Speeches by Newbury.

“This investment is so welcome, because my constituents in Cannock Chase have been struggling to access urgent care between their GP and accident and emergency since our hospital’s minor injuries unit was temporarily closed in March 2020. Despite the welcome investment in Rawnsley surgery, Chadsmoor medical practice and…”

“The minor injuries unit at Cannock Chase hospital temporarily closed more than five years ago. In August, the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent integrated care board announced proposals to permanently close our MIU, but it has been radio silence since October. My constituents are having to use unreliable bus services to…”

“I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and thank her for her steadfast campaigning. Like many hon. Members, I have had conversations with tradespeople on the doorstep. I have had loads of messages and emails thanking her and supporting her campaign. Rob Waring, who runs Midland Central Heating in Cannock, told me that its van…”

“I am proud to have supported the BCSSS campaign since long before I became an MP, and I have continued to support it. I pay tribute to the campaigners in my constituency, including ex-miner Tony Jones, who gave me a badge that I wear with pride. I am grateful to the Minister for her engagement with BCSSS trustees and u…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I welcome the opportunity to debate this subject, so I, too, thank the petition author, Mr Osborne, and the signatories for enabling us to do that. I declare that I am personally against non-stun slaughter. I am not religious, and I would never knowingly buy prod…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton) for securing this important debate. I remember campaigning alongside her in her by-election, and this issue being raised by constituents, who, in her, are now fortunate to have such…”

“I welcome the announcement, which will help more than 4,000 working-class children in my community. The Minister rightly emphasised that the expansion of free school meals is both pro-learning and anti-poverty, and we know that the appalling cost of living crisis, which the previous Government left behind, means that s…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I thank the hon. Member for Waveney Valley (Adrian Ramsay) for enabling us to speak on this important topic. I will start by sharing how valuable it was to spend a day of last week’s recess at Staffordshire’s county show. As always, I came away full of admi…”

“I absolutely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I think that that is a perfect example of where stronger, more consistent animal welfare labelling would give consumers that kind of information. In other countries, such as Germany, systems take that into account, and consumers should have access to that information. O…”

“3. What steps her Department is taking to support the provision of grassroots sports facilities in Cannock Chase constituency.”

“I very much welcome the Minister’s response. Through the park tennis project, Cannock Chase has benefited from £215,000 of investment from the Government and the LTA Tennis Foundation to revive tennis courts in four of our parks, but the notorious British weather remains a barrier to participation, and many in my towns…”

“T6. Cannock Chase is home to many fantastic dance schools such as the Crystal Academy in Hednesford, which has been crowned dance school of the year. Dance can empower people from all backgrounds, but a third of schools are not teaching it, despite its being on the national curriculum. A varied, high-quality sports off…”

“Is the Lord Chancellor as astounded as I am by the hypocrisy of the Conservatives? They really are the arsonists attacking the firefighters. We are having to clean up their mess, because, in the words of the National Audit Office, this crisis is the result of their failure “to ensure that the number of prison places wa…”

“Yes, absolutely. It is another example of where technology and innovation have moved on at pace, and legislation perhaps has not kept pace with that, so that is really welcome.”

“That is fantastic. All power to your elbow for that. We will look out for that as well.”

“Yes, absolutely. It is encouraging to hear that the conversations with each sector are happening as part of this overall strategy. Hopefully, we can knit all of that together, because these sector-by-sector conversations can sometimes be quite siloed, and you miss the wider gains that you get from the whole system, so …”

“I am really grateful to have the opportunity to speak on this. It was something that we did not manage to get to when we last had you in front of the Committee, because of certain other things that we talked about at length. As a Committee, we will shortly be launching an inquiry into the circular economy, which you pr…”

“Yes, absolutely. It is just quite a muddled landscape at the moment. People sort of understand what Red Tractor means, but perhaps not from a welfare angle. Then you have organic standards, which are different, and the Soil Association and EU organic standards. You have RSPCA Assured. Waitrose has now introduced its ow…”

“We will definitely be looking forward to that. Finally, can I raise another animal welfare policy that seems to be stuck in departmental limbo at the moment? This is about labelling on welfare standards on food products. It was not a commitment in the manifesto that we both stood on, but the previous Government did lot…”

“Do you know whether the strategy will include a proposed date for achieving that phasing out? Will it have milestone targets along the way for research and testing?”