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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is one single Budget with a plan over five years, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. The best way to lift all families out of poverty and to stop them slipping into poverty is…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsAverage households will be £850 worse off by 2029-30, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. That is a consequence of this Budget, with the highest taxes in history, growth…01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Isle of Wight Youth Trust is set to lose £200,000-worth of funding by the end of the financial year. Early support hubs will lose funding across the country, and up to half…27 Nov 2025HANSARDNHS Waiting ListsThe Secretary of State has failed to end industrial action like he said he would. How is that helping to reduce waiting lists?25 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, in that I am a serving Isle of Wight councillor. I want to speak to new clause 48 in my name and new…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy hon. Friend mentioned two key words: democratic accountability. That is fundamentally what underpins this issue, and it is a principle that we expect to apply to all forms of…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillDoes my hon. Friend understand why my Isle of Wight constituents reject the idea of a new mayor being imposed upon them under the name of “Hampshire and Solent”, with the Isle of…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment Billrose—24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillWill my hon. Friend give way?24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy hon. Friend is very kind to give way, perhaps with a little pressure from more senior Members sitting just in front of him. He poses the question of whether there is a combined…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy constituency is popular with tourists. In the spirit of the hon. Gentleman’s conversation with my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Lewis Cocking), I invite him to visit…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillThe hon. Member is speaking about an important issue—that of utility companies seemingly closing roads without due consideration. Indeed, Southern Water tried to close the main…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillThe hon. Member speaks very eloquently, and many of the issues that he is raising resonate with me and with my constituents on the Isle of Wight. We are being forced into a union…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillIt absolutely does provide that incentive. I thank the shadow Minister for remarking on my tone; I have always tried to work with the Government on this matter. I acknowledge…24 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Transport Integration: Isle of Wight East9. What steps she is taking to help improve the integration of public transport in the Isle of Wight East constituency.20 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Transport Integration: Isle of Wight EastDoes the Minister accept—and, indeed, do the Government accept—that public transport will never be truly integrated for the Isle of Wight while it continues to rely on…20 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) on securing this debate. I am pleased to salute the…18 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyThe Home Secretary’s asylum plans still have a gaping hole in the middle of them in that she does not know what to do with failed asylum seekers who cannot be returned home. Her…17 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House consider setting aside Government time for a debate on regenerating coastal communities, so that we can properly consider issues facing towns like…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTaxesMy right hon. Friend, whose constituency is just across the water from mine, is far more experienced in this place than I am. I admit to a certain naivety in not imagining that…12 Nov 2025