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HANSARD Telegraph Poles: BirminghamThe crux of the issue is that these companies are not exploring alternatives to poles or using existing infrastructure when they can. I will give some of many examples. Freedom of…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Telegraph Poles: BirminghamI beg to move, That this House has considered telegraph poles in Birmingham. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz, and I welcome the Minister to his place. I…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Public Body Ethnicity Data (Inclusion of Jewish and Sikh Categories)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide that, where a public body collects data about ethnicity for the purpose of delivering public services, it must…04 Dec 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is my great pleasure to speak in this debate responding to the first Labour Budget in 14 years, delivered by the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer. I congratulate…30 Oct 2024HANSARD Telegraph Poles: Planning Permissionrose—17 Oct 2024HANSARD Telegraph Poles: Planning PermissionMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and it is much needed. As he said, many of our constituents already have excellent broadband, so telegraph poles should be…17 Oct 2024HANSARD Exempt Supported AccommodationI thank the Opposition spokespersons —the hon. Members for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan) and for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David Simmonds) —for their very thoughtful…10 Sept 2024HANSARD Exempt Supported AccommodationI thank the Minister for saying that, because I was going to ask her to touch on the national minimum standards. Can she give us a timeline? My worry is that the funding is ending…10 Sept 2024HANSARD Exempt Supported AccommodationI beg to move, That this House has considered exempt supported accommodation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I am pleased to have secured this debate…10 Sept 2024HANSARD Healthy StartIt is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) for securing this debate. She has been a tireless…22 May 2024HANSARD Healthy StartThe incidence of severe malnutrition in the United Kingdom has doubled in the past 10 years, with over 10,000 people hospitalised in 2022, among them 312 children. Can the…22 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I have nothing further to add. Question put and agreed to. Clause 81 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. New Clause 2 Tobacco products statutory scheme: consultation…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)As the Minister has set out, clause 78 outlines the territorial extent of the Bill. We have discussed many of these discrepancies with earlier clauses, particularly on the sale…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the Minister for that explanation. I have no further comments to add. Question put and agreed to. Clause 80 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 81…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)As the Minister says, clause 76 provides that, where regulations are made under the Bill, the regulations may make “consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I say to the Minister that my concern is about certain products entering the UK market in the first place. If the MHRA is the only organisation that can test what has been…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)The new clause relates to the testing of nicotine products and seeks to allow notification fees to be used for more than just the administration of that scheme but a wider, more…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I would never want us to be accused of the damning political adage that it is one rule for them and one rule for everyone else, so of course I support the parliamentary estate…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Harrow East for raising the issue. As we know, separately from the Bill the Government are also introducing a one-off increase to tobacco duty as well…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire for tabling the new clause. We absolutely share her concern: we must ensure that children are not exposed to marketing and branding…14 May 2024