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HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandPractice managers tell me that that has already happened and they are less funded now than they were last year. On the changing numbers, each GP was supporting 1,800 patients in…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandAll those things help, along with things like bringing back nurses’ bursaries. On rearranging the deckchairs, it is no wonder that practice managers described this year’s…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I commend him on obtaining a ministerial visit to his hospital in North Devon. North Devon district hospital is fantastic and we need to ensure…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandI am not quite sure what to say now that the Minister has actually said that my prime ask will be delivered. That is fantastic, and shows the emphasis of these debates. I thank…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandI have never been interrupted by a Minister before—I would be delighted.25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but sadly, I must disagree. That is not what practice managers are telling me. Their costs have gone up so much that all of the…25 Jun 2025HANSARDGP Funding: South-west EnglandThe hon. Member is absolutely right: we have to consider these things. I have spent many hours persuading my local hospital trusts and the integrated care board to talk to the…25 Jun 2025HANSARDHS2 ResetI thank the Secretary of State for the actions that she has taken today. They were clearly necessary, and it sounds like we are on a better track. However, HS2 provides little or…18 Jun 2025HANSARD NHS Funding: South-westIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Huq, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Steve Darling) on securing the debate. GP funding is in crisis. I…11 Jun 2025HANSARDBritish Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeThis is a new topic to me personally. I was contacted by a constituent whose late husband, a good friend of mine, Michael Green, worked for British Coal at the time. He too was…11 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that we saw in the recent Westminster Hall debate that the standard method for calculating the number of homes not only does not reduce prices, but…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Planning and Infrastructure BillDoes the hon. Gentleman agree with the Liberal Democrats that, given the unreliability of section 106 agreements and developers living up to them, as he demonstrated, the best way…09 Jun 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformI thank my hon. Friend for securing this valuable debate. Does he agree that, as well as causing the issues he described, incremental building contributes to problems with the…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformMy apologies to the right hon. Member. Since 2018, when the Conservative Government introduced the so-called standard method, which was supposed to calculate housing need, the…13 May 2025HANSARD Local Housing Need Assessment ReformIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (John Milne) on securing this debate, and hon. Members from…13 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationI agree with my hon. Friend. I have spoken to a former employee of one of these private parking companies who was dismissed for whistleblowing. In my constituency of Newton Abbot,…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I congratulate the hon. Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) on leading this debate, which has been a collaborative…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationI hear stories of places like Cornwall council being so strapped for money that they are considering sub-letting all their parking spaces to independent private parking companies,…06 May 2025HANSARDParking RegulationAbsolutely—this is something that they should not have to put up with. Norma felt bullied into making the payment to avoid threats of escalation. Complaints go into a flawed…06 May 2025HANSARDSewageWill the Secretary of State give way?23 Apr 2025