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HANSARDSeven Principles of Public LifeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Paula Barker) on securing this important debate. It…07 Sept 2022HANSARDAvanti West CoastAvanti West Coast is causing chaos for my constituents, who are still unable to book a seat on virtually any weekend between now and November. When I contacted the Secretary of…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateThe incoming Prime Minister has promised to deliver a plan to address the energy price crisis and is now thought to be considering freezing energy bills. In my Birkenhead…05 Sept 2022HANSARDChildren’s Social Care WorkforceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for St Helens South and Whiston (Ms Rimmer) for securing this…20 Jul 2022HANSARDChildren’s Social Care WorkforceThe true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. There are surely no members of our society more vulnerable than the hundreds of thousands of young…20 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) for leading the debate and speaking with…18 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsMy hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. Does he not think that to be a working person in Britain today, to have lived through a decade of stagnating wages, to have seen their…11 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The Mersey tidal project alone has the potential to power more than 1 million homes and produce almost as much electricity as Hinkley…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI thank the hon. Lady for that point. The Minister will point towards the considerable up-front costs of tidal power as a barrier to progress, but such a view ignores the fact…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI am grateful to all Members for their powerful contributions, including the Minister, even though he likes to have a little pop now and again—we take that with a pinch of salt. I…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI will try to cover that later in my speech. Onshore wind can meet the growing demand for electricity as our economy decarbonises, but also, importantly, it could help us to…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI have only the information that we have received, and it has all been fact-checked. Quibbles about the costs of tidal power look frankly laughable when we consider the strategy’s…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI agree. We need to look into hydrogen as well as oil for people living in rural areas of the country. It is a problem, but one that we can overcome. There can be no more secure a…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyI beg to move, That this House has considered the British energy security strategy. It is a great privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, and I am grateful to…05 Jul 2022HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity Fund8. What assessment he has made of the impact of the allocation of the UK shared prosperity fund on real-term funding levels for communities.27 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundThis Government fought and won the last election with a commitment to ensuring that post-Brexit funding will, at a minimum, match European Union subsidies, but the shared…27 Jun 2022HANSARDFire and Rehire TacticsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I am enormously grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) for securing this important debate. I…15 Jun 2022HANSARDFuture Hydrogen EconomyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Redcar (Jacob Young) for securing this important debate. There was much to…14 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. It is now three months since the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State visited the Cammell Laird shipyard in my constituency for the launch of the national shipbuilding…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillWhen the Prime Minister staggered out of Monday’s no-confidence vote, he and his remaining allies were quick to take to the airwaves to insist that this lame-duck Administration…08 Jun 2022