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HANSARDEngagementsI have said that the situation in Birmingham council is completely unacceptable, but the hon. Gentleman might want to tell his constituents that we have delivered 2 million extra…02 Apr 2025HANSARDEngagementsThis is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of our country and our continent. We have set out the fully funded increase in defence spending to 2.5% in 2027, the biggest…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI hope the hon. Lady will forgive me, but I do not know the details of the particular incinerator she speaks of and I am not across that. I will make sure, however, that she gets…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for fighting SNP incompetence on behalf of her constituents. Yet again, the SNP is failing island communities. Hospital appointments are being missed and…26 Mar 2025HANSARDShale Gas WellsThe right hon. Member knows that there are real consequences of fracking, as I have set out. What we need to do to secure our independence and the next generation of jobs and to…26 Mar 2025HANSARDShale Gas WellsThe right hon. Member asks about shale gas. There are very real economic and environmental consequences to fracking, and communities have clearly said no.26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsBecause it is completely unnecessary. I have teenage children. Almost every school bans phones in school; they do it already. We need to concentrate on what is really important…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsOur plan for change has already cut NHS waiting lists by almost 200,000. That has happened for five months in a row during the winter months. The local trust’s waiting lists in my…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsWe work with the United States on a daily basis. I think that the right hon. Gentleman would like to think of himself as reasonable and, when he is not jumping in Windermere,…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman is right to raise the concern about the situation at Heathrow and I think everybody is very concerned by what happened last week. There are clearly…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his question; he does great work to bring our communities together, especially in Slough. Any form of racial or religious-based hatred is abhorrent and…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsWe will set out the details just as soon as we can, on the basis of the principles that I set out earlier. The welfare scheme overall is not defendable on terms, but it must be…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Lady talks about the record of the last Government. Under their watch, a third of children started school without appropriate-level development, such as not being…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsYes. Take the example of schools going into academies. The vast majority of schools are already academies. Therefore, we need to think again about what we do about failing schools…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsIt was Labour that introduced academies and pushed up standards. This is not ideological. I am a parent of two teenage children, both of whom go to a state school, so I am…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsYes of course, as the right hon. Gentleman well knows. Online safety is important, and important new measures are coming in the next few months under the Act. We need to see…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the right hon. Member for sharing his personal experience of this; he is right to do so. My family has lived with disability for many years as well, so I…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsEvery person should have the right to work, and we will always protect the most severely disabled and those with lifelong health conditions. We need to support Medina and the…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for emphasising this issue again. Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children is sickening—I think all of us across the House would agree on that. A…26 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate all colleagues working on the Bill and taking part in the debate. It is an important issue on which there are different views across the House and within parties.…26 Mar 2025