Support for New Adoptive Parents — [Ms Nusrat Ghani in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 6:30 pm on 21 March 2022.

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Photo of Bill Esterson Bill Esterson Shadow Minister (Business and Industrial Strategy) 6:30, 21 March 2022

I am delighted to be here and hon. Members will realise why shortly. I congratulate the hon. Member for Colchester on his speech, his presentation and the case he made. I hope we hear a similar speech from the Minister in a moment or two, and that the Minister accepts everything his hon. Friend said; I did not find anything that I disagreed with. I also agreed with Holly Mumby-Croft.

As always, my hon. Friend Rachael Maskell made an impassioned case in support of adoption. She knows, even if others do not, why the issue means so much to me. I say to the hon. Member for Colchester that it is not just the Conservatives who think that we should support our self-employed people; that is what the Labour party thinks, too. I speak from personal experience, because I was self-employed and started and grew small businesses for many years.