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HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThat is an excellent friend— I mean that is an excellent comment from my hon. Friend, and she is absolutely right. I should at this stage point out that there are a couple of us…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayIn bringing this matter up, the hon. Lady is doing what we all must do, which is to raise these issues in public. That is what the Afghan women I met were pleading for—to make…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe hon. Lady brings up the interesting issue of inequality in titles. I was very fortunate to be able to receive a damehood recently and I am greatly honoured to have it. But I…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI thank the hon. Lady for those kind comments. It demonstrates how we work together and have shared interests. Just to refer back to our venture to the United Nations Commission…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayWill the hon. Lady forgive me if I do not? I do not want to incur the wrath of Madam Deputy Speaker. The point of gender sensitivity is to create environments in which both men…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe hon. Lady raises an important point about pilots. I know her point is slightly broader than that, but pilots face issues in staying qualified to fly, if they have children.…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He is always a great supporter of women. He raises an important issue, which is that women have many different roles in this…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayDoes my hon. Friend agree with me that one of the things the Government have done in the last 10 years, by making relationships and sex education mandatory for all school-age…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe hon. Lady is rightly talking up her party’s role in all these issues, and I would expect her to do nothing less, but surely she would agree that this Government have done an…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayWould my hon. Friend join me in urging Ofsted to do a deep dive on this issue, so that it can look at exactly the point she has made? It is an issue I have raised with Government…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI say an enormous thank you to everybody who has taken part in the debate. This debate always demonstrates how much agreement there is across the House; I always see more heads…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayMy hon. Friend is making a powerful point. It is a point that was made endlessly to me over the past three days in New York at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The women…09 Mar 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsI thank my hon. Friend for such a powerful speech. He is reminding me of the medallions that my councillors wear—perhaps former mayors, aldermen or people who have served with…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsOn my very first day in Parliament, I decided to sit next to this blond-haired man whom I had never met before in my life. He stood up, and I will not repeat what he said to the…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech about the impact on departing Members. Does he share my concern that that impact, which he is describing so eloquently, may also be a…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsI thank the hon. Member for referring to the comments that I made. May I draw her a little further on the role that House Committees could have in scrutinising the work of the…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsI apologise for interrupting the hon. Lady again; she is being gracious in giving way. She referred to issues some people with a disability have in getting into this building, a…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsLike the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith (Deidre Brock), the shadow leader is an appointed member of the House of Commons Commission, so she is in charge of running the…09 Feb 2023HANSARD Parliamentary Services for MPsI will chance my arm with yet another member of the House of Commons Commission —there are four members of the Commission in the Chamber today—as the Commission is responsible for…09 Feb 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency Care Recovery PlanI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. In the pandemic, the use of local private hospitals by the NHS, particularly in places such as Basingstoke, kept services such as…30 Jan 2023