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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillLawlessness, antisocial behaviour, street crime and shoplifting have dragged our communities down. When people believe that they can act with impunity, without fear of…17 Jun 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI very much agree; that is why I am raising it today. The hon. Gentleman talks about public space protection orders, which I will come to shortly, but I think the law needs to be…17 Jun 2025HANSARDNuclear Power: InvestmentI, too, wish you a happy birthday, Mr Speaker. I very much welcome the statement, which is about the future-visioning and future-proofing of our energy security and production. I…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI welcome the hon. Member’s contribution. Women in Bassetlaw have to travel all the way to Sheffield once they have been diagnosed to have treatment and radiotherapy. That is a…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI thank my hon. Friend for his comments, and I agree with him. Bawtry is just across the border from my constituency, and it has a very strong community. When I go to through…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution and agree that it is worrying that only half of the trusts in England are meeting the national target of 70% of eligible women…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawMy hon. Friend makes a valuable point, and I hope that the Minister has taken heed of it.09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawThe first known descriptions of breast cancer date back to beyond 3,000 BC. Hippocrates described the progressive stages of breast cancer in 400 BC, when he outlined his theory…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI thank my hon. Friend for that point. I have sympathy for her experiences and hope that she is now fully recovered. Yes, we must be conscious that women of all ages could have…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI thank my hon. Friend for his contribution and I agree with him. In Bassetlaw, we have a single unit, but there are mobile units in rural areas that might encourage a better…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Breast Cancer Screening: BassetlawI agree with my hon. Friend. We have data, but we remain unsure where the lowest uptake is. I would like to go to the wards in my area where uptake is low and knock on doors to…09 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI welcome the Minister’s statement. There is a shift from focusing funding on areas where it is easy to deliver in London and the south to focusing it on the midlands and the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDDisadvantaged CommunitiesI welcome my hon. Friend’s call for a project of national renewal; I think that is absolutely excellent. I also welcome her comment that these communities are special—they are,…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewWhen a previous Government fail to take responsibility for the crisis they have caused, they deserve a life sentence on the Opposition Benches. I welcome the construction of a new…22 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI thank the Minister for making that key point. The British people were let down by the Opposition when they were in government. I welcome the Border Security, Asylum and…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationThere was a court case yesterday where a people smuggler, known as “Captain Ahmed”, was jailed for his part in co-ordinating and managing the small boat crossings of more than…21 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI congratulate the Prime Minister on this deal, which will benefit so many of my constituents; it is exactly what businesses in my constituency asked for when they sent me to…20 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThank you for calling me, Madam Deputy Speaker. “People started dying. People were screaming. It is very painful when someone is dying inside the water. The way they die—they…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI wonder whether the shadow Home Secretary could comment on the views of his colleague the hon. Member for Stockton West (Matt Vickers), who said during the Public Bill Committee…12 May 2025HANSARDImmigration SystemWith net migration at 1.7 million over the last two years of the previous Government, people in Bassetlaw tell me that they are fed up with the pressures that uncontrolled…12 May 2025