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HANSARDNew Housing: Swift BricksThe hon. Member can always use the swift brick he has with him as a visual display and hold it up. I call Caroline Lucas.10 Jul 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ8. Tonight, at West Lindsey District Council’s planning meeting, the RAF will apply for listed building consent to move the grave of Wing Commander Guy Gibson’s dog. Apparently,…05 Jul 2023HANSARDAsylum Application BacklogI am a bit mystified. Given that 95% of these applications are successful, is it not the case that, if we speed up the process and make it easier and easier, more and more people…03 Jul 2023HANSARD NHS Long-term Workforce PlanAccording to the King’s Fund, the proportion of GDP taken by the NHS has increased in the past 50 years from 3.4% to 8.2%. On the same trajectory, in 50 years’ time, it will take…03 Jul 2023HANSARD Migration and Economic Development PartnershipMeanwhile, constituencies are overwhelmed, as local services will be at RAF Scampton. What alternative plan is there? Does the Home Secretary not realise that every year we…29 Jun 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillThis has been a debate in two parts. First, we have heard moving testimony from Members on both sides of the House about the evils of antisemitism and some personal experiences,…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillHow many times bigger than the Buxton memorial is this proposed memorial? It is many times bigger, and it will completely overshadow it.28 Jun 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillLet us put it on the record that, as Winston Churchill said, only one nation in the entire world fought Nazism and fascism from day one of the war to the last day of the war—it…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial Bill: CommittalIt is accepted that there is a principle to memorial, so what about my point on having an overground memorial—like other memorials—but not an underground learning centre? Will the…28 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Economic Impact AssessmentWhat is nonsense is to deny that it makes economic sense to offshore. Nobody is going to spend thousands of pounds to a people smuggler just to be detained and sent back to…27 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. And so another migration Bill winds its way slowly out of the House of Lords, and when it becomes law, an army of human rights lawyers will try to frustrate it. Will the…27 Jun 2023HANSARDGambling White Paper: Horse-racing Sector4. What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the gambling White Paper on the horse-racing sector.15 Jun 2023HANSARDGambling White Paper: Horse-racing SectorI declare an interest, in that the wonderful Market Rasen racecourse is in my constituency. Does the Minister accept that there is an inextricable link between horse-racing and…15 Jun 2023HANSARDSupport for Parish Life: Small Rural Communities5. What steps the Church of England is taking to support parish life in small, rural communities.15 Jun 2023HANSARDSupport for Parish Life: Small Rural CommunitiesRural Lincolnshire has arguably the finest collection of medieval churches in the country and it is a joy to visit them. Many are open through the open churches event organised as…15 Jun 2023HANSARD Abortion: Offences against the Person ActWhen the House debated whether it should be possible to receive an abortion pill through the post, we warned that there might be a tragic case such as this. Some people in the…15 Jun 2023HANSARD MigrationI wanted to talk about the challenge posed by legal migration, but there is not much time. Therefore, as my constituency is about to be the victim of illegal migration, I must…15 Jun 2023HANSARDRegional InnovationThe Government recently launched a call for space infrastructure projects, and West Lindsey District Council has proposed plans to work with the Satellite Applications Catapult,…14 Jun 2023HANSARDRegional Innovation8. What steps her Department is taking to support innovation in all regions of the UK.14 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderAre there not double standards on the left? They believe that in their cause they can disrupt people’s daily lives, but when some old lady is praying outside an abortion clinic,…12 Jun 2023