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HANSARD Dualling of the A21I thank the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Dr Mullan) for securing this important debate about improving the A21. This is an issue that we work on together and with…14 Apr 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Queensway Gateway Road works were a shambles from start to finish. They were meant to last weeks, but dragged on for almost a year, causing gridlock and losing local…19 Mar 2026HANSARD Student LoansI must declare an interest as someone in the first year group to have a plan 2 student loan under the broken system introduced by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats that…18 Mar 2026HANSARD Student LoansThe right hon. Lady talks about making the system fair. Will she comment on what her party did in government? The Conservatives abolished the maintenance grant, which means that…18 Mar 2026HANSARDUse of Biobeads in Wastewater TreatmentI present this petition on behalf of the 9,915 people who have supported my campaign calling on the water companies to end the use of plastic beads in wastewater treatment. A few…18 Mar 2026HANSARD Student LoansThe Opposition talk about amnesia. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is they who have collective amnesia about the system they created? My generation certainly do not have amnesia…18 Mar 2026HANSARD GP ContractIt has been really hard to get a GP appointment in Hastings and Rye, so I welcome the bold action that this Government are taking to tackle that 8 am scramble to get a GP…16 Mar 2026HANSARDExtreme Climate and Weather Events: National ResilienceMy hon. Friend and I worked together on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee to push for the inquiry on extreme weather events to which her debate refers. The fire…10 Mar 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseWe have a pothole epidemic in Hastings, Rye and the villages. After years of the Conservatives slashing council budgets, this Labour Government have given Conservative-run East…26 Feb 2026HANSARD Bayeux Tapestry ExhibitionI thank the Minister for his commitment to helping the children of Hastings to get to see this exhibition. Does he recognise that schools that are not as well off need help…25 Feb 2026HANSARD Bayeux Tapestry ExhibitionI thank my hon. Friend. Indeed, we have many replicas of the tapestry. There is the one he mentioned in Reading museum. There is also one that Hastings borough council has in…25 Feb 2026HANSARD Bayeux Tapestry ExhibitionThe hon. Member is right that schoolchildren must be able to access the exhibition. They should not be put off by the price of a ticket to the exhibition or a train ticket—or even…25 Feb 2026HANSARD Bayeux Tapestry ExhibitionNo other work of art is as entwined with our island’s story as the Bayeux tapestry, which quite literally wove my constituency of Hastings, Rye and the villages into our national…25 Feb 2026HANSARDRussian Influence on UK Politics and DemocracyI want to raise a case in Hastings, where £150,000 of levelling-up money was given to Lubov Chernukhin, the Conservatives’ biggest female donor, who is married to a former Finance…09 Feb 2026HANSARDKey Stage 1 CurriculumI thank the hon. Member for highlighting the importance of access to play. Something that many children and parents have raised with me in Hastings and Rye is how many playgrounds…26 Jan 2026HANSARDWater White PaperThose of us in this House who sit on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and grilled the water bosses know all too well how broken this industry is, so I welcome the…21 Jan 2026HANSARDLocal Elections: CancellationMany of my constituents do not understand why we have an inefficient, duplicative, confusing system of two-tier councils at the moment. They are looking forward to this process…19 Jan 2026HANSARDEngagementsThe people I represent are fed up with Southern Water, when it comes to everything from sewage and broken pipes to water outages, even on Christmas day. In November, millions of…14 Jan 2026HANSARDStorm GorettiThe Minister will be aware that in a number of places in Sussex and Kent—including in your Sussex Weald constituency, Madam Deputy Speaker—people are still without water as a…13 Jan 2026HANSARDNew HomesWhen we are building the new homes that we desperately need, it is important that we think about playgrounds and access to play. I have just audited all the playgrounds in…12 Jan 2026