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HANSARD UK Support for Aid Workers and the Afghan PeopleI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, my fellow Committee member, and I fully agree with all his points. I think he would share how painful it was to hear from those women and…10 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Following the Foreign Secretary’s answer to me about the FCDO’s equalities impact assessment conducted in March 2021, I seek your advice on any…08 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsA year ago, the former Foreign Secretary commissioned an equalities impact assessment of the Government’s aid cuts. We have been trying for almost that length of time to get the…08 Mar 2022HANSARDWaiting List Times: Non-consultant Led ServicesI am very interested in what the Minister says, and I would be really interested to see the review, but in Rotherham the waiting time for children’s neurodevelopmental assessments…01 Mar 2022HANSARDWaiting List Times: Non-consultant Led Services15. If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring mandatory reporting of waiting list times for non-consultant led services in NHS mental health trusts.01 Mar 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that it is illogical that the Government will not make the simple concessions for which the Opposition are asking to clarify the situation in favour of…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillWill the Minister give way?28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillRound 5, Minister. Will the Minister please clarify what the objection is to making it very clear that local authorities can apply to run and maintain 16 to 19 academies?…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI want to start with a positive and then I will move on. I begin by welcoming Lords amendment 98, Tony’s law, which increases the maximum sentences for causing or allowing a child…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI hear what the Minister is saying, but looking into something is not the same as giving a clear commitment, here and now, that local authorities can run those secure academies.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for starting the inquiry. One piece of written evidence received is from one of my constituents, who is suffering under…28 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineLet us be under no illusion: we are on the brink of a potentially enormous humanitarian crisis that could see massive loss of life and widespread suffering for the Ukrainian…24 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksI thank my hon. Friend, who I know does a lot of work in her community. Barnardo’s, 25 years before anyone really acknowledged child sexual exploitation was a thing, was trying to…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksI thank the Minister for her response and I would appreciate a follow-up letter, if that is possible. Recently, I watched the four-part series on Jeffrey Epstein and I was…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksWill the Minister give way?23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksThe Lords Committee recommended that he be expelled from the House, but he stepped down to avoid the humiliation. The Government now need to do their duty and introduce…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksIt is not. He is in jail, and this is all in the public domain.23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksI winced because, in the six months that it will take the Government to consider the report and decide whether they are going to accept the recommendations, how many more children…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksI beg to move, That this House has considered the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report on child sexual exploitation by organised networks. It is a pleasure to serve…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksMy hon. Friend raises a very pertinent point, and I commend her for the work that she has done to try and prevent this hideous crime. She is right that the initial stages of…23 Feb 2022