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HANSARDDepartment for Educationrose —26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationA few hours ago, our city bid goodbye to Kane Walker. He was a young man who died on our streets in the cold of January. A man gone; a man who should still be with us; a man who,…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Mobile Roaming (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The Government are prepared to accept caps on energy prices, yet they are not bringing that principle to mobile phone policy. If we have energy caps, why can we not have mobile…26 Feb 2019HANSARDRelationships and Sex EducationI am listening to the Minister very carefully. What will be the mechanism for resolving disputes where parents disagree with the judgment a school has come to?25 Feb 2019HANSARDRelationships and Sex EducationMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. Does she accept that that is a particular problem in academy schools, because the accountability points upwards to the office of the…25 Feb 2019HANSARDRelationships and Sex EducationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Sir David. I think that more of my constituents than anyone else’s have signed the petition, but my speech will…25 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments Etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. The draft regulations are a wise precaution, although it is slightly ironic that Her Majesty’s Government are…14 Feb 2019HANSARD Local Government FinanceI want to start by associating myself with the remarks of the shadow Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne), in what I thought was a…05 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the case for this important exemption. The debate was rehearsed during…04 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2019The Minister has sought a test that is not in the regulations, so she is inviting the Committee to approve them using a definition that is not in the regulations, but in her…04 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2019I am grateful to the Minister for being very generous and giving way again, but that is not good enough, because anyone could seek to stand for elected office. If she and the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2019The Minister uses the word “candidate”, which elides two important definitions. One is that set out in the regulations: “a person seeking to become (or remain) an elected…04 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsIn the cold of Sunday, Kane Walker was found dead on the pavements of Birmingham. He was 31, and he became one of over 2,600 homeless people to have lost their lives in the last…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State will know that the battering of Birmingham next year will be all the more severe for his decision to rule out access to the council’s reserves. Birmingham’s…28 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. She must recognise that she has built a cage of red lines, which produced a deal that was overwhelmingly rejected by this…16 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI was naive to honour a Treasury tradition that went back to Churchill with a text that is pretty much the same, but I was proud to be part of a team that stopped a recession…16 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI am grateful for the chance to speak in this debate. The essence of our argument was laid out with force, passion and eloquence by the Leader of the Opposition. The Prime…16 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentThe Prime Minister was a member of the party that backed Labour’s spending plans up to late 2009, and she has presided over a Government who have doubled the size of the national…16 Jan 2019HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentWill the Prime Minister give way?16 Jan 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseJaguar Land Rover is today set to announce 5,000 job losses in what will be the biggest hammer blow to manufacturing in this country since the closure of Longbridge. When…10 Jan 2019