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HANSARDCoronation: Policing of ProtestsThe Minister has repeatedly used the example of hundreds being able to protest as evidence that our right to protest has not been undermined. But when people can be pre-emptively…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsThe Minister is being very generous with his time. On SEN funding, local authorities in England are facing a £2.4 billion black hole in special educational needs. I had the…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI thank the Minister for giving way; I recognise that he speaks on this topic with a great deal of experience. I also particularly thank my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry…09 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillLet me remind the hon. Member for Blackpool South (Scott Benton) that the reason our public services are crumbling and people cannot see a dentist, and the reason NHS workers are…13 Mar 2023HANSARDFinancial Security and Reducing Inequality in the Caribbean: Government RoleI thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. He is making an impassioned speech. Does he agree that the case for former colonial powers paying reparations to the…08 Mar 2023HANSARDRent Controls: Local GovernmentIn September last year, a survey by the tenants’ union ACORN found that 48% of private renters had received a rent hike from their landlord since January 2021. Some increases were…20 Feb 2023HANSARDRent Controls: Local Government3. If he will give local government powers to set rent controls.20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineDoes my hon. friend agree that rather than the Ministry of Defence selling off 1,105 vehicles last year, either to authoritarian regimes or auctioned to private arms dealers,…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Richard Foord) and Members from across the House. I speak as a socialist, an anti-imperialist, and someone who…20 Feb 2023HANSARDLGBT History MonthIt is a real privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Sir Chris Bryant), and I thank the co-chairs of the all-party parliamentary group on global lesbian, gay,…02 Feb 2023HANSARD Levelling-up Fund Round 2If we rank the 317 districts in England, we will see that Nottingham is the 11th most deprived. Despite our clear need, not one of our three levelling-up bids was successful, yet…19 Jan 2023HANSARDScotland Act 1998: Section 35 PowerThe reason the Government cannot tell us exactly what the conflict is with the Equality Act is that there is not one. The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill does not affect…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillDoes the Secretary of State see the irony in expecting unions to ensure minimum safe service levels on strike days when his own Government are failing to do so on every other day?…16 Jan 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillWill the Secretary of State give way?16 Jan 2023HANSARD Spiking Incidents: PreventionThe hon. Member is making an excellent speech and I thank him for the huge amount of work that he has already done on this issue. Does he agree that women in particular are tired…11 Jan 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ15. My 95-year-old constituent spent 41 hours in A&E. When will the Prime Minister admit that the NHS is collapsing because of 13 years of underfunding and do something about it,…11 Jan 2023HANSARD Government PPE ContractsThe Government’s actions on PPE were a catalogue of failures from start to finish, with devastating consequences. Before coronavirus, the existing PPE stockpile did not include…06 Dec 2022HANSARDVoter ID: Young PeopleThe regulations listing documents that will be accepted as voter ID were not in the Elections Bill, but, instead, were in secondary legislation. If MPs had had the opportunity to…01 Dec 2022HANSARDVoter ID: Young People11. Whether the Committee has held discussions with the commission on the potential impact of the introduction of voter identification on young people’s ability to vote.01 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. Care workers were already struggling to get by on wages that hardly pay the bills, and now, with an escalating cost of living crisis, care workers in Nottingham and beyond are…01 Nov 2022