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HANSARD Digital Infrastructure, Connectivity and AccessibilityI strongly agree. Most of my speech this afternoon will be challenging the Government on the steps that they need to take to get the very best service and life opportunities for…03 Dec 2020HANSARD Digital Infrastructure, Connectivity and AccessibilityIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Loughborough (Jane Hunt). I also congratulate the right hon. Member for Tatton (Esther McVey) and my hon. Friend the Member for…03 Dec 2020HANSARD HIV CommissionIt has been such a privilege being a member of the independent HIV Commission, not least because of the wide range of people we have met and engaged with during our work. That has…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Official Development AssistanceWe now know that because of the Government’s choices the economic price facing the country is higher, that the manifesto commitments the Conservatives made last December can no…26 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateWe have heard key public sector workers invoked: “How will we look them in the face?” They will understand the rules perfectly well; they are abiding by them. Does my right hon.…24 Nov 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsGiven that the Rajapaksa Government in Sri Lanka have effectively withdrawn from the commitments that the country made at the UN Human Rights Council, can we count on the Foreign…24 Nov 2020HANSARD Virtual Participation in DebateI believe I made the Chair’s curfew on speeches, so I will not intervene a lot. To go back to the point about childcare, last week more than a million pupils throughout the…24 Nov 2020HANSARDExams and Assessments 2021: Covid-19We all agree that exams would be the fairest and best way to assess pupils this year, and given the absolute chaos at the heart of last year’s exams, it would have been reasonable…23 Nov 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseWe have heard a lot from the Prime Minister about Captain Hindsight, but whether it is the economic response and the risk of a cliff edge, testing or the crisis in schools, the…19 Nov 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to you for the chance to make this point of order on behalf of my constituent Harpreet Chahal, regarding her husband’s visa…12 Nov 2020HANSARDDraft Education (Exemption From School and Further Education Institutions Inspections) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure for me, too, to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Ms Fovargue. I know the result everyone is waiting for today is to find out whether this Committee…04 Nov 2020HANSARDSchool Attendance: Covid-19That is absolutely right. We heard from the Chair of the Education Committee, the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), that back in June around 700,000 disadvantaged…02 Nov 2020HANSARDSchool Attendance: Covid-19I am grateful for that intervention. There is a role for Ofsted to play in looking at remote learning in the home, not least to disseminate best practice among schools. Let us…02 Nov 2020HANSARDSchool Attendance: Covid-19I strongly endorse the point made by my hon. Friend; she is absolutely right. Returning to the research available to us, I am concerned about the large gap that is emerging in the…02 Nov 2020HANSARDSchool Attendance: Covid-19Ultimately, in the worst case, parents have the right to withdraw their children from education altogether. I think, by the way, that that is not the right course of action. All…02 Nov 2020HANSARDSchool Attendance: Covid-19It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I begin by thanking the Petitions Committee for facilitating this debate, the organisers of the petition for…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Free School MealsOh, for God’s sake.21 Oct 2020HANSARDBlack History MonthI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare) on securing this important debate. I count myself privileged having grown up in the east end…20 Oct 2020HANSARDBlack History MonthI am so grateful to the Minister for that question, because, after my slight rant, it brings me back to the issue I wanted to talk about, which is schools. In 2008, the last…20 Oct 2020HANSARD Productivity: Rural AreasIt is a pleasure to be here for your debut in the Chair, Ms Ghani. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann) on securing this very good debate. I also…14 Oct 2020