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HANSARDSchool Budgets since 201017. What assessment she has made of the impact of real-terms reductions to school budgets since 2010 on school children.29 Apr 2024HANSARDUK Armed Forces in Middle EastThe UN reports that 80% of all those in the world facing imminent famine are located in Gaza. With over 200 humanitarian workers killed by Israeli forces since October, a…29 Apr 2024HANSARDHealth and Disability ReformMembers of this House may remember that I had to take a leave of absence from this role three years ago because I have post-traumatic stress disorder. I can tell the House that…29 Apr 2024HANSARDSchool Budgets since 2010I thank the Minister for his response, but what he says about the state of school funding is not the full picture, and he knows it. Schools’ costs have increased much faster than…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPublic Ownership of the Energy SystemDespite the Minister’s disagreement, public ownership exists in our energy system. For example, 45% of our offshore wind assets are publicly owned, just not by the UK—they belong…16 Apr 2024HANSARDPublic Ownership of the Energy System13. Whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of public ownership of the energy system.16 Apr 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaI am afraid that I need to make progress. If there is one moral principle that all of us in this House should share, it is that genocide should never be allowed to take place. The…21 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaFor 137 days, tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians have been killed. Entire families have been wiped out by intense bombing that has spared no one. Israeli forces have…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseOn 13 June last year, Nottingham was shaken by the horrific stabbings that took the lives of three precious members of our community, Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Financial Distress in Local AuthoritiesI thank my hon. Friend for all his work on this important report. It is a privilege to serve on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee under his chairship. He does…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillJust last month, COP28 made history by acknowledging for the first time the need to transition away from fossil fuels. It should not have taken 28 COPs to accept what scientists…22 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesMilitary action in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, in which the UK has played a part, has frequently resulted in unintended consequences, triggering further cycles of…15 Jan 2024HANSARD Arms Export Licences: IsraelI completely agree with the point my hon. Friend makes. It is not only bombs causing death and despair in the strip: nine in 10 people in northern Gaza have gone a full day and…12 Dec 2023HANSARD Arms Export Licences: IsraelThe Israeli Government’s assault on Gaza has endured for over two months, and there is no end in sight. The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October were truly horrifying, and I…12 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. A YMCA report last year found that £1.1 billion had been cut from youth services since 2010-11—a real-terms cut of 74%. While the Government’s national youth guarantee does…16 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerWill the Secretary of State give way?09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerA moment ago the Secretary of State quoted the Climate Change Committee, which also said that expanding fossil fuel production is not in line with net zero. By the Secretary of…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI am sorry to put a downer on the debate, but frankly the King’s Speech shows that the party in Government is completely out of ideas. Some 1.5 million food parcels have been…09 Nov 2023HANSARD Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian SituationAccording to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 10,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the past month—that is one of every 200 residents of Gaza. That does not…08 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and GazaThe targeted killing of civilians, whether Israeli or Palestinian, must be condemned, as must the kidnapping of hostages. The civilians of Gaza should not be made to pay the price…16 Oct 2023