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HANSARD Business of the HouseHappy Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to all the House staff. Christmas should be an exciting and fun time of year, but for too many children it simply is not. Since…16 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI thank my hon. Friend, who represents her constituents so well. There is an alternative path and we can take it today. We know that the Prime Minister is allowing people to go to…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI rise to express my serious concerns about the principle of mandatory vaccination, not for any ideological reasons but because it will have the contrary effect to that intended…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that intervention and he makes a point I wanted to make myself. The Government’s estimate on that in their impact assessment is 123,000,…14 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI appreciate that this is an escalating situation which needs urgent attention, but the fact is that if we are enabling social mixing, that is the very context in which we will…14 Dec 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhen the transmission rate of omicron is twice that of delta and we are asking people to work from home, why are we also telling them that they can go out and socialise in venues…13 Dec 2021HANSARDLoneliness9. What steps the Church of England is taking to connect with people who are isolated and lonely in their communities.09 Dec 2021HANSARDLonelinessChurches have loci in every community. Across our country, a staggering 9 million people experience loneliness frequently or occasionally. As a result, in the coming Christmas…09 Dec 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIn York, I am really worried about vulnerable children and children at risk, I am very worried about vulnerable parents, I am very worried about social workers working in…09 Dec 2021HANSARDDowning Street Christmas Parties InvestigationI know the pain and sacrifice my constituents in York have experienced over the past 18 months. They are sickened by what they have seen has happened at these so-called…09 Dec 2021HANSARD Rail Investment and Integrated Rail PlanThe Minister will know that York is a formidable rail city, bursting with expert planners and engineers. They were astounded by the rail plan, not least because it is about…08 Dec 2021HANSARDAffordable Housing: Planning ReformIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate, Dr Huq. I thank the hon. Member for St Ives (Derek Thomas) for opening the debate. I want to reinforce much of what he said, because the…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Dormant Assets Bill [Lords]As I was going on to say, that money reached only 14,000 charities out of 169,000. As we see demand spiralling, we are seeing charities struggling. The Government could have been…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhen it comes to public health compliance, consistency and clarity of message is important. The variant does not understand the difference between an indoor setting on transport…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Dormant Assets Bill [Lords]In 2008, Labour set out a new principle in the House: to put dormant assets from bank and building society accounts to work, first by trying to reunite owners with their accounts…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyThe year-on-year cuts to treatment services have been devastating, and we have also lost a lot of the skill of professionals working across treatment services. Will the Minister…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe biggest issues that children with special educational needs face in York is not only the coming together of the multi-disciplinary team in a timely way, but inadequacy. When…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Last weekend, we saw the release of the Xinjiang papers, highlighting how human rights atrocities go right to the heart of the Chinese Government. As a result, I want to ask…02 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government’s response on Afghanistan is simply not good enough. Yesterday, I met with a democratically elected Member of Parliament from Afghanistan who set out the escalating…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthDr Harries is a public health professional who therefore understands what public health measures need to be taken to secure our wellbeing against the pandemic. Why are the…30 Nov 2021