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HANSARDSTEM Subjects: Uptake by GirlsWe are pleased to see an overall increase in entries for STEM A-levels and GCSEs by girls this year, including a notable 12.7% increase in A-level computing entries. We want to…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I completely agree, and I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. I want those listening to the debate to be clear that we will work with them, and for them, to…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I think the hon. Lady is confusing two different things. Those 2 million people are not necessarily 2 million people who are on the electoral register and are not necessarily 2…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very happy to respond to the point the hon. Lady has just made. Different pieces of research are used for different outcomes. My argument was that she is confusing two…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)Can I come in on that point?22 Sept 2021HANSARDSTEM Subjects: Uptake by GirlsI thank my hon. Friend for highlighting the work that is taking place in his constituency, and I extend my thanks to Burnley College and BAE Systems. We recognise the value that…22 Sept 2021HANSARDSTEM Subjects: Uptake by GirlsI agree that these things start at an early age. I learned how to code at the age of seven, and I do not think it is a coincidence that I am an engineer by training today. These…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry, but I do not know the details of the Scottish entitlement card. Perhaps if I can see the reasons and the application process for that, I might be able to give an…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I think the hon. Lady is confusing the purpose of the Bill. It is to protect the voter, not to ensure that our election results are kosher. I was elected with more than 25,000…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I am happy to answer that question. As we produce guidance, we will be able to give more details on the specifics, but the fact is that it is an insult to say that someone from an…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward, and to progress the passage of the Bill. I pay tribute to my predecessor, the Minister of State for Disabled People,…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)No, no—I have given way. I am also, as the hon. Lady will know, the Minister for Equalities. I have spent a year working on the disproportionate impact that covid has had on…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)Let me finish. I do not know the conversations that the hon. Lady has had with other people. I think that she will find that on this issue I will be very robust, and I will not…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I will not give way any further. We have oral questions—22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very interested in the shadow Minister’s points, because she is saying that what happened in Northern Ireland in the 1980s is very different from what is happening here now,…22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fifth sitting)And now we are making it more uniform.22 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Sixth sitting)I think that those are things that we can work out as we progress. We all know that those sorts of details would not end up in a Bill such as this one. We also need to be able to…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Levelling-up AgendaI thank my hon. Friend for making that point. I have been really bowled over by how the Stoke mafia have been such champions for their area, never talking it down. I thank him for…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Levelling-up AgendaIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) on securing this debate on a topic about which he…15 Sept 2021HANSARDNet Zero Emissions and Green InvestmentI thank my hon. Friend for her letters and her continued campaigning for her constituency. We are working closely with the Welsh Government and remain committed to establishing at…07 Sept 2021