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I attended a Grassroots Football event in Parliament on 27 April 2022 hosted by the Football Foundation. I signed up to the Local Football Facility Plan for Walsall. The event was attended by Chris Hughton, former Tottenham Hotspur player and manager of Brighton and Hove Albion, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest.
On Wednesday 27 April 2022 I attended a virtual meeting of the Libraries Information and Knowledge All-Party Parliamentary Group, chaired by Gill Furniss MP. Ukraine's collections of literature, history and research are at risk from Russian rocket and bomb attacks. As well as being important for the identity of the Ukrainian people, public records and library
The House of Commons gave further consideration to Lords Amendments to the Nationality and Borders Bill on Tuesday 26 April 2022.
On Tuesday 26 April 2022, the Judicial Review and Courts Bill returned to the Commons to allow us to vote on amendments made by the Lords.
On Tuesday 26th April 2022, the Government responded to an Urgent Question in the House to ask the Prime Minister whether he would make a statement on his recent visit to India, as would be conventional following significant visits abroad.
The Health and Care Bill puts into legislation measures in the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan and the 2021 White Paper "Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all". It would develop the 42 existing Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) by creating an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) as
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was returned to the Commons by the Lords on Wednesday 21 April 2022, so that we could vote on the Lords' amendments. This is the third time that the Lords have sent these amendments to the Commons, demonstrating the seriousness of their concerns over the risk the Bill
I tabled three Written Parliamentary Questions regarding the Horizon scandal, which resulted in 736 members of staff at the Post Office being prosecuted over 14 years for alleged crimes which were in fact attributable to the newly installed computer system, Horizon. My Questions were: