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Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (18 Mar 2024)

Rob Butler: Aylesbury is a wonderful place to live, work, visit and invest in, but sadly we have some areas of economic deprivation. Opportunity Bucks, run by Buckinghamshire Council, has identified Aylesbury north and Aylesbury north-west as areas for extra attention, where we could improve education, training and skills. How can my hon. Friend’s Department assist such initiatives in getting more...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Support for Farmers (14 Mar 2024)

Rob Butler: On a recent visit to Church Farm in Weston Turville in my constituency, the family who have farmed there for generations stressed how important it is for them to be able to diversify their income, for example with their very popular farm shop, which sells their produce and that of nearby farmers. However, current planning rules limit the shop to opening on 28 days a year. Will my right hon....

Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders (12 Mar 2024)

Rob Butler: I very much support the carefully considered moves announced today by my right hon. and learned Friend, which reflect the reality of the pressures on our prison estate and on our excellent prison officers, following the extraordinary impact of covid. I especially welcome the additional steps he has announced to remove more foreign national offenders. He spoke of a reset in probation, so will...

Home Department: Topical Questions (26 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: Stealing from small convenience stories is causing concern because of both the financial impact on owners and the threat of violence towards staff. I am grateful to the Minister for meeting colleagues and me to discuss this last week. I pay tribute to the Thames Valley police and crime commissioner Matthew Barber for his excellent retail crime strategy. Will my right hon. Friend set out how...

Culture, Media and Sport: BBC Mid-term Review (22 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: Whether she has had recent discussions with the BBC board on the implementation of recommendations in the BBC mid-term review.

Culture, Media and Sport: BBC Mid-term Review (22 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: I started my career as a BBC reporter, and I firmly believe in the importance of our national broadcaster being both independent, particularly at moments and eras such as this, and completely impartial. However, every year, many people complain that the BBC is not as impartial as it should be, even that it is biased, and the BBC then dismisses the vast majority of those complaints. Does my...

Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: Key to the much-needed regeneration of Aylesbury are new link roads to cut congestion. Money from the cancelled part of HS2 is meant to be paying towards them—that is only right, given the destruction being caused by the construction of the first part of this unwanted railway—but the cash has not arrived yet. Can my right hon. Friend assure my constituents they will get the roads they...

Justice: Time Spent in Cells: Reoffending Rates (20 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: I am encouraged by my right hon. Friend’s comments about the number of additional prison officers recruited. I have seen many of them and the fantastic work they do, both at HMP Aylesbury and across the prison estate. Will he say a little more about how we can ensure that we retain them once they have been trained and they go on to the wings? This is an incredibly important career—it is...

School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill ( 2 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford) on introducing this Bill. Good levels of attendance at school are crucial to children’s education. It should go without saying that missing classes can cause serious consequences in later life, so it is imperative that we do all we can to get children who are regularly absent back in school. As my right hon. Friend...

Joint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) Bill ( 2 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: I congratulate the hon. Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Kim Johnson) on introducing this Bill and raising what I consider to be a legitimate and well-founded concern about joint enterprise. She explained that joint enterprise is a legal doctrine that applies where persons assist or encourage another to commit a crime—what many people would think of as aiding and abetting, and where the...

Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill ( 2 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies). I must warn the House that I do not have his great detailed knowledge of this subject, so I hope right hon. and hon. Members will forgive my comparative brevity as a result. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson) on tabling what is an excellent piece of legislation. Being...

Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill ( 2 Feb 2024)

Rob Butler: My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech that I am sure most of us will have no difficulty agreeing with. In the lead-up to the Bill’s introduction, has he spoken to charities and other organisations about what impact extending the period from six to 12 months will have on people’s real lives, and on their families and friends?

Media Bill: Schedule 11 - Schedule to be inserted as Schedule 16B to the 2003 Act (30 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: It is a pleasure to speak on Third Reading. As the Minister said, it was quite fun and enjoyable to serve on the Public Bill Committee—although the Whips Office should not see that as a hint that I want to be on every future Public Bill Committee. The Media Bill is an important piece of legislation, and a key theme throughout its passage has been the importance of prominence for our public...

Media Bill: Schedule 11 - Schedule to be inserted as Schedule 16B to the 2003 Act (30 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. As I said, the Government had been acting well in advance of the drama, but the programme made the public aware in a way that the news had not been able to. The Government made serious efforts—he is right to draw attention to the incredible work of the current Minister with responsibility for postal services—to achieve recompense...

HS2 Cancellation and Network North — [Philip Davies in the Chair] (17 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) on securing this debate. I stood for election in 2019 in complete opposition to HS2. As soon as I arrived in Parliament, I worked hard with colleagues in the HS2 review group to try to get the entire project scrapped by the then Prime Minister Boris...

SEND Provision and Funding (11 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: Like everyone else, I will start by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Sir David Davis) on securing this important debate. One of the key priorities in my campaign to be elected to this place in 2019 was to give children in the Aylesbury constituency a brilliant start in life—and that means all children, including and, indeed, especially those with...

Culture, Media and Sport: BBC Current Affairs Coverage: Impartiality (11 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: Whether she has had recent discussions with the BBC Board on the impartiality of the BBC’s current affairs coverage.

Culture, Media and Sport: BBC Current Affairs Coverage: Impartiality (11 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: As a former BBC journalist myself, I completely believe in its editorial independence from the Government, but, just as strongly, I consider it essential that the BBC, across all its programming and from all presenters, should be absolutely and unequivocally impartial. Given the concerns that we have heard about the current coverage of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the...

Israel and Palestine ( 8 Jan 2024)

Rob Butler: I wholeheartedly welcome the £2 million the UK is providing for vital food aid, and I welcome the Minister’s comments that he continues to lobby Israel to reduce barriers to aid getting into Gaza, to the people who need it most. Will he reassure me and my constituents in Aylesbury that his Department will continue to keep food aid and medical aid to Gaza under review, and will redouble its...

Knife crime (14 Dec 2023)

Rob Butler: It is genuinely a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Florence Eshalomi). She gave a powerful and thought-provoking speech; I would struggle to find anything in it that I disagreed with, and I suspect the whole House would join me in paying tribute to her for stepping in to help a victim of stabbing in her own constituency. She may well be terrified of blood, but it took real...


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