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HANSARDSEND Provision10. What steps her Department is taking to improve special educational needs provision.27 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. My comments today need to be viewed in the context of my interest as a local councillor. My constituents in Broxbourne…21 Jan 2025HANSARDDraft Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority Regulations 2024
Draft Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority Regulations 2025
Draft Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2025
Draft Lancashire Combined County Authority Regulations 2024I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Some of the areas that we are looking at are still two-tier areas. Will the Minister outline the…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningWill the Minister outline her Government’s policy and what she is going to do? She has given us a history lesson on what has happened, but what are the Labour Government going to…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a local councillor. Does my…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI was about to mention battery technology, so I ask the hon. Gentleman to wait just a few seconds. The Bill does go quite far in that its ambition relates to all houses, but I…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) on his Bill. I do have some reservations about it, which I will go into shortly, but I am minded to support it today…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) BillI had a meeting with a state school in my constituency that said the changes will be damaging because it gets a grant from a private school, which will have to be cut to deal with…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Government ReorganisationI draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. In the devolution White Paper, the Government set half a million people as the appropriate…15 Jan 2025HANSARDDrones: High-security PrisonsThe Government have said time and again that they want to smash the criminal gangs that illegally smuggle illegal migrants into the UK, yet the Government cannot even smash the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDRoadworks: Preventing Road ClosuresI draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Drivers in my constituency are sick to death of the endless road closures and temporary…09 Jan 2025HANSARDRoadworks: Preventing Road Closures5. What steps she is taking to help prevent road closures when roadworks are not taking place.09 Jan 2025HANSARDFloodingI draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and I thank everyone who has been out helping over the past few days. Every time there is…06 Jan 2025HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. When I spoke earlier on the English devolution White Paper, I forgot to alert the House to my entry on the Register of Members’…16 Dec 2024HANSARD English DevolutionI place on record my thanks to my two district councils, which I wholeheartedly support: Broxbourne and East Herts. Page 17 of the White Paper states that the Government want to…16 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesNothing in this statement outlines the new powers for councils to build development infrastructure—including roads, schools and GP surgeries—before new housing. What powers will…12 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (First sitting)Q The first question was about whether it would put you off doing bigger stores and make you concentrate on smaller stores. Will you give us a flavour of what the Bill means for…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillI thank the hon. Member. If he just waits for the next part of my speech, he may get the answer to his intervention. The Government’s plan will put all that at risk. Notably,…11 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillI am a Hertfordshire county councillor, and it is that authority that will have to pick up the pieces if parents cannot afford the VAT on private schools or if private schools…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill (First sitting)Q Have you asked your members that question? Edward Woodall: We talk to them all the time about such questions. Perhaps it is something we can address in our written evidence to…11 Dec 2024