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HANSARD Car Insurance Industry: FraudI am aware, because I was once hit by an uninsured driver. It is incredibly stressful not knowing how to get the car fixed and whether it is going to be written off. I was very…22 Apr 2026HANSARD Car Insurance Industry: FraudI thank all hon. Members who have contributed to this really interesting debate. The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), as always, gave us a perspective on Northern Ireland…22 Apr 2026HANSARDMaternity CommissionerIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I thank the hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Tony Vaughan) for his excellent opening speech. I declare…20 Apr 2026HANSARDMaternity CommissionerMy hon. Friend makes a good point. Patient voice—listening to women, understanding their wishes and understanding the risks that their wishes might represent and how to manage…20 Apr 2026HANSARDMaternity CommissionerI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention—he was quick off the mark. Yes, I agree that it will be useful to have a maternity commissioner to share those experiences and ensure…20 Apr 2026HANSARDMaternity CareBaroness Amos’s recent review found that England’s maternity system was not working: poor quality care covered up, systemic issues around racism and even collapsing ceilings in…14 Apr 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsWherever I go in North Shropshire, constituents tell me that access to a GP only gets worse when new homes are built, and they are right. Across the country, there are billions of…14 Apr 2026HANSARDResident Doctors: Industrial ActionPeople across the country will be extremely concerned about the prospect of further strikes, having faced so much disruption already in recent years. It is important to recognise…26 Mar 2026HANSARDNationally Significant Infrastructure Projects: Electric LinesGreen GEN Cymru, which is a sister company of Bute Energy, is in the latter stages of a very controversial process to secure planning consent for power lines for the Vyrnwy…24 Mar 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. In North Shropshire, around 15,000 households, including my own, are reliant on fuels like heating oil or LPG to heat them. These people are also hit hardest by rises at the…24 Mar 2026HANSARD Endometriosis ServicesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I thank the hon. Member for Ipswich (Jack Abbott) for securing this debate—the opportunity to raise the importance of this…24 Mar 2026HANSARDNationally Significant Infrastructure Projects: Electric Lines8. What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the process for implementing nationally significant infrastructure projects in relation to electric lines.24 Mar 2026HANSARDPuberty Blockers Clinical TrialIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for his opening speech, as…23 Mar 2026HANSARDRail Connections to London: Rural TownsThe hon. Lady is my constituency neighbour, and she is making an excellent speech about how wonderful Shropshire is. Also lovely is Oswestry in my constituency, another medieval…23 Mar 2026HANSARDRail Connections to London: Rural TownsOne reason people use their cars instead of the railway is that they cannot access the platform because there are steps and no lift. Does the hon. Member agree that restoring…23 Mar 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy constituents live along what would have been a route for construction traffic for High Speed 2, when it was proposed that it would continue up to Crewe. Because my…19 Mar 2026HANSARDFlooding: Rural CommunitiesThe hon. Member is making an excellent speech and has taken a huge number of interventions, for which I thank her. When it comes to development, flood management strategies are…18 Mar 2026HANSARDRural BroadbandThe roll-out of Project Gigabit in my constituency has been a failure because Freedom Fibre has handed back the contract, with many thousands of properties unconnected, and the…18 Mar 2026HANSARD Rural RoadsWill the hon. Member give way on that point?17 Mar 2026HANSARD Rural RoadsThe hon. Member is making what is generally a good speech about rural funding, so it is a shame that he has made it party political. Does he not understand that the Conservative…17 Mar 2026