Speeches by Thomas.

“Jools lived just a couple of miles away from me, until he took his own life. If you found your child the way that Jools’s mother found him, would you want to know why?”

“To regulate that area, yes. Giles, would you agree with that?”

“Are you aware that TikTok has declined to release Jools’s social media history to his parents and that she is currently taking TikTok to court in the United States?”

“If she had not done so, who else ought to have stepped in to ensure that that environment was regulated?”

“Would you mind if I opened with a couple of very well-known psychological experiments? In 1967, the blue eyes/brown eyes experiment was run by third-grade teacher Jane Elliott. She pitted friends against each other by explaining that those with blue eyes were superior to those with brown eyes. She gave the blue-eyed st…”

“What action did TikTok take?”

“Giles, do you have any thoughts on that?”

“I think it was you in particular, Ian, who said, “We want our children to be safe.” We all do. Both your organisations have safeguards to make sure that the content you create is suitable for children. Do you think that YouTube at large—the other content creators that post their material to YouTube—all feel the same wa…”

“I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way once more. He is treading this compassionate tightrope very delicately. I have an organisation in my constituency called Children Lead The Way, which takes children who are struggling in the traditional setting outdoors, and some of those children are later able to go bac…”

“Two of my constituents, Tom and Emily—they are brother and sister—got EHCPs after tribunal fairly early, because their parents were so robust. They then only got suitable schools after tribunal, against the will of the local authority, because their parents were so robust. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with me th…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his well-timed contribution. I fully agree, and I will further state that Gurkha veterans, as well as all veterans and members of our armed forces, are lucky to have him as the Chair of the Defence Committee.”

“As always, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his meaningful contribution, and I fully agree with him. It gives me an opportunity to recognise that the Gurkhas’ service boosts the morale of all our armed forces. My prevailing memory of serving with the Gurkhas is that they were constantly smiling, which always lifted the m…”

“I thank everybody who has contributed to the debate. We have seen very well-mannered contributions from Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and DUP Members, including the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Lauren Edwards) and my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Minehead (Rachel Gilmour), with her ode to th…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Josh Newbury) for securing the debate. I have several constituents with EDS, one of whom is a young lady who has suffered from malnutrition, regular hospital visits and frequent misdiagnoses. She now lives in a hospital bed in her parents’ living room, fed through a tube. She …”

“A constituent of mine experienced several instances of sexual harassment within the Church of England’s diocese of London between 2017 and 2020. Within that timeline, she was also raped by a church worker after she was coerced by the Church to report historical abuse. Through a series of written questions, I learned re…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered support for Gurkha veterans. I rise to speak on the subject of support for Gurkha veterans and their dependants. As I speak, Ghanendra Limbu is in hospital, where for two weeks, he has helped me put together this story in a manner that I hope will be befitting. I hope the H…”

“Good morning. Following on from the last question before pushing on with mine, to what extent does VisitScotland collaborate with neighbouring groups in England and Wales?”

“Is there a collective appetite to draw those large international events across the UK?”

“How could a UK Government strategy complement the Scottish Government’s approach?”

“From an EventScotland perspective, what are the main things you would like to see covered in a UK Government major events strategy?”