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HANSARD Leasehold Reformrose—21 Mar 2019HANSARD Leasehold ReformI apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker, for standing up too soon—just when I begin to think I know what I am doing, I realise that I really do not. I congratulate the Chair of the Select…21 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionIt is our job as MPs to speak the truth as we see it and to defend the interests of our country and of our constituents—in my case the people of Croydon. It is very hard to find…20 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementWill the Chancellor confirm that the new £3 billion affordable homes scheme he announced is a re-announcement from 2017? Will he also confirm that £20 billion has been cut from…13 Mar 2019HANSARDFire Safety and Sprinkler SystemsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Jim Fitzpatrick) on securing this debate. Given that…12 Mar 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to raise the issue of knife crime, which has been the subject of much debate this week. Yesterday, the officers of the all-party…07 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesWe need to build new homes but they must be the right homes. In 2017, the then Secretary of State the right hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid) said: “It’s unacceptable for…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeLord Hogan-Howe said today that the Government do not have a grip on this national crisis. Given the fact that there have been more than 100 knife offences every day over the past…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Residents of Leisure Park HomesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Austin, and to speak in this debate. The hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) made a convincing case for…27 Feb 2019HANSARD Residents of Leisure Park HomesI agree with that completely. The poor form tarnishes the whole industry, and people who are doing things well do not, on the whole, object to changes to regulation or legislation…27 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUMy hon. Friend may have seen that today’s Evening Standard is reporting that Westfield’s £1.4 billion investment in Croydon is going to be reviewed, in part due to Brexit and the…14 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. May I invite the Secretary of State to visit Croydon? More trains pass through Croydon than pass through King’s Cross, Euston and Paddington combined. The Secretary of State…14 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI completely agree with what my right hon. Friend is saying. Does she agree that the knife crime prevention orders that were announced this week as a late addition to the…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeThe Home Secretary says, “The law is very clear on this,” but when I held a Windrush surgery, all the people who came to it had been told by the Home Office that they were not…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy local hospital in Croydon already struggles to recruit nurses, and we have struggled to recruit social care workers. The arbitrary £30,000 has no correlation to the skills that…28 Jan 2019HANSARD School Exclusions and Youth ViolenceI am grateful to my hon. Friend for securing the debate and her generosity in giving way. Analysis was done of 60 serious cases of youth violence in Croydon, and in every case,…28 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThat is absolutely true. There is a greater vulnerability to influence. There are lots of issues with PRU systems. For example, children tend to finish much earlier than in…24 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham, and, as always, to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy). I often seem to follow him in…24 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy right hon. Friend is absolutely, completely right. I have had cases in my constituency, as we probably all have, and I have talked before in the Chamber about the worst case…24 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeAbsolutely—I completely agree. Joining up all these services, so that we look after these children properly, is incredibly important. Youth services have already been mentioned,…24 Jan 2019