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HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of land use change on food security. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I am grateful for the…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. Sadly, suicide is very high among the farming community, which is another indicator of the many pressures that our farms are facing.…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityWe have had a good debate, but I feel that the conversation has only just started. So many questions remain. The key point is that food security needs to be recognised as critical…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI beg your pardon—the hon. Lady. Maybe one day! It is one thing to see a few sheep grazing under a solar panel, but my point is about agricultural arable land that grows crops. I…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We talk about a brownfield-first approach, and it can work. We saw examples of it in the west midlands under the leadership of the former…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI must respectfully disagree with the right hon. Lady—18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityThe hon. Lady gets my point.18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI could not resist intervening on the hon. Gentleman about the rationale for this debate. I spoke about food security in the last Parliament, and I gently say that his…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Illegal Waste: Organised CrimeThe number of fly-tipping incidents per day is 3,157. That is equivalent to one every 27 seconds. We see fly-tipping all too often in the west midlands. In my constituency,…17 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget: Press BriefingsLeaks, unauthorised briefing and speculation—or maybe not speculation—are creating instability, chaos, volatility and uncertainty for the markets, for businesses and for…17 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonThe hon. Member makes a really important point about grey belt. I completely understand her example of a car park, but grey belt needs much clearer definition, because we are…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonMy hon. Friend is painting a really bleak picture for London. Does he agree that to build the homes that we need in this country, we should focus not only on increased density in…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonMy hon. Friend speaks passionately about this, but does he not agree that this absolutely shows the problem with centralising not just targets but powers in the hands of one…05 Nov 2025HANSARD House Building: LondonThe key thing is that until the Government recognise that they need to put some support into brownfield regeneration, our green belt and our green spaces will always be under…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployer National Insurance Contributions: Business ImpactI am not convinced that that answer went anywhere near my question. Family businesses are the lifeblood of communities and constituencies such as mine. Last week, I met Family…04 Nov 2025HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention; I was just going to come on to the point that I believe answers his question. Our development partnerships must adapt to…04 Nov 2025HANSARD Houses in Multiple Occupation: Planning ConsentWe are seeing more and more HMOs across Walsall borough and in my constituency, and it is leaving my local residents feeling that they have very little say on what is happening in…04 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployer National Insurance Contributions: Business Impact6. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer national insurance contributions on businesses.04 Nov 2025HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) for securing this timely debate. I also welcome the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsDoes my hon. Friend agree that we have a Government who simply do not understand business? They seem to think that they can just squeeze and squeeze small businesses because they…04 Nov 2025