Speeches by Voaden.

“Coastal erosion has caused immense damage in South Devon to homes, businesses and a vital A road. The impact of winter storms this year illustrates the need for joined-up thinking in Government and for support for local government in coping financially with the eye-watering costs of repair. Can we have a debate in Gove…”

“Medical devices and equipment are increasingly becoming pressure points as trusts rely on ageing, life-expired kit. Torbay and South Devon NHS foundation trust has had fantastic results in bowel surgery from a free trial of a robotic surgery system that it was offered, but it cannot afford to buy the system because it …”

“We have talked a lot about reading in the early years. I would like to look at secondary school because, Jonathan, I think you said that there is a noticeable dip when children go to secondary school. Perhaps you could talk a little bit about what best practice looks like in secondary schools to address the change and …”

“To very quickly follow up on that, do you think that the development of the English curriculum has had any effect? We hear that children in primary school are having to learn what a fronted adverbial is and, the way that literature exams are, there is less about loving the book and more about—”

“We have talked a lot about reading in the early years. I would like to look at secondary school because, Jonathan, I think you said that there is a noticeable dip when children go to secondary school. Perhaps you could talk a little bit about what best practice looks like in secondary schools to address the change and …”

“To very quickly follow up on that, do you think that the development of the English curriculum has had any effect? We hear that children in primary school are having to learn what a fronted adverbial is and, the way that literature exams are, there is less about loving the book and more about—”

“21. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the west bank.”

“Last year, the Israeli Government issued nearly 10,000 units of settlement housing tenders, which was more than the combined total of tenders over the previous six years. The extremists in Netanyahu’s Cabinet clearly have the explicit intention of undermining any prospect of a viable Palestinian state, let alone a two-…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that, as our electoral system fractures into a multi-party system—we have traditionally had a system involving two parties in this country—there is a massive missed opportunity to use the Bill to introduce a commission that could bring forward a proportional voting system? That would ensure th…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Reading daily to young children is shown to have a direct correlation with better outcomes, qualifications and social mobility later in life. Just one book a day means a child will hear approximately 300,000 more words by the age of five than those who are not regularly read to. However, many parents are not aware of t…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention; I could not agree more. In 2017, it all changed: the previous Conservative Government replaced the widowed parent’s allowance with the bereavement support payment—an 18-month flat-rate payment paid regardless of the child’s age. That decision drew cross-party criticism and w…”

“I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention. In the UK, around 120 children are bereaved of a parent every day. By age 16, approximately one in 20 young people in the UK will have experienced the death of a parent. I became the chair of the Widowed and Young organisation and met loads of kids and their parents thr…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for her powerful speech introducing the debate and for all her work on this subject. It is normal in debates in this Chamber to bring the stories of our constituents to illustrate the issue, but today I am going to share my story as well. In 2002,…”

“This is a final, wrap-up question for all of you. As we have said, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has recommended that the Government issue an apology. Dr Gallen, you have spoken very powerfully about how that can be done in the most meaningful way, saying that there are different kinds of apology. Perhaps I could…”

“Three to five months?”

“It has to be more than just words. In closing, what are the most important actions that you believe this Committee should recommend to the Government following today’s discussion?”

“Do you think that five months is an acceptable time for somebody to wait after making an initial inquiry, which might be something that they have spent years building up to doing?”

“There isn’t much time left, is there?”

“Three to five months?”