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HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI will make just a bit more progress before giving way again. One of the things that I have been told by different Foreign Office Ministers, off and on the record, is that there…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeWhat I would say is that in the nearly six years that Richard Ratcliffe and I have been campaigned to get Nazanin home, we have heard every platitude. We have heard about no…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and applaud all the work she is doing to try to free her constituent. It is sad that we have had to bond over this topic, with both of…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI fully agree. One of the biggest disappointments has been that British officials will not go to the court hearings for Nazanin when she is called back to court. That is something…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I will mention the other dual nationals who are imprisoned in Iran. As he says, Nazanin is not the only one. I want to go…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe hon. Gentleman has appeared at every single debate we have had on Nazanin. I thank him for all his efforts in the campaign. I will come to the debt and getting our…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeRichard Ratcliffe is in the Gallery and will have heard that message directly from my hon. Friend. This campaign has touched everyone, regardless of where they are in the country.…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI will get to my questions, if that is okay. I am conscious of the time.16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI agree with the hon. Member and thank her for her help in this campaign. I repeat the point that several other Members have already made, which is that this issue is not just…16 Nov 2021HANSARD School-based Counselling ServicesI thank the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown) for leading this important debate on…09 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Can I ask the Secretary of State to clarify what he meant by “3,000 family centres”, because we know that they are not 3,000 family hubs?01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government’s own early years health adviser, the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadsom), has said that every family in England should have access…01 Nov 2021HANSARDChildcare BillMy office manager Oliver Denton Lieberman is today going off for a whole year on paternity leave. I want to applaud the fact that more men are doing so; it is good to recognise…29 Oct 2021HANSARDChildcare BillI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Reading East (Matt Rodda) for bringing forward this Bill, and for working so closely on the Bill with me, the shadow Education team and…29 Oct 2021HANSARDSustainability and Climate Change (National Curriculum)I should just say that I am not the shadow Minister on this subject, but the shadow Schools Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Peter Kyle), is on a Bill Committee,…27 Oct 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank Mr Speaker’s office and you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for granting this urgent question. It is my eighth urgent question on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe since she was detained…25 Oct 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to make a statement on my constituent Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.25 Oct 2021HANSARD Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: IranIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Nokes. The objectives of the JCPOA are obviously hugely important in and of themselves, but it cannot just be seen through the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyThe Minister is talking about everything that he is proud of. Is he proud that the childcare system in this country is the third most expensive in the world, and that parents are…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyA recent report by Pregnant Then Screwed showed that nine in 10 working families believe that the cost of childcare is severely impacting on their living standards. This is not…21 Sept 2021