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HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressMy hon. Friend is making an important point. In the Peak district, we have Moors for the Future, which is seeking to sequester as much as possible of the 580 million tonnes of…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressIt gives me great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Sir Edward Davey) and other learned Members on this issue. One of my constituents wrote to me…28 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI am pleased to be bringing this debate today, and I thank colleagues from across the House who have supported it and who are here to speak. The spending of the Department for…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI thank the Minister, the shadow Minister and all those who have made powerful speeches. Members across the House raised the issue of PIP appeals and the impact of some terrible…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI was asked to take 10 minutes, so I will have to wrap up soon. I am sure my hon. Friend will get a chance to speak. I ask the Government to look urgently at three issues with…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and pay tribute to her campaigning for people on benefits. I agree with the sentiment of her intervention, because over 10 million…26 Feb 2019HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities FundingI have just received figures from my local authority, Derbyshire County Council, that show that children who have special needs but no statement or EHCP are five times as likely…12 Feb 2019HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities FundingWhen I was elected to Parliament in June 2017, the problems of children with special needs and the struggles that their parents face became one of the major issues in my casework…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Community and Voluntary Services: DerbyshireThe Minister says that the cuts are to services that do not deliver such good statutory support. How does she think that community transport does not deliver for patients…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Community and Voluntary Services: DerbyshireI rise to pay tribute to our community and voluntary services across Derbyshire. They are the fabric that holds our rural and often isolated society together. In my own…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Community and Voluntary Services: DerbyshireThe GPs on the CCG themselves stood up in the meeting and said there was a recognised risk that these service cuts would create cost pressures on other areas of services, so I am…08 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Emma Hardy) for speaking about her experience, and others across this House who have been out…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Local Government FinanceIn Derbyshire, we have seen a 60% reduction in our revenue support grant since 2010. Instead, we end up with short-term pots of funding. We have a Conservative county council that…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. In Derbyshire, my own area, the Government’s increase in the grant does not even meet the increase in the police pension costs.…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Local Government FinanceI thank my hon. Friend for making the excellent point that this is not a dichotomy between rural areas, such as that which I represent, and urban areas. We cannot be robbing one…05 Feb 2019HANSARD World Cancer DayAs I mentioned earlier, I have personal experience of cancer, both as a parent and a child; my mother died of breast cancer when I was five years old. From a very young age I have…30 Jan 2019HANSARD World Cancer DayAs a parent who supported a child through cancer, I know at first hand how much a child going through cancer costs and the financial strain, as well as the emotional and physical…30 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Low-income Families3. What assessment he has made of the effect on low-income families of the roll-out of universal credit in Wales.23 Jan 2019HANSARD Town of Culture AwardBuxton, in my constituency, has world-class arts; it has the Buxton festival and the Buxton opera house. It also has fantastic community arts, in which people can get involved to…23 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Low-income FamiliesTwenty-six per cent. of people in Wales have a disability and 39% of them are in poverty—both the highest proportion in the UK. What assessment has the Minister made of the number…23 Jan 2019