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HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast week, the Government ramped up bus fares by 50%. The previous Government commissioned a full impact assessment, which was completed last year, on the abolition of the £2 bus…09 Jan 2025HANSARD Public Finances: Borrowing CostsI completely sympathise with the Chief Secretary about the incredible brass neck of the official Opposition. He talks about kick-starting growth, but can he give us any evidence…09 Jan 2025HANSARDRailway CapacityI welcome the Secretary of State to her new position. My party knows her well from her hard work on London’s transport network. We look forward to continuing the constructive…09 Jan 2025HANSARD NHS BacklogA third of children with a serious eating disorder are not seen within the NHS waiting time standard. Does my hon. Friend agree that such delays only make matters worse, leading…06 Jan 2025HANSARDOld Oak Common StationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for securing this debate. As we have heard from…17 Dec 2024HANSARDIsrael and PalestineIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) for introducing the debate and the petitioners…16 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. This Christmas, over one in four children in this country will be living in poverty. That could be partly addressed by scrapping the two-child benefit cap and paid for simply…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentIn my constituency there are many Hongkongers deeply concerned about surveillance from Chinese agents in this country. Can the Minister give my constituents any assurance that…16 Dec 2024HANSARD Prison Capacity StrategyThe Minister is aware of my view that it is folly to build new prisons to increase capacity. All we will do is create more prisoners and more overcrowding—it is a supply-led…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Improving Public TransportApologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are talking about now, and we are talking about the hike in the bus fare cap to £3. It would cost only £150 million to keep it at £2 according…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Improving Public TransportI commend the hon. Member for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard (Alex Mayer) on her excellent maiden speech, and congratulate her on having the oldest road in her constituency—and…05 Dec 2024HANSARD Improving Public TransportWe are talking about now, and we are talking about the fact that you have reduced the bus fare cap.05 Dec 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Service Charges15. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of service charges on residents in social housing.02 Dec 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Service ChargesMany leaseholders in my constituency live in properties where Clarion housing association is the freeholder. This year’s service charge is on average almost 50% higher than the…02 Dec 2024HANSARD Pakistan: Freedom of ReligionI thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing the debate, and am grateful to him and other Members for their excellent contributions. Pakistan’s constitution…28 Nov 2024HANSARD Pakistan: Freedom of ReligionI completely agree. We have an absolute duty to enforce that and make sure that happens. The Pakistani Government are doing more than just turning a blind eye to this…28 Nov 2024HANSARD Respect Orders and Antisocial BehaviourI thank the Minister for her statement and warmly welcome it. She is right to mention neighbourhood policing. Does she agree with the Met commissioner, Mark Rowley, that local…27 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI congratulate the Secretary of State on the passing of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill yesterday. Northern Rail has been publicly owned for the past four…21 Nov 2024HANSARDRailway TicketingMay I join others in expressing my party’s sympathy for the family, friends, colleagues and former constituents of John Prescott? He was a towering figure. I welcome the Secretary…21 Nov 2024HANSARDRailway TicketingNow that the railways are coming under her guardianship, will the Secretary of State assure the House that that will be the last above-inflation rail fare increase in this…21 Nov 2024