Speeches by Welsh.

“I will make this point, but it may be a question at the same time. We have talked about speed. I am more of the view that this is an essential part of our democratic process and how we work as a country. Would you agree that it is sometimes good to get things right rather than to move fast? The Government are committed…”

“Some of this has been answered already but I welcome that the Bill is going forward with the commitment on hereditary peers. To focus on one element of the proposed reforms, you have talked about the mandatory retirement age and the new participation requirement. I am looking at when you are going to move forward on st…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Laura Kyrke-Smith) for securing the debate—I am so sorry about her friend Sophie. Maternity services in this country are in a dire state. In Nottinghamshire, this has been exacerbated by the fact that we have had the largest maternity scandal in NHS history. We have seen…”

“Vibrant town centres are so important for the health of our local economies. Under the Conservatives, shop lifting was allowed to spiral out of control and we are still dealing with the consequences. Not too long ago, in Hucknall, a shopworker was brutally attacked. When I speak to local residents and businesses across…”

“9. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to implement the Government’s plan for change.”

“Like the Electoral Commission, you have raised concerns about the rise in abuse, harassment and intimidation at this election. Could you outline how that affected electoral administrators, and how it compared with previous elections?”

“For complete transparency, my father worked for the Royal Mail for about 30 years. He has been retired for quite a while now, but he receives a pension, and the Communication Workers Union donated to my election campaign.”

“I am not saying I have the best postal service in the land in my constituency, but I might have, because we had minimal delay of postal votes and all my literature, which was carefully planned to be posted out so that they had a letter prior to postal votes dropping and to polling day, worked a treat. I owe a lot to Ro…”

“We have a housing crisis across the UK, and I am pleased that the Government have announced a plan to build 1.5 million more homes. Does the Leader of the House agree that councils have an important part to play in fixing this crisis by updating their local plans and delivering the homes that are so desperately needed,…”

“I am proud to speak on this Bill. Children growing up in our country deserve the best possible start in life. Where a person is born should not determine their future, but after 14 years of Conservative government, not all children have the same opportunity to succeed. During those 14 years, the very notions of early i…”

“Did it have more of an impact on women or men?”

“You have just talked about the voter authority certificate and expanding the list of accepted IDs and introducing vouching as a way of improving the voter ID system. You touched on in practice what impacts you think those measures would have, and I would like to hear some more with regard to that. In addition, I would …”

“Yes, that confirms what I thought. Are there parts of the country or constituencies where it was more prevalent? Is there more work to do in a certain council area than others? Have we got down to that level with regard to it? Does it affect the north of England more than it affects the south of England? Does it affect…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Corby and East Northamptonshire (Lee Barron) for securing this important debate. As a proud trade unionist woman from the east midlands, I am hugely proud to speak in this debate. The campaign to give terminally ill people rights in the workplace was kick-started with the incredibl…”

“T2. My constituency has the second highest number of members on the British Coal staff superannuation scheme in the country; we have more than 1,000 members. Does the Minister agree that we need to end the injustice for all former employees on that scheme? Will she visit my beautiful constituency to meet me and members…”

“Q I want to go back to something that Simon said about special educational needs in independent schools, and how in some cases SEN can be met only by independent schools. Can you give further clarification on that? I spent a long time working with special educational needs in the state sector at every key stage, in bot…”

“Q I should probably confess that one of my first jobs was working at a Co-op—I do not know whether that is for the register of interests. In my constituency, we have seen the huge impact of a local store closing, especially on the most disadvantaged and most vulnerable. Over the years, I have been concerned about acces…”

“Q Can the Minister set out the scheme that the Government are proposing to ensure that schools that principally deliver education for pupils with special educational needs will not face any additional burdens? Jim McMahon: That is entirely the point, although perhaps it did not come out in the evidence sessions. A lot …”

“The missions will require a localised approach if they are going to be successful, and for the Government to be successful. How are devolved and local tiers of government and the private sector being incentivised to act in tandem with the Government at the moment?”

“The current court backlog across England is an indictment of the previous Government, with almost 1,800 cases in Nottinghamshire alone. Rape victims are waiting on average over a year to have their case brought to trial, if it gets that far. What is the Department doing to prioritise these cases and restore faith in th…”