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HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. Doncaster East’s neighbourhood policing team recently seized multiple stolen offroad bikes using tactics including drones and high-visibility patrols. Its swift action has…02 Jun 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eleventh sitting)I want to express my absolute support for this clause. I chair the all-party parliamentary water group and the APPG for sustainable flood and drought management, and prior to my…20 May 2025HANSARD School Buildings: Northumberland and NewcastleI have had a visit today from students at St Wilfrid’s school in Branton—the 17th, of the 43 schools in my constituency, that I have seen or visited—and they spoke about the…20 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Third sitting)I am intervening on a different but still very much related point. What is also really important for me is that we remain attractive as a country to foreign investors and others…29 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q Are you saying that it will make it worse? Richard Benwell: Yes, but it could make it better if you do it well. At the moment, it is worse because it allows developers to…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q From your experience and the best practice out there, where in the system is the best place to engage with local voices and have those voices heard? Jack Airey: Do you mean…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q It sounds as though you are saying that you are ready to work across the private, public and voluntary sectors to deliver that. Marian Spain: We are already having those…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q I am just trying to understand, Richard. I have watched programmes, I have worked in the world of climate and I spoke at COP26, so I have a bit of background. You have talked to…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Marian, for coming along today; that is massively appreciated. I have heard a few things today about genuine community benefits being essential—they must be…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)No—where within the planning process? Jack Airey: The Bill puts much greater emphasis on local plan making. In my view, that is a really good thing. We need plans that really…24 Apr 2025HANSARD Pension FundsI have a constituent who has worked for 44 years at Midland bank and HSBC. They were promised a pension of two thirds of their final salary, but they now face a 16% cut—that is…23 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillLet me bring us back to the Bill that we are here to debate. We have heard some of the data, statistics and information, and about the finances and the associated commercial…12 Apr 2025HANSARDBlair Mayne: Posthumous Victoria CrossI thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing today’s debate. The award of the Victoria Cross has an extraordinary impact on individuals and their families,…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Armed Forces CovenantI thank my hon. and gallant Friend for bringing this important report to us today and for the Committee’s work. North Lincolnshire council has established a physical armed forces…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Easter AdjournmentThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I hope that in future when it gets to Easter recess you will be able to fly away with me to Doncaster Sheffield airport once it is reopened. For…08 Apr 2025HANSARDHomelessness and Rough SleepingI recently took part in an organised sleep-out event at Doncaster’s Eco-Power stadium. The event was set up by the Club Doncaster Foundation to raise money for projects supporting…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceIf I could walk 500 miles, Madam Deputy Speaker, and then walk 500 more, it would be a miracle, particularly after all this bobbing. [ Laughter. ] However, I would also have…07 Apr 2025HANSARDHomelessness and Rough Sleeping7. What steps her Department is taking to support people sleeping rough in colder months.07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I referred to Mayor Ros Jones, who is leader of the council in Doncaster and knows that area specifically—in her case, she is also…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Royal British LegionIn my constituency of Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, the RBL’s integration within the local authority is massively important because it is the voice of the people it…01 Apr 2025