Contributions
577 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDElectricity and Gas Transmission (Compensation) BillI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox) on bringing forward this Bill, and for his incredible luck in the private Members’ ballot in two…25 Nov 2022HANSARDElectricity and Gas Transmission (Compensation) BillI am grateful for that intervention. My right hon. Friend makes an important point. My right hon. Friend’s Bill is born out of issues that his constituents have faced whereby they…25 Nov 2022HANSARD Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) BillI am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak for the second time today. I praise my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) for using his private…25 Nov 2022HANSARD Carbon Emissions (Buildings) BillIt is pleasure to be called to speak for a third time today, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wish to begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew) on…25 Nov 2022HANSARDPilot Officer William McMullen: Posthumous RecognitionIt is a genuine privilege and a huge pleasure to have been granted an Adjournment debate—my first—on the posthumous recognition of Pilot Officer William Stuart McMullen of 428…25 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I thank the Government for all that they are doing to improve connectivity at Darlington, including the £135 million invested in Bank Top station? However, my constituents in…24 Nov 2022HANSARD Misuse of Nitrous OxideI am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing this debate to the House. The use of nitrous oxide in the community and the litter that comes from the canisters are…23 Nov 2022HANSARDFire Services: North-east EnglandIt is interesting that the hon. Lady refers to the intervention of the Army in previous strikes. I have just been doing some research into when the last fire brigade strikes were.…23 Nov 2022HANSARDFire Services: North-east EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary, and to be called to speak in the debate. Having grown up in a fire service family in the north-east, this is a subject…23 Nov 2022HANSARDManagement of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Paymentsindicated dissent .15 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsFollowing a recent unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission, some services at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys mental health trust have improved, but the trust’s overall…01 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast year an estimated 1 million people of working age were receiving carer’s allowance. A constituent of mine, after three and a half years of caring for his father full time—his…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point, and I am sure the Minister will, having heard him, address it in summing up. To return to the use of the banking system as a means of…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is clear to all of us with any knowledge of domestic abuse that perpetrators use the tool of coercion and financial…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillMy hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point about the work that was done in the covid lockdowns. I, too, regularly met my local police force to discuss that issue, and it…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillI agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. My hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye has introduced a highly commendable Bill, putting further steps in place to right a…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillMay I press on the Minister a point that I raised in my speech? I appreciate that I may be catching him off guard today, but I really think that the Government need to take a…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Preston (Sir Mark Hendrick) on moving the Second Reading of his Bill. Having had the pleasure of introducing my own private Member’s Bill in the…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Employment Relations (Flexible Working) BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) on bringing forward this important Bill. Having had the privilege of guiding my own private Member’s Bill in…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that important point. He has made it clearly and it is on the record, and I welcome that investment. As I have served on the Women and…28 Oct 2022