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HANSARDEngagementsWill my right hon. Friend join me in commending the hard work and dedication of staff at West Cumberland Hospital, the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the working…10 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I join him in making that point to the Minister. As we lose some funding, we must ensure that alternative funding pots become…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionThank you, Sir David. It has been a pleasure to serve under you today. I thank the Minister for her robust response. I am pleased that she agrees that the Forestry Commission…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He is absolutely correct; the issue requires a long-term strategy of collaboration that is appropriately resourced. That is the…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. This is a really worthwhile debate and I think that, perhaps with the exception of the comment from the hon. Member for Barrow and…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Creating such a ring of steel around the red squirrel strongholds is absolutely imperative. This debate is not about a national effort to…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionThe hon. Gentleman is quite right that I of course would not want to see Barrovians rounded up and banished from Barrow. The point is that the native red squirrel and the North…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent intervention and pre-empts much of what I want to say today. I share his sentiment entirely. The threats from squirrel pox and deforestation…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionI beg to move, That this House has considered potential red squirrel extinction. “This is a tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was…03 Jul 2019HANSARDRed Squirrels: Potential ExtinctionPlanting the right kind of trees is absolutely imperative, but we must also be careful of unintended consequences, because allowing trees to be planted that can create a wildlife…03 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern). In speaking today I want to commend the excellent work of my local work coaches whom I recently met…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI explained earlier in my speech that previously women in particular were restricting their working hours to 16 hours a week because of the benefit system, and in terms of the…02 Jul 2019HANSARDNorthern PowerhouseWill my hon. Friend confirm that this Government have invested more than £500 million in the northern powerhouse, attracting more businesses and creating more jobs?02 Jul 2019HANSARDProblem GamblingI thank the Secretary of State for the statement and the progress that he and the Department have made on this urgent problem, which blights the lives of many people in my…02 Jul 2019HANSARD Armed Forces DayLike many colleagues across the House, I went out to speak to constituents who had come to talk to us about the “Time is Now” lobby. Will my right hon. Friend also explain what…26 Jun 2019HANSARDWild Animals in Circuses (No.2) Bill (First sitting)Q And the very nature of a travelling circus means that it is transient, so we must have people available there and then to inspect. Dr Ros Clubb: Exactly. Any illegal use of…21 May 2019HANSARDWild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q Mr Jolly, you referred to your two racoons and your fox, zebra and camels. If there was a ban, what would happen to those animals? Peter Jolly: Nothing. I would change my…21 May 2019HANSARDWild Animals in Circuses (No.2) Bill (First sitting)Q What would be the consequences of not having police constables available to do that? Dr Ros Clubb: We feel it would be more restrictive in terms of what could be investigated.…21 May 2019HANSARDWild Animals in Circuses (No.2) Bill (First sitting)Q The RSPCA referred to the requirement for police constables to carry out checks and enforcement, as well as inspectors. Can you talk us through that? Dr Ros Clubb: Certainly. It…21 May 2019HANSARDWild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)I am sorry; I misheard you. Carol MacManus: I said that they would not be happy being left at home.21 May 2019