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HANSARDMental Health First Aid in the WorkplaceI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. She is making a powerful case and is describing an epidemic of mental ill health that has many different sources. The…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI thank my hon. Friend for her question. She is a fantastic member of the Committee and a real thought leader in many of the areas under discussion. As she said in Department for…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI thank the hon. Gentleman, who is a former and much esteemed member of our Committee, for that question. I saw the CEFAS ship on a visit to his constituency when I was shadowing…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman, who was instrumental in getting consensus around the recommendations to the Foreign Office. Ascension Island could benefit from a huge…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question, and I share his concern about the plastics that come off the greenhouses where our tomatoes and cucumbers are grown, which are…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasAgain, I appreciate the input of my hon. Friend and neighbour into the Committee and this report. He is right: we need to speed up our ambition. The scientists have warned us that…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasThat sounds like an absolutely brilliant initiative from Ards and North Down Borough Council. I think that the hon. Gentleman also has an oyster fishery in Strangford lough, the…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasMy hon. Friend the shadow Minister is absolutely right. We do have to put our own house in order. We know that most of the plastics enter the ocean from, I think, five rivers in…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI thank the Minister for her kind words and for her many appearances before our Committee, giving evidence on a variety of different subjects. I have also been neglectful in not…17 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: No DealWe know that householders are stockpiling food and that businesses are spending money that they can ill afford, as is the Minister’s Department, on a no-deal Brexit that would…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasI begin by thanking the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee and you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to present the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Sustainable SeasThat is an excellent question. The Government’s resources and waste strategy states that they want the industry to work towards voluntary commitments and that they will introduce…17 Jan 2019HANSARDUN Climate Change Conference: Government ResponseThank you very much indeed for that guidance, Mr Betts, and for your courtesy in calling me to speak. I am aware that I arrived a little late, but I was doing some media on the…16 Jan 2019HANSARDUN Climate Change Conference: Government ResponseWill my hon. Friend give way?16 Jan 2019HANSARD Leaving the EUIn Wakefield on Saturday, a man approached me to say that, on the day the Prime Minister delayed the vote, his business lost a multi-million-pound contract and, as a result, his…14 Jan 2019HANSARDRail Travel: AffordabilityI thank the Minister for that reply, but 2018 was an abysmal year for rail travel, with tens of thousands of services cancelled in Yorkshire and across the country. Services in…10 Jan 2019HANSARDRail Travel: Affordability7. What recent assessment he has made of the affordability of rail travel.10 Jan 2019HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. This is not the first such incident that has taken place. There was an incident shortly before Christmas, after which a number of us…07 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Household Incomes14. What assessment she has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on household incomes.07 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Household IncomesHappy new year, Mr Speaker. What an extraordinary answer. Some 10% of children in the UK live in severely food-insecure households. That is the highest number in the European…07 Jan 2019