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HANSARD Catapults and Antisocial BehaviourIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond, and I commend the hon. and gallant Member for securing this debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Jim…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Illegal Waste: Organised CrimeOn Raspberry Hill Lane in my constituency near the village of Iwade, there is one of these mega illegal dumps. It has started metastasising, sprouting accessory dumps nearby, all…17 Nov 2025HANSARD SEND Provision: KentI am grateful to serve under your chairship, Sir John. The stories that my hon. and learned Friend is recounting completely match those that I get in my inbox and hear in my…12 Nov 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. The hon. Gentleman speaks with great passion, which is very much informed by his local circumstances in Hampshire. I…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Ninth sitting)It is obvious. My area has a very different socioeconomic status from that of the rest of Kent—frankly, a lot of the coastal parts of Kent are very different from the centre of…23 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I would just like to give a counter. We have heard some very interesting evidence, but my own local authority has the misfortune to operate under the committee system, which was…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Pride in PlaceSince the announcement of £20 million for the east of Sheppey, my constituents have been fizzing with excitement. I am getting loads of responses to my online surveys, and the…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for coming. I am very interested in the provisions around local growth plans and particularly how they affect your sectors. In the area I represent, Sittingbourne and…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q My question is in a similar vein, building on a lot of the conversation so far. My constituency is an outlier in the south-east of England and in the county of Kent, which is…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Sorry, Ms Vaz—there is. What do you think we can do when setting up mayoral authorities to prevent aberrant areas—I say that in a very positive way—within a broader, more…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Remote Coastal CommunitiesMy constituency is a lot closer to here than the constituency of my hon. Friend—it is just a bit further down the Thames. We have a strong tourist economy, but due to the housing…08 Sept 2025HANSARDParole Board Decisions: Serious OffendersWith the case of one of the killers of James Bulger, Jon Venables, coming to the Parole Board again, the need for the voices of victims’ families to be heard in the justice system…08 Jul 2025HANSARD NHS 10-Year PlanOn behalf of the small and often oppressed community of health policy geeks, I thank the Secretary of State for giving us a Christmas present in July—I will be pressing Ctrl+F…03 Jul 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseGiven the welcome news in today’s new 10-year plan for health that the NHS app will be upgraded and be central to the way that patients take control of their own healthcare, can…03 Jul 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank everyone who has contributed to this debate, both inside and outside the House. There has been a great deal of passion, and sometimes that passion flares up while we…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillNo, I will not. Many colleagues have talked about whether this debate has been too short, too long, too complicated or not complicated enough. I have heard questions about whether…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will not. It is important to think about ourselves as well. Sometimes we Members of Parliament think it selfish to think about what we may need, but it is fundamental, because…20 Jun 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend has jumped ahead of me on that—not surprisingly, given his background as a mental health nurse. That is absolutely true. We do need to invest more, but we need to…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I commend the hon. Member for Dorking and Horley (Chris Coghlan) on a powerful and vital contribution to this debate. In fact, I commend everyone who has spoken so far, often from…19 May 2025HANSARD Mental Health Bill [Lords]I absolutely agree. We should flip this around from a delay until we are absolutely ready to an active process of deciding what good looks like. Two weeks ago in my constituency,…19 May 2025