Greg Hands: I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) for sponsoring the Bill. I know that she met the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully), earlier in the month—I think on the 10th—to discuss her ambition for the Bill, and I know from him that they had a very constructive conversation...
Trudy Harrison: ...appreciate what devolution means. Taxi and private hire vehicle licensing is a devolved matter. Taxi and private hire vehicle licensing is, of course, a devolved matter. The Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Administrations are all able to legislate on it should they wish to. We would not seek to impose duties on those authorities in a devolved area. However, as taxi and PHV drivers may...
Matthew Pennycook: ...) for their prodigious efforts during its earlier stages. I also want to thank my hon. Friends the Members for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne), for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury), for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins), for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) and for St Helens South and Whiston (Ms Rimmer) for so ably scrutinising it in Committee. The issues covered by the Bill have been extensively...
Neil O'Brien: ...relentless—advocate, not just for his own constituency, but for the whole of the east of England. I will address a huge bugbear of mine, which is the idea in the media that levelling up is about north and south. Recently, I was in Norwich—with the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich North (Chloe Smith), and the hon. Member for...
Kemi Badenoch: ...hope that I can convince him from the Dispatch Box that we are doing the right thing. I also wish to put it on record that I disagree with the rather unpleasant accusation that the hon. Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) made from the Labour Front Bench. New clauses 1 and 2 would have the effect of creating a new form of permanent disqualification criteria for individuals convicted of a...
Sarah Owen: I am sure that many Members present have experienced the never-ending struggle of trying to get a timely response from the Home Office. In Luton North, we have hundreds of cases that have exceeded the 20 working day response time. It is simply not good enough, especially for those waiting on immigration and asylum cases who want to get on with their lives—they want to get jobs, feel safe...
Stuart Andrew: ...hosted Foreign Ministers from the western Balkans just this week to address these issues, but again, I will ensure that the serious points that he made are heard in Government. The hon. Member for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins) talked, like many did, about the contribution of community groups. I think we have all been impressed at how much they have done to help so many people in our...
Baroness Vere of Norbiton: ...authority of the UK, was as follows Local Authority / Region Total devices per 100,000 population UNITED KINGDOM 25,927 38.7 GREAT BRITAIN 25,595 39.3 ENGLAND 21,925 38.8 NORTH EAST 916 34.2 County Durham 124 23.3 Darlington 31 28.9 Hartlepool 11 11.7 Middlesbrough 30 21.2 Northumberland 186 57.4 Redcar and Cleveland 34 24.8 ...
Jeremy Hunt: ...joint report on coronavirus lessons learnt. The report was ultimately agreed unanimously by Members of three parties on two Committees. I want to put on record my view that the hon. Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) does an outstanding job as a Select Committee member, and I know that my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells has the same view of the hon. Member for Brent...
Fleur Anderson: ...debate, saying that constituents feel that it is contemptuous for Members who are paid more than four times the average salary to be paid more. My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell) stood up for decency, giving us a sorry list of times that the Government have failed to uphold standards, saying that this needs to stop. My hon. Friend the Member for...
Toby Perkins: .... Friend the Member for St Helens South and Whiston (Ms Rimmer) spoke up for her local college and about the number of students at that college who would miss out. My hon. Friends the Members for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins) and for Bristol South (Karin Smyth) spoke of the importance of the BTEC pathway, particularly for disadvantaged students. And my hon. Friend the Member for...
Maria Caulfield: ...general practice full time equivalent (FTE) Doctors in general practice headcount Our Healthier South East London STP 1,031 1,384 East London Health and Care Partnership STP 1,150 1,526 North London Partners In Health and Care STP 957 1,287 North West London Health and Care Partnership STP 1,310 1,762 South West London Health and Care Partnership STP 974 1,277 Devon...
Tulip Siddiq: ...about the stigma around tackling mental health, including from my right hon. Friend. Every Member who spoke talked about the impact of covid on young people. My hon. Friend the Member for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins) cited the survey by the charity YoungMinds showing that throughout this pandemic, in the past 18 months, the mental health problems for two thirds of young people have been...
Alex Burghart: ...Sixth Form College Hampshire Long Road Sixth Form College Cambridgeshire Bedford College Bedford Luminate Education Group Leeds Bilborough Sixth Form College (Better Futures MAT) Nottingham Luton Sixth Form College Luton Brockenhurst College Hampshire Milton Keynes College Milton Keynes Christ the King Sixth Form Lewisham New College Pontefract (New Collaborative Learning...
Alan Whitehead: ...on the statute books, or on the way to the statute books, that starts getting the guidance that can shape our firework displays properly for the future. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) for her private Member’s Bill, which I hope will go a long way, if successful, towards getting some of these things under way. But as she said, however valiant the...
the Bishop of St Albans: ...and a group of “five or more persons” when determining the severity of a given fine to allow for individual convictions. The diocese that I serve, which covers Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Luton and bits of London, includes many rural areas, and I know from conversations with landowners and farmers just what a problem illegal hare coursing is. It is not just the damage to land and...
Bridget Phillipson: ...Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne), for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin), for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi), for Leeds East (Richard Burgon), for Leeds North West (Alex Sobel), for Newport West (Ruth Jones), for Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood), for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) and for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins). Sadly, it was a little bit quieter on...
Maria Caulfield: ...among women. The menopause revolution is here. The menopause is being debated for the second week running, as last week the hon. Lady and my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) secured a general debate to mark World Menopause Month. I believe that this is the first time that the menopause has been debated twice in two weeks. I pay tribute to...
...Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames Baroness Masham of Ilton Lord Mawson Lord Maxton Lord McAvoy Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Lord McKenzie of Luton Lord McNally Lord McNicol of West Kilbride Baroness Meacher Baroness Merron Lord Monks Baroness Morgan of Huyton Baroness Morris of Yardley Lord Newby Baroness Northover Baroness Nye Lord...
...of Clashfern Lord Mair Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames Baroness Masham of Ilton Lord Mawson Lord Maxton Lord McAvoy Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Lord McKenzie of Luton Lord McNally Lord McNicol of West Kilbride Baroness Meacher Baroness Merron Lord Monks Baroness Morgan of Huyton Baroness Morris of Yardley Lord Newby Baroness Northover Baroness Nye Lord...
