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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)Q Professor Coleman, would you on a level accept the description of being a eugenicist? David Coleman: No.27 Feb 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)But inevitably the counterfactuals would have an impact on the fiscal burden carried by the state. Karl Williams: Indeed, yes. The counterfactuals we did think about were…27 Feb 2025HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]I represent a coastal community. Coastal communities have been forgotten over the past 14 years almost as much as the skills agenda. In my constituency, Bournemouth and Poole…25 Feb 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Hotels12. What steps she is taking to reduce the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.24 Feb 2025HANSARDAsylum Seekers: HotelsAsylum seekers are forced to live in limbo. Bournemouth hotels cost the taxpayer eye-watering sums, as we just heard, and everyone is stuck in a situation that nobody wants. I…24 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Thank you, Sir Christopher. I have made my point about whether the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston has used his time here to press the case on behalf of survivors…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I disagree strongly with the hon. Member. He knows exactly what I said, and he is choosing to put words into my mouth, as he has chosen to put words into the mouths of many other…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I appreciate that. I will return to the important topic at hand. The Minister will comment explicitly on what the hon. Member said but I will say that, although I agree that the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I believe that the Minister may be coming to that point very soon, and I am excited to hear your response to what she says—11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I want to press the point about whether any victims of child sexual abuse have been directly consulted about the proposed new clause. Before I became an MP I ran a service to…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I understood the point that the hon. Member made in his speech, and I understand his clarification. I still struggle to see how the new clause fits in with what I regard as the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I have some sympathy with the point that the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston has made about the addictive quality of screen time. I also draw attention to the fact…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)That is not the point on which I am intervening. I was going to say that by using the language of mobile phone and smartphone interchangeably, we are confusing the debate. If our…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will the right hon. Gentleman give way? I promise that this will be my last intervention.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I want to labour this point, as it were, because I understand entirely the point that the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston made. It is important to do so, because…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I wish to speak briefly about the new clause, mainly to test the waters with the hon. Gentleman who tabled it. Does he, like me, have concerns that, if parents and carers are able…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I welcome that clarification. I continue to have concerns, because whether or not somebody is paying for their child’s education—I would obviously wish that they were not paying—I…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I welcome what the hon. Member says about the importance of victims, as they must be at the centre of all we do in this area. Will he outline whether he has met any victims of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Again, you are talking about victims—11 Feb 2025