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HANSARDDraft Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure, Ms Elliott, to serve under your chairmanship. I thank the Minister for his remarks. Labour Members do not intend to divide the Committee on these draft…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillI am delighted to speak in this debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff North (Anna McMorrin) on her important work on the Bill. As someone who is…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for putting it gently and saying I was somewhat critical of the Government’s approach; I would go slightly further and suggest that we need to look at…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillThe solution is to enable a thousand flowers to bloom. We want local organisations to be able to provide solutions, as well as the Government, who, at the moment, are woefully…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Awarding of Qualifications: Role of MinistersThroughout the summer, headteachers in Croydon were getting in touch with me with increasing alarm and concern about what they felt would be really bad outcomes for their…09 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. The system as a whole is fundamentally broken, and it is the developers as well as the Government who need to look to their own actions and…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillOn Third Reading, I reiterate that the Opposition support the Fire Safety Bill, but we are desperately disappointed that the Government have not gone much further and much faster…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillAhead of setting up the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry, the then Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), said that she wanted “to provide justice for…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillLet me begin, as I have at every stage of this Bill, by saying that we on the Opposition Benches support the Bill. The Minister knows that. We are keen to be as supportive as…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillI beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: only the Government can fix this problem. The lack of action and the lack of clarity about which buildings are safe, apart from anything…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillThe Welsh Government have a proud record on fire safety, and I point the hon. Gentleman in the direction of the many actions that have been taken. In this case today, we are…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion ProtestsI thank the Minister for his statement and for advance sight of it. I will first turn to the awful events that took place in the early hours of yesterday in Birmingham. This…07 Sept 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceCovid hit Croydon and the rest of London early and hard, but Croydon has done us proud, and the number of infections has been very low for a number of weeks, thanks to the hard…01 Sept 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceWhat recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS Test and Trace.01 Sept 2020HANSARD Windrush Lessons Learned ReviewCallton Young was the first black senior civil servant in the Home Office and is a Croydon councillor; he contributed to the Wendy Williams review. Twenty years on from his…21 Jul 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have the lowest rates of children in custody for years, which is great, but nine of the 10 children currently in custody in Croydon are black. That is a small statistic, but I…14 Jul 2020HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for Children and Young PeopleFollowing the Black Lives Matter movement, in Croydon we have held a series of quite urgent meetings to look at the system and what we can do to improve things—the police, the…14 Jul 2020HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for Children and Young PeopleWhat steps his Department is taking to support children and young people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.14 Jul 2020HANSARDPolice FundingOn the one hand, the Prime Minister has hailed an end to austerity and promised 20,000 new frontline police officers, and on the other, we had alarming reports at the weekend of…13 Jul 2020