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HANSARD Kinship Care StrategyIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Alistair Strathern) for leading this important debate. It is…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Digital ExclusionIt is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I thank my good and hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders) for securing this important…28 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.30 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, said at the weekend that more than 2 million people in Gaza were facing “inevitable famine”. Now that…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. I recently met headteachers in West Derby, who shared with me their serious concerns that the current Ofsted inspection model is not fit for purpose, is deeply unfair and is…29 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. NHS staff have expressed concerns about the Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024. Can the Minister tell me if resource will be needed for AAs and PAs to…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.22 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe household support fund has supported 330,000 households in Liverpool since its introduction. The focus needs to shift from crisis support to prevention but in the short term…22 Jan 2024HANSARDPublic Sector Pay 2024-25It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Sir Robert. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Beth Winter) for securing this important debate, and for her…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDI totally agree. Contact calculates that more than 164,000 disabled children are unable to access their free school meals despite meeting the Government’s eligibility…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDI beg to move, That this House has considered access to free school meals for children with special educational needs and disabilities. It is an honour to serve under your…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDAbsolutely, and I will cover that in my speech. Contact has found that 85% of families missing out on their free school meals entitlement reported that this has hugely increased…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDI totally agree. Sadiq Khan and his team in London deserve a huge amount of credit for extending the scheme to the second year. Hopefully that can be replicated soon across the…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDI thank my hon. Friend for that point, with which I absolutely agree and which I will cover later in my questions to the Minister. We know that support can be given. It is…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDI thank the Minister and everybody else for speaking in the debate. As was mentioned, it was over-subscribed, which will be a comfort to all the campaigners and to Contact itself.…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillIt has been a privilege to sit here for five hours and listen to all the passionate contributions from all parts of the House, with a pretty unanimous view. First, I thank Cath…11 Dec 2023HANSARDHillsborough: Bishop James Jones ReportI thank the Lord Chancellor for his statement today and for the empathy and decency he has shown on the subject of Hillsborough. I also thank him for his words about football…06 Dec 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsIn his autumn statement last week, the Chancellor announced plans to compel people living with long-term physical and mental health conditions and disabilities to find work, and…27 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeIt is with great sadness and frustration that I must speak again in this House about the failure of the Government to uphold the responsibilities that they have to the 97 people…15 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe call for a ceasefire is backed by multiple United Nations agencies, 700 NGOs, Pope Francis, more than 250 British lawyers, the 120 countries that voted in favour of a UN…14 Nov 2023