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HANSARDDomestic Abuse and HomelessnessIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Neil Coyle) on securing this debate and on…12 Jun 2019HANSARDFree TV Licences: Over-75sNearly 4,000 of my constituents are going to be affected by this decision. I find it absolutely shocking that the Secretary of State, who stood on a 2017 manifesto that promised…11 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe loss of Novartis from the South Humber bank will lead to 400 job losses. Will the Secretary of State appoint one of his Ministers to a taskforce, to find a new buyer for the…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Crime and Antisocial Behaviour: Small TownsI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does she think that, at the very heart of this, the concern of people in constituencies such as Batley and Spen and Great…05 Jun 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit and DebtI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Ruth George) on securing this important debate. With the best will in the world, this seems to have become a state-devised…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Suggitt’s Lane Level CrossingDoes the Minister accept that only one incident has been recorded with the RAIB, and that was back in 2005?04 Jun 2019HANSARD Suggitt’s Lane Level CrossingI thank the hon. Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers) for generously allowing me a few minutes to add my voice to those of the campaigners who crowdfunded to get here to…04 Jun 2019HANSARD Suggitt’s Lane Level CrossingDid the Committee not also state in its recommendations that it considered there was merit in applying a public safety test to any diversionary route that may result from the…04 Jun 2019HANSARDBritish SteelWhat reassurance can the Minister offer to the many apprentices who work at the Scunthorpe plant from my Great Grimsby constituency and to the colleges that arrange those…21 May 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseWill the Leader of the House join me in congratulating Grimsby Institute’s level 3 enterprise and entrepreneurship group on its strong performance at the UK final of the Young…16 May 2019HANSARDSerious ViolenceThe Home Secretary is being generous with his time. This week at Killingholme docks a truck with £3 million-worth of cocaine hidden in it was stopped and prevented from coming…15 May 2019HANSARDPrisons and ProbationIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare), and I echo his remarks about the hon. Member for Banbury (Victoria Prentis), who has an incredibly…14 May 2019HANSARDCare Leavers: EmploymentWhy is the youth obligation failing our young people so badly? More people on the youth obligation are falling out of benefits altogether. They are unable to maintain stability…13 May 2019HANSARDBird Nesting Sites: ProtectionThe point the right hon. Gentleman is making about the volume house builders and their complete disregard, it seems to me, for some of the planning regulations in place has been…13 May 2019HANSARDDomestic AbuseGrimsby has had domestic violence provision for more than 40 years. The refuge is run by Denise Farman, who does an excellent job, and women arrive from all across the country to…13 May 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsCentrepoint’s evidence to the DWP Committee showed that 96% of the young people it surveyed were not offered a traineeship or work placement if they were still on the youth…13 May 2019HANSARDWaste Water Treatment Works: Odour NuisanceI beg to move, That this House has considered odour nuisance from waste water treatment works. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I recognise that it…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionWill the Minister overturn the ban on onshore wind?23 Apr 2019HANSARDWaste Water Treatment Works: Odour NuisanceI thank my constituency neighbour for raising that issue. He was a member of the local authority in its various guises for a number of years, so has vast experience of this issue.…23 Apr 2019HANSARDWaste Water Treatment Works: Odour NuisanceForty or 50? If so, the issue is longstanding and needs to be resolved before the weather plays an increasing role and the problem becomes uncontainable. I saw in my research…23 Apr 2019