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HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I speak as a vice-chair of the all-party parly group on sixth-form education and as a…15 Nov 2021HANSARD School-based Counselling ServicesI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown) and the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on securing the debate. Young people…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Racism in CricketIn my constituency, children are flourishing when playing local, grassroots, community cricket, through excellent programmes led by organisations such as Wicketz, which focuses on…09 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. After a decade of austerity, and in response to rising living costs, inflation and debt, our communities…02 Nov 2021HANSARDMenopause (Support and Services) BillThis debate, which my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris) has brought forward, is so important, and leadership starts here, so I declare an interest as a…29 Oct 2021HANSARD Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review of Drugs ReportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Fovargue. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden) on securing today’s debate. His…27 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. I agree that we need to look at everything in the round and bring it into scope to understand the longer-term impacts of unsafe…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to speak under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I add my support for the new clause, for the reasons so well set out by my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEmployment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. On improving health, does she agree that having employment rights from day one would go a long way to improving workers’ rights?22 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Davies. In the health service, the patient’s voice is at the heart of everything. It is absolutely right that residents’ voices…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to speak under your chairship again, Mr Dowd. I want to add my voice in support of the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Weaver Vale and of the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Minister raises a pertinent point for many leaseholders in my constituency relating to cases in which builders, companies or developers have folded since they built a…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government ResponseWe know that the success of any public health roll-out comes through working closely with local councils and local government, so will the Minister let the House know when she…21 Oct 2021HANSARDTrade Strategy: Climate ChangeT4. During recess, I visited a constituent on his farm. We discussed how farmers want a level playing field when it comes to trade, and their concerns about the Government’s trade…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Access to CashIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Miller. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones) on securing this important debate. We have…20 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I understand that the absolute objective is about safety, but what I was trying to get at is that with schools there is a very like-by-like aim of education. It may be that…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)Most of us have heard special measures mentioned in relation to schools and Ofsted, or where the Care Quality Commission has to intervene in health services. There is an element…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate under your chairship, Mrs Miller. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Weaver Vale for pointing out vital it is that we…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 9, in clause 57, page 78, line 12, at end insert— “(4A) The regulations must exempt applications or specified descriptions of relevant applications made by…23 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford. I am interested in part III of the Building Act 1984, which talks about means of escape. How will personal emergency…23 Sept 2021