Fabian Hamilton: ...complex mental health problems, but local mental health services in Leeds are still chronically underfunded after 13 years of Conservative Government cuts. Will the Minister join me in commending Roundhay high school for the support that it has given the family—this is the same school that the former Prime Minister claimed “let down” children—and commit today to delivering truly...
Fabian Hamilton: ...country, the programmes people watch on television and the life we lead, of which she was so much a part, woven into the fabric of our lives. Let me conclude by saying, on behalf of the people of Roundhay, Moortown, Meanwood, Chapel Allerton and Alwoodley who make up north-east Leeds, “May she rest in eternal peace. Long live King Charles III.”
Fabian Hamilton: ...was subsequently extended to March 2019. However, in the meantime he experienced an unrelated physical health issue, in November 2018, and was sent to a private hospital—Spire Leeds Hospital in Roundhay —to see a surgeon, as they were contracting NHS services. That appointment was in December last year. He was told that he needed exploratory surgery to resolve the issue, which would be...
Alex Sobel: ...our economy away from London. That is the most important goal for our region and others. Yorkshire’s cultural achievements are legion: the world’s first ever film was filmed in 1888 in Roundhay; the first ever football club, Sheffield FC, was founded in 1874; and, as hon. Members might recall, in the London 2012 Olympics if Yorkshire had been a country it would have finished 12th in...
Nick Gibb: ...their time at school. Like the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy), I was a chorister, and equally angelic, although not in a cathedral but a large parish church— St Edmund’s church in Roundhay in Leeds. I regularly go to the theatre—the Donmar, the National and the Chichester Festival theatre—so I am as passionate as anybody here about the importance of arts education. We...
Nick Gibb: ...to what has been an excellent debate on educational standards in Yorkshire and the Humber. I spent five years of my secondary school education at comprehensive schools in Yorkshire: first at Roundhay School in Leeds and then a sixth form in Wakefield. My mother taught at Talbot Primary School in Roundhay, and my sister and brother both went to Harrogate Grammar School, which, despite its...
Fabian Hamilton: ...would oppose that. I want in closing to pay tribute to Muhammad Nayyer, the secretary for external affairs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Leeds. He recently came to the Sinai Synagogue in Roundhay in my constituency to speak to the Leeds Jewish community about his and his community’s experience in Pakistan. After his speech I was privileged to be presented with a copy of the holy...
David Laws: ...academy Kent Batley Grammar School Free school Kirklees Dunraven School Converter academy Lambeth Carr Manor Community School, Specialist Sports College Community school Leeds Roundhay School Community school Leeds Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College Sponsored academy Lewisham Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy Sponsored academy Lewisham Priory Witham...
Fabian Hamilton: ...this important subject. Like most Members of Parliament, I spend quite a bit of time visiting sixth forms and meeting members of school councils, and teachers and pupils. Just last Friday, I was at Roundhay high school in my constituency, where I met the politics AS-level group—a group of about 20 16 and 17-year-olds. We had a discussion for about an hour and a half, and it would have...
Fabian Hamilton: ...had made a statement to the House on flooding on 17 December 2008, I asked him a question about his proposed trial areas for surface water management in Leeds. My question was about an area in the Roundhay ward of my constituency called the Wellhouses-a series of residential streets through the middle of which runs Gledhow beck. I had been approached by local residents who were concerned...
Elizabeth Truss: ...compared with those from high-income backgrounds. [ Interruption. ] I am being corrected on my grammar; obviously, I did not go to the right kind of school. [ Interruption. ] I went to Roundhay comprehensive school, as did the Minister of State, Department for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr Gibb). [Hon. Members: "Ooh!"] Under the previous...
Fabian Hamilton: ...who are important in today's debate are those who have already waited more than nine years for recompense and are still waiting. I am thinking of constituents such as Mrs Ivy Robinson, who lives in Roundhay in my constituency of Leeds North East. She contributed all her working life to save for a personal pension, which promised to give her just over £400 a month, but she is now having to...
Fabian Hamilton: I should like to present a petition from Mrs. Patricia Hooker and the Churches Together in Roundhay, in my constituency, which has been signed by 181 of my constituents. The petition states: The Petition of members of Churches Together in Roundhay, Declares that we are deeply concerned about the high levels of destitution among asylum seekers, especially refused asylum seekers, and in...
Stephen Timms: ...and Methley 2,200 Kirkstall 1,900 Middleton Park 3,800 Moortown 1,800 Morley North 2,300 Morley South 2,400 Otley and Yeadon 2,200 Pudsey 2,200 Rothwell 1,900 Roundhay 1,900 Temple Newsam 2,600 Weetwood 1,300 Wetherby 1,200
Nick Gibb: ...damage face other problems. Pupils and staff may need to move to neighbouring schools, and teaching may have to be in temporary accommodation for long periods. When I was a fourth-year pupil at Roundhay secondary school in Leeds, a neighbouring school had to be closed to repair concrete cancer in the ceiling, and we had to share our school with that school's pupils, each having a morning...
Fabian Hamilton: ...no idea when they move to the area that they are responsible for maintaining its banks. Will my right hon. Friend also put pressure on Leeds city council to do something about the balancing lake at Roundhay park, which is often the cause of the huge amount of flooding in the Wellhouses?
Robert Goodwill: ...friends because we know how bad his driving is. If he had four or five young men in the car with him—or, even worse, young girls—he would drive in an even more dangerous way. I recently visited Roundhay school and talked to a group of sixth-formers. They were astounded to hear the fact that, for the girls in the room, the person most likely to kill them was their boyfriend. The most...
Paul Truswell: ...he understand why his words ring somewhat hollow with people on this side of the House? Under the Conservatives, six hospitals in Leeds were closed: Killingbeck, St. George's, Marguerite Hepton, Roundhay maternity, Woodland orthopaedic and The Grove. Deficits were just as large in percentage terms and they were dealt with not only by closing hospitals and wards, but by keeping patients...
Philip Davies: ...to how police budgets can be improved. Forces should be allowed to recover the full cost of policing events. For example, people who pay for expensive tickets for football matches and concerts at Roundhay park in Leeds effectively get free policing outside the event which is paid for by local council taxpayers and residents, who are also missing out on policing. Can the Minister—
Nick Gibb: ...with him in the coming months, and hopefully years, in our respective positions. Leeds is a former old town of mine: hon. Members will be unsurprised to learn that I went to school there. I went to Roundhay, a very good school in Leeds North-East. It was a grammar school that went comprehensive the year before I joined, and it had many of the grammar school traditions. It covered the whole...