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HANSARDMaritime SectorTeesside is home to a world-leading maritime industry and an excellent further education landscape. However, one issue that the Tees maritime cluster has identified is a lack of…16 Jul 2026HANSARD British SteelTeessiders know what it looks like when Governments stand back and fail to protect steel jobs, so on behalf of the British steelworkers in my constituency who work at Special…16 Jul 2026HANSARD IranI thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that point, and he is absolutely right. This issue was raised by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Birmingham Selly Oak (Al…15 Jul 2026HANSARD IranI wish to push the Minister on the point about social media disinformation. This is one of the biggest issues affecting our democracy, and western democracies around the world,…15 Jul 2026HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillIt is a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour and hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (Andy McDonald). I share his views about the need for action on…14 Jul 2026HANSARDPolice Officer NumbersI welcome the 48 new neighbourhood officers and policy community support officers who have joined Cleveland police in the last year, but I want to see an overhaul of the national…13 Jul 2026HANSARDImmigration and Asylum BillWill the Minister give way?13 Jul 2026HANSARDIllegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and DeportationThe hon. Member for Woking (Mr Forster) made a point about the Dublin agreement and its impact on increased arrivals. I think that he was right to make that point, but wrong to…13 Jul 2026HANSARD Greenhouse Gas Removals SectorDoes the hon. Gentleman agree that creating industrial clusters is the best route to bringing in some of the new companies that look to scale up and invest? I recently met…08 Jul 2026HANSARD Societal Impact of AI: Government PolicyThe Teesside region has the potential to bring nationally significant investment in new AI data centre infrastructure. We welcome that investment and we are open for business, but…08 Jul 2026HANSARDMedia Green PaperRight now, Britain’s adversaries around the world are investing heavily in disinformation designed to disrupt democracies across the west; we are seeing the impact in this country…24 Jun 2026HANSARD Farming Road Map and Profitability ReviewWe welcome the focus in the road map on fertiliser resilience and getting away from volatile global fertiliser markets. North Yorkshire is home to the world’s only supply of…24 Jun 2026HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and GasThe Minister knows that I am a fierce champion for the new clean power jobs that we are getting on Teesside. We are seeing some of those opportunities scaling up now, but we…24 Jun 2026HANSARDHigh Street Shops: Illicit ActivityIt is a pleasure to intervene on the hon. Gentleman for a change. I have been raising similar issues with Middlesbrough council about Middlesbrough town centre. I am assured that…17 Jun 2026HANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillMy part of the world has already had a hard lesson in what a serious cyber-attack can do, and I thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson, the hon. Member for Harpenden and…16 Jun 2026HANSARDDraft Clean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026My understanding is that there are no plans to introduce such zones in either Middlesbrough or Redcar and Cleveland, but is the Minister able to confirm that for the record?10 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanTeesside airport is benefiting from a £173 million MOD contract for Draken. Looking at that contract and at the others the Minister has set out, I think it is fair to say that the…10 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI have seen in our all-party parliamentary group on steel and metals-related industries how my hon. Friend is such a tenacious and tireless champion for her part of the world and…09 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI thank the Minister for giving way again; he is being very generous. He has made a couple of references to the Teesside site, both to the crash closure in 2015 and to the…09 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillThe Minister is right in what he says about trade. On amendment 6, however, industry is concerned that phasing out free allowances before the new CBAM is fully tested risks…09 Jun 2026