Speeches by Chadwick.

“I rise to make a point about Wales. I thank the hon. Gentleman for securing this debate, which has particular relevance to my consistency of Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. Rural crime is defined as crime and antisocial behaviour occurring in rural areas, where we have plenty of social housing. In my region, just 0.24% of…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) for securing this debate; I have two children under three, so I am delighted to come and contribute. Does the hon. Member for Ilford South (Jas Athwal) agree that an extra benefit of investment in playgrounds is that they bring footfall into our town centres and …”

“If human rights are paramount, why should we allow our trade balance to determine how we respond to abuses of human rights?”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that this legislation should have set out a framework for devolving the Crown Estate in Wales, as is the case in Scotland?”

“There are 2,573 disused coal tips across Wales and 360 of them have been deemed high risk. Jeremy, how will the £25 million allocated in the UK Budget help to deal with the coal tip spills caused by floods, particularly given that the total cost of remediating these tips has been put down as £600 million?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I thank my hon. Friend for securing the debate. Wales is very proud of its reputation for producing great musicians, actors and actresses—I will not try to name them all lest I forget people. My hon. Friend talked of the difficulties faced by people enterin…”

“You mentioned prioritisation. How would you prioritise those 360 high-risk tips?”

“These tips are causing continued disruption to communities across Wales. For example, in Godre’r Graig the children are going to school in temporary accommodation because their school had to be closed due to the threat from a nearby coal tip. How long do you think it will take to acquire the necessary people, equipment…”

“It was mentioned earlier but, as a general principle, who is responsible for rivers? Is it Natural Resources Wales or local authorities?”

“Can the hon. Member explain why his Government are choosing to raise taxes on GPs’ surgeries, which did not crash the economy or the public finances, rather than opting to raise the revenue from the big banks, as the Liberal Democrats suggest?”

“The Liberal Democrats agree that the country’s finances are in a mess thanks to the previous Conservative Government. However, we do not agree that increasing national insurance is the way to address the problem, as doing so will undermine efforts to improve public services across the United Kingdom. For example, last …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for securing this important debate. Wales is a proud industrial nation, which was built on the back of the railways, with the world’s first train operating at Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfi…”

“I should declare an interest in that many of my relatives across south Wales are former miners. In the autumn Budget, the Government quite rightly made the decision to end the pension injustice for miners who were part of the mineworkers’ pension scheme, but they did not do the same for the 40,000 miners who were part …”

“As the MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe, I am in the honourable position of representing a constituency containing three mighty rivers: the River Usk, the River Tawe, and the world famous River Wye all rise in the hills and mountains of Mid Wales and pass through this giant constituency. All the water in the Wye ough…”

“China is clearly trying to infiltrate all areas of UK society. Will the Minister outline the meetings that he is having with the Department for Business and Trade to ensure that the UK strengthens its foreign direct investment screening and cyber-defences, and focuses in particular on increased data transparency requir…”

“A question for Will and Gordon: how does most contraband get into HMP Parc?”

“Lord Timpson, the National Audit Office’s latest report estimates that the programme to construct 20,000 additional prison places by the mid-2020s will now complete in 2031, costing at least £4.2 billion more than planned, and will still leave a shortage of 12,400 prison places by the end of 2027. Why is the programme …”

“What does HMPPS see as the future for privately run prisons?”

“What will you do to ensure that the expected prison place shortage is mitigated and the Government are not forced to release prisoners early and put the public in potential danger?”

“Residents in rural Powys are suffering as a consequence of delays to ambulances turning up, or, in some cases, of those ambulances not turning up at all. In one recent example, the family of a stroke victim in my constituency had to drive their paralysed and vomiting mother in a car to a hospital in Hereford, after bei…”