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HANSARDInternational Women’s DayIt is an honour to be here today as the first MP to represent Bolsover who is a woman. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] Thank you. I am surrounded by fantastic women not only here,…06 Mar 2025HANSARDInternational Women’s DayI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I am proud to be part of a Government who have set out an unprecedented ambition to halve violence against women and girls, but what I…06 Mar 2025HANSARDInternational Women’s DayWomen are over-represented in informal and vulnerable employment. Does my hon. Friend agree that the protections afforded in the Employment Rights Bill are really important for…06 Mar 2025HANSARD SEND Provision: DerbyshireSpecial educational needs provision across Derbyshire is dire. I am thrilled that my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth) has secured the debate, but I am…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Child Arrangements: Presumption of Parental InvolvementI thank my hon. Friend for raising this very important issue. Everybody in this room wants children to be born with two loving parents, but that is not possible for everybody, and…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI welcome this action from a Government who see violence against women and girls as the national emergency that it is, with a Prime Minister, Home Secretary and a Safeguarding…16 Jan 2025HANSARDBusiness of the HouseAs the junction 28 parliamentary champion, I report that residents across Bolsover are really frustrated by congestion. Can we have a Government statement on what we are doing to…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLiving StandardsFourteen years of Conservative rule meant that we all saw child poverty levels rise. One in five children across the country now grows up in scarring poverty. A quarter of all…03 Dec 2024HANSARDLiving Standards9. What steps she plans to take to help improve living standards.03 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillIt is the honour of my life to be in this Chamber as the Member for Bolsover, a seat made famous by the legend that is Dennis Skinner. From Calow to Pilsley, they tell me stories…29 Oct 2024