Speeches by Russell.

“In my area, the improvement on potholes is noticeable, and I thank the Government for the additional funding, which is being used for large patching work; no longer is there just shovelling into endless holes. I am concerned, however, about road safety in my constituency. Understandably, the money has been prioritised …”

“What sort of people work at the National Wealth Fund and make these decisions? Who is evaluating this?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“The Minister has referred to the fact that, as yet, there has been no application and therefore no ministerial decision, but he has also said that community engagement is an important part of the decision-making process. My concern on behalf of my constituents is that they do not feel engaged with; they do not feel tha…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Fleetwood (Lorraine Beavers) for securing this timely debate. Two separate areas in my constituency are suffering difficulties. The first is West Heath in Congleton, where there is an awful fly prob…”

“The people who lead these inquiries are leading public figures and have usually held significant judicial office. Is the hon. Member honestly suggesting that they are going to be successfully pressured by people who want to destroy the British state?”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“My hon. Friend is most welcome. I am grateful for all the amendments that the Government have tabled, but I remain concerned that the current civil legal aid rate is £40 an hour. She has referred to security-vetted counsel. Is it likely that security-vetted counsel will be prepared to work for £40 an hour, when those o…”

“Ms Finch, you referred specifically to various terms of art that lawyers use. That got me thinking about the complexity of immigration law. My experience of immigration law and looking at it for a constituent—I am not an immigration practitioner; I was just trying to assess some fairly basic stuff—was that it looked re…”

“My local community energy company, which is run by volunteers, is incredibly keen to get solar panels on the roofs of local public buildings, but we are really struggling to get the permissions we need from the local authority to proceed with two schools. They missed the easter installation window, and have now missed …”

“I am a solicitor with a current practising certificate. My full declarations are on the Register, but the most pertinent are that I am a member of various trade unions and that I chair the all-party parliamentary group on access to justice.”

“Given that there is no apparent requirement for these people to be legally qualified, it seems likely that the most obvious pool of candidates for the new jobs is from Home Office employees who are currently doing casework. Do you have a view on whether that is a likely outcome, and do you think that would be a success…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (Florence Eshalomi) for securing this debate, and for all the work that she has done on this issue. I see that Lord Best is in the Gallery; he, among many others, has been campaigning on these issues for years. I rise to draw attention to the experienc…”

“Q8. Dr Carly Mellor, an NHS dentist in my constituency, recently said the following to me: “Ministers had pledged to fix the failed contract we work to within this Parliament. The Government has begun discussions on a new contract, and promised a public consultation on it this summer. With a typical dentist now deliver…”

“Does the hon. Member have any figures disaggregating prison officers from the remainder of MOJ staff? Obviously, their working lives are very different.”

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“I thank the Government for the considerable progress that has been made on criminal legal aid and other matters within the estimates since we have taken office. The courts system, as we have heard, was in the most dilapidated and decrepit state, and we had a dearth of judge recruitment between 2010 and 2018. The net re…”

“Many thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield (Andy Burnham) suggested in December that this might be worth looking at again, and many of us in all parts of the House would be grateful for such an approach.”

“Officials have been warned that closure of the conflict and security monitoring project, which was funded by the Foreign Office, will mean that we lose access to a database of 26,000 verified incidents in the middle east. This is quite significant. You just said you are not conscious of any loss of information, but the…”

“Hello. It is nice to see you both. I am Sarah Russell, the Member of Parliament for Congleton. My interests are as on the register, but particularly pertinent is the fact that I am a solicitor, with a current practising certificate, although not currently practising, and I chair the all-party parliamentary group on acc…”