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HANSARDPuberty Suppressants TrialWe are talking here about physically healthy primary school-age children being injected with drugs to stop them growing up. There is nothing medically wrong with these children;…17 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government’s deal to build 20 new Typhoons for NATO member Turkey is welcome news for jobs in Lancashire, including for my Pendle and Clitheroe constituents who work at BAE’s…15 Dec 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyHaving gangsters control who comes into our country is intolerable. It is not fair, humane or socialist. My constituents say to me that they just want control. They want the…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSmall Modular Nuclear Reactor Power Station: WylfaI am delighted to see this Labour Government cracking on with new nuclear in the form of small modular reactors. When the Rolls-Royce site in Barnoldswick in my constituency was…17 Nov 2025HANSARD Police ReformI welcome this decision and think that the abolition of PCCs is sensible. The role was ill defined and poorly understood by the public, as the Minister has mentioned, and it…13 Nov 2025HANSARD UK-Türkiye Typhoon Export DealMany of my constituents in Pendle and Clitheroe work at the BAE site in Samlesbury, and they are delighted at this news, so I thank the Minister for his work and everyone who has…29 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxLet us get straight to the point: what we are discussing today is a Tory plan for tax cuts for the better off, with no plan to pay for it. That is what the Tories have chosen to…28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI am going to finish. Property taxes in this country do need radical reform—on that, I hope I can find allies on all sides of this House. We need a more proportional property tax,…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Local Government Funding: North-west EnglandI am pleased that the hon. Member is leading this debate and glad that he is raising the point of regional inequality. Does he agree that council tax is the most unfair,…21 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI pay tribute to my former colleagues for the way that they professionally policed the protests over the weekend, and I wish those who were injured a speedy recovery. Police…15 Sept 2025HANSARDDeporting Foreign Offenders: Prison CapacityWill the Lord Chancellor update the House on the conversation she had with international partners on the European convention on human rights during her recent visit to the Council…08 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe chair of the Met Police Federation, Rick Prior, and the chair of the West Midlands Police Federation, Rich Cooke, have both been removed by the unelected chief executive of…07 Jul 2025HANSARDSports Governing Bodies: Supreme Court Judgment9. What discussions she has had with sports governing bodies on ensuring that they are compliant with the Supreme Court judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v . The Scottish…03 Jul 2025HANSARDSports Governing Bodies: Supreme Court JudgmentMore than two months after the Supreme Court clarified the law, there remains a long list of sporting bodies that are denying fairness to women and girls, including Parkrun and,…03 Jul 2025HANSARDIVF Egg Donation: Young WomenI am talking about egg donation.26 Jun 2025HANSARDIVF Egg Donation: Young WomenDoes the hon. Lady not think that the fact that payments are given, whether they are badged as compensation or fees, means that we cannot actually say at the moment that donations…26 Jun 2025HANSARDIVF Egg Donation: Young WomenWhatever we think about the motivations of the women involved, we can agree that private companies are concerned with profit, and they are the ones that are in many cases running…26 Jun 2025HANSARDNuclear Power: InvestmentI am delighted that Rolls-Royce has been selected to deliver SMRs in the UK. It really is time for us to stop delaying the new fleet of nuclear power stations more broadly. The…10 Jun 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThis is a day of shame for the Conservative party. One of their own has laid bare the scale of its failure, leaving us with nowhere to put the prisoners. Conservatives used to…22 May 2025HANSARD“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court RulingWe have made so much progress as a society in breaking down sexist stereotyping. The stereotypes that said women had set roles and should look and act in a certain way were being…22 Apr 2025