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HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI strongly support this Bill and was proud to serve on the Committee. The Bill will deliver an enormous transfer of power out of this place and into our local communities. As a…25 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillDoes my hon. Friend therefore agree that cross-border licensing is causing huge enforcement problems, because authorities that are miles away cannot properly investigate such…25 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy hon. Friend is speaking eloquently about the length of time people have been lobbying for this power. I felt that when I was a councillor. Does he agree that the right to…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI used to be a councillor in an authority that had area committees, and we ended up scrapping them because they were not really doing a good job. Does the hon. Gentleman not agree…24 Nov 2025HANSARD English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI am glad that those governance arrangements work, but they sound like a nightmare based on hearing that information. Would the hon. Member not agree again that under one unitary…24 Nov 2025HANSARDTaxesThe shadow Chancellor has spent a lot of time in his speech talking about what people have said and done. I wonder if I could remind him that just a month ago he said that if he…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Bronze-age Heritage: CambridgeshireMust Farm is just outside my constituency, in the constituency of the right hon. Member for North East Cambridgeshire (Steve Barclay), who I am very pleased to see here. It…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Houses in Multiple Occupation: Planning ConsentIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair today, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Steve Yemm) for securing this debate. HMOs can work for some people, such…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackMay I take this opportunity to put on the record my thanks to the first responders, the police and everyone on the train who put their lives at risk to protect others? So many…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseLast month, I raised the case of my constituents in ex-Ministry of Defence housing in Wittering, who face huge backdated gas bills because their supplier will not take them off a…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesThe hon. Lady highlights the problem of residents being charged late payment fees. I have a number of constituents who never received an original letter demanding payment, but who…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesI am so pleased that we are taking the time today to debate property service charges in depth. Across my constituency, residents are drowning in soaring bills, deferred…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesMy hon. Friend makes a very useful point. I should have clarified that the figure I gave does not include the private roads that were not supposed to be adopted; it was purely the…30 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty Service ChargesI thank my hon. Friend for her work on this issue on the Treasury Committee. In my speech, I raised an insurance issue that my constituents have gone to the Financial Ombudsman…30 Oct 2025HANSARD Ageing and End-of-life CareI am passionate about ensuring that older people in medical settings are not subjected to coercion over their medical decisions. I have recently been contacted by a whistleblower…30 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Twelfth sitting)When I was a council cabinet member, I had responsibility for allotments. We are talking about strategic authorities, and the hon. Lady is talking about powers for them. I can see…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Victims and Courts BillI really welcome this Government’s move to restrict the access of abusers to their children, in order to protect them. All too often, however, victims who are members of tightly…27 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Tenth sitting)I ran a constitution review for Cambridge city council while I was a councillor there, and we spent a lot of time talking about the committee system versus the cabinet system.…23 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have been thinking about the cost of software licensing in the public sector, because North West Anglia NHS foundation trust is trying to move to an electronic patient record…23 Oct 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillI agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Helena Dollimore) about the delays to the Bill. I served on the Bill Committee more than a year ago now, and since…22 Oct 2025