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HANSARDColleges WeekIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Robert, and to speak in this debate. It is right that we pay tribute to the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing…29 Feb 2024HANSARDColleges WeekI thank the hon. Member for his contribution and for sharing the work of the colleges in his area, with which I know he is well connected. I acknowledge his work as Chair of the…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Access to Education: South-East NorthumberlandI do not propose to come back on all the points that the Minister has made, but the poverty and the challenges of the cost of living crisis and the sustained impact of austerity…21 Feb 2024HANSARD Access to Education: South-East Northumberlandrose—21 Feb 2024HANSARD Access to Education: South-East NorthumberlandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship today, Mr Henderson. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle…21 Feb 2024HANSARDDegree-level ApprenticeshipsNext week is National Apprenticeship Week, and I look forward to celebrating apprenticeships across the country. As the Secretary of State knows, small and medium-sized…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Israel and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI echo and support the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy). International law must be upheld and the ICJ’s ruling must be implemented in full. UNRWA…29 Jan 2024HANSARDExtreme Weather Events: ResilienceAccording to the NAO, since plans were first unveiled in 2020 the Environment Agency has cut by 40% its forecast of the number of additional properties that will be better…24 Jan 2024HANSARDFoster Carers: Allowances and Tax ArrangementsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Graham, to debate this important petition on foster care allowances and support for foster families. I am standing in for my…15 Jan 2024HANSARD Inter Faith Network for the UKI thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to follow the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury). In the letter I wrote to the…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Inter Faith Network for the UKCould the Minister confirm whether the Department has also been in touch with the IFN to say that there is going to be a forthcoming announcement?10 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS DentistryI thank the Secretary of State for giving way. It is worth repeating that the Nuffield Trust has warned that NHS dentistry is at its most perilous point in its 75-year history.…09 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistryrose—09 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemDoes my right hon. Friend agree that the lack of clarity over the Rwanda plan and its cost is happening at a time when the Tories have weakened our border security and broken the…09 Jan 2024HANSARDT-levelsShockingly, results last summer revealed that one in three students dropped out of their T-level course, which is higher than for earlier cohorts. Something is going very wrong.…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyWe urgently need to see steps towards a permanent ceasefire and an end to hostility on all sides, but the Minister is right that neither Israel nor Hamas have agreed to that. In…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Water Companies: Executive BonusesMy hon. Friend is making a powerful point. Does he agree that the failure of the Conservatives to prevent illegal sewage leaks has led to a drastic increase in illegal discharges,…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Water Companies: Executive BonusesCould the Minister perhaps say a bit more about consumer protection? We all want this problem to be dealt with, and she is laying out some of the actions that she is saying the…05 Dec 2023HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationThe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unspeakable, with 1.8 million people now displaced, 33,000 injured—and the number of hospital beds down to about 1,400 and dropping—and more…04 Dec 2023HANSARD UkraineIn August 2022, the Defence Secretary’s predecessor, the right hon. Member for Wyre and Preston North (Mr Wallace), promised a 2023 action plan for Ukraine, but that is still…28 Nov 2023