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HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillIn line with the sentiment across the House today, I will attempt to keep my comments as brief as possible, and I will confine them to Lords amendments 2 and 3. However, with your…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances BillMadam Deputy Speaker, I want to start by echoing your congratulations to the hon. Member for Enfield North (Feryal Clark) and to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for…11 Feb 2021HANSARD Building SafetyI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement; it was clearly the right one. What leaseholders will ultimately care about is making sure that this remediation is done. What work is…10 Feb 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWe all know that the true way we can level up is through education, so I was horrified to read in the press recently that, in my borough of Sandwell, attendance rates of 37% had…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillIt is a pleasure to contribute to this debate. It has certainly been a wide-ranging and interesting one, on both sides of the House. Trade is among the most efficient ways to…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)On that point, I am sure my hon. Friend will, like me, have seen in the press German car manufacturers begging the German Government and saying, “We’ve got to get this done. The…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) (Ways and Means)It is a pleasure to speak in this debate today. I have been listening to the debate from the start with some interest, and there have certainly been some vigorous contributions. I…08 Dec 2020HANSARDUK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition PeriodThe 70% of my constituents who voted to realise this country’s potential four years ago want the negotiating teams to succeed in obtaining a deal. I represent communities that are…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Courts and Tribunals: RecoveryI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his statement. As we come out of the pandemic, the challenges, difficulties and errors made along the way need to be reviewed. Will he…03 Dec 2020HANSARDFuture of Coal in the UKIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate, and to follow the fascinating speech from my hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire (Lee Rowley). I also commend my hon. Friend…03 Dec 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWhile my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley North (Marco Longhi) might purport to represent the capital of the Black Country, I certainly represent its beating heart—the…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Outbreak: DWP ResponseFirst, I pay tribute to the Clerks, the staff and fellow members of the Work and Pensions Committee, and to the right hon. Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) for the work he did…26 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateCan I interrupt the right hon. Member at this point? I am sorry; I wanted to raise it on a point of order, but can I just bring her back? I do not find death funny. I am sure my…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateMay I apologise to the right hon. Lady? I did not mean to barrack her before. It was very discourteous of me and I put on the record my apologies to her now. We talked about the…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI have much respect for the right hon. Lady, my constituency neighbour, but when people at work are asking for reasonable adjustments, they have to go to their GP and get…24 Nov 2020HANSARDInternational Men’s DayIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn), who made a very informative speech. He has touched on many of the points that…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDHSC Answers to Written QuestionsNo one could underestimate the challenges that the Department of Health and Social Care faces at the moment. I thank my hon. Friend for the way in which he has engaged with me and…19 Nov 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [Lords]It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and all the other speakers in this thoughtful and well considered debate. It was also a pleasure to serve…16 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19I promise I will keep this brief. As is often the case in these debates, we come in having written one speech and end up giving another. We have heard some great contributions…11 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 Lockdown: Homelessness and Rough SleepersI commend my hon. Friend for the work she has done in tackling homelessness and rough sleeping, but it has been the west midlands that has led the way in this fight, under the…11 Nov 2020