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HANSARD Poly and Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (Guidance)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water to issue guidance to water companies on poly and perfluorinated alkyl…05 Nov 2024HANSARDChildcare AvailabilityTwo thirds of early years places are delivered by private and voluntary providers. Further to the shadow Education Secretary’s question, what assessment has the Department for…04 Nov 2024HANSARDChildcare AvailabilityAlongside formal childcare, many parents want to have the option of spending more time at home with their babies in those precious early months that are so crucial for a child’s…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. Today’s National Audit Office report confirms what parents, carers, children and young people across the country have…24 Oct 2024HANSARD Special Educational Needs and Disabilities(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on support for children and young people with special educational needs and…24 Oct 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseRight hon. and hon. Members across the House agree that it is right that the House consider the issue of assisted dying. However, many of us are deeply torn on the issue and want…24 Oct 2024HANSARD Paternity Leave and PayIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I congratulate the hon. Member for Telford (Shaun Davies) on securing this incredibly important debate. It is…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Access to Primary HealthcareAs well as needing more GPs, our GPs need decent premises from which to deliver high-quality care to patients. Park Road surgery in my constituency has been looking for new…16 Oct 2024HANSARDAccess to NHS Mental Health ServicesA recent review of children’s mental health services in my local authority, the London borough of Richmond, found that, staggeringly, children with mild to moderate needs in tier…15 Oct 2024HANSARD Afghan Special Forces Relocation ReviewA constituent of mine who served with British forces in Kabul came to see me earlier this year about a friend who had appealed his failed ARAP application. This individual is an…14 Oct 2024HANSARD Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGBMy hon. Friend makes an important point about grassroots sport. I am proud that we have a thriving grassroots sport scene across Twickenham, but there just are not enough playing…10 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI apologise, Mr Speaker. I was just coming on to the last paragraph of my speech, but I wanted to take some interventions from those on the Liberal Democrat Benches.08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsThank you, Mr Speaker. As we have a Treasury Minister rather than an Education Minister opening the debate for the Government, I say gently that he should look at what the Liberal…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsMay I just finish by urging Ministers to look, instead of a damaging and counterproductive tax on education, at ways to get independent schools to do more of that great…08 Oct 2024HANSARDClimate Change: International WorkThe Climate Change Committee has said that there should be no more than a 25% increase in airport capacity, compared with 2018 levels, if we are to achieve net zero by 2050, yet…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsThank you very much, Mr Speaker, and I am grateful for the Health Secretary’s advice— [ Interruption. ] I did not need coaching—you will hear that soon enough. When I heard that…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI would rather the Government do not go through with this policy at all and drop it, but if they insist on pressing ahead with it, all children with special educational needs,…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is absolutely right to say that because only children with EHCPs will be exempt from the VAT charge, there will be the unintended…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI think many of us—certainly on this side of the House—would recognise the point my hon. Friend makes, and many have already made it. I suspect that quite a few people on the…08 Oct 2024HANSARDVAT: Independent SchoolsI point out for a start that when the Liberal Democrats were in government, school budgets increased in real terms, and we introduced the pupil premium to help the most…08 Oct 2024