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HANSARDOffshore Wind SectorAs we know from the excellent Rampion wind farm in Sussex bay—hopefully it will soon be expanded—offshore wind farms support workers not just in energy production but in tourism,…28 Nov 2023HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationI welcome the new Home Secretary to his place and share his disappointment at this morning’s judgment. As we have heard, the Supreme Court focused on the principle of…15 Nov 2023HANSARD Pakistan: Evacuation of AfghansIt is reassuring to hear that this is not a paperwork issue, because it has now been more than two years since the fateful airlift. It was also particularly problematic to find…08 Nov 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekIt is a pleasure to speak on this important subject. I pay tribute to the hon. Members for Sheffield, Hallam (Olivia Blake) and for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan), and the others…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekI am grateful to my hon. Friend for putting on record what his local hospital is doing, and I hope that that is happening around the country. Certainly, my own hospital takes…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekThe hon. Lady gallops way ahead of me; I will come on to speak about that. That is what my private Member’s Bill, now an Act, seeks to address, so I will come back to those…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekMy hon. Friend, who again has great experience and has been exceedingly forward with her own experiences, is absolutely right. There have been many studies on maternal perinatal…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Baby Loss Awareness WeekMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We do not want a blame game. When I was the Minister for Children and we reviewed extraordinary and harrowing child deaths at the hands of…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsI congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this debate, to which I have come purely so that I can hijack it by singing the virtues of Shoreham harbour, the closest…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI am grateful to my hon. Friend and near neighbour from Crawley who represents Gatwick airport. I know he can with us today only briefly due to a sitting of the Foreign Affairs…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI will not take up too much more of the Chamber’s time, because I spoke fairly extensively to start with, but I would certainly like to thank hon. colleagues who have brought to…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI beg to move, That this House has considered flying schools. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Robert. I am grateful to colleagues who have come along to…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsI am slightly disappointed by the Minister’s comment. This is not a huge mass industry; it is not beyond the wit of a regulator or of the Treasury to ensure that VAT savings are…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Flying SchoolsOkay, well, those are the figures that have been provided by those in the industry. The three flying training schools that have gone under produced many hundreds of pilots a year.…12 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, you will not believe this, but it is almost six months since I finally secured a meeting with the Justice Minister and the Health Minister, after six cancellations,…12 Sept 2023HANSARDSecurity UpdateMay I thank you personally, Mr Speaker, for the care and support you have shown to those of us who have been sanctioned by China? We are in the frontline of this threat, but I…11 Sept 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration UpdateI echo the comments of the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson), about the tragedies in the channel. It is…05 Sept 2023HANSARD British Nationals Detained OverseasMy right hon. Friend, I and indeed you, Ms Ali, attended a conference in Prague over the weekend that was full of parliamentarians from around the world, many of whom, including…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education SettingsAs one of the Ministers who came into the DFE back in 2010, we found that, contrary to some of the claims made by those on the Opposition Front Bench, Building Schools for the…04 Sept 2023HANSARDAll-party Parliamentary GroupsI am referring to the second report because we are discussing the second report. Because there was quite a gap between this study being initiated and this final report being…19 Jul 2023