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HANSARDHospice Sector: Fiscal Support and Cost of LivingWill the Minister give way?02 Mar 2023HANSARDHospice Sector: Fiscal Support and Cost of LivingI confess that I had planned to make a couple of interventions, as opposed to a speech, but given that more hon. Members could not be present, I will try to add a bit more to what…02 Mar 2023HANSARDPoverty: Food CostsI congratulate the hon. Member on securing this really important debate. The Food Foundation published an opinion poll today on extending free school meals to every child whose…01 Mar 2023HANSARD Leaseholders and Managing AgentsIn my constituency of Twickenham, we do not have many high-rise blocks of flats, but we have quite a lot of low-rise blocks. I have had two cases come to me relating to two…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillI see where the hon. Gentleman is coming from, but equally, we are ambitious about making sure that the whole population, or many parts of it, are reskilling and are ready for the…27 Feb 2023HANSARDSEN Providers: Rural AreasA special school in Oxfordshire is one of dozens of schools that in the past few years have had to close because their buildings were deemed unsafe for pupils. Last week, it was…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the Chairman of the Education Select Committee, the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr Walker). Mr Deputy Speaker, “adult education must not be regarded as a…27 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningThe Football Association has raised concerns that school sport premium funding is often announced very late in the academic year, and therefore schools struggle to make plans on…21 Feb 2023HANSARD School Sport Facilities: ReopeningThe Minister was making a point about children’s participation in sport, particularly in schools. Does she share my concern that over the past 10 years some 40,000 hours of…21 Feb 2023HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityI thank the hon. Lady, my constituency neighbour, for giving way, and I congratulate her on securing this extremely important debate. On the supply of childcare, does she share my…21 Feb 2023HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityThe big step forward on childcare provision was in part thanks to the Liberal Democrats in the coalition Government. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, setting core schools…21 Feb 2023HANSARDWater Company PerformanceThe Minister may be aware that Thames Water is considering plans to draw out water from the river at Teddington in my constituency in times of drought and replace it with treated…21 Feb 2023HANSARDLocal Authority BudgetsBoth adult and children’s social care are in crisis, but the social care grant, which can be used for both, excludes from its flawed funding formula the needs of tens of thousands…20 Feb 2023HANSARDLocal Authority Budgets17. What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of local authority budgets.20 Feb 2023HANSARD Prevent: Independent ReviewI would like to think that everybody, on both sides of the House, is united in wanting to tackle extremism and terrorism, whichever faith groups, or those of no faith at all, are…08 Feb 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. When the Government abandoned their Schools Bill, several schools in my constituency approached me to ask whether the Government still…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe Minister will forgive me if she is coming to this point, but as a Liberal I believe passionately in freedom of speech, as I believe does she. The clause to allow statutory…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Reform of Children’s Social CareThe children who end up in our social care system are, of course, some of the most vulnerable children in our society. It is incumbent on all of us to put the utmost protection…02 Feb 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionMy constituents living in houseboats and on heat networks have been left out in the cold for months without support or information. This is despite repeated assurances from the…25 Jan 2023HANSARDUnaccompanied Asylum-seeking ChildrenIn the Minister’s answers to various Members, there seems to have been a lot of verbal gymnastics about the legal status of either the Home Office or local authorities in respect…24 Jan 2023