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HANSARDDraft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Alec. I will commence by looking at some of the paperwork accompanying the draft regulations. The fact that the explanatory…17 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a former leader on healthcare in a trade union, and also as a clinician in respiratory medicine. I…15 Dec 2025HANSARDSudan: Humanitarian SituationWe know that health workers have been targeted and killed, that 80% of health facilities are no longer functioning and that a generation have not received vaccines. We have seen…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ3. While the last Government were indifferent to child poverty, this Government’s driving mission must be to eradicate child poverty, and the strategy is a first step on that…10 Dec 2025HANSARDUnfair Dismissal: Protected CharacteristicsWe know that workers are often unfairly dismissed before the two-year threshold despite the application of the Equality Act 2010. That threshold was one year under the previous…10 Dec 2025HANSARDUnfair Dismissal: Protected Characteristics5. If she will monitor the protected characteristics of people judged to have been unfairly dismissed in the first six months of employment.10 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIndependent businesses in York are really struggling with the revaluation of business rates. In 2024 they were £6,200; in 2025 they are £15,000; and in 2026 they will be £19,100,…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDI will just press on. If DWP data and NHS data are in the wrong hands, social security will become insecurity; if Home Office data contains someone’s location, then the ICE teams…08 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDI have scanned the Labour manifesto, in which ID cards do not feature, and I have sought the evidence that ID cards prohibit illegal working, but there is none. Yet we are told…08 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe point that my hon. Friend is making is that this is not about fair dismissal, but about unfair dismissal. Does he agree that the people who will experience the most…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn Friday, I learned of an 81-year-old constituent who had had to return to work because of the cost of living in York. Will the Government take a deep dive and carry out an…08 Dec 2025HANSARDLocal MediaI am grateful to be called in this debate with you in the Chair, Dr Allin-Khan, and to the hon. Member for Bromley and Biggin Hill (Peter Fortune). With the media industry’s moves…03 Dec 2025HANSARDLocal MediaI was certainly referring to such an example in my speech, but I am particularly concerned about the influence that disinformation is having on this place and on the policies of…03 Dec 2025HANSARDHomelessness: FundingIt is a pleasure to contribute with you in the Chair, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) on securing this debate. He has focused homeless…02 Dec 2025HANSARDAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundI met people from my regional adoption agency just last Thursday—I thank them and all their partners for their excellent work—who raised the adoption and special guardianship…01 Dec 2025HANSARDOffice for Budget Responsibility ForecastsTo bring to a conclusion the ensuing debate about who knew what and when, does my right hon. Friend agree that he should publish a detailed timetable of the economic information…01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsCity of York council has gone from “requires improvement” to “outstanding” in all areas due to the innovation it is driving. In particular, it has been working on halving the…01 Dec 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsIndifference to poverty, as we have just heard, marks out the political divisions of our time. The task of restructuring our economy to ensure that those who serve and work hard…26 Nov 2025HANSARD Children of AlcoholicsI am really grateful for all that the hon. Gentleman does in this place. I want to raise the issue of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. We know that its prevalence is now 4%,…26 Nov 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI like drilling into the data and getting to the facts. You can see a correlation between the rise in people claiming social security and the rise in waiting lists in the NHS—they…26 Nov 2025