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HANSARDCharities: VAT Refunds14. What steps his Department is taking to help ensure that charities are able to claim timely VAT refunds.02 Jul 2019HANSARDCharities: VAT Refunds4Louis is a charity set up in Sunderland in the memory of Louis, who was stillborn in 2009. It fundraised and built the Louis bereavement suite at Sunderland Royal hospital at a…02 Jul 2019HANSARD Children’s Future Food ReportI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Frank Field) for securing this very important debate, and for his excellent and passionate speech. I am thrilled to be…27 Jun 2019HANSARD Children’s Future Food ReportOn the Minister’s point about ensuring that schools deliver the healthy food required under standards set out in the school food plan, will the Minister ensure that Ofsted is…27 Jun 2019HANSARDElectromagnetic Fields: Health EffectsI was not aware of that, but my hon. Friend has put it out there on the record. I had heard, though, that 5G can go through us, where other things go around us, so it cannot go…25 Jun 2019HANSARDElectromagnetic Fields: Health EffectsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Hollobone. I start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for securing this debate…25 Jun 2019HANSARDChildhood ObesityThank you, Mr Speaker. The Government’s second childhood obesity plan will celebrate its first birthday a week today, but we will not be celebrating. The Government have ducked…18 Jun 2019HANSARDChildhood Obesityrose—18 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Since doing a constituency survey on leaseholds, I have been continually shocked by case after case of unfair charges and rises, such as sinking fund costs going from zero to…17 Jun 2019HANSARD Public Health: County DurhamIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Owen. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) for securing this important debate…12 Jun 2019HANSARD Public Health: County DurhamIt is not working.12 Jun 2019HANSARD Public Health: County DurhamNo; I said that.12 Jun 2019HANSARD Public Health: County DurhamYes, I will. I ask the Minister: when will the Government agree a future funding settlement for public health? I am under the impression that this has been postponed now until…12 Jun 2019HANSARD Consumer ProtectionI agree with the Minister on that point, but I want to highlight the points that I was making about the funding of national trading standards. [Interruption.] She has just assured…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Consumer ProtectionI am going to speak about something slightly different, which is what I think should be in the statutory instrument. As Members probably know—if they do not, it is probably…11 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiI agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that the Minister will have some ideas about how this drug company can be held to account and not be allowed to continue in this way. I hope…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiAt this point I should clarify, for the benefit of the campaigners who I have spoken to about the Crown use licensing option, that it is not an immediate solution from their point…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson, in this very important debate. I thank the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully) for opening this debate on…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiWill the Minister give way on that point?10 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiI was going to come on to that, but if a point is worth making once, it is worth making twice. I will make it to the Minister as well, so she will have plenty of time to think…10 Jun 2019