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HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsThe Prime Minister said some moments ago that the history of referendums in this country was not good, but may I remind him that by 71% the Good Friday agreement was passed by a…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateThe irony is not lost on any of us that the Prime Minister told us that Prorogation was nothing to do with Brexit and yet here we are talking constantly about Brexit. I want to…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Brexit Readiness: Operation YellowhammerThe Minister told us that HMRC has allocated EORI numbers to 88,000 VAT-registered businesses that currently trade with the EU. However, two years ago, HMRC told the Treasury…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Thomas CookI can tell the Secretary of State that my constituents are not happy with the Government’s response. However, at the heart of this problem is a company that was signed off by…25 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019The Chancellor claims that this is a boom in public spending, but we all know how big the bust has been, and nowhere has it been bigger than in DWP spending. Its spending will see…04 Sept 2019HANSARD G7 SummitThe Prime Minister tells us he is going to Dublin on Monday to see the Taoiseach where no doubt he will be asked, as he has been asked today, about his proposals for the backstop,…03 Sept 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentIt is quite clear that this is now a Vote Leave Government. Contrary to what the Prime Minister said, he has been clear about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. I want to take…25 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and Pensionsrose—02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsLet me try this another way. The people whom the hon. Gentleman has mentioned who are suffering from addiction deserve our sympathy, empathy and solidarity, and they deserve help,…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI thank the hon. Lady for making that important point, and that is the entire point of the welfare state: our circumstances can change overnight through no fault of our own. And…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsTo be clear, not one thing that I or any Opposition Member said criticised the work of the people on the frontline for the DWP. It is the Conservative party’s policies relating to…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI thank the Backbench Business Committee for allowing me to lead this debate on the Department for Work and Pensions public spending estimates. In so doing, I shall explain what I…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman is a fellow member of the Treasury Committee and I thank him for his intervention. That is an interesting forecast. I do not think that dealing with the…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI thank the hon. Lady for bringing that report to the House. Does she not agree that, contrary to what the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland said, life is…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsMy hon. Friend makes an effective point—which I will come to—about the position of the WASPI women, born in the 1950s. They dealt with challenges in the labour market that I have…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. The Conservative leadership election feels like the reversal of politics as I had come to know it. I had always expected that Labour…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman asks about the 2017 manifesto. I simply remind him that before the publication of the manifestos in that election most people expected the Conservative party to…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsIf the hon. Gentleman really wants to argue with me, then be my guest.02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsDoes my hon. Friend agree that this poor decision making fatally undermines the relationship between the citizen and the state, and that it must make his constituents wonder what…02 Jul 2019HANSARDPoverty: Social SecurityThe Chancellor has been brave recently, speaking out on how no deal will impact our economy. Poverty will only get worse if we face no deal, so will the Chief Secretary be as…02 Jul 2019