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HANSARDYouth HubsMay I encourage the brilliant team at Kendal jobcentre, who already do a fantastic job reaching out to young people across the Westmorland area, but also congratulate the…26 Jan 2026HANSARDAnimal Welfare Strategy for EnglandIt is a pleasure to serve under your guidance this morning, Ms Lewell. I pay tribute to all the speakers, including those who have come here with much to say but have not managed…21 Jan 2026HANSARDAnimal Welfare Strategy for EnglandOf course. What is the point in having these standards if we give them away to those who put us under extreme pressure? I completely agree with my hon. Friend and urge the…21 Jan 2026HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Act 2025: EnforcementIt is as privilege to serve under your guidance, Dr Allin-Khan. I say a big thank you to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Tom Gordon) for securing this…20 Jan 2026HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Act 2025: EnforcementMy right hon. Friend is neither nasty nor cynical; he knows Thames Water only too well. Well intentioned though the Act may be, it is clearly full of holes, and the water company…20 Jan 2026HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Act 2025: EnforcementI imagine that that is item 1—indeed, probably items 1 to 6—on the job description. If they cannot fulfil that obligation, then go they should. The Government brought in the Act…20 Jan 2026HANSARDNorthern Powerhouse RailI have read the statement—I am very grateful for early sight of it—and have listened to the Secretary of State carefully. The Liberal Democrats are massive supporters of Northern…14 Jan 2026HANSARDStorm GorettiI thank my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives (Andrew George) for his characteristic passion and energy in defending his communities in St Ives. I also wish to send my and the…13 Jan 2026HANSARDADHD ServicesRoughly 50% of the young people on the books of child and adolescent mental health services in south Cumbria have ADHD or autism. The integrated care board provides no funding…13 Jan 2026HANSARD Future of Thames WaterIt is a pleasure to serve under your guidance this afternoon, Mrs Harris. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) for securing the…06 Jan 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsSome 25% of the houses in my constituency were built before 1900. They are expensive to heat and very difficult to insulate. When will there be a bespoke plan for insulating those…06 Jan 2026HANSARDRural CrimeHappy new year, Mr Speaker. Only one in 200 police officers in England and Wales is allocated to rural crime teams. In Cumbria, the situation is even worse: only five officers in…05 Jan 2026HANSARD VenezuelaBritain is historically America’s best friend, and best friends tell each other when they are acting appallingly; they do not go into toadying mode. As my right hon. Friends the…05 Jan 2026HANSARDAgricultural Property Relief and Business Property ReliefOur farming and rural communities in Cumbria and right across Britain should be utterly proud of themselves, because this U-turn is their victory, and I pay tribute to them.…05 Jan 2026HANSARDFarming ProfitabilityIf farm profitability is so important to the Government, I find it utterly peculiar that the review was released only today as a written statement at the last minute. It is an…18 Dec 2025HANSARDLocal Government FinanceWestmorland and Furness is an extremely well-run council and an extremely unusual one as well. It is England’s most rural council. It is the council that accepts the highest…17 Dec 2025HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend’s communities are not dissimilar to mine; they are very rural and very mountainous, and upland farming is critical to his communities, as it is to mine. Does he…16 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS: Winter PreparednessAcross Cumbria and Morecambe Bay, the teams working in A&E, on hospital wards and in our ambulance crews are doing a stunning job dealing with the winter pressures in a community…15 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe maintenance of our nuclear deterrent, and the development of our wider defence capabilities in the United Kingdom, rests heavily on the town of Barrow, next to my own…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Creative EducationI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and sorry to intervene so early in the debate. I want to make a point about outdoor education, which is also about enrichment…09 Dec 2025