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HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesThe hon. Lady is speaking with extraordinary power on this issue. Does she agree that even if a child is fortunate enough to get through this, it can still leave a mark on them…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Online Safety BillThe issues of evolving technology and holding people to account are hugely important. May I make the general point that digital education could underpin all those safeguards? The…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesI beg to move, That this House has considered potential improvements to child maintenance services. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I am very grateful…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesMy hon. Friend makes some very valid points indeed. Perhaps I should also pay tribute to the staff in my own office, and in the offices of all other MPs, who do fantastic,…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesI thank the hon. Member for her intervention. I think I can safely speak for all members of the APPG in saying that we would endorse what has just been said and we would gladly…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesI am very glad that the hon. Member has made a point of drawing a line between the best efforts of the CMS staff, and the system. I want to place it on the record that my own…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesI may have missed something here. Can I assume that the Minister and the Minister in the other place either have or will meet the organisations I mentioned?17 Jan 2023HANSARD Child Maintenance ServicesIt is clear to all of us that the Minister has gone into this in some detail and has been thorough in her approach. I am sure we are all grateful for that. I happen to know her…17 Jan 2023HANSARDInternational Trade LinksMr Speaker, I assume you will be surprised and delighted to learn that last summer a Bollywood biopic was filmed in Caithness in my constituency. That was a lot of dosh being…11 Jan 2023HANSARDLifeboat Services: Search and RescueIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate the hon. Member for Torbay (Kevin Foster) on a characteristically erudite and well-informed…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Sport in Schools and CommunitiesThe Minister is being very generous. I represent the most remote part of the UK mainland, and young people in Wick High School and Thurso High School find it very difficult to…10 Jan 2023HANSARD Sport in Schools and CommunitiesWill the Minister give way on that point?10 Jan 2023HANSARDLifeboat Services: Search and RescueThe hon. Member’s constituency faces mine across the Moray firth, which is named after his constituency, but it really should be named after mine—but that is not the point. In an…10 Jan 2023HANSARDLifeboat Services: Search and RescueI mentioned the East Sutherland Rescue Association. Clearly, my constituency is in a part of the United Kingdom that is far away, which means we can feel a little bit left out,…10 Jan 2023HANSARDChannel 4Happy new year to you, Mr Speaker, and to everybody else. Who can forget the reading of the poem “Stop all the clocks” in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, one of Channel 4’s…09 Jan 2023HANSARDFamily Businesses: Contribution to Local CommunitiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. As a Scot myself, let me say that it is a pleasure to hear a canny Scot—the hon. Member for Carlisle (John…20 Dec 2022HANSARDFamily Businesses: Contribution to Local CommunitiesThat is a very apt point. I was elected to Ross and Cromarty District Council in 1986, which was a long time ago, and I have seen the sort of people who become members change…20 Dec 2022HANSARDFamily Businesses: Contribution to Local CommunitiesThe hon. Member mentions the covid pandemic. It is interesting: during the pandemic, some businesses were really inventive and innovative. For instance, many food outlets offered…20 Dec 2022HANSARD NHS Dentistry: Salford and Ecclesrose—19 Dec 2022HANSARDTrade Barriers: Food and FarmingIf you want to enter into the Christmas spirit, Mr Speaker, I would recommend a dram of Dalmore, Glenmorangie, Balblair, Clynelish or Old Pulteney. It is a widely recognised fact…15 Dec 2022