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HANSARD Doncaster Sheffield AirportThank you for being so generous with your time. As a fellow South Yorkshire MP, can I just say how grateful I am—I know that many of us in the House are—for the tireless work that…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and the commitments that he has made to looking at the recommendations of the review. The problem is that child sexual exploitation and…24 Oct 2022HANSARDEngagementsOver the past week, serious safeguarding failures by the children’s charity Mermaids have come to light, with revelations that the charity sent breast-flattening devices to young…12 Oct 2022HANSARD Energy Prices: Support for BusinessThis support will be very much welcomed by businesses in my constituency, and particularly by high-energy users such as the steel industry, which has suffered from uncompetitive…22 Sept 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentMay I begin by saying that my colleagues on the Government Benches look very much alive to me? Looking back over the last two and a half years, I think we can say with confidence…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSThank you, Mr Dowd. I thank the Minister for his response. I am looking forward to seeing the consultation on the guidance. I thank everybody who contributed today. This has been…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSI completely agree. That is why I am calling on the Department to conduct this review urgently. It is incumbent on parents and teachers to speak out when they see those resources…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. There is guidance, which I will come on to, but the problem is that the guidance is often very vague and open to interpretation. I…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It does nothing but add to the anxiety and difficulty that many teenagers already face. That is why it is more important than ever that parents…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The problem is that these ideas do not just stay as ideas; they have serious physical consequences. There has been a more than 4,000%…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSI beg to move, That this House has considered relationship and sex education materials in schools. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) and the hon.…30 Jun 2022HANSARDBACKBENCH BUSINESSI hope that the Minister will answer those questions, but my right hon. Friend is right. That is the source of the problem: the regulation and inspection criteria is not the same…30 Jun 2022HANSARDSteel SafeguardsI thank my right hon. Friend to listening to representations from myself and other MPs representing steel industries. Extending the safeguards like this is really great news for…29 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he not agree that much of the controversy surrounding this Bill comes from a conflation of physical safety with emotional…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She gave a passionate speech, and I fully support the many things she is doing to uphold women’s rights, but this is needlessly being…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillUnlike all the other speakers in this debate, I was not on the Bill Committee, which is a shame, because it sounds like it was very lively, and I have not tabled my own amendment.…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. The belief that human life starts at conception is a scientifically valid belief, and one that I hold myself. Students and staff should…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy right hon. Friend is right: this Bill is an important marker for universities, which will be forced to recognise that these are not specific isolated issues, but that there is…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI am very sorry to hear it. The hon. Lady absolutely should not be. What I am trying to say is that this is a much wider issue than the particular incidents that have made the…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillLevelling up is the core mission of this Government. It was certainly a mission that resonated with voters in my constituency of Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2019. For far too…08 Jun 2022