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HANSARDRail Infrastructure13. What plans the Government have to provide funding for rail infrastructure in Wales.15 Sept 2021HANSARDKickstart SchemeMy constituent Deb Barrow runs a recruitment agency, and she focuses on employing local young people. Unfortunately, the system of kickstart has let her and the local young people…13 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe Prime Minister is behaving like Father Christmas; he does not know what he has not delivered in government for the last 11 years. In this House last night, we had cross-party…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThe point the hon. Gentleman is making is really interesting. With covid, we have seen so many families really struggle and their children have been hospitalised—we are talking…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal Cannabisrose—06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal Cannabisrose —06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThe Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is the best-placed person to move the debate forward, because he was the one in government in the Home Office who changed the…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisIt was a pleasure to serve with the right hon. Gentleman as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for medical cannabis under prescription. On the point he makes about…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI am sorry for intervening on the right hon. Gentleman again. The NHS keeps asking experts, but those experts are not experts in medical cannabis; they are experts in the…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI thank the Minister for giving way again. I would just like to point out to her that that is not the case. There are three NHS prescriptions. If the law was changed, why are…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way on that point. Does he agree that there is no other medical intervention suitable for these children? It is intractable epilepsy. Nothing…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThe hon. Gentleman has made some very valid points about the wider issue of drug reform, and I agree with much of what he has said. As he well knows, when I first came to the…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisOn that point, I made two journeys to The Hague with families—out of my own pocket, which was absolutely fine; it was not funded by anybody—because they needed the support to go…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThe work the hon. Gentleman does with his think-tank is brilliant. How much would this cost? How much does he think the Government need to put aside—we are talking about the cost…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisThere has been a lot of talk about randomised control trials this evening, and I understand the difficulty that the NHS has with this. We have had numerous meetings with NHS…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI thank the Minister for being so generous with her time. The right hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning) has made a real point about there being a culture of fear…06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal Cannabisrose —06 Sept 2021HANSARD Medicinal CannabisI thank the Minister for her generosity in giving way, and she is right that I want to make yet another observation. One of the reasons why we all came into this House was to make…06 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanI pay tribute to all those who lost their lives serving their country, and to those who have served, especially colleagues on both sides of the House. I was struck by the words of…18 Aug 2021HANSARDCervical ScreeningI thank the Minister for her response. I also thank the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for his contribution. As Andrew Mathewson’s MP, he made a…19 Jul 2021