Contributions
156 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDRenters’ 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 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI say to Opposition Members that their relentless politicisation of the issue is no doubt making it much harder to find a chair because it will be putting candidates off. As the…21 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman moved an amendment specifically to rule out trade unions. The Bill does not rule them in, in any way. I am slightly concerned that he might be misleading…21 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyA constituent has written to me to highlight that they have successfully completed a level 3 BTEC diploma in musical theatre. To go on to university, they need an extended…20 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)On the subject of local partners, could the Minister confirm that the intention here is to include private sector organisations as local partners? I am keen to see mayors make the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)I have a brief, technical question. I might be mistaken in my reading of the provision, but I seek clarification about the arrangements for local transport plans. On Tuesday, the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Sixth sitting)The schedule contains comprehensive provisions around the designation of key route network roads, but I am conscious that we have not defined key route networks in statute. I am a…16 Oct 2025HANSARDEducational Assessment System ReformMy hon. Friend is giving a powerful account of the inadequacy of SATs. Does he agree that the fact that so many secondary schools retest their pupils when they arrive shows that…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEducational Assessment System ReformI wonder whether the Minister has the same experience as I do. When I speak to employers in North West Cambridgeshire, I hear time and again that young people do not have the…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEducational Assessment System ReformBefore the summer recess, I hosted a “Truth about SATs” parliamentary drop-in with educational reform group More Than a Score. It was a great event, with MPs from all sides of the…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fourth sitting)I have some more thrilling financial commentary, so I hope the Committee will forgive me. First, I welcome what the Minister has just said. Exactly this situation happened in…14 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fourth sitting)With your permission, Sir John, I will make some references to schedule 3 as well as clause 9, just to do it all in the same place. I will start by responding to some of the hon.…14 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fourth sitting)We have just heard the Minister speak about having statutory guidance on this issue. Does the hon. Member agree that one way of making this change, rather than through these…14 Oct 2025HANSARDHeritage Sites: East of EnglandI am really lucky in North West Cambridgeshire to represent a whole variety of heritage sites of different sizes, including Burghley House, which I visited recently—a 16th century…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q That is useful. You talked about potentially having only one that perhaps has quite a big remit across the whole country. Do you think that would have enough time to do the work…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Sorry. Would you favour adding provisions to the Bill for strategic authorities to take over licensing powers to deal with that issue? Sam Chapman-Allen: None of my 169 members…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q We have talked a lot about governance and the need to safeguard how financial procedures work on audit committees. I am interested in the flipside of that—in how we can protect…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (First sitting)Q This is a question for Councillor Chapman-Allen about the balance of powers between councils and strategic authorities in the licensing space. A number of our district and…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you; that is really helpful. On to my main question: in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, our mayor announced that he intends to appoint as his planning commissioner a…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a question for the whole panel, but first I would like to come on to something Mayor Brabin just said. I was really pleased you raised the issue of taxi licensing. We…16 Sept 2025