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HANSARDFamily Relationships, Parenting and MarriageI am not sure this is the right place to advertise virtue or claim vice. Can I put it to my hon. Friend that the Church of England Children’s Society 50 years ago supported the…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayEmily Wilding Davison taught for a time in Worthing, which gives me a constituency link. I think her view was that if she could not vote, she was not a person and therefore she…09 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayIt is worth remembering that an early Conservative woman Member of Parliament, Margaret Thatcher, in 1967 both voted to decriminalise male homosexual acts and stayed up all night…09 Mar 2023HANSARD Leaseholders and Managing AgentsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for introducing this debate. May I, through him, point out that it is not just the traditional landlords, but some great charities? Wellcome…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe Leader of the Opposition helpfully said that people in Northern Ireland might regard themselves as Irish, as British or as British and Irish. A large number would also…27 Feb 2023HANSARDAutism and ADHD AssessmentsI am sorry, Ms Fovargue, that I will be unable to stay to make a speech of my own. I thank my hon. Friend and all those he is working with for helping us in Parliament to put…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseWhat we did not hear is that when Labour was last in Government, it halved the number of first-time house buyers, but while the Tories have been in Government it has doubled…02 Feb 2023HANSARD Building SafetyI am a leaseholder without any problems. In 2002, 20 years ago, Parliament and the Labour Government passed leasehold and commonhold reform, but the commonhold bit did not work. I…30 Jan 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayIt is an honour to follow the first two speakers. To follow on from some of the early words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid), tomorrow in Worthing…26 Jan 2023HANSARD Equal Marriage: Church of EnglandThe whole House should be grateful to the right hon. Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw) for the way he has raised this. We recognise that our Second Church Estates Commissioner, my…24 Jan 2023HANSARD Levelling-up Fund Round 2The Department did advise the Labour leader of Worthing Borough Council that we had been unsuccessful in our “connected cultural mile” bid. We should not make this issue partisan.…19 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingI am grateful to my hon. Friend. Whether one’s experience is in the performing arts or the visual arts, everybody knows that it takes three to four years to put on a good opera of…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingIf I have a spare place, I could invite the Minister to come to “Carmen” with me in a week-and-a-half’s time at the ENO. Most people there will not be Londoners; people come to…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingIn addition to the performances, does my hon. Friend agree that it is a betrayal of all those who helped Vernon and Hazel Ellis restore the Coliseum from 2000 to 2004, having…18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingThat was the warm-up!18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: Fundingrose—18 Jan 2023HANSARDArts Council England: FundingThat is because I am going to go back in time and it might bore other people, Mr Bone. The first chairman of the Arts Council I met was Sir Ernest Pooley, who succeeded John…18 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Did you hear anything transphobic in the previous speech?17 Jan 2023HANSARD Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 PowerIt is a pleasure to listen to the former parliamentary leader of the SNP, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford). He at least did spend a bit more time…17 Jan 2023HANSARDChannel 4I follow the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) in saying that, over the last 13 years, Channel 4 has done better than ever before. If we want to congratulate…09 Jan 2023