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HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman ReportI, too, thank the Backbench Business Committee for making time for this important debate from the limited time that it has to allocate. I have listened carefully to every…16 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsThe Prime Minister said this morning, and the Secretary of State just repeated it, that the Government introduced universal credit to help people into work. That is not a real…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsI said they would and I hear what the Secretary of State said about scheme after scheme and initiative after initiative, but what have the results been? If the Tory plan was…13 May 2024HANSARDHealth and Disability ReformI thank the Secretary of State for his comments about Frank Field. Both I and my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Dame Angela Eagle), who is sitting alongside me on the Front…29 Apr 2024HANSARDHelping People into WorkWhat the Secretary of State cannot get away from is the fact that, as has already been said, our employment rate has not returned to the post-pandemic level. He cannot answer the…18 Mar 2024HANSARDHelping People into WorkArguably, the biggest barrier to growth in the UK and to turning around the Prime Minister’s recession is the supply of labour. Following the Chancellor’s “Back to work Budget” in…18 Mar 2024HANSARDChild Maintenance ServiceThank you, Sir Charles, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I will just say to him that not a single vote in an election has been cast yet.27 Feb 2024HANSARDChild Maintenance ServiceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Charles. I thank all colleagues who have contributed, in particular the Chair of the Select Committee, my right hon. Friend the…27 Feb 2024HANSARDChild Maintenance ServiceWhile I am pleased to have cheered the Minister up, I can assure him that I will certainly be giving the Government down the banks yet again. But that exact point is why I thought…27 Feb 2024HANSARDChild Maintenance ServiceThe hon. Gentleman may have said “could”, but I am not the Minister and I would not be so arrogant as to assume that that will be certain to happen. My aim was to leave space for…27 Feb 2024HANSARDChild PovertyIf the Minister can point to an occasion when I have said that work was not the Labour party’s priority, she ought to say when that was, or she should withdraw that remark. The…05 Feb 2024HANSARDChild PovertyFurther to the Minister’s response, the Prime Minister has been asked similar questions about child poverty in recent Prime Minister’s questions. He usually responds that since…05 Feb 2024HANSARDSocial SecurityDo you want a round of applause?31 Jan 2024HANSARDSocial SecurityI thank the Minister for clarifying the way we are taking these orders today. We welcome the social security uprating, because we want to see social security keep pace with…31 Jan 2024HANSARD PensionsHopefully, the House will be relieved to know that I do not intend to repeat the explanation of this order that the Minister has just given. As he said, the statutory instrument…31 Jan 2024HANSARD PensionsI am not entirely sure whether that intervention was for me, so I will let the Minister respond when he winds up. However, on companies keeping their promises, that seems like one…31 Jan 2024HANSARDChildren Not in School: National Register and SupportIt is good to follow the hon. Member for Meon Valley (Mrs Drummond), and I commend her efforts in producing a private Member’s Bill on this important subject, but I am a bit…23 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Child Support (Management of Payments and arrears and fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I am coming to that, but my hon. Friend makes the point well. I am sure that the Minister and many colleagues would recognise that there is a broader agenda here about making the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Child Support (Management of Payments and arrears and fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Latham. Without rehearsing all the arguments ad nauseam, let me say that we support the measure and think it is good that…16 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Child Support (Management of Payments and arrears and fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023Will the Minister give way?16 Jan 2024