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HANSARDMarket Towns: Cultural HeritageIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I will briefly touch on the market towns in my constituency, including Hexham itself, which has Hexham abbey, England’s…04 Mar 2025HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsThe Government have moved quickly on this issue. Does the Minister recognise that it is important that we maintain an engaged and concerned public? I have met with the Wylam clean…04 Mar 2025HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe recent announcement that Prudhoe community high school will be closed for a lengthy period due to cracks in the building’s infrastructure is deeply concerning, particularly…27 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesMy hon. Friend is far more well read and well researched than I could ever hope to be, but those barriers to import and export come up whenever I speak to farmers and food…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesIt is a pleasure to follow some measured and passionate speeches from across the House on this important subject. As Members will know, I am very proud to represent England’s…26 Feb 2025HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech about a corner of the county that we share, and I am interested to hear his reflections on the communities that lose out on access to…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesDoes the hon. Gentleman agree that if the next generation of young people cannot get to work because of broken public transport, potholes or illness, it will ultimately hold them…26 Feb 2025HANSARD SEND Education SupportMy hon. Friend knows, as I think we all do, the strength of feeling from SEND parents, staff and teachers, who have been burnt out over 14 years of failure on SEND. I certainly…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. The Gaza ceasefire deal remains fragile and, as we enter the final week of its first phase, it is crucial that both the Israeli and Palestinian Governments continue to uphold…25 Feb 2025HANSARD SEND Education SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. Last week, I had the privilege and opportunity to meet with the parents of some students from Hexham Priory school, which…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseThe recent news of the loss of three bank branches in my constituency further illustrates the crisis facing communities, including in the Tyne valley, of growing banking deserts.…13 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. For those in villages such as Slaggyford, Kirkhaugh and Mohope, the cottage hospital in Alston is closer than the hospital in Hexham. As my constituent Rowland outlined to me,…11 Feb 2025HANSARDBiomass GenerationThe news of a windfall tax on Drax was welcomed by people across my constituency. Will the Minister assure me that this will be the end of grotesque profits going to Drax at the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.05 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe whole House will be aware of the importance of the Tyne Valley railway line to my constituency, and it is essential that our stations are accessible to all. Local campaigners…05 Feb 2025HANSARDApprenticeshipsIt is a pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I am very proud to be speaking today about the value of apprenticeships and National Apprenticeships Week.…04 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionLike the Minister, I am the product of a state school in the north-east, and I am tremendously proud of that fact. During the election, many teachers in Throckley, Hexham,…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Road Safety: SchoolsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship for the second time this afternoon, Ms Jardine. I congratulate the hon. Member for Chester South and Eddisbury (Aphra Brandreth) on…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsOne of my first visits as a new constituency MP was to Allendale parish council, in one of the most rural areas of my constituency. The council told me that it recognises the need…29 Jan 2025