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HANSARD Hospitality SectorUnlike most, if not all, of the Conservative Members listed on the Order Paper as supporters of the motion, my wife and I own two successful hospitality businesses. We welcome the…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Hospitality Sectorrose—03 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of the prevention of deaths from eating disorders. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI thank my hon. Friend for her excellent intervention. I agree that this is a family-wide illness. We must reach the point where no one in the UK dies from an eating disorder,…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsMy hon. Friend is entirely correct. Our experience of private equity is that it is selective in terms of the patients accepted. It profits from misery. We were put in the awful…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsIt is true that a lack of understanding among professionals about the severity of the problem contributes to the situation. To have it put down to a lack of collaboration would be…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI thank the Minister for his response and all hon. Members for their thoughtful contributions. It has been truly heartening. This is the main message I hope to leave today: one…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI thank my hon. Friend for his extremely pertinent point. Early intervention saves not only lives but a huge amount in costs to the NHS. I know the vast majority of NHS staff go…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI thank my hon. Friend for that important point—it does. The loss of a loved one is harrowing enough without the true cause not being recorded. That is why we are calling for a…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Eating Disorders: Prevention of DeathsI agree entirely. We are fully aware of the political situation and the condition that the NHS was left in under the previous Government, but the point of today’s debate is not to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDMental Health Research Funding: Eating DisordersEating disorders cost the UK an estimated £9 billion each year, yet research into these serious conditions receives just 1% of all mental health research funding. That is despite…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am so delighted to have two questions on health this week that I am not even going to mention ferries! As my hon. Friend will know, the process for…22 Jul 2025HANSARDMental Health Research Funding: Eating Disorders5. What recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of mental health research funding allocated to eating disorders.22 Jul 2025HANSARD Football Governance Bill [Lords]While the facial expressions of Opposition Members are worth an intervention all on their own, does my hon. Friend agree that this Bill provides stronger financial oversight and…08 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. While it could be said that the Conservative party could fit into a children’s paddling pool, we in Isle of Wight West take swimming—as well as our issue with ferries—very…03 Jul 2025HANSARDSocial Mobility: Careers EducationIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Andrew Ranger) on securing the debate. Social mobility is the…19 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Earl Mountbatten hospice in my constituency delivers outstanding care across the community. Despite that, Hampshire and Isle of Wight integrated care board plans to cut its…17 Jun 2025HANSARDSupport for EntrepreneursYou will be pleased to know that I do not have a book coming out, Mr Speaker. I am reading the one that my hon. Friend the Member for Central Ayrshire (Alan Gemmell) has written,…12 Jun 2025HANSARDSupport for Entrepreneurs3. What steps his Department is taking to support entrepreneurs.12 Jun 2025HANSARDBank Closures and Banking HubsI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) for securing this important debate. Too often, I feel the issues that significantly affect the day-to-day…05 Jun 2025