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HANSARD Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan: 80th AnniversaryVictory in Europe Day is a time not only to celebrate, but to reflect and remember. I am privileged to represent a community that does all three. Recently, I met two veterans of…06 May 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsIn February, a brave group of victims and a leading child abuse lawyer wrote to the Home Secretary warning her that the rape gangs scandal across the Bradford district is likely…28 Apr 2025HANSARDBail Guidelines16. If she will have discussions with the HM Prison and Probation Service on the potential merits of reviewing its guidelines on bail.22 Apr 2025HANSARDBail GuidelinesAfter the conviction of eight men for a string of horrendous child rape offences in Keighley, I wish I could stand here and say that justice has been fully served, but I cannot,…22 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. In a single week in Bradford, we have seen council leaders once again reject my calls for a full rape gangs inquiry. An ex-police officer has been threatened with arrest for…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Easter AdjournmentIt is great to speak in this Easter debate, and I would like to use this opportunity to thank a handful of fantastic organisations from across the constituency. It is really…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsDare I say it, but the mismanagement under the Labour administration in Birmingham is the absolute result of what residents are now being faced with—an increase in council tax…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Wendy Morton) for bringing forward this really…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Easter AdjournmentAbsolutely. That is why it is so important that all Members across the House support grassroots sporting organisations and the sporting facilities at their heart. They drive…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsHow bad does it need to get for the residents of Birmingham before the Government step in and take stronger action?08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. If you are a resident in Birmingham paying your council tax, you want action. You do not want talks after talks, discussions after…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsI note again that the hon. Member has not condemned the actions, yet who is being penalised but the residents of Birmingham as waste piles up outside their houses? The BBC was…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsIt absolutely is action that needs to be condemned. Why? Because those who are being impacted are the hard-working residents of Birmingham. They are dutifully paying their council…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Tackling Child Sexual AbuseI have to say that I am completely infuriated by today’s statement. Here we are, on the very last sitting day before the Easter recess, and the Government have all but admitted…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI receive countless emails and letters from local people across the constituency about the shocking state of our roads. People are rightly frustrated about potholes, and about the…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI welcome the announcement on better transparency in how local government is spending money on potholes, but the challenge I have in the Bradford district is that, according to…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceWill the Secretary of State give way?07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceDoes my hon. Friend agree that this causes inconvenience not only to the many commuters who use the A1, who want better connectivity north of the border, but to the landowners who…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceDoes my hon. Friend agree that it is not just north of the border that these cuts are being made? South of the border, we have seen this new Labour Government cut the local…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI am pleased that the hon. Member brought that up. Just in 2021, Bradford council, through its statutory responsibility to provide feedback to the Ministry of Housing, Communities…07 Apr 2025