Speeches by Fleet.

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Michael Payne) for securing this debate. I can assure him that potholes are as bad in Conservative-run Derbyshire as they are in Nottinghamshire. Our area has been shut out of the conversation around economic growth for too long. I am excited to see the change with a Labou…”

“We have no idea how many people in Bolsover this issue affects, because the very nature of it means that they cannot speak to me about it as their MP. The Can’t Buy My Silence campaign has found that the issue affects five times as many women as men, so does my right hon. Friend agree that addressing it has to be consi…”

“It is an honour to be here today as the first MP to represent Bolsover who is a woman. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] Thank you. I am surrounded by fantastic women not only here, but in Bolsover—women who run businesses and nurture our next generation, such as foster carer Sonja Dayson in Creswell, women who inspire us …”

“Women are over-represented in informal and vulnerable employment. Does my hon. Friend agree that the protections afforded in the Employment Rights Bill are really important for those women?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I am proud to be part of a Government who have set out an unprecedented ambition to halve violence against women and girls, but what I want us to think about on this day is how we tell our story. I have spoken publicly about giving birth after being the victim of statutory r…”

“Finally, how are you working with the Home Office to tackle misogyny in the police, in terms of both misconduct and improving the handling of cases of violence against women and girls?”

“Special educational needs provision across Derbyshire is dire. I am thrilled that my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth) has secured the debate, but I am horrified that special educational needs provision is so awful that it has come to the attention of Parliament. To those who live in Barlborou…”

“Thank you for the work you are doing to halve violence against women and girls. You have already covered my first question, on what measure you are going to use, the timeline and how you are working cross-departmentally, so thank you for that. How will the target to halve violence against women and girls will be affect…”

“On the court backlogs, a constituent came to me—she had had her case postponed so many times, and each time she tried to take her life. What are we doing to make sure that the existing backlog does not affect women who have faced the most traumatic crime?”

“We estimate that around 10 babies are born every day in the UK as a result of rape, but there is no acknowledgement of it on any Government website. As part of an earlier evidence session, we recommended that the women’s health strategy for England should include guidance for women who conceive and give birth as a resu…”

“You might have to come back to us on this one as well, which is absolutely fine. Women report having to hide the crimes of men, because if they tell the truth that the conception was a result of rape, for example, the man says they will demand access to the child, and there is nothing stopping them doing that, whether …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for raising this very important issue. Everybody in this room wants children to be born with two loving parents, but that is not possible for everybody, and it is definitely not a luxury that every child enjoys. Currently, when a woman is raped in this country, and she gives birth as a result, th…”

“As the junction 28 parliamentary champion, I report that residents across Bolsover are really frustrated by congestion. Can we have a Government statement on what we are doing to tackle congestion across Bolsover?”

“I welcome this action from a Government who see violence against women and girls as the national emergency that it is, with a Prime Minister, Home Secretary and a Safeguarding Minister with records of taking action to deliver for victims like me and many in my constituency. Giving birth as a result of grooming is a sto…”

“What about wider pupils? Is it fears of how wider pupils will respond, or is it just the wider school environment?”

“Are there any other effects that you think this self-censoring has on young girls?”

“Is there evidence of girls self-censoring or hiding their Muslim identity in schools?”

“I am going to become a nana early next year and you are making me think about how special becoming older is. I thank you for all the work you do around making those years as good as they can be. Specifically on the Equality Act and public sector equality duty, does the Act and its public sector equality duty provide su…”

“Moving on from that, what impact does allowing objective justification of direct age discrimination have on the protection and enforceability of older people’s rights?”

“Finally, how could older people’s rights be better protected in law and more effectively enforced?”