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HANSARDEducation and Training (Welfare of Children) BillI could not agree more. It is important that children and young people with autism and the particular vulnerabilities that they face are not left out of our discussions. It is…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEducation and Training (Welfare of Children) BillI am glad that the hon. Gentleman took the opportunity to say that. Having read the Hansard record of the first debate, I know how many people spoke in it and that the intentions…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEducation and Training (Welfare of Children) BillI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham for introducing the Bill, which is an important piece of legislation. We all feel strongly about the importance of…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingYes, I do, and I had an experience of that recently. Leicester had a rate of 100 per 100,000 when it went into lockdown. In Chesterfield, we have a rate of 143 per 100,000, and we…14 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageI was really frustrated by the sense, in some of the interventions on my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor, that the Labour party, in making this extremely serious suggestion, was…14 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Iranian regime routinely commits human rights atrocities and abuses against its people, with, recently, the execution there of Navid Afkari. It plays an appalling role in the…13 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Prime Minister will be as aware as anyone that people do not generally go to the pub to meet their own wife; they go to the pub to be with other people. In the current…12 Oct 2020HANSARDApprenticeshipsThe Minister is right to say that apprenticeships are more important than ever, but for all the rhetoric, the way that the Government introduced the apprenticeship levy saw level…12 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Update and Hospitality CurfewI accept what the Secretary of State has said about the science, but he must realise that there were many publicans who were really struggling to get by before this, and the new…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt has come as a hammer blow for non-league clubs such as Chesterfield that are in the national league to discover that having taken on all the players, and facing all the costs…24 Sept 2020HANSARDDraft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) order 2020Thank you very much indeed, Ms Bardell, for calling me to speak; it is a great pleasure to serve under your fledgling chairship. I also congratulate my counterpart, the Minister,…08 Sept 2020HANSARDFurther Education College FinancesThe Government’s own commissioner for further education has warned that as many as 40 colleges are currently at risk of running out of cash, and despite the measures that the…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe people of Chesterfield are concerned that HS2 has put in an objection to the recent planning application by the Chesterfield Canal Trust, describing the two projects as…03 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 TestingAlongside the need to increase capacity, there is a real need to make sure that what is already there is working properly. In Chesterfield, I have had many people contact me over…01 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 TestingWhat recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of covid-19 test availability.01 Sept 2020HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI echo the Secretary of State’s tribute to the professionalism and commitment of our armed forces. I also wish to reinforce the point made by the hon. Member for Filton and…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Government sat on the Dame Mary Ney review of the funding oversight of our further education colleges for nine months. The written statement that the Minister for…16 Jul 2020HANSARDBritish Overseas Troops: Civil Liability ClaimsThe Minister now says that he is willing to look again at all aspects of the Bill, which is precisely what my right hon. Friend the Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey)…16 Jul 2020HANSARDBritish Overseas Troops: Civil Liability ClaimsWhat about the questions?16 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Testing: Care SectorSome 1,431 people were discharged from Scottish hospitals into care homes by the Scottish Government. In Scotland, the proportion of care home deaths is much higher than that in…01 Jul 2020