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HANSARDNeighbourhood Plans: Planning DecisionsI thank my hon. Friend for securing such an important debate. Neighbourhood plans give local communities a voice. They know their areas better than anybody else. With this…09 Jul 2025HANSARDDeporting Foreign Offenders: Prison Capacity19. If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of deporting all foreign criminals on prison capacity.08 Jul 2025HANSARDDeporting Foreign Offenders: Prison CapacityUK prisons are at full capacity and 12% of prison places are occupied by foreign nationals. Will the Secretary of State look to deport all foreign nationals who commit offences in…08 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillIt is a delight to take part in this debate, and I will speak about my lived experience. I want to put on the record that after I was shot and left the military, I received a war…01 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillMy hon. Friend is right. The Government have a huge majority, and they have a chance to reform welfare. If they do not take it at this moment, it will not get reformed. I believe…01 Jul 2025HANSARD Access to Banking Hubs: HertfordshireThe hon. Member is right; I said that people have to go 40 minutes from Ludlow to Hereford, but some might take 20 minutes to get to Ludlow. Given the inaccessibility of remote…25 Jun 2025HANSARD Access to Banking Hubs: HertfordshireIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South West Hertfordshire (Mr Mohindra) for securing the debate. Banking hubs…25 Jun 2025HANSARDChagos Archipelago: Sovereignty10. What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the treaty with Mauritius on the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago on the UK.24 Jun 2025HANSARDChagos Archipelago: SovereigntyIf the US wanted to launch an attack on Iran from Diego Garcia in the current circumstances, would the UK Government support it?24 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesI really like the idea of permanently lower tax rates. Can the Minister confirm that that is for all businesses, and that no businesses will receive tax rises?04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (Sir Gavin Williamson) for securing…04 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street Crime8. If her Department will take steps to increase sentences for high street crime.03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeSouth Shropshire residents would expect high street crime to be dealt with, and proportionate sentencing and appropriate deterrents. How will removing short-term prison sentences…03 Jun 2025HANSARDStrategic Defence ReviewI welcome the NATO-first strategy in the SDR, and the fact that we are looking to lead in NATO. Last week, I was at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio, where the NATO…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsTo read about our nuclear defence strategy over the weekend, ahead of the SDR, is quite alarming—just as it is to see this morning that journalists have received all the…02 Jun 2025HANSARD Government AnnouncementsFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Is there any way we can have a list of the commercial companies who have had sight of the review ahead of anybody else, because…02 Jun 2025HANSARDShifting Care into the CommunityCommunity hospitals can reduce pressure on major hospitals, especially in rural communities such as mine. Will the Secretary of State lay out his plans to support community…06 May 2025HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your advice on yesterday’s debate about a jobs tax on working people who are not working people—it depends on the definition of “working…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWill the Minister give way?04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWill the Minister give way?04 Dec 2024