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HANSARD River Habitats: Protection and RestorationThank you, Ms Butler. It is a pleasure to serve under you. I thank the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) for his kind words. I should start by declaring a couple of…29 Jan 2026HANSARD Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportI have thousands of WASPI women in my constituency, which is already very deprived. I cannot express how angry and disappointed they feel today. I am afraid that I will have to…29 Jan 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Chapel in Cotford St Luke in my constituency is a fan favourite, but because of the decisions of this Government, it is dying. It has been hit exceptionally hard by VAT and…29 Jan 2026HANSARD Firearms Licence Holders: Mandatory Medical MarkersI thank the hon. Member for his intelligent and incisive comment. Mandatory medical markers help to support the rural community. They ensure that if someone is struggling, the…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Firearms Licence Holders: Mandatory Medical MarkersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire) for securing this debate. We have all watched…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Firearms Licence Holders: Mandatory Medical MarkersThank you, darling Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. As vice-chair of the Country Land and Business Association’s rural business and rural powerhouse APPG, I fully…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Firearms Licence Holders: Mandatory Medical MarkersWill the hon. Member give way?28 Jan 2026HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Act 2025: EnforcementI thank my hon. Friend for being so generous. As the Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Minehead, I represent two water companies, Wessex Water—who are no angels—and South West…20 Jan 2026HANSARDSocial Media: Non-consensual Sexual DeepfakesI cannot pretend to understand the complexities of AI bots or the stuff that we have talked about this afternoon, but I do understand the impact that sexual abuse has on children…12 Jan 2026HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillThe hon. Gentleman is also a near neighbour of mine in Devon. Does he agree that the changes to agricultural property relief feels like a double taxation that burdens farming…16 Dec 2025HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that this is not a tax on passive wealth, but that it punitively, cynically targets productive enterprise? The Government expect to raise roughly £1.4…16 Dec 2025HANSARD Network Rail Timetable Changes: Rural CommunitiesJust one Network Rail station, Tiverton Parkway, lies in my very large constituency. Like many other rural parts of the country, we are dogged by totally insufficient transport.…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Network Rail Timetable Changes: Rural CommunitiesI have three nuclear facilities in my constituency: Hinkley A, B and C. David Peattie, the chief executive officer of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has referred to the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDigital IDMy Tiverton and Minehead constituency in west Somerset has the lowest social mobility in the whole country. Does the hon. Gentleman believe that mandatory digital ID will give a…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWar in UkraineI was in Ukraine in September with colleagues from the Labour Benches—I was the lone Liberal in a Government delegation. Against what seemed to be mountainous odds, the Ukrainians…04 Dec 2025HANSARDWar in UkraineI am going to finish—sorry. We risk returning to a brutish bygone era in which tyrannical thugs take what they want. Who wants to live in such a world? We all want peace, but…04 Dec 2025HANSARDEngagementsI have a charming elderly constituent who, after a series of major medical interventions, has been left in excruciating, uncontrolled pain after her opioids were withdrawn,…03 Dec 2025HANSARDHomelessness: FundingI thank the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) for securing this debate. We have Shelter’s vicious cycle: “No home? No address. No address? No bank account. No bank…02 Dec 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI will speak in favour of new clause 38, which I tabled. It seeks to introduce measures to prevent developers from using their own surveyors who have a vested interest in…25 Nov 2025HANSARDSpecialist Manufacturing Sector: Regional EconomiesDid the hon. Gentleman bring any with him?19 Nov 2025