🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Mr Speaker, I have been in Parliament for 32 years. I have seen many Speakers in the Chair and I must say you have been the best. As we say in the north-east—it’s not quite the language of the Welsh—you’re a canny laddie. The WASPI women were given a bad deal on their pensions. Does the Prime Minister have any plans to put that wrong right?
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Charlie Foster, one of my young constituents—aged seven—has cystic fibrosis. When he has an attack, he feels as if he is breathing through a straw. I have never tried the test, but I will when I get back to my constituency. Young people are suffering very badly because a drug called Orkambi has not been licensed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. It increases the...
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I speak as a serving miner at one time, who had two broken legs. I wonder about this sometimes when I see in the newspapers about this Sir Philip Green and how he stole all the pensions, yet here we are, sitting here and the Government are stealing pensions. They should have their knighthoods taken off them as well.
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And the county council.
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I held an Adjournment debate on this subject just over a year ago, when this factory closed. The factory was originally owned by Shulton. It made Old Spice aftershave, which anyone who is as old as me will remember. This was the company that made that product, and still made it up until the factory’s closure. Of course, it went on to make Hugo Boss, which cost about 40 quid a bottle. The...
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Yes. He has gone, anyway.
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That is an example of why I will have to change my food habits. I do not know what the local Indian takeaway will do when I go in and ask for vegan food. I do not think it will work. I will have a try, anyway. There were a lot of jobs in the factory when it was run by Coty and Procter & Gamble, and they were all lost—at least 500 permanent and a lot of part-time jobs. The part-time jobs...
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I am told that the main factory, which is good and has been invested in, would provide from 500 to more than 600 jobs for those preparing the food. As a knock-on, the rest of the factory would be made into start-up businesses. There are five or six small areas for start-up businesses, which is a good idea. I am told that if it takes off, we are talking about over 1,000 jobs. We should think...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the proposed timetable is for the implementation of the Northumberland Local Plan; and what funding his Department has allocated to ensure that implementation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing support services to Northumberland County Council in support of the Northumberland Local Plan; and where that funding will come from.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from Northumberland County Council on the Northumberland Local Plan.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nuclear warheads the UK currently retains.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of (a) disability living allowance and (b) personal independence payments have (i) lost or (ii) gained the higher rate mobility allowance since 2014.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatalities have occurred on the railway network in Great Britain since 2014.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Blyth Valley constituency were on methadone maintenance treatment in the last three years; and what proportion of all NHS spending on methadone maintenance treatment was spent in Blyth Valley constituency in that time.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agency nurses were employed by Northumbria Healthcare between 2011 and 2013.
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