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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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I thank all Members who have spoken and intervened during the debate. So many important points have been made, and I think we have found quite a lot of agreement. I hope that we can push forward together, across the parties, because policing and crime is such an important issue for all our constituents across the country, yet it often receives far less attention in Parliament than many other...
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I beg to move, That this House has considered Government support for public confidence in the police. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. I start by noting that the Minister for Policing and Crime, my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon West (Sarah Jones), cannot be with us today because she is attending the funeral of PC Matthew Blades, who so tragically died in...
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My hon. Friend raises a really important point. The police funding formula is long overdue for reform, and that incident can accelerate our move towards that. Middlesbrough is a high-crime area and a very deprived area, and that needs to be reflected in the formula. I look forward to working with my hon. Friend to push forward reform there and across the country. I secured this debate on...
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I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Member, and it is something I impress on my local officers. There is nothing more annoying as an MP, but also as a resident, to find that our local inspector or borough commander has changed for the third time in a year. It is so frustrating, and that is something that policing can control, so I wholeheartedly agree with that. Police funding is not my...
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. However good the intentions of those bringing forward this petition for affected parents are, and I do not question them, any loosening of the surrogacy laws would be a serious mistake. The text of the petition says that the current law is “outdated” because the woman giving birth to the child is recognised as the legal...
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I cannot answer that specific question, but I will reference a case later on, and I have personally met such mothers here in Parliament. Pregnant women are not factories, and babies are not goods to be ordered. I believe this is crossing an ethical line, where human life is treated as a business transaction. The child must have the right to know where it has come from and how it came to be in...
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This decision, to put it mildly, is frustrating for everyone in Lancashire who has been involved in the process, and I feel for councillors, council workers and all the service users for having to deal with that frustration. What are the legal reasons, so I can go back to my constituents and explain them? Having listened to this statement, I have nothing I can take back to constituents to...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the barriers faced by small and medium-sized enterprises in offering apprenticeship opportunities, and what steps are needed to address these.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that apprenticeship reforms support employers and employer engagement, particularly in engineering and manufacturing sectors.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of potential merits of releasing surplus Strategic Industrial Location at Park Royal for affordable housing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research is being undertaken into building mental resilience and treating trauma in serving police officers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police misconduct proceedings being publicly available on police officer mental health.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police officer initial training equips officers with adequate mental resilience.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of serving police officers have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure the government's industrial strategy supports industry in Lancashire.
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