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HANSARDTopical QuestionsSeventeen-year-old Oakley Meer lost his life in a collision on Beachy Head Road in Eastbourne. Will the Minister meet me and Oakley’s family to discuss how we can improve road…16 Jul 2026HANSARDWaste Crime Action PlanFly-tippers tend to vanish just as the mess gets traced back to them—much like Nigel Farage earlier this week. Closer to home, I led a community walkabout with the Friends of…09 Jul 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsCivil compensation is disregarded from pension credit entitlement calculations, but military compensation is not. I know that the new Minister for Veterans is sympathetic to…06 Jul 2026HANSARD Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC GuidanceI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) for securing this debate. Beachy Head in my constituency is, regrettably, one of the most visited…01 Jul 2026HANSARDSupport for Victims of AbuseDisgracefully, there are some in this House who believe that it is for the England football team to prevent domestic abuse, whereas we all know that it is for perpetrators to stop…30 Jun 2026HANSARDEngagementsQ12. As an Eastbourne boy born and bred, I can tell the Deputy Prime Minister that Eastbourne pier is an iconic part of our heritage, an iconic part of our local economy, and an…17 Jun 2026HANSARD Abuse of Customer-facing WorkersDomestic abuse survivors who work in retail roles are at particular risk in that their perpetrators often know exactly where they are, which till they might be working at and what…17 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am leading the campaign to have Eastbourne pier registered as an asset of community value in order to safeguard its future. Will the Government back the campaign to ensure that…15 Jun 2026HANSARDRoad SafetyResidents of Park Avenue in Eastbourne like David Tomlinson and Cat Harris have been campaigning with the headteacher of Ratton school, Gavin Peevers, and folks in my team like…11 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.09 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsFollowing power outages at Eastbourne district general hospital that left operations and birth services suspended, hospital bosses submitted a strategic bid for more than £10…09 Jun 2026HANSARDHome-to-School TransportI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Tom Gordon) on securing the debate. Members will be pleased to know that my speech will be under six…04 Jun 2026HANSARDHome-to-School TransportI completely agree. My little brother is autistic so, as a family, we see up close how important consistency is and how disrupting the consistency of a particular service can be…04 Jun 2026HANSARDArmed Forces BillI speak in support of amendment 88, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire). It would require the Secretary of State to review the way that former…02 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson Humble Address: Government ResponseI was staggered to find in the 1,500 pages published today that the victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are not referred to in any of the documents dated before…01 Jun 2026HANSARDArmed Forces DayThis Armed Forces Day will mark the first that Eastbourne commemorates without Staff Sergeant Pauline Cole, a local veteran who died last year. Pauline received military…01 Jun 2026HANSARDEquality Act 2010: Code of PracticeI pay tribute to Bourne Out LGBT and Bourne This Way in Eastbourne, which do great work to advance the rights of LGBT folks locally. I also pay tribute to LGBT+ Lib Dems and…01 Jun 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseHon. Members will remember the harrowing images of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who was found lying dead on a beach in Turkey after drowning when the boat that he and his family…21 May 2026HANSARDDigital Inclusion3. What steps she is taking to support grassroot organisations working to improve digital inclusion.20 May 2026HANSARDDigital InclusionNHS Sussex found that Eastbourne, despite being the sunniest town in the UK, is one of the most digitally excluded patches of Sussex. Great organisations, such as TechResort, run…20 May 2026