Speeches by Voaden.

“I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am honoured to rise to present my Bill to create an office for green spaces, a Government office that will promote access to green space across the UK. It will support the creation, maintenance, improvement and integration of green spaces, and in doing so will i…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Whitehaven and Workington (Josh MacAlister) on bringing his private Member’s Bill to the House. I am proud to be one of its sponsors. It has clearly been a complicated journey to get to this point, and the Bill may not resemble quite what he originally had in mind, but the sheer fact …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) on securing this important debate. From the January 2024 figures, we can see that the South Western Ambulance Service consistently ranked near the bottom across all categorie…”

“Part of the problem is that, it will be harder for residents who are currently leaseholders to become freeholders. New flats will be sold as freehold rather than leasehold, but there will be an ongoing problem with all of those—”

“In her letter resigning as Development Minister last week, the right hon. Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds) wrote that “it will be impossible…given the depth of the cut” to maintain the Government’s support for all their development commitments. She explicitly cited aid to Gaza. At this point, I commend the Totn…”

“Thank you very much. Ian Lavery and Esther McVey made representations”

“No is the short answer, but I think that that has just come out; we have not looked again at it since we put this application in.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you for calling me to present this application for a debate on estate management companies, Mr Blackman. Across the country, many tenants and homeowners, both leaseholders and freeholders, live on residential estates that are looked after by estate management companies. These companies are responsible for looking…”

“I would like to ask a supplementary question on that. In my previous role, I worked supporting survivors of sexual violence and rape. Students made up quite a significant proportion of the people we were supporting. Working with the survivor community across the UK, it was apparent that many universities were much more…”

“Would benchmarking the level of provision to students include in-person tuition? We know that in many places that has dropped off quite considerably since covid, yet people are still paying full whack for the course.”

“Excuse me for arriving late. How will the board drive the OfS to ensure that students are getting the best value for money from higher education providers, particularly as it is becoming more and more expensive to complete higher education?”

“Dena, a constituent of mine who runs a small high street business, is seriously concerned about the possible removal of small business rate relief. Does the hon. Member agree that a commitment from the Government about the future of rate relief would give reassurance to high street business owners like Dena?”

“My constituency has a large employer with several sites who is now looking at automation because of the impact of the NIC rise. It will add a quarter of a million pounds to his bottom line, so he is actively looking at how he can make redundancies to keep his business afloat. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is not …”

“I recently surveyed all the farms in my constituency, and 85% of the people who responded said that they would be affected by this inheritance tax, mainly because of the cost of land in South Devon—practically all farms will be subject to it. When will the Government listen to the evidence that we are collecting from o…”

“In November 2024, research by Riverford Organic Farmers, based in my constituency of South Devon, showed that 61% of farmers are concerned that they will not be operating within the next year but only 25% of them believe the claims that the big six grocers support British farmers. Would my hon. Friend agree that the bi…”

“But surely the cost of repeatedly going to tribunal is not helping county council budgets either.”

“The entitlements of children and young people with SEND are explicit in the Children and Families Act 2024. A question to Kate and Phil: why do you think local authorities continue to allow cases to escalate to the SEND tribunal despite the financial and reputational costs and what role can early intervention and dispu…”

“More money.”

“Luke, do you have any great ideas?”