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HANSARDEngagementsQ1. Last week I visited Rayner, a world-leading provider of cataract solutions based in Worthing, a winner of this year’s King’s Award for Enterprise for innovation, and a…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 15 October.15 Oct 2025HANSARDSocial and Affordable HousingThe only way to solve the housing crisis is, as my right hon. Friend so articulately puts it, to “build, baby, build”. In my constituency of East Worthing and Shoreham, the median…13 Oct 2025HANSARDSocial and Affordable Housing22. What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes.13 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy constituents who use the A259 coast road are being deprived the choice of safe and sustainable travel to Brighton, as Conservative-run West Sussex county council has dragged…11 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ5. This Labour Government are getting our NHS back on its feet; there are 20,000 fewer patients on waiting lists at my local trust since the election, but there is still more to…10 Sept 2025HANSARD Independent Water CommissionLast week, it was revealed that the chief executive of Southern Water was awarded an egregious, enormous pay rise worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, despite the company…21 Jul 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and the Government’s work to ensure that help is there for those who need it now and in future. Many in this House will be worried that…30 Jun 2025HANSARD Glastonbury Festival: BBC CoverageI refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the BBC and a former employee of the Prospect and Bectu…30 Jun 2025HANSARD BBC World Service FundingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley) for securing this…26 Jun 2025HANSARDSeverely Disabled People: East Worthing and Shoreham16. What steps she is taking to support severely disabled people who will never be able to work in East Worthing and Shoreham constituency.23 Jun 2025HANSARDSeverely Disabled People: East Worthing and ShorehamI thank the Secretary of State for that answer. I have been working with disabled constituents, our local jobcentre and employers to ensure that everyone is working together to…23 Jun 2025HANSARDGovernment Travel Advice: LaosI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. The case he raises touches the hearts of those across the world who have also lost loved ones in the tragic circumstances of…20 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI agree with my hon. Friend. Similarly, I cannot support amendment 102, which would require doctors to ensure that there were no “remediable suicide risk factors” before…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI rise to speak in support of new clause 10, which is about choice. In fact, the Bill is about choice: choice at the end of life and choice to have a dignified death. It is about…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am afraid I must make progress. I therefore hope that Members across the House will join me in supporting new clause 10, strengthening the Bill and reinforcing the fact that…16 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, because it allows me to continue making an argument that will address those points. First, substantial motivation…16 May 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillToday, we are taking an extraordinary but necessary step not just to safeguard a single industry, but to defend the long-term interests of our country. On that point of interests,…12 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. This month, we marked eight years since the Westminster bridge attack, a cowardly assault on our parliamentary democracy that killed five people, including the late PC Keith…31 Mar 2025HANSARDMilitary Aid to UkraineThis year, the UK is providing Ukraine with more financial aid through military support than at any time since Putin’s illegal invasion. Does the Secretary of State agree that it…24 Mar 2025