hens raised in battery cages…08 May 2025HANSARDMaternity Improvement StrategyToo many families in Shropshire have suffered the agonising loss of a baby following the scandal at Shrewsbury and Telford hospital NHS trust. The Care Quality Commission rates…06 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn his statement to the House just after Christmas, the Secretary of State acknowledged that cross-party consensus is essential to delivering meaningful social care reform. The…06 May 2025HANSARDGender Incongruence: Puberty Suppressing HormonesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. For too long, children and young people who are struggling with their gender identity have been badly let down by low…30 Apr 2025HANSARDGender Incongruence: Puberty Suppressing HormonesI have met with Dr Cass. We have considered the Cass review, and we are in support of the clinical trial that she has recommended. That is why I am asking the Minister to clarify…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLocal Authority Procurement: Economic GrowthMy constituency is a food production powerhouse, and I welcome any steps by the Government to encourage local authorities to procure British-produced food. Local authorities are…24 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsI beg to move, That this House regrets the appalling state of repair of NHS hospitals across the country; notes that the NHS maintenance backlog rose to £13.8 billion in 2023-24;…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsI will make some progress. One of the main reasons those problems have not been rectified is successive delays from successive Governments. Shropshire is, again, a prime example.…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsThe hon. Member will be aware that there were not 40 new hospitals—they were not all hospitals and there were not 40 of them. The issue here is that the start dates for work on…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsIt is important to recognise that the additional investment in the NHS amounts to about £10 billion a year—according to Office for Budget Responsibility numbers, which I am sure…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsThe hon. Gentleman will be aware that, when one comes into government and has to clean up the mess left behind by the previous Government, one has to make difficult choices. It is…23 Apr 2025HANSARDHospitalsI will make some progress. At North Devon district hospital, the ducting of the ventilation system that serves the operating theatres has not been changed since it was installed…23 Apr 2025