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HANSARD School-based Counselling ServicesOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Call me old-fashioned, but I thought that in a wind-up the Minister was supposed to respond to the debate. He has now been on his feet…09 Nov 2021HANSARD School-based Counselling ServicesI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown) on securing this debate, and I thank the Backbench Business Committee. Talking about mental…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Fire Safety: Retirement CommunitiesI welcome what the Minister is saying about the future. I just wonder what can be done to ensure that not just Cestrian Court but other properties are safe. If Cestrian Court was…09 Nov 2021HANSARD School-based Counselling ServicesMy right hon. Friend has just mentioned the statistics about early intervention. In the previous debate we were talking about investment in children at a young age. Does he agree…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Fire Safety: Retirement CommunitiesI am pleased that I have been able to secure this debate tonight. The impact of fire on any property can be devastating, but the risks are increased when it comes to fires in…09 Nov 2021HANSARDGiving Every Baby the Best Start in LifeI have listened carefully to what the hon. Gentleman says about ring-fencing and I do not disagree, but that is why Sure Start funding was directed through local authorities and…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI begin by thanking the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman), who took the Bill through Committee very ably. Sadly, he was a victim of the cull of competence in the…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI am very interested in what the Minister says, because one of the major themes, and one of the big failures of the 5G debacle over Huawei, is the fact that we do not have…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillDoes my hon. Friend also agree that this did not come as a great shock to the Government? It was all laid out in the 2013 Intelligence and Security Committee report on critical…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Telecommunications (Security) BillI accept that, although the current Government’s response to parliamentary questions these days is sometimes lacking. What benchmark, then, will the Government use for ensuring…08 Nov 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have a problem with the amendment, because I think there is a lot of misunderstanding around the Prevent agenda. It is one of the four p’s—prevent, pursue, protect and…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Like the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings, the hon. Lady obviously reads a lot into individual cases that are highlighted in the press. I have some sympathy…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am aware of that, but if somebody who has tenure is dismissed from a university because of their views, they would not actually be protected by new clause 5. Although I agree…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have a lot of sympathy with this, but will my hon. Friend address the issue of tenure, which is quite a unique employment status. Will it be covered by new clause 13?22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am very interested in what the Minister just said. It is clear that an employment tribunal can be held on sex discrimination grounds or on other grounds, but could she point out…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)As I understand it, an industrial tribunal case could not be taken on the grounds that someone had been dismissed because their freedom of speech had been infringed. That is a…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am now a bit confused by what the Minister has said. Tribunal cases are done on case law. I am not aware of any case law in which unfair dismissal has been upheld on the basis…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Twelfth sitting)There are no key principles for how somebody gets referred to Prevent; it is actually about assessing someone’s vulnerabilities and a pattern of behaviour. There may be an example…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Eleventh sitting)What the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner said about transparency is correct. There might be a Select Committee looking at the individuals, but unlike the US system,…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Eleventh sitting)I agree that the US system is not perfect, but would my hon. Friend support something like the NHS appointments commission, which the Labour Government introduced? It took…22 Sept 2021