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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (First sitting)I want to briefly address the implication or inference that my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley, who is leading the Bill, has not produced an incredibly balanced set of…21 Jan 2025HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesThe hon. Gentleman says, “Here we go”, but it is absolutely relevant to this debate. Yes, the Conservative Government passed the Banner report—well done. That is the big…26 Nov 2024HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesI will speak briefly because I know that many of my colleagues also wish to speak. I echo the comments made by the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin).…26 Nov 2024HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesWill the hon. Member give way? That is an important point.26 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. When I met the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom, General Zaluzhnyi, last month he raised the importance of ensuring that Ukrainian children and young people who have…26 Nov 2024HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesThe hon. Gentleman has just made a case for why we must crack on, and stop dithering and delaying. There is a history of doing bad things slowly, and that should never be…26 Nov 2024HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesI will finish my point because it is directly related to the hon. Gentleman’s constituency of Central Suffolk. We already have pylons running through that part of the world. We…26 Nov 2024HANSARDElectricity Grid UpgradesIt is not horror at all; it is infrastructure that people desperately rely on. The right hon. Gentleman might want to live in a fantasy in which costs do not matter and there are…26 Nov 2024HANSARDCovid-19 Fraud3. What discussions she has had with the Crown Prosecution Service on ensuring the effective prosecution of covid-19 related fraud.14 Nov 2024HANSARDCovid-19 FraudIn 2021, the previous Health Secretary said in relation to covid-19 contracts that “where a contract is not delivered against, we do not intend to pay taxpayers’ money”. —[…14 Nov 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis Budget was about rebuilding Britain after 14 years of incompetence, negligence and chaos. Conservative Members—all four of them who are left in the Chamber today—cannot even…06 Nov 2024HANSARDReducing ReoffendingIt was a former Prisons Minister who identified that short custodial sentences have a higher reoffending rate than sentences served outside prison. Does the Minister agree that we…05 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Earlier this year, it was reported that over 1,000 cases at Ipswich Crown court are outstanding. At the last count, each case was taking an average of 249 days to be dealt…05 Nov 2024HANSARDReducing Reoffending13. What steps her Department is taking to help reduce reoffending.05 Nov 2024HANSARD Secondary Ticketing MarketIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Rosindell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cramlington and Killingworth (Emma Foody) for securing such an important…24 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. I agree with the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson). Despite the previous Government’s promises to reform funding settlements, as usual they failed to…21 Oct 2024HANSARDMental Health SupportIt is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Sojan Joseph) for securing this important debate on World Mental Health…10 Oct 2024HANSARD SEND Provision: East of EnglandMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The statistics I am reading just scratch the surface. We know there are many more families who have had to make the difficult decision to…08 Oct 2024HANSARD SEND Provision: East of EnglandI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft (Jess Asato) for securing this important debate on a subject close to my heart. Although the SEND crisis is a national issue, the…08 Oct 2024HANSARD SEND Provision: East of EnglandI am coming to an end. Those families expect Government to work with local authorities, particularly those such as Suffolk county council, to put that into place. It falls to us…08 Oct 2024