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HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner Bill (First sitting)Q My second question is, will you be applying? Mariette Hughes: If I am allowed to apply. As the ombudsman, I can do only one term, but obviously this is a new role. If it is…10 Dec 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner Bill (First sitting)Q I have two quick questions. First, you clearly laid out what is new under the commissioner set-up, the broader thematic, but it strikes me that it is an “access all areas” pass,…10 Dec 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner Bill (Second sitting)Q I was—well, I promise there was a question at the end of it. The point I was making was that the Bill and the explanatory note do not match, in as much as the explanatory note…10 Dec 2024HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner Bill (Second sitting)Q I have another question. Two of the three witnesses identified the risk of the legislation eroding the authority of the military chain of command, but one said that he had had a…10 Dec 2024HANSARDSixth-form Education: ReformIn Spelthorne we have six secondary schools, only two of which provide A-levels; the rest are middle schools taking pupils only up to GCSE level. There have been plans in the past…09 Dec 2024HANSARDSixth-form Education: Reform1. What plans she has to reform the provision of sixth-form education.09 Dec 2024HANSARDJob Vacancies: Prime Minister’s Office10. What job vacancies in the Prime Minister's Office are being advertised.05 Dec 2024HANSARDJob Vacancies: Prime Minister’s OfficeI personally would be delighted to welcome the new Cabinet Secretary to his role. I thank the Minister for her answer, but in her list I did not hear her say whether the Cabinet…05 Dec 2024HANSARDMigration and Border SecurityA constituent wrote to me recently asking if I could get a hurry-up on his application under the EU settlement scheme. It turns out that he is subject to a deportation order, and…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Minister with responsibility for sport graciously met me to discuss the future of London Irish in my Spelthorne constituency, and she undertook to ensure that the club would…28 Nov 2024HANSARDCOP29The Secretary of State is in consensus-building mode. May I offer him the opportunity to address the 10,975 members of my Spelthorne constituency who will lose their winter fuel…26 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ7. The Spelthorne Litter Pickers is an outstanding organisation of 1,000 volunteers who do great work up and down my constituency, come rain or shine. Last week, they were…20 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. I recently met a GP who was in the market to hire a new seven to eight session GP to meet demand. Following the Budget and the increase in national insurance contributions for…19 Nov 2024HANSARDIndependent Armed Forces CommissionerWill the Armed Forces Commissioner’s powers of investigation extend to being allowed to visit troops deployed on operations, to question them, and to seize documents?18 Nov 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ4. Now that Sue Gray has, remarkably, turned down the opportunity to be the Prime Minister’s special envoy to the nations, will he finally admit that it was an invented job on…13 Nov 2024HANSARD Rail PerformancePeople can only go so far out of London into the Spelthorne constituency on their Oyster card; they have to buy a train ticket for the last couple of stops. This anomalous…11 Nov 2024HANSARDEducation and Training for Prisoners18. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of education and training provided to prisoners.05 Nov 2024HANSARDEducation and Training for PrisonersA couple of weeks ago, I visited the Bronzefield category A women’s prison in my Spelthorne constituency. I saw that prisoners doing work were rewarded with small amounts of…05 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have an anomalous situation in Spelthorne whereby people can use an oyster card to pay for six different red buses, but not the train. That is crippling small businesses and…31 Oct 2024HANSARDEngagementsQ13. First we had the embarrassment of the Labour party being sued by the Trump campaign. Then we had the national capitulation— [ Interruption. ]30 Oct 2024