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HANSARDLocal Bus ServicesI thank the Minister for that answer. The cost of transport is a huge cost of living pressure for children and young people in my constituency who are trying to access education…13 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsI do not know why the right hon. Lady keeps saying that. We have not voted on the policy yet. There was a vote against a motion that was put forward by the Opposition. It was a…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsI welcome that intervention. There are two areas in particular on which I think farmers in my constituency would like some answers. One is thresholds. Because the policy still…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsThe hon. Member is making an excellent speech, but some of the farmers in my constituents are concerned that the Liberal Democrats have talked about a land tax and a wealth tax.…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsI am here to speak up for the farmers in my constituency of Bishop Auckland, which is a Labour farming community. Farmers in my area are worried. They put their trust in us at the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsThere is absolutely nothing timid about what I am telling the right hon. Gentleman: farmers in my community were massively let down by the previous Government.10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. I thank the Government for improving the pay and housing conditions of our armed forces. Bishop Auckland has turned out some excellent young men and women into the armed…10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsWill the right hon. Member give way?10 Feb 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsThere are a variety of things that could be looked at. I met the NFU this morning and we discussed various points. I feel that these are all things that should be considered. I…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Children’s Social Care: North-east EnglandOne of the biggest cost savings for children’s social care is kinship carers. These unsung heroes do a great deal to care for children, often in very difficult circumstances, but…05 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Working-class boys in the north-east are being held back by an attainment gap, based on gender and income. The previous Government had no strategy for dealing with such…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Children’s Social Care: North-east EnglandI thank the Minister for highlighting the rise in the number of children in care. Will she acknowledge the link between the growing number of children in care and the effects of…05 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI have visited more than a dozen schools in my constituency since being elected, and I am always overwhelmed by the passion of the teachers who have to work in really trying…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Public Services: Rural AreasPeople from primary schools in rural areas of my constituency have come to me, and one of the challenges they face is a falling population because of the declining number of jobs.…22 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the Government’s tripling of the emergency housing budget, but one of my constituents is about to be made homeless because debt incurred as a teenager means that she is…20 Jan 2025HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI thank the Home Secretary for her answers, which have clarified a number of the questions I would have wanted to raise with her. I am also grateful for her victim-centred…16 Jan 2025HANSARDImpact of Conflict on Women and GirlsI thank the hon. Gentleman for that example. Another example comes not from my own life but from Liberia, where women became so fed up of conflict that women on all sides decided…09 Jan 2025HANSARDImpact of Conflict on Women and GirlsI thank everyone who has spoken today. I have been very moved by Members telling quite harrowing accounts of the way that women are affected by conflict around the world, some of…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ6. Feeling safe in our communities is among the most basic of human needs, but after 14 years of Tory cuts to Durham’s frontline police— [ Interruption. ] After breaking the…08 Jan 2025HANSARDNorthern GazaHaving listened to evidence on Gaza as a member of the International Development Committee, it is clear to me that there have been egregious breaches of international law. While I…07 Jan 2025