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HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyWhen I was growing up in the ’90s and ’00s, I had never heard of a food bank; they simply did not exist. There are now more than 3,000 in the country, including Hope for Belper in…08 Dec 2025HANSARDUnpaid Carers: InequalitiesThe shadow Minister is making a very powerful speech. He raises the issue of national insurance, and I know that change was very difficult in the last Budget, but it was to get…20 Nov 2025HANSARDUnpaid Carers: InequalitiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Anna Dixon) for securing this important debate and colleagues for sharing…20 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryIt is the greatest pleasure of my professional life to be the MP for Mid Derbyshire. That is particularly true today, when we have been taken on a magical mystery tour of the best…18 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryThat is a challenge. A few sites, including the one in my constituency, have a buffer zone in which development must be tightly controlled. We need to get more energy from…18 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryThe right hon. Lady makes a good point. There are challenges associated with cultural landscapes and living sites, but there are many examples of where we can make that work.…18 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversarySalts Mill is the gold standard of conservation and heritage restoration and the David Hockney paintings that can be seen there are truly remarkable—I encourage all colleagues to…18 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryI know the intangible heritage there is in Stoke-on-Trent and I encourage my hon. Friend to join the all-party parliamentary group on UNESCO world heritage sites, of which I am…18 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryI beg to move, That this House has considered the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). It is a great pleasure to…18 Nov 2025HANSARDCurriculum and Assessment ReviewThis review is hugely welcome because it begins to help us address what we have known for a long time: the creative subjects in our schools have been in decline. That is bad not…05 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThe erroneous release of this individual was an appalling error. I am grateful that he has been caught and that the Justice Secretary will take steps to get to the bottom of what…27 Oct 2025HANSARDJhoots PharmacyI am pleased that this urgent question has been secured, because I have written to the Minister about this company. I am also grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for North…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEducational Assessment System ReformIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Josh Dean) for securing the debate. Leaders at the…15 Oct 2025HANSARDMiddle EastThe world held its breath over the past few days as a glimmer of hope was on the horizon. I thank the Prime Minister, Ministers, the Government and British officials for the…14 Oct 2025HANSARDHeritage Sites: East of EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for her generosity in giving way at this late hour. I am not an east of England MP, but I am the Chair of the all-party parliamentary group on UNESCO world…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I welcome these measures, and it is good to see that they are welcomed across the Committee. Too many people in…15 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillDoes the shadow Minister think that the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the Order of the British Empire are not sufficient to recognise such people? The House of…04 Sept 2025HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillLords amendment 1 seeks to gradually reduce to zero the number of excepted hereditary peers in the other place by ending the elections by which they are replaced. Our rich…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Early Education and ChildcareSure Start was one of the proudest legacies of the last Labour Government. We must be grateful to Tessa Jowell for her contribution in making that happen. I am pleased that we are…04 Sept 2025HANSARDGovernment Resilience Action PlanI thank the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for his statement. I was pleased to hear him reference the £370 million that the Government are investing to secure our…08 Jul 2025