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HANSARD International Human Rights Abuses: UK ResponseIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Maria. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) for securing this important debate. The debate is…24 Jan 2024HANSARD School AttendanceI absolutely agree. All children, whether they are in mainstream schooling or not, deserve to have the same importance placed on their education and their life chances. In Durham,…23 Jan 2024HANSARD School AttendanceI thank the right hon. Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford) for securing the debate. I was unable to attend the Labour Opposition day debate on a similar theme, so I appreciate…23 Jan 2024HANSARD School AttendanceWe have had a number of meetings with Ministers. I had a meeting booked in last week with the Minister for Schools, the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds), which…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy constituents have told me they are no longer eligible to receive the warm home discount, which, along with Ofgem’s price increase, is making the cost of living even more severe…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Illegal VapesI thank the hon. Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson) for securing this afternoon’s debate. I am sure he knows that I have been discussing this issue and campaigning against the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.16 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesOnly a handful of MPs have had the chance to scrutinise the Foreign Secretary since his appointment last year. In fact, news presenters have had more opportunities to scrutinise…15 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokefree FutureIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I thank the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) for securing the debate, and I declare my interest as a…11 Jan 2024HANSARD Free School Meals: Children with SENDIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne) for securing this important debate, and for his…10 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI do speak to the ICB whenever I need to and it has told me, as I am about to say, that our welfare state, of which the NHS is a part, has been hollowed out. The system is wrong.…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryIt was music to my ears when my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting) announced that a Labour Government will introduce 700,000 extra appointments each year, get…09 Jan 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Armed Forces Personnel10. What steps his Department is taking to support armed forces personnel with the cost of living.08 Jan 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Armed Forces PersonnelThe Government claim that service personnel are not financially burdened by domestic assignments, but a constituent of mine—a serving officer of the armed forces—finds himself…08 Jan 2024HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is the Minister aware that before Christmas a sniper murdered two women—a mother and a daughter—inside the Holy Family parish in Gaza? The Latin…08 Jan 2024HANSARDCost of Childcare1. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of childcare on family incomes in Northern Ireland.22 Nov 2023HANSARDCost of ChildcareThe Minister knows that free childcare is not available in Northern Ireland, but is he aware of the serious consequences that people across the north are facing, particularly…22 Nov 2023HANSARD RAAC: St Leonard’s, DurhamI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. The staff have been working under such difficult circumstances. They have seen first hand the effect the situation is having on…21 Nov 2023HANSARD RAAC: St Leonard’s, DurhamI could not agree more. The school and the trust are very concerned that pupil numbers will be low next year for obvious reasons. That is partly due to some pupils wanting to move…21 Nov 2023HANSARD RAAC: St Leonard’s, DurhamI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete at St Leonard’s Catholic School, City of Durham. I welcome the Minister to his…21 Nov 2023