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HANSARDDraft South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I want to speak briefly in opposition to this order. Although it is tempting to speak about individual Mayors and PCCs…06 Mar 2024HANSARDDraft South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024I do, and as fellow South Yorkshire MPs, we see the current obsession with the franchising model for buses, which at the end of the day will not actually deliver more money for…06 Mar 2024HANSARDCommunity Ownership FundSilsden Methodist church in my constituency has not been used for worship for some time, but it is a really important community space, where a wide range of community groups meet…04 Mar 2024HANSARDCommunity Ownership Fund12. What the eligibility criteria for the community ownership fund are.04 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe Minister has made an important point about the problems with the requirement for DPP permission, but is there not an even more significant problem with that? Although it seems…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI will try to keep my remarks brief, because a number of Members still want to get in. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Lloyd Russell-Moyle)—who is not in…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. There are a number of people left to speak on what is a very important and controversial Bill, and a number of issues have not yet been…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI completely agree with the hon. Member about the tone of this important debate, but, as I am sure he is aware, abuse and torture are absolutely illegal in this country, and we…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I want to put on record that he has been absolutely brilliant in engaging with a whole range of colleagues—he is absolutely correct.…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Member is certainly trying very hard to provide a carve-out—an exception—to allow health practitioners to explore professionally with their clients their sexual and…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillIn the survey to which my hon. Friend refers, what definition of “conversion therapy” was put to respondents?01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Gentleman is talking about abusive practices and practices that cause harm. Of course, we all condemn anything that is abusive and, as he says, the vast majority of those…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI absolutely agree. Although Members have spoken about abuse and persistent patterns of behaviour—all of which are certainly serious—the reality is that in the drafting of the…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech that makes clear how nuanced the debate is and how complicated an area it is in which to legislate. Does he share my concern that the…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI completely agree. Despite the wide range of views expressed in the debate, we still have not established what it is that is not yet illegal but should be made illegal. That is…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillWill my hon. Friend give way?01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Lady is giving a superb speech. I completely agree that clinicians are already under pressure to use an affirmative approach. Is one of the problems not that many of the…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThank you very much. The hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Neale Hanvey) put the point brilliantly: the backdrop to this debate and legislation is one where gender…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Gentleman is making a brilliant speech and laying out not just what the Bill could do, but the background and culture against which we are speaking. He is right that the…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillI thank my hon. Friend for being so generous in taking another intervention. He talked about evidence and referred to the survey, which he admitted contained no definition of…01 Mar 2024