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HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillOn that point, will the shadow Secretary of State give way?29 Jul 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI am old enough to remember British Rail. On quite a lot of measures, British Rail was improving before it was privatised. While the hon. Lady wants to make an ideological attack…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI congratulate my right hon. Friend on her appointment as Secretary of State and thank her for bringing in this excellent Bill. Since coming under the operator of last resort,…29 Jul 2024HANSARDEconomy, Welfare and Public ServicesIt is an honour to be re-elected for the fourth time to the redrawn seat of Brentford and Isleworth, and to follow such impressive maiden speeches, particularly that of my hon.…22 Jul 2024HANSARDDraft Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments (2019 Hague Convention etc.) Regulations 2024There was also a point about the subsequent weakness of judicial process in certain circumstances.21 May 2024HANSARDDraft Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments (2019 Hague Convention etc.) Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I thank the Minister for setting out the purpose and the detail of the draft regulations. As we know, the 2019…21 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsLike me, the right hon. Lady represents an outer London suburban borough. In her constituency, are there really no residential roads that are a continuous traffic jam as…20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsThe hon. Lady makes a good point. My experience is with Hounslow. I cannot say whether each local authority implemented change that was needed—or whether they plucked ideas out of…20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsAs Front Bencher myself, I will defer to my colleague on the Front Bench today, although it seems to me that exemptions for blue badge holders would make sense, for the reasons…20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Harris. I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) on her excellent introduction to the…20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsI hear what the right hon. Gentleman is saying. I do not know his seat well, but he has described it as a doughnut of the countryside around Bath. Would he not agree that, if…20 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs promised last year to end veterans homelessness by the end of that year. Instead, veterans homelessness rose by 14%. Are Ministers proud…20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsSorry.20 May 2024HANSARDLow Traffic NeighbourhoodsI congratulate my hon. Friend on the excellent speech she is making. The LTN she describes sounds as if it has physical barriers. Does she agree that where an LTN is enforced…20 May 2024HANSARD Conflict in Sudan: El FasherThe ongoing and developing crisis in Sudan is being fuelled by weapons from foreign supporters who continue to flout the UN arms embargo on Darfur. How are the Government…16 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMore people are killed by cows and lightning than by dangerous cyclists, whereas around five people a day are killed on our roads by motor vehicles—a level that has flatlined…16 May 2024HANSARDPrisons: Illegal DrugsThe Government boast, as they have done just now, about their investment in new body scanners to detect drugs on everyone entering a prison each day, yet a damning report in The…14 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government have been talking a lot about sick note culture. As this is Mental Health Awareness Week, does the Minister agree the record long waits that many people face in…13 May 2024HANSARDParc PrisonI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Chris Elmore) for submitting this urgent question, and the Minister for the constructive way in which he has replied. This is the…13 May 2024HANSARDCatchment Partnerships: FundingSewage has been discharged into our rivers for 3.6 million hours, including the River Thames in my constituency. Funding is only part of cleaning up this mess: the whole water…09 May 2024