Representative
Deputy
Labour
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
25/04/2022 | 18:30:15 Thank you, Mister Chair. I warmly welcome this report from the committee and the rapporteur Mr Dimitri HOUBRON. For 20 years I was a school teacher, a secondary school teacher, and I have been increasingly concerned about the influence of online pornography on society, but especially on children and young people. The Assembly is right to be alarmed at the unprecedented exposure of children to pornography in society. We must all be alarmed because today’s mainstream internet porn is free... 25/01/2022 | 10:36:02 Thank you Madam President. I would like to wish everybody Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus, as today is the day of the Welsh patron saint of love, and to say that "love is love" whoever you are and wherever you are in the world is very, very important. I would also like to thank Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA for his report and my Labour party colleagues who have supported Amendments 7 to 16. Since these amendments were laid, I have received complaints about wanting to remove the UK from the list of countries... 22/06/2021 | 19:34:52 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) The impact on the Covid 19 pandemic on children’s rights is an issue that we have to rightly consider and which this report does so well. I speak from experience as I was a secondary school teacher in the North West of England and in South Wales, where I live now. The striking similarities of the lived experiences of the children in my care as they were from industrial and mining towns which had experienced great hardship under the Thatcher... 22/06/2021 | 10:46:39 Thank you, Chair and colleagues. I would like to thank the Rapporteur, Mr Roberto RAMPI, for this excellent report. Now when I consider media freedom, public trust and people's right to know, in the front of my mind, over the years, you know, I have seen family friends and constituents influenced by the media that they choose to read. We have seen this from Brexit, to COVID-19. It is usually the easiest media that they choose to access and it tends to be social media, as we have seen, but... 21/04/2021 | 18:28:30 This report is excellent about the discrimination against persons dealing with chronic and long term illnesses. I would like to confirm my support of the report. I’d like to take this opportunity to speak because in the UK parliament I'm the co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary group for Medical Cannabis under Prescription. I have worked since taking my seat in the parliament in 2017 to fight for access to medical cannabis for those with chronic and long term illnesses, from multiple...
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