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HANSARDMental Health Provision (Children and Young People) BillIs there not a degree of conflict between the need to ensure that support is put in nationally, wherever the need is, and the real desire to have localism, so that local spending…18 Mar 2022HANSARD British Sign Language BillI agree with my hon. Friend. The large scope of Departments affected by the Bill—all 20 named in the schedule—shows that its intention, and I hope effect, is to provide the…18 Mar 2022HANSARDMental Health Provision (Children and Young People) BillThe hon. Lady will recall from a conversation that the two of us had the importance and effectiveness of counselling in the school environment for nipping potential mental health…18 Mar 2022HANSARD British Sign Language BillIt is a great pleasure to speak in this debate. I too wish to pay tribute to the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper). It is great to sit in this Chamber and learn about…18 Mar 2022HANSARD Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesThe hon. Member for Coventry North West (Taiwo Owatemi) stated that the report of the independent commission was received with outrage because it failed to find structural racism.…17 Mar 2022HANSARDScottish Island CommunitiesThe best support that any Government can give to an island community is access to a reliable and frequent ferry service. On that, the SNP has failed miserably and has managed to…16 Mar 2022HANSARDScottish Island Communities7. What steps his Department is taking to support Scottish island communities.16 Mar 2022HANSARDLegal AidSir Christopher Bellamy’s review of criminal legal aid was based on two overriding principles: that remuneration of criminal lawyers should be such as to attract the right legal…15 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe hon. Gentleman is asserting that the poorest will be worst hit by this, but Treasury analysis of the impact of tax and spending decisions on households in ’22-23 in cash terms…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Even if we recovered all of that £3.3 billion, that would be for a single year only. The great mistake that the Opposition have made is to…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseThe hon. Member made a number of interventions on the Minister, and I refer him to the full responses that were given. The question that I take from that is: how we will pay for…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseI am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. I suggest that a very good use of public money was emergency funding for PPE when we most desperately needed it in a…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions IncreaseWhen we discuss whether we should have the national insurance contribution rise, we ought to look at what we intend to use the money for, because, after all, as my hon. Friend the…08 Mar 2022HANSARDPublic Procurement18. What steps the Government are taking to increase opportunities for small businesses to bid for Government contracts.24 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic ProcurementGovernment tender documents are full of ancillary requirements that have laudable objectives individually but collectively form an enormous barrier to the participation of small…24 Feb 2022HANSARDLiving with Covid-19The data has proven that Labour and the naysayers were wrong about omicron. How important was the decision not to lock down at Christmas, building resilience in our communities…21 Feb 2022HANSARDRussia Sanctions LegislationIt seems to me that for the first time in my adult life, it is our values—the values of this country and the values of the west—that are being challenged in a meaningful way in…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAccess to NHS DentistryIt also has a good golf course—I thank my hon. Friend and neighbour. It is genuinely a really gorgeous town, so why is it that it cannot attract anyone to take on the NHS…10 Feb 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Government agree that an offshore transmission network is the best way to connect offshore wind to the national grid, but under current plans, an OTN will not be in place…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAccess to NHS DentistryIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I, too, want to give my congratulations to the hon. Member for Bradford South (Judith Cummins) as well as my hon. Friend the Member for…10 Feb 2022