Speeches by Rushworth.

“My hon. Friend makes an important point. Before coming to this place, I used to tutor for the Brilliant Club in several schools in the north-east and would often have conversations with my students. One course that I taught was about the prevention of genocide, and it touched on issues of identity-based violence and di…”

“I welcome the hon. Member’s intervention. I will come on to talk about men’s sheds—I met representatives of the Men’s Sheds Association on Tuesday in Speaker’s House. Men are, indeed, more likely to take their own life. Boys are more likely to be excluded from school, and they are underachieving compared with girls at …”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered International Men’s Day, issues affecting boys’ and men’s health and wellbeing and gender equality. I thank members of the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate and the 22 Members across five parties who supported the application. I have a confession to make…”

“I thank everybody who has participated in the debate. I wish that every day in the Chamber was more like this Thursday afternoon, where we have practised a kinder, more respectful politics—I appreciate that. I do not have time to do justice to everybody’s speeches, but I will probably write to some Members to thank the…”

“After receiving advice from my Whip, I should declare an interest: I am a former employee of the Red Cross and, while there is no financial connection between us today, I retain a strong bond of affection for the movement.”

“Yes, I believe so. I would need to check with everyone on the application.”

“What was the balance that you were seeing between people whose injuries and suffering were caused directly by the conflict—bullets, bombs, shrapnel and so on—versus disease, hunger and other types of illness that were caused by living in those conditions?”

“Thank you very much. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis and Douglas McAllister made representations.”

“Short and sweet.”

“I want to ask one more question and, Chair, let me know if this is beyond the remit of this discussion. There has been clear evidence presented today of what I would say constitute breaches of international law, including targeting the symbol of the Red Crescent and blocking aid. I would be interested to know what sort…”

“I want to ask one more question and, Chair, let me know if this is beyond the remit of this discussion. There has been clear evidence presented today of what I would say constitute breaches of international law, including targeting the symbol of the Red Crescent and blocking aid. I would be interested to know what sort…”

“I co-chair the all-party parliamentary group on boys and men alongside Mims Davies, who is not able to be part of this application because of her Front-Bench role. As you know, International Men’s Day is a growing international event and there has been a debate on it in the Chamber for the last several years. It is an …”

“So we are talking Thursday 21 November?”

“We heard earlier about the lack of medical aid and basic medical equipment getting in. My question is to Nebal. Since you appeared before the Committee in January, has the situation with regard to border checks improved?”

“We heard earlier about the lack of medical aid and basic medical equipment getting in. My question is to Nebal. Since you appeared before the Committee in January, has the situation with regard to border checks improved?”

“I think that would be a good day to do it. It is in the same week.”

“What was the balance that you were seeing between people whose injuries and suffering were caused directly by the conflict—bullets, bombs, shrapnel and so on—versus disease, hunger and other types of illness that were caused by living in those conditions?”

“The Daily Telegraph, which I know is the paper of choice for more respectable Conservative Members, reported last year that wealthy investors are “hoovering up” agricultural land to avoid inheritance tax, a situation that it said meant more land was falling into the hands of private and institutional investors.”

“Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?”

“The Conservative party was keen for us all to declare our membership of trade unions in the debate on the Employment Rights Bill, so we should probably all declare that most of us received funding from businesses during the general election campaign. I certainly did, and I pay tribute to the small businesses in my cons…”