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HANSARDPensions Guidance and AdviceMy hon. Friend is right; I was going to come on to that. When the industry and all those bodies are saying that there should be a trial of auto-appointments, it is not…01 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineThe Home Secretary talks about vital security checks, but she needs to remember that we are predominantly talking about women and children, considering that adult Ukrainian males…01 Mar 2022HANSARD Benefit CapOn that point, is it not key that we are talking about families and children? Whatever the Tories’ ideological views on people having too many children, the reality is that the…01 Mar 2022HANSARD Benefit CapIt is a few years since the National Audit Office said that there was no system in place to measure the outcomes associated with universal credit. For years the Government have…01 Mar 2022HANSARDPensions Guidance and AdviceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. I congratulate the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) on bringing this debate forward. I know that he has…01 Mar 2022HANSARDCovid-19 Lateral Flow TestsScottish taxpayers paid their contribution towards the provision of free lateral flow tests. Scotland is allocated its share of UK debt, yet we are supposed to believe that covid…01 Mar 2022HANSARDCovid-19 Lateral Flow Tests8. What recent discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on ending free-of-charge covid-19 lateral flow tests.01 Mar 2022HANSARDPensions Guidance and AdviceI agree completely with what the hon. Gentleman says. I know I have probably used words that he maybe would not, but does he share my concern about the Minister’s intervention?…01 Mar 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsAbsolutely; food prices have gone up and the energy price cap is now circa £2,000. The Government are not doing enough to mitigate the effect of that price cap. The reality is…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the Minister give way?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). Like all hon. Members, he highlighted the fact that the Government need to do more to deal with the cost…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThat is a valid point that highlights the Government’s complete hypocrisy. We can only hope that enough overseas pensioners use their vote the right way and send the Government a…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI am not giving way to someone who came two hours late into a three-hour debate. [ Interruption. ] As one of my colleagues says, if a person came in that late to the jobcentre,…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPoverty: PensionersDespite what the Minister said at the Dispatch Box earlier, his Government’s statistics show that even before the effects of the £700 energy cap kick in, pensioner poverty is at a…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe Minister has spoken about the Barnett consequentials. Is it correct that the Scottish Government are getting only £220 million in Barnett consequentials from the new measures…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the Minister give way?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech and a very good point. Ministers sometimes concentrate too much on the number of job vacancies across the country, as if somehow…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportI thank the Minister for taking one more intervention. She talks about blame and not pitting patients against doctors or the NHS. Is that not the whole point of the redress agency…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportThe point is that Baroness Cumberlege says the Government have an ethical duty to consider redress, so what does the Minister say to her constituents about that ethical duty that…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCumberlege ReportIt is good to hear the Minister’s commitment to listening to women’s voices. Will she listen to these women and, in particular, her constituent Baroness Cumberlege about the need…03 Feb 2022