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HANSARDEmergency Care: Average Waiting Time7. What recent estimate he has made of the average waiting time for emergency care.19 Jul 2022HANSARDExtreme Heat PreparednessI thank everyone working in our frontline infrastructure services that have enabled us to get here today. I also thank the people I passed at an ungodly hour this morning, as I…18 Jul 2022HANSARDAmbulance PressuresSince March, West Midlands ambulance service has been on the highest level of alert, and I understand that it was joined by the other ambulance services across England last week.…18 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentLord Hague was right, David Cameron was right, and in June 2019 Max Hastings said: “I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister.” Now we have a Prime…18 Jul 2022HANSARDAmbulance Services and National Heatwave EmergencyJoyce, a 96-year-old survivor of the Coventry blitz, sadly fell in her care home back in April, and lay in agony screaming for 10 hours. At the time of the 999 call, there were 63…13 Jul 2022HANSARDMinisters’ Severance PayI understand that approximately £400,000 will be paid out in severance payments. Will the Minister agree to publish a full list of the amounts being paid out to those individuals?…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagements3. The public clearly think that this Government have lost the plot over the cost of living crisis. The Prime Minister may be aware that the average salaries of a nurse and a…06 Jul 2022HANSARD NATO Accession: Sweden and FinlandWe all cannot overstate the significance or momentousness of this announcement. Many of us will have lived through the many decades of the cold war and will appreciate that for…06 Jul 2022HANSARDStudent Mental HealthIf I may, I start by offering a warm welcome to students from Myton School in my constituency, who join us in the Gallery. In a recent survey by the mental health charity HUMEN,…04 Jul 2022HANSARD Delivery of Public ServicesMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. One of the learnings of the past two years, and one of the concerns, has been about the cuts to local government and our local…28 Jun 2022HANSARD Delivery of Public ServicesMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. To add to his point, it is foolish to suggest that there is somehow some unnecessary flabbiness in the civil service or in local…28 Jun 2022HANSARDRape: Criminal ProsecutionsThe Minister will be aware that Warwickshire has the lowest conviction rate in the country and was one of the first forces to close its rape and serious sexual offences unit,…28 Jun 2022HANSARD Women’s Rights to Reproductive Healthcare: United StatesI hear the comments that it is not for us to interfere in US affairs, but thank God the US interfered in our situation with Ireland. This decision is relevant because it sends an…28 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have leaseholders in my constituency of Warwick and Leamington who are unable to sell their properties because the properties have not been painted for 40 years, despite the…27 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Planned to process 300,000 tests a day, the Rosalind Franklin laboratory is handling just 30,000 a day. I understand that some scientists working there are being paid for five…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy hon. Friend made some telling and constructive contributions in Committee, and I entirely agree with her. If we want the best from any system of higher education and its…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe right hon. Member was very involved in the Committee, and I thought that his contributions were robust and helped the debate along. I do not mean to misrepresent what…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI do not want to suggest that all people come from a position of partiality, but some are more partial—and overtly partial—than others. That was the whole point of what I tried to…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillOf course it was a throwaway line, but the job does pay £100,000. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman has a second job, but I do not, unlike so many on the Government Benches who may…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI read every word. I read them with interest. Only last week, the HEPI student academic experience survey revealed that a majority of students—64%—either agreed or agreed strongly…13 Jun 2022