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HANSARDSocial HousingI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) on securing this debate on the housing crisis. I also congratulate him and my hon. Friend the…13 Jun 2019HANSARD Inequality and Social MobilityAbout 1.3 million children living in poverty in this country at present are in the private rented sector. Many of them would be lifted out of poverty if we had more council…12 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse Building TargetsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I welcome the debate and congratulate the hon. Member for Newton Abbot (Anne Marie Morris) on securing it and on…11 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse Building TargetsAffordable homes.11 Jun 2019HANSARDTessa Jowell Brain Cancer MissionAs the Secretary of State said, last weekend marked a year since the death of Tessa Jowell. We all heard the moving interview that Jess did at the weekend, which showed the…13 May 2019HANSARDDomestic AbuseI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Today’s announcement is, of course, welcome. It is a victory for the campaigners who have fought for 10 years…13 May 2019HANSARDSchool Exclusions: Timpson ReviewThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime, which I chair, found through an extensive freedom of information request that a third of local authorities have no space left in…29 Apr 2019HANSARDSchool Exclusions: Timpson Review2. What progress has been made on the Timpson review of school exclusions.29 Apr 2019HANSARD HousingThis has been a short but good debate—quality not quantity. We have heard from Members across the country from the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) to the hon.…09 Apr 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsNew figures today show that 40,000 people are still trapped in privately owned blocks wrapped in Grenfell-style aluminium composite material cladding. That is 40,000 lives on…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Sir Edward Davey) and I agree with much of what he said. The hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Offensive Weapons BillWill the Minister confirm that although these are civil orders, if they are breached they become criminal, and that 12-year-old children could end up in prison for two years? Will…26 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeInterestingly, knife crime prevention orders are not part of that strategy. A lot of the organisations that I have spoken to suspect that the orders were partly a knee-jerk…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI agree that we need to look across politics to find the solutions. I just want to ask the hon. Gentleman to consider what organisations say about knife crime prevention orders.…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy hon. Friend is highlighting the situation in the west midlands. Does he agree that the proportion of people who are being sent to prison for knife offences had doubled in…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI absolutely agree. There is a cycle. Surgeons in King’s College Hospital say that they are seeing the same children coming back again and again. The prison system says that the…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe Minister is making a very thoughtful speech. Although we do not agree on everything, he is talking a lot of sense. A piece of work on that has just been done in Croydon. There…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI congratulate my hon. Friend on his very good speech. I completely understand the public’s feeling that there should be longer sentences—I have heard that many times—but in 2015…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI could, and I could speak for far too long about that issue. It is not possible to say “all young people carry knives for this reason”: everybody has a different story to tell.…25 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThank you, Mr Davies, and it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mike Hill) on having secured a really good…25 Mar 2019