Speeches by Butler.

“I remind Members that they should bob if they would like to contribute to the debate. Informally, speech times should be around four minutes.”

“Thank you very much. Jas Athwal and Gurinder Singh Josan made representations.”

“But we could always have start-up businesses and pop-up businesses on the high street. It is about how we make our high streets like they used to be, rather than just having them full of gambling shops that fuel addiction, make people poorer and create problems not only on the street but in the home. We saw how importa…”

“The one on the north circular?”

“I think it comes under DCMS. We are looking at where we can make a quick change in legislation and change the Gambling Act or the new planning Bill that is coming through. We want to have the debate, and then we want the Government to think about where they can make this change quickly. It is a hangover from 2005, when…”

“I would like to have a change in legislation. That is the ultimate end game here. I have written to the Minister, and the Minister has actually come to Brent to have a look at the short walk to the number of gambling establishments—we have a huge one that is going to be open soon. Ultimately, I would like to see a chan…”

“It would be DCMS.”

“It is a mixture of both. The betting shops are more closely regulated, but you have the fixed-odds betting terminals, for instance, which the Government did actually change from the 80:20 rule. They wanted to change that so that more of the most expensive ones could be put in, where you just see people putting money in…”

“Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Committee. Our high streets are really important to our health and wellbeing. You should be able to pop down to the high street, get something to eat and do some shopping, but we are finding an overwhelming number of gambling establishments. In Brent, we have 10 within 10 minutes’ walk.…”

“I call Liz Saville Roberts.”

“I am sorry to interrupt such a magnificent speech. The first Pride march in London was in 1972, and I have met many people who were on that first Pride march who thought that they would never need to march again, but they still need to march now. Does my hon. Friend feel sorry that Pride organisations have now said tha…”

“Is the right hon. Member aware of Simon Cowell’s campaign? He purchased an electric bike, flipped over backwards and almost broke his back. That is definitely a clear indication of how dangerous these bikes can be.”

“I rise to speak to new clause 47 in my name. This is a very simple new clause, in a way, about how we stop mobile phones that have been stolen from being reconnected to the cloud and sold on. If we can break that link, we can stop the proliferation of mobile phone theft, which has increased by 150%. Some 200 mobile pho…”

“I support my hon. Friend’s new clauses. In fact, when I was Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement, we posed this question of whether there should be rounded knives. I am glad to see that the debate has moved on, because at that point, people found the idea that this would help solve the knife crime problem a…”

“On facial recognition, does the Minister agree that my amendment 21 would stop the police accessing everybody’s driving licences to use them for complete surveillance, which is not the intention of the Bill?”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“My hon. Friend the Member for Clapham and Brixton Hill (Bell Ribeiro-Addy) talked about the Government giving a little bit of money for this and that. I am really pleased to hear about the Windrush Museum. Will the Minister consider setting up an emancipation educational trust, so that we can have a building where we c…”

“It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis). History is written by the person holding the pen. That does not necessarily mean that it is the history of what happened at the time; it is told through a specific lens. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West No…”

“On that point about the expats who came over from the Caribbean and what they endured, does my hon. Friend agree that we sometimes fail to recognise the strength and the resilience of the Windrush generation, which often gets overlooked?”

“I was diagnosed and went through the journey of early-stage breast cancer during the covid pandemic. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is important that the system understands that breast cancer can present in younger women, not just in older women?”