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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe trafficking gangs that profit from the most vulnerable refugees do not care if the people on those boats live or die. It is obvious that we all want to see the end of this…12 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Assessment ReviewMy consistent, Louisa, wrote to me about her PIP assessment. She suffers from a number of debilitating fluctuating conditions. Her assessment took over two hours and the assessor…12 May 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]We live in a rapidly changing world. Like everyone else, I am sure that I am guilty of handing my data to organisations every hour of every day, oblivious to the impact on my…07 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Perpetrators hanging around school, malicious contact with customers, and rat poison being sent to my constituents’ homes are all frightening experiences faced by victims of…07 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast month I began to receive concerning emails from employees of the NHS trusts in my constituency, saying that the trusts were seeking to create a subsidiary company and move…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateAn Israeli human rights group has now described Israel as using starvation as a method of warfare, which is a war crime under article 54 of the Geneva convention. Will the…06 May 2025HANSARDPalestinian Authority Prime Minister VisitOther hon. and right hon. Members have talked about what might be left in Palestine, but I will ask about who might be left. Some 20% of the 55,000 pregnant women there—that is…29 Apr 2025HANSARDHigher Education FundingOver the past few months, Bournemouth University has had to take steps to suspend 15 of its courses due to financial pressures and rising operational costs. Most were arts and…28 Apr 2025HANSARD EU Trading RelationshipIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. More and more people across the UK now recognise—even my dad, I suspect, like that of the hon. Member for…24 Apr 2025HANSARDEmergency PreparednessIn the last few weeks, Dorset has been ravaged by wildfires, especially Upton heath and Canford heath in my local area, where more than 130 acres are gone. I was blown away by the…24 Apr 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy constituent, Paul Pearson, tragically lost his granddaughter Lauren following an accidental drug overdose. He later discovered that she had been introduced to drugs by someone…24 Apr 2025HANSARD Intellectual Property: Artificial IntelligenceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I thank the hon. Member for Bury North (Mr Frith) for securing this important and timely debate, not only on his birthday…23 Apr 2025HANSARD“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court RulingFirst, I would like to ask the Minister how we are all going to be asked to prove our birth sex. As the hon. Member for Brent East (Dawn Butler) said, this is not just about…22 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. It is unacceptable that this dispute has dragged on into a ninth week. Even more disgraceful, the…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Easter AdjournmentDorset is burning. Just before midnight last Wednesday, the sky outside my home glowed a deep orange. Upton heath, a precious stretch of lowland habitat, was ablaze, in the middle…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Armed Forces CovenantEach branch of our UK armed forces faces challenges in maintaining personnel strength, with each below target and experiencing a net loss in trained personnel. Will the hon. and…08 Apr 2025HANSARDHorizon Redress and Post Office UpdateI am sure the Minister remembers that, on 18 December, I raised the case of Donna from Mid Dorset and North Poole, who was bankrupted for a quarter of a million pounds due to the…08 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. I have been contacted by many local businesses, including the Cross Keys pub in the Holt Heath nature reserve and the BEAR café in Wimborne. They are two different venues in…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK ParliamentariansMany of us have raised serious concerns about the actions of the Israeli Government, and replies have rarely gone as far as most of us would want. I am deeply concerned that the…07 Apr 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast month, I was in a field near the East Carr estate in Hull. With the River Humber in the distance, the field lay submerged under water and sat clearly below sea level.…07 Apr 2025