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HANSARDBudget 2024: UnemploymentI recognise what was behind the increase in the national minimum wage for 18 to 21-year-olds, but I have been surprised by the reaction of businesses in my constituency. Those…16 Dec 2024HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]The Secretary of State says there was the highest level of spills on record. How does he know? When Labour was in power previously, only 7% of sewage outlets were even monitored.16 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaThat is the kind of intervention that I find constructive and helpful, and I am very grateful to the hon. Member for making it. She is, of course, quite right. We disagree on many…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaThe hon. Member is absolutely right. The school is not the only answer, but it is part of the answer. Part of how it will encourage graduands and then graduates to be sticky—to…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. There is a difference between milk teeth and grown-up teeth, as I will call them, although I know that is not the technical term.…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaThe hon. Member is absolutely right. This is not about one organisation over another; there has to be a collaborative approach. We have plenty of dental need to go round, I am…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Rail Services: DevonIt is a pleasure to see you in your position, Mr Pritchard. You remain an ornament of the Bench. I congratulate the hon. Member for Exeter (Steve Race) on securing the debate. I…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaI am shocked to hear that. An example of that in my constituency was reported to me, but that was in the height of the covid lockdowns; I have not heard an example since then.…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaI accept the hon. Gentleman’s argument, but I do not think that it is particularly helpful. We are trying to work out what the solution is now and going forward. A huge amount of…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaI will take an intervention from my other constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Norwich North (Alice Macdonald).11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaMy answer is yes and no. Over the past 18 months to two years in Norfolk and Waveney, a lot of money has been spent on increasing access to emergency dentistry. Although I…11 Dec 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ3. Mr Speaker,“losing a farm is not like losing any other business—it can’t come back.” Those are the words of the Prime Minister, which he said to the National Farmers Union in…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaI beg to move, That this House has considered dental healthcare provision in East Anglia. It is lovely to see you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I am grateful to colleagues from East…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Dental Healthcare: East AngliaThis debate is about the east of England, not the east of Northern Ireland, but I will take the hon. Gentleman’s intervention anyway. He is right that we learn our oral hygiene…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Rural Cycling InfrastructureIt is lovely to see you in the Chair, Ms Vaz, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Henley and Thame (Freddie van Mierlo) on securing the debate. We have heard from many of the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am particularly concerned about the Secretary of State or Minister having the power to reduce the number from 200 back to 100 by regulation. That is addressed by amendment 25.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillClause 2(2)(c), defining the premises that will be covered by the legislation, states: “it is reasonable to expect that from time to time 200 or more individuals may be present”.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI have already mentioned that I am a church warden of a small parish church, so I have practical experience. I also have other duties—I am the safeguarding officer, because there…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMention has been made during the course of this debate of cross-party consensus and what a good thing that is. In some senses that is absolutely right. We should have absolute…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s intervention, and I am reassured by his comments. In a previous life, I was a barrister specialising in health and safety risk and risk…09 Dec 2024