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On Thursday 10 December 2015 Ispoke in a Backbench Business Debate in the House of Commons to mark International Human Rights Day.
I attended a Westminster Hall on Marriage Registration Certificates on Tuesday 8 December 2015 secured by Christina Rees MP ( Neath). Since 1837 marriage certificates in England and Wales have included the names of the fathers, but not their mothers. Women are being excluded from historical records- this is simply unacceptable in modern society. The
I was drawn in the Topical questions list at Number 1 on Tuesday 8 December 2015 for Justice questions.
I chaired the debate on the use of Neonicotinoids on Crops in Westminster Hall on Monday 7 December 2015. The debate was led by Ben Howlett MP and was on the motion: "That this House has considered e-petition 104796 relating to the use of neonicotinoids on crops." The Minister, George Eustice MP replied to the
I visited Bentley West Primary School on Friday 4 December 2015 to meet the School Council who had been presented with badges and to answer questions from pupils about my work in Parliament and in Walsall South.
On Friday 4 December 2015 I visited Walsall Adult and Community College’s (WACC) Whitehall Centre to discuss the withdrawal of English Language Tuition for jobseekers whose first language is not English.
Isil-Daesh must be destroyed. It is responsible for the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut in November, the killings of 30 British Citizens at Sousse in Tunisia, including Walsall Football Club supporters Joel Richards aged 19, his uncle Adrian Evans, and his grandfather Charles ‘Patrick’ Evans, journalists, aid workers, and thousands of innocent civilians in