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HANSARDSEND Provision and FundingWhat was your answer?11 Jan 2024HANSARDMusculoskeletal Conditions and EmploymentI am glad my hon. Friend has raised that matter in advance of my raising it. Poverty almost certainly relates to that, as it does to work practices, particularly with regard to…10 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024I am not a member of the Committee and therefore do not have a vote. If the motion is carried, however, I will seek a vote on the Floor of the House at some stage, or a deferred…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Tidal Range Energy GenerationI know that my hon. Friend does not want to look backwards, but I do. My first meeting on the barrage across the Mersey was in 2015. If Government had implemented it then, it…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Inter Faith Network for the UKWhat has restored my faith and confidence in the network is how it has responded to some of the criticisms in a very open way and by inviting people into explain their views,…10 Jan 2024HANSARDMusculoskeletal Conditions and EmploymentI want to continue in the same spirit as the hon. Member for Gedling (Tom Randall). It is entertaining and sometimes enjoyable to have debates in which we just kick the Government…10 Jan 2024HANSARDIsrael and PalestineAs the Minister will know, a large number of children are being killed, but many others have been wounded or maimed as a result of the conflict. We now know that hospital…08 Jan 2024HANSARD Arms Export Licences: IsraelThis is a simple request. There are specific questions in that letter from War on Want and the other agencies. Could the Minister write to us on the detail of the Government’s…12 Dec 2023HANSARD Arms Export Licences: IsraelThat is why I am asking the question: the key components of those planes could be being used in the bombing of Gaza and the huge loss of life. I reiterate what others have said: I…12 Dec 2023HANSARD Arms Export Licences: IsraelLots of people want to speak, so I will be as brief as possible. I want to ask a number of questions, but I will just say as a preface that when someone has been in this House…12 Dec 2023HANSARDTackling IslamophobiaI want briefly to raise a few points about my constituency. I have a multicultural constituency. It has been a migrant community for more than a hundred years, and there is a…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingMay I ask the Secretary of State to get real? I am secretary of the National Union of Journalists parliamentary group, and it has other members here. She knows that as sure as…07 Dec 2023HANSARDMiddle East: UK Military DeploymentsThe right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) mentioned future arrangements. Can the Secretary of State give the House an assurance that there will be no deployment…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Sri Lankan Tamils and Human RightsI congratulate the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) not only on securing the debate, but on setting the scene so well. Briefly, I want to ask the question:…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Sri Lankan Tamils and Human RightsMy right hon. Friend provides evidence of the long history of this, including the long history of the PTA being used to detain, with example after example of its use involving not…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Sri Lankan Tamils and Human RightsI do not want to be too harsh to the hon. Gentleman, particularly as he is standing in for another Minister, but the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Anne McLaughlin) used part…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Victims and Prisoners BillI rise to speak to new clause 1, and new clauses 2 and 3 in my name. When we talk about victims, it is important that we also discuss taking responsibility for the victims of…04 Dec 2023HANSARDCPTPP: Ratification10. What her planned timetable is for the ratification of the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership.30 Nov 2023HANSARDCPTPP: RatificationAcross the House, over a period of time, Members working with organisations such as the Trade Justice Movement have expressed concern about the inclusion of investor-state dispute…30 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023It is absolutely critical to get this clear. If a trade union leader engages in a debate during a dispute and argues that the offer from the employer is not satisfactory, and…27 Nov 2023