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HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeThat is a really good point. Many people think that this must be an issue that affects our seas and our national parks, but it goes to every community. For those who live in an…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeThat is exactly what this debate is about: MPs who care about the places they represent standing up for what is right, instead of making excuses for 13 failed years in government.…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeI will give way to the hon. Gentleman, as he has been persistent.25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeI am going to make some progress. The Government will blame everybody: the Victorians, devolved Administrations, home drainage, housebuilders, people flushing items down the loo.…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeThank you, Mr Speaker. The hon. Lady will know that her own constituency has had nearly 2,000 sewage dumps. If she wants to defend that record to her constituents, then so be…25 Apr 2023HANSARDWater Quality: Sewage DischargeI am not one to offer advice to those on the Government Benches, but I will just say this to eager Back Benchers bobbing for their Whips: they might want to check their…25 Apr 2023HANSARDTeesside Sea LifeWill she meet with them?30 Mar 2023HANSARDTeesside Sea LifeI sat with fishers a few weeks ago, alongside my hon. Friends the Members for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) and for Middlesbrough (Andy McDonald), to hear about the impact that…30 Mar 2023HANSARDSewage DischargeThe Tory sewage scandal is a national disgrace. The waters that run through our communities, the seas that millions look out to, and the quality of life and livelihoods have been…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Food Price InflationI thank the Minister of State for his response, but this is a cost of living crisis driven in large part by the cost of food, so where is the Secretary of State? She seems to…23 Mar 2023HANSARD Food Price InflationWe need 90,000.23 Mar 2023HANSARD Food Price Inflation(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on food price inflation.23 Mar 2023HANSARDManchester Arena Inquiry: Volume 3 ReportI wish to thank Mr Speaker for allowing me to speak as a constituency MP from the Back Benches today. The Manchester Arena attack led to the devastating loss of 22 innocent lives,…06 Mar 2023HANSARDFood CostsFarmers from across the country met in Birmingham this week—the right hon. Gentleman and I sat on the same table for dinner—at an unprecedented time, with pressures seemingly…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFood CostsI am very happy for the Farming Minister to apologise on the Secretary of State’s behalf for her outrageous display at the NFU conference in Birmingham yesterday. Will he use this…23 Feb 2023HANSARD UK Food ShortagesThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. You will have seen coverage of this issue all over the front pages of the papers and all over the TV, because there is…23 Feb 2023HANSARD UK Food Shortages(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on UK food shortages.23 Feb 2023HANSARDSewage Discharges: East DevonThe Environment Secretary first said that it was not a priority to meet water bosses, and then she said that it was and that she really did care—or words to that effect. She then…23 Feb 2023HANSARDSewage Discharges: East DevonOh my God. I have confidence in the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow), who is doing a good job in…23 Feb 2023HANSARDFood CostsWe are going to have the urgent question on food security a bit later, so I will not labour that at this point. I also thank you for granting the UQ, Mr Speaker. Will the Minister…23 Feb 2023