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HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]No, but I am happy to intervene. I do not want to make this too oleaginous, but the point my hon. Friend makes about capacity is a huge one. We do not have enough recorders or…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend makes a really powerful point. There is no doubt that the district bench is under huge pressure at the moment. We are not getting the recruits and the applications…05 Jan 2022HANSARDDelivering Justice for VictimsI warmly commend my hon. Friend for his statement and the consultation document. As he will know from when he was my departmental Whip, a lot of the language in this document is…09 Dec 2021HANSARDDefence CommitteeI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her report, which is born out of her own experience in the services. I am sure that the service personnel and veterans whom I represent in…09 Dec 2021HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your assistance and guidance on how more formally to place on the record thanks to advisers and other officials who helped me…09 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I will do my best. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister on bringing forward the White Paper, which has been long in the gestation. I am…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyMay I commend my right hon. Friend on his statement and on the drugs strategy that he and I worked on together? In particular, I commend Dame Carol Black’s recommendations 17 to…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Adult Social CareI congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the White Paper. I see the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in his place, and I am grateful to him, too, for ensuring the…01 Dec 2021HANSARDDown Syndrome BillMy right hon. Friend has come to a very important part in his speech, because there is a real concern among people with Down’s syndrome and their families that the system or other…26 Nov 2021HANSARDGurkha PensionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) for allowing me to intervene. I have the honour of representing the Gurkha community in…22 Nov 2021HANSARDGurkha PensionsWill my hon. Friend give way?22 Nov 2021HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillMay I put on record my deep gratitude to my hon. Friend for her tireless work on this Bill? She and I worked together on it when I was in office. I am also grateful to my right…19 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingIt is with great pleasure that I rise in my first end-of-day Adjournment debate in the better part of eight years, but it is a topic that I am very happy to return to from this…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingI am very grateful to my hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee. It was encouraging to see that the revenue settlement for the Ministry of Justice over the next three years…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingI am grateful to my hon. Friend. In 2020, he and I visited his local prison in Winchester, a prison with many challenges and, there is no doubt about it, a share of the population…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who rightly outlines some of the pressures on the system—the increase in diagnosis, which in many ways is a good thing, and the personnel and…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingI will let my hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) in first before my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill).16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have seen that in other areas, for example mental health, where there has been concerted work, including by excellent organisations…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is no doubt that an inappropriate response, or a response, however well intentioned, that results from a lack of evidence or a lack…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Autism and Neurodiversity Research FundingAgain, that is a really important point. I do not make any criticism of the sharp-elbowed middle classes; these people are doing what they think is right for their children. I…16 Nov 2021