🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Emergency and Life-saving Skills (Schools) Bill: Second Reading – Neil Shastri-Hurst. Private Members' Bills
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I am normally a temperate man, but this is a farcical situation. I have huge respect for the Leader of the House, but I suspect that he has come here with gritted teeth, because the reality is that our constituents want to hear from the new Prime Minister. In fact, the Leader of the House has given a compelling reason for Parliament to sit for a further day next week. If the situation in the...
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mrs Hobhouse. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Horsham (John Milne) for securing today’s debate, and to the Members from across the House who have given their voice to this campaign over a number of years. It is entirely right that Parliament should pause today to consider not just the science, the policy and the funding, but the...
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The hon. Gentleman is right; there is collective support for doing more on this issue. That starts with getting the research right. Without the research, we do not know how to plan for the treatments of the future. I will move on to the other points, but he is also entirely right that this is not a party-political issue, but one that affects all of us and all of our constituents. We have to...
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Solihull’s Men Walking and Talking group is a huge success. It can lay claim to being if not the most successful one in the country, then certainly among them, and it improves both physical and mental wellbeing. Will the Leader of the House join me in paying tribute to all those who are organising that group and making it a success? Can he set out what more we can do in this place to...
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I refer Members to my entries in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, in particular my participation in a parliamentary delegation to Ukraine in February with the UK friends of the armed forces. I want to build on some of the arguments made by the hon. Member for Dunfermline and Dollar (Graeme Downie). As I sat here listening to this thoughtful and valuable debate, the issue that...
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I have a great deal of respect for the Minister, and he has adopted the tone of the House, which is united on tackling this issue; but there is clearly a lacuna in the law as it stands. It will take time, however fast the Government work, to get that change on the statute books. In the interim, is the Minister prepared to use sanctions against Pakistan to ensure the deportation of this...
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In response to the DIP, the noble Lord Hutton, a former Labour Defence Secretary, said that “the centres of resistance across Whitehall to extra defence spending have been allowed to prosper and they haven’t been overcome.” He went on to say that, as a consequence, our armed forces will not be war-ready by the end of this Parliament. Does the Defence Secretary disagree with the noble...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the economic impact of the off-payroll working rules (IR35) on the (a) information technology, (b) engineering, (c) the construction, (d) financial services, (e) defence and aerospace, (f) energy, (g) telecommunications, (h) life sciences (i) manufacturing, (j) professional services (k) media and creative industries, and...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has held discussions with social media companies on content promoting anabolic steroid use and extreme body image ideals to young men.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are used by his Department to monitor the prevalence of anabolic steroid and other image and performance enhancing drug use in England.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department maintains data on the number of hospital admissions linked to anabolic steroid use and related complications.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Home Office on enforcement against the illegal online sale of anabolic steroids.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of youth unemployment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to fulfil its oversight responsibilities for NHS Continuing Healthcare as set out in paragraph 23 of the National Framework.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the impact of administrative delays within the Civil Service Pension Scheme on scheme members; and what steps he is taking to improve (a) processing times for pension applications, (b) benefit calculations, and (c) member correspondence.
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