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HANSARD Business of the HouseResidents in Maltby are furious about new plans for the old Maltby pit. I am joining them to campaign ferociously against the plans, because the environmental risk is too great…19 Dec 2024HANSARDFireworks: Sale and UseI held a public meeting in my constituency of Rother Valley and we discussed a lot of the regulations that my hon. Friend and others have mentioned in this debate. However, does…09 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsThat point has been made over and over again in interventions, and the Health Secretary has been very clear that funding allocations for primary care services and other services…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsThe new intake of youngish—I use that description carefully—Members on this side of the House might be forgiven for having shorter memories than other, more long-suffering…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Children of PrisonersI praise the right hon. Gentleman for securing this Westminster Hall debate and raising this issue so powerfully. He is right about the focus on young people, which has to be part…04 Dec 2024HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI welcome the contributions to this debate from all sides of the House. This is Parliament at its best. I support the Bill and am proud to co-sponsor it. We have all received…29 Nov 2024HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy right hon. Friend makes her case powerfully. Can I ask her to comment on the current situation whereby people ask themselves the question she just asked today? What safeguards…29 Nov 2024HANSARD Online Safety: Children and Young PeopleI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Lola McEvoy) on securing this debate. Her daughter was born just a few months before mine, when we were both mere…26 Nov 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in PolicingEarlier this month I held a community meeting in Dinnington about the regeneration project on the high street. It was well attended, and people are optimistic, but they are also…25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Two brave women from Maltby came to my most recent surgery. Each told me about the horrific physical and emotional abuse that they had suffered at the hands of their…25 Nov 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Policing10. What steps her Department is taking to increase public trust and confidence in policing.25 Nov 2024HANSARDChildren’s Social CareIt is brilliant to see a Secretary of State take this issue so seriously and get a grip on it so early on in her time in government. Figures published last week show that the…18 Nov 2024HANSARDEducation and Training for PrisonersI join the right hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Holden) in calling for the Government to consider the children of prisoners. I met the children’s Minister, my hon.…05 Nov 2024HANSARDIncome tax (charge)My right hon. Friend has mentioned the policies, or lack thereof, that have come out of the Tory leadership contest. Unfortunately, I spent an evening watching the GB News debate…31 Oct 2024HANSARDBusiness of the HouseLast week, I had the privilege of visiting Wales primary school in my constituency and meeting its year 6 class, who are making sure that their school is an eco-school. They are…31 Oct 2024HANSARDPolice AccountabilityThe balance between ensuring that our police have the powers and tools they need to keep our streets safe and ensuring that they are not above the law is a delicate one. In that…23 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityIn June 2019, David Gauke made a speech as Lord Chancellor on smarter sentencing. It was a helpful, coherent, cogent, evidence-based speech about sentencing reform. Four…22 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ14. Children’s social care in this country is now in crisis. Vulnerable children are regularly placed hundreds of miles from home, often in unregulated and unsafe accommodation.…16 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy hon. Friend makes a key point. Does he agree that when we have children in the Public Gallery, or when children from our constituencies visit, it is simply impossible to defend…15 Oct 2024HANSARDRoad SafetyLast week, I met South Yorkshire police to raise the issue of speeding and in particular the phenomenon of boy racers, which is a problem across my constituency, particularly in…10 Oct 2024