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HANSARDTopical QuestionsStoke-on-Trent is proud to still be the largest recipient of the levelling-up funding announced to date, and the second-largest recipient of the Places for Growth programme,…02 Feb 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI congratulate Stoke-on-Trent-based charity Helping Angels on opening up Café Indi at The Pavilion in Burslem’s grade II listed Victorian park. The café, supported by the local…02 Feb 2023HANSARDAccess to JusticeI put on record my thanks to the Solicitor General for his compassion and care when dealing with the very tragic case of Sharlotte-Sky, who lost her life on Endon Road in Norton…01 Feb 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingThe Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act includes the ability to increase sentences for those who attack our brave emergency workers. Will my hon. Friend join me in condemning…31 Jan 2023HANSARDRestoring Your Railway FundIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Kevin Foster) on securing this very important debate. We have…24 Jan 2023HANSARDApprenticeships: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth) on securing this important debate. I am proud to…24 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe people of Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke would like to ask when the Minister for Pensions is going to act on the recommendations of the 2017 automatic enrolment…23 Jan 2023HANSARDDevolved Budget for Wales: Impact of InflationInflation, of course, causes pressure, but it is also true that Wales gets £1.20 per head for public services for every £1 in England. Yet the Welsh Labour-run Government spend…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill) on securing this important…18 Jan 2023HANSARD Cost of Energy: Ceramics SectorI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for his fantastic words. He is indeed correct to say that the ceramics industry has already put about half a billion pounds of its own…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Cost of Energy: Ceramics SectorI am grateful to the hon. Member, who is a really good friend. It is incredible that Strangford finds a way of linking itself to every single one of our constituencies across the…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Cost of Energy: Ceramics SectorThe small but mighty city of Stoke-on-Trent is the home of our country’s outstanding ceramics manufacturing industry. Its rich history and heritage in ceramics played a leading…17 Jan 2023HANSARDScotland Act 1998: Section 35 PowerI warmly welcome the statement made by the Secretary of State. I also wish to place on the record my support for the heroines, such as J. K. Rowling and others, who stand up…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Cost of Energy: Ceramics SectorI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is an incredible champion for the people of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the ceramics sector, as well as my hon. Friend the Member for…17 Jan 2023HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportOne of the best ways in which young people with SEND can be supported is by remaining in the local area to be educated. That is why I am delighted that, thanks to a significant…16 Jan 2023HANSARDFair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards CommitteeThat’s not true.11 Jan 2023HANSARDFair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards CommitteeMay I ask the shadow Secretary of State whether any Labour Members on the current Education Committee have put such ideas forward to its Chair for investigation by the existing…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committeerose—11 Jan 2023HANSARDFair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards CommitteeI fully concur with my hon. Friend. The simple truth is this. Even the Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, the hon. Member for Bristol North West…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards CommitteeLet me start by saying—although she may not like it—what a tremendous fan I am of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Emma Hardy). Unfortunately, however, in…11 Jan 2023