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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Music Education: State Schools

"My Lords, I am grateful to follow the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. It has been a pleasure actually seeing him in real life, as opposed to just hearing him on Radio 3, which is still a great pleasure.

I rise for my first speech in your Lordships’ House. I am …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 May 2024
Oral Answers to Questions

"Can the Secretary of State, or anyone else on the Tory Benches, honestly tell the young people in Bristol and across the UK that they are better off, after 14 years of Conservative failures on youth services, failures on education and failures on skills development, than they would be under …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 May 2024
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State talks a good talk, but on her watch the gender activity gap is wider than ever: 22% fewer girls than boys take part in team sport. Does she agree that it is only under Labour, the party of equality, that women and girls in Bristol and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 May 2024
BBC Mid-term Charter Review

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) on giving us this opportunity to discuss the BBC. He brought up the concept of “BBC sympathies”. Virtually everybody in the Chamber—in fact, I think literally everybody, including him—has expressed at least some BBC sympathies in this debate. That is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Telegraph Media Group Ltd: Acquisition

"I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of the statement.

From the very start, Labour had questions about the proposed sale of some of our country’s most highly influential and historical news publications. We share legitimate public interest concerns about the accurate presentation of news, free expression of …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Football Governance Bill

"The hon. Gentleman explains exactly why it is so important that the owners and directors test will work. That is why I am addressing these remarks to the Government—it is, after all, their Bill. I would like to know substantially more from the Minister in answer to the questions that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Football Governance Bill

"The hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that it is a subjective test. I was asking whether there are any objective tests, because I think that is important in terms of fairness. Where are they objective, where are they subjective? Concepts such as competency can be interpreted both objectively and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Football Governance Bill

"May I start by saying how good it is to see the Bill receive its Second Reading? Many people have been campaigning for it for many years, and as the Secretary of State has acknowledged, it has strong cross-party support. A lot of people—both inside and outside the Chamber—have put …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Football Governance Bill

"I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. She rightly pays tribute to the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford, although Karen Carney has also made a substantial contribution in leading the Carney review. I read the review with interest—it was great—and I believe my right hon. Friend may …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Football Governance Bill

"My hon. Friend raises a really important point. It is so important that the state of the game report leads the way, and that the regulator is allowed to look at the evidence and have the scope to intervene where that is necessary. I fear that the Secretary of State …..."
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