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HANSARDNHS DentistryMy right hon. Friend mentioned levers. One issue facing recruitment in North West Norfolk is the time involved in getting on to the NHS performers list. Newly in post, will she…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryWhat’s your plan?09 Jan 2024HANSARDUkraine: Military AidI welcome the successful conclusion of the RAF’s training of the first cohort of Ukrainian pilots. As they move to learn to fly F-16s, can my right hon. Friend commit that in the…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateIs not the rejection by the BMA of derogation requests made on the basis of patient safety dangerously irresponsible? Rather than Dr Laurenson, co-chairman of the junior doctors…08 Jan 2024HANSARD Coastal Erosion: Suffolk and NorfolkI, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing this important debate and setting out so clearly the case for change. My North West Norfolk…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Sentencing BillAll the offences in clause 2 have a maximum life sentence, so the proposed new power to require offenders to attend sentencing hearings would apply. However, will my right hon.…06 Dec 2023HANSARDRisk and Resilience: Annual StatementI welcome the greater transparency that my right hon. Friend has brought to the threats facing the country. Can he assure me not only that there are robust plans in place to deal…04 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI rise to support the Bill, which will help to make our constituents safer, including by imposing tougher sentences; imposing new measures to fight knife crime, including zombie…28 Nov 2023HANSARDDeath by Dangerous Driving: Sentencing13. If he will make an assessment of the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines on causing death by dangerous driving on the length of sentences.21 Nov 2023HANSARDDeath by Dangerous Driving: SentencingI welcome my hon. Friend to his position. It is over a year since Parliament legislated to increase the maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving to life imprisonment.…21 Nov 2023HANSARDDangerous Driving: Unduly Lenient Sentence SchemeI completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. We are all familiar with the annual Christmas drink-driving campaigns and other campaigns throughout the year, and I think Norfolk…07 Nov 2023HANSARDDangerous Driving: Unduly Lenient Sentence SchemeOn the evening of 15 January this year, Paul Carter, his wife Lisa, and Jade Mace—Lisa’s daughter from her first marriage—were killed when Aurelijus Cielevicius crashed his car…07 Nov 2023HANSARDDangerous Driving: Unduly Lenient Sentence SchemeWe increased the maximum sentence for this crime to life imprisonment precisely to try to address those concerns. I now want to come to whether the system is actually working, in…07 Nov 2023HANSARDTransport Projects: East of EnglandI warmly welcome the commitment to upgrade Ely junction, which will boost passenger services to King’s Lynn in my constituency, as well as freight. I am sure my hon. Friend will…26 Oct 2023HANSARDTransport Projects: East of England3. What plans he has to support transport projects in the east of England.26 Oct 2023HANSARD PrisonsI think the Minister said that offenders sentenced to over a year would be considered for deportation. Is it the case that there is a duty to remove those offenders and that that…24 Oct 2023HANSARDCombined Sewer OverflowsDespite all we have heard from Labour, is it not the reality that in Government Labour did absolutely nothing on this issue, with no monitoring in place, and that it is this…13 Sept 2023HANSARDSafety of School BuildingsI rise to speak in this debate because I suspect I have mentioned RAAC on the Floor of the House more times than most since I was elected. Indeed, I have been banging on about…06 Sept 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration UpdateI welcome the progress in processing applications. Will my right hon. Friend commit that the extra resources will be maintained and the focus on productivity improved to deal with…05 Sept 2023HANSARDContest: UK Strategy for Countering Terrorism 2023Technology brings huge benefits, but it is also exploited by terrorists. Is my right hon. and learned Friend confident that the updated strategy will ensure that technology…19 Jul 2023