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HANSARD Employment Relations (Flexible Working) BillI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I acknowledge the sheer amount of work that she has been doing on the issue for many years, and I thank her for that. I will come on…28 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillI thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Will he seriously consider two aspects of fracking? First, it is unsafe in a country like the United Kingdom, which has a very…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillThe hon. Gentleman may not be aware but, when fracking was happening in Fylde, I went out there to protest against it. He talks about carrying the people, but Bolton South East…19 Oct 2022HANSARDCriminal Court Backlog: Bolton10. What recent estimate he has made of the size of the backlog of criminal court cases in Bolton.18 Oct 2022HANSARDCriminal Court Backlog: BoltonAs a former prosecutor, a barrister in private practice and a shadow Justice Minister, I find sitting in this House and watching the Government oversee the managed decline of our…18 Oct 2022HANSARDKinship CarersI wanted to be part of this debate, but I had two meetings about my private Member’s Bill next week, so I could not be here at the beginning, for which I apologise. I wanted to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDSrebrenicaI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and commend him on and thank him for all his work on religious freedom and preventing the persecution of people because of their…14 Jul 2022HANSARDSrebrenicaI am glad that £200,000 has been given to Remembering Srebrenica. I do not know whether the Minister is aware that that charity, which has been in existence for some time, has…14 Jul 2022HANSARDSrebrenicaI beg to move, That this House notes that from 4 to 11 July 2022, the UK marked Srebrenica Memorial Week with commemorations taking place in hundreds of schools, local…14 Jul 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseRiverside Drive in my constituency has been subjected to repeated flooding since 2015. The residents live in genuine fear of further flooding. I have raised this matter many times…14 Jul 2022HANSARDSrebrenicaThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we need to recognise genocide wherever it is happening. As he may know, I set up the all-party parliamentary group on Uyghurs, which deals…14 Jul 2022HANSARDSrebrenicaI thank all my parliamentary colleagues for attending today’s debate. I reiterate my thanks to Mr Speaker for allowing the Speaker’s House to be used on Monday for the…14 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2022Maybe I misheard the Minister, but did he say that when somebody is searched, that search will be recorded, and also that the records will show the ethnicity and religion of the…27 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. My observation does not relate to the draft regulations, which are a good idea, but I want to bring something to the…27 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, in Prime Minister’s questions the Prime Minister said that the Leader of the Opposition was a supporter of people traffickers. I think…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsOn a point of order, Mr Speaker.15 Jun 2022HANSARD Children’s Education Recovery and Childcare CostsEvery day, tens of thousands of working parents across the country are being failed by inadequate childcare policies that leave families financially crippled, stagnating in their…07 Jun 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Fiscal ApproachIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) for securing the debate. My constituency, a place…25 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthI was very disappointed by the Gracious Speech as it failed to deal with a number of things that really matter to my constituents and, I believe, to the country at large. First…18 May 2022HANSARDAchieving Economic GrowthIn my opinion we are facing a cost of living crisis. I do not care whether it costs £3 billion or £8 billion; the Government need to bring out the money to look after those people.18 May 2022