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HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI commend the hon. Member for securing this debate. In Northern Ireland, the effect on charities will range from £5,000 per year to £200,000 per year. The costs are extreme and…07 Jan 2025HANSARDNorthern GazaI thank the Minister for his patient answers to everyone in the Chamber. Does he agree that the only way to preserve peace and stability in north Gaza is to ensure the complete…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesWill the hon. Member give way?07 Jan 2025HANSARDWorkplace Pay GapsI thank the Minister for her contribution; she will know that my questions to her will never be adversarial. She has referred to disability action. Has she had an opportunity to…07 Jan 2025HANSARDDrug and Alcohol Addiction: TreatmentI thank the Minister for his answers. While there are community addiction services for those over the age of 18, worryingly, across this great United Kingdom, those under the age…07 Jan 2025HANSARDPolice Funding: CambridgeshireI commend the hon. Gentleman for bringing forward this issue. One of the major issues in the rural countryside that I, he and others represent is the theft of farm machinery,…06 Jan 2025HANSARDFloodingI thank the Minister for her statement and for her clear energy and commitment to trying to make lives better across the United Kingdom. The rain of the last few weeks explains…06 Jan 2025HANSARD NHS BacklogI commend the hon. Lady on bringing forward this debate, and on being so consistent and assiduous on this issue. I understand that she will come on to the Lib Dem manifesto, which…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformIt is good to hear the latest announcements on overhauling the increasingly costly care for older and disabled people, and I very much welcome what the Secretary of State has…06 Jan 2025HANSARDFrozen Russian Assets: UkraineI commend the hon. Gentleman for bringing the debate forward; I was happy to be a signatory to the request for it to the Backbench Business Committee. Does he agree that the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDSupport for VeteransI thank the veterans Minister for his answer. In previous questions in this Chamber I have suggested to the Minister that he might wish to visit Beyond the Battlefield, a charity…06 Jan 2025HANSARD UkraineI thank the Minister very much for his statement; there is nobody in this House who does not support what he has said today. It encourages us as MPs and it encourages my…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseHappy Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to everybody in the House. I shall probably say that again later, in the Adjournment debate. On 8 December, in the Partapur area…19 Dec 2024HANSARD SyriaWhen I speak in the Chamber, I always see myself as a rear gunner. I thank the Minister for her statement and her clear commitment to human rights, prevention of religious…19 Dec 2024HANSARDChristmas AdjournmentFirst, let me thank all my staff in the office back home for all the work that they do. Their efforts are the reason that my constituency office works so well. In the short time…19 Dec 2024HANSARDEducationI am minded of that old adage—I suppose I am old enough to remember all these things—that when you ask a fish to climb a tree, it does not make the fish stupid; it just cannot do…19 Dec 2024HANSARDKnife OffencesMr Speaker, I wish you and your team a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I thank you for all your kindness to everyone in this House in the past year. I wish the Solicitor…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Harland & WolffThis announcement is really good news, and everybody across the House will welcome it. It is probably time to break out the Christmas cake and the mince pies early, because there…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Hospice FundingIt would be churlish of anybody in this Chamber not to welcome the money that the Government are setting aside. I thank the Minister and the Government for that announcement, but…19 Dec 2024HANSARD BBC: FundingThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. She has highlighted an issue that I wished to highlight too, but she did so better than I could, and I look forward to the Minister’s response.…18 Dec 2024