Speeches by Williams.

“I thank my hon. Friend for his work as chair of the APPG on Kashmir. In Stoke-on-Trent North, I too have been contacted by residents about people who live on both sides of the line of control, and they are seriously worried. We have had reports of shortages of food, medical supplies and baby milk. Does my hon. Friend a…”

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“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. Ceramics are who we are in north Staffordshire; they are in our DNA. They are in the bottle kilns on our skyline and the names above our factory gates, and they are literally in the hands of the people I proudly represent. Yet for years, people in our comm…”

“There are plenty of great pubs across Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove that I could invite the Leader of the House to, but today I want to talk about Wendy, Val and residents at Bradeley village in my constituency. Time and again, they fundraise and hold community events to raise money for good causes; most recently,…”

“In Stoke-on-Trent and Kidsgrove, literacy levels among our children and young people fall behind the England average. That can severely impact a young person’s future earnings. Our libraries play a key role in addressing that, yet Reform-led Staffordshire county council has ordered them to remove Pride displays. Does t…”

“5. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce inequalities experienced by children in poverty.”

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“Sometimes we do not say thank you enough, so I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to the Chancellor for listening. She listened to me, my fellow MPs, our pottery workers, our GMB union and especially Sharon Yates by offering a £120 million support and growth package for our ceramics sector. Can the Chancellor now …”

“Recently, I attended an incredibly informative special educational needs and disability roundtable organised by PEGiS—the Parent Engagement Group in Stoke-on-Trent. As we know in this place, we make our best policy when we listen to people with real, lived experienced, so will the Leader of the House please join me in …”

“What a day to be a Stokie! As the Chancellor knows, my mum proudly worked in the pot banks of Tunstall and Burslem, and 10 weeks ago I asked the Prime Minister in this place what support the Government could offer our ceramic sector. The good news is that my mum is watching again right now at home, and she is clearly h…”

“There have been a number of deeply disturbing cases of women being targeted and attacked on the basis of their perceived religion, including two horrific cases in the midlands. What steps are being taken across Government to tackle this form of targeted violence against women and girls and ensure that our communities a…”

“10. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle violence against women and girls.”

“I recently walked around Ball Green with Sharon Rospendowski, a local champion who helps to keep the fabric of her community together. Residents in Ball Green and places like Norton share a common concern: they have lost vital services over the years, including Sure Start centres, youth clubs, post offices and local po…”

“Mr Bailey and Chair, thank you. I appreciate that we are tight for time, but if I may, I have two very brief points of contact before I come to the specific question. First, Mr Bailey, you mentioned my appearance in front of your sister Committee in the autumn. I would like to start this session by repeating the apolog…”

“I have a couple of observations, and then Mr Lincoln may want to come in on this. One of the lessons about setting up for success is absolutely being clear about the roles and responsibilities of individual Government Departments in what needs to be a joined-up response, as well as being clear about where the lead sits…”

“The implementation of the DACS database, for instance, meant much greater access controls—the ability to understand who was viewing data and to control that data view. We had introduced processes by which emails outside Government systems needed a double lock; that is not particularly relevant to this data breach. Ther…”

“I do not think that the handover between Ben Wallace and Grant Shapps particularly had a material impact on timeliness. As you will have heard from those former Ministers, we sought the injunction under Ben Wallace and it was granted two or three days later, by which time Grant Shapps was in post. But the ministerial l…”

“Recommendations around changes of policy, oversight of policy or introduction of controls were implemented, I would say, almost immediately, so within a month or two. That accounts for 25 or so of the 39 recommendations. There are also a number of recommendations that are, if you like, never really done. One of the imp…”

“There were 39 recommendations from McIvor and the majority of those were implemented pretty quickly—”

“The initial focus, in terms of relocations and resettlement immediately after the breach, was to ensure that we were running the pipeline of ARAP-eligible individuals as well as we could. There is a substantial overlap, in terms of the dataset that was part of the data breach, between those who would be eligible under …”