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HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and he is absolutely spot on. I will come to the workforce plan and the Government’s expectations, but he is absolutely right that it…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyMy hon. Friend makes a really crucial point about special schools and about ensuring there is enough capacity to support children who have complex needs with sight loss. What is…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI thank my hon. Friend, who highlights the fantastic eye care department at St Thomas’s Hospital. She is absolutely right: my strategy already sets out how to address the backlogs…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyAgain, my hon. Friend makes an intervention that is 100% accurate. We obviously have to ensure that spending is done effectively and properly, and ensuring that resources are…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyOn the way in which we can join up primary and secondary care and ensure that MECS are being commissioned across all ICBs, does the Minister agree that that measure should be…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI know that the Minister is coming to the end of his speech, but I do not want to let him sit down without pressing him for a timeline for the workforce plan. Will it cover…17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyYou have been saying “shortly” for a while.17 May 2023HANSARDEye Health: National StrategyI thank all hon. Members for their contributions. This has been a healthy debate, but it is deeply worrying that we continue to debate the need for a national eye care strategy…17 May 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseIt is shocking that the Government have yet again made an outrageous U-turn by deciding to scrap plans to abolish the feudal leasehold system. We all know that the current system…11 May 2023HANSARD City Centre Security Measures and Access for Disabled PeopleIn my opinion, City of York Council is clearly breaching the law. It does not even seem to be complying with its responsibilities under the public sector equality duty. Is there…25 Apr 2023HANSARD City Centre Security Measures and Access for Disabled PeopleMy hon. Friend is making an excellent opening to her speech. Does she agree that a local authority seeking to ban disabled people from being able to access the centre of York…25 Apr 2023HANSARDUK’s Exit from the European UnionOn the subject of Brexit being on everyone’s minds, for my constituents in Battersea it remains an issue and, for them, it has been an unmitigated disaster. Our economy is not…24 Apr 2023HANSARDDisabled Jobseekers: Support at JobcentresSuccessive Tory Governments have failed to reduce the multiple barriers facing disabled people entering work. Research by Sense has found that disabled jobseekers say that they do…24 Apr 2023HANSARDDisabled Jobseekers: Support at Jobcentres13. What steps he is taking to help ensure disabled jobseekers can access specialist support at jobcentres.24 Apr 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseMany of my constituents in Battersea have been victims of car theft, a distressing and disruptive ordeal. Last year, on average, one car a day was stolen, but of all those…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Israel and Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI, too, express my condolences to all the families and those who have lost loved ones in all the violence. The Israeli High Court of Justice recently rejected appeals against…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Machetes: ConsultationMachetes and zombie knives should have been banned a long time ago, given that the Government had committed on multiple occasions to banning them, but 13 years of cuts to youth…18 Apr 2023HANSARDSafeguarding Children in SchoolsThe case of Child Q was shocking, but the recent report by the Children’s Commissioner found that 14 strip searches took place either in schools or in a police vehicle, and states…17 Apr 2023HANSARDSafeguarding Children in Schools2. What steps her Department is taking to safeguard children in schools.17 Apr 2023HANSARDStrip Searching of ChildrenI congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) on securing this urgent question. The findings of this report are damning and deeply concerning. The case of Child Q…28 Mar 2023