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HANSARDNational Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceKuvan, Orkambi and Spinraza—these are just three life-changing drugs to which thousands of patients are being denied access on the NHS. Patients have waited far too long for the…07 May 2019HANSARDHealthcare: East MidlandsOh, right—it was the second-worst, then. Anyway, bed occupancy also rose to 95.2% this winter, well above the 85% deemed to be safe, and patients are waiting almost 4% longer in…30 Apr 2019HANSARDHealthcare: East MidlandsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Karen Lee) for securing this important debate. She is a passionate…30 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationHe has gone, thankfully. The Minister will be aware that there has been an application for a gasification plant in my constituency. The key bone of contention is that no decision…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationThat is really kind of the Minister. May I apologise for my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) on behalf of us all?09 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingLand Registry figures estimate that 19% of property sales in my constituency in 2017 involved leasehold homes. That is nearly one in five homebuyers who are experiencing the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Waste Incineration: RegulationWill the Minister give way?09 Apr 2019HANSARDFurther Education FundingI thank the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) for having secured this important debate. I pay tribute to all the local colleges in the north-east and especially…02 Apr 2019HANSARDFurther Education FundingAbsolutely. In the past 10 years, we have seen enrolments for adult education drop from 5.1 million to 1.9 million. Funding for students aged 16 to 18 has also been cut by 8% in…02 Apr 2019HANSARDFurther Education FundingI absolutely agree. We also found that the budget did not increase when education became compulsory until 18. It just does not reflect the current cost of high-quality courses,…02 Apr 2019HANSARDDraft Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Roger. We are very happy that you joined us by stepping in for your colleague. I thank the Minister for introducing the statutory…01 Apr 2019HANSARDCervical CancerI, too, want to start by paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders)—he is a big loss to the Front Bench—and also to the Minister I…26 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeOn my hon. Friend’s powerful point about who people come into contact with when they are first getting into trouble, if there was an automatic 10-year sentence on first arrest for…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeIt would be remiss of me not to mention two young people from Sunderland who were also victims. In the north-east, we do not have an epidemic of knife crime. There is a regional…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again. When I was chair of the all-party parliamentary group on basketball, we did an inquiry into how basketball could be harnessed…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend’s excellent speech, but I would have thought that part of the problem with rehabilitation is the recidivism of repeat offenders. Does…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy hon. Friend is making an excellent series of points. I was hoping that we would cover that the break- down of the fabric of society is part of this. We cannot point to only one…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeWill my hon. Friend give some details about why some of those young people are carrying knives—details that she will have picked up through all her work in this area? I know there…25 Mar 2019HANSARDTyne and Wear Metro: Washington9. What assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the Tyne and Wear Metro to Washington.21 Mar 2019HANSARDTyne and Wear Metro: WashingtonResidents of Washington often feel like the town is an island compared with neighbouring cities and towns. It contains 70,000 of my constituents, 70% of whom use their car to get…21 Mar 2019