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HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillWe want a Labour Government for the whole United Kingdom, but we also appreciate Lords amendment 1 and the devolved powers. We believe in devolution. We were the party of…22 May 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThe hon. Member makes a crucial point, which I was trying to make to the Minister: on non-strike days, minimum service levels do not apply at the moment. Many of the people…22 May 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI absolutely agree. I worked alongside my hon. Friend on workers’ rights for many years. I was a care worker for many years, and had to take industrial action once. People,…22 May 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillLet me start by drawing the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests, which reflects the fact that I am a proud trade unionist, and have been for a…22 May 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI absolutely agree. How will threatening key workers with the sack in the middle of an unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis do anything to provide the level of services…22 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe last Labour Government made it their mission to reduce the number of children in poverty by a million. We achieved that. Under the Tories, child poverty is nearly back to the…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsIt is a pleasure to welcome yet another Deputy Prime Minister to the Dispatch Box—the third deputy I have faced in three years. You know what they say: the third time’s a charm. I…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsIt is absolutely amazing that while the Labour party is preparing to govern with a Labour majority, the right hon. Gentleman’s party is starting to prepare for Opposition. This…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe reality is that after 13 years of Tory rule, they are still lurching from crisis to crisis and wallowing in their own mess. They cannot solve the crisis, because they are the…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsEven before the pandemic waiting lists were going up, so it does not wash that this Government, after 13 years in power, are blaming everybody but themselves for what people are…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsThey do not want to hear the question because they know the answer is that they have failed the British people. [Interruption.] When will waiting lists fall?17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe all want minimum service levels; it is this Government who have failed to provide them for all our trains and public services because they have run them down and mismanaged…17 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe only grubbiness that I have seen over the last few years has been about dodgy personal protective equipment contracts. I hope the Deputy Prime Minister will start to get a…11 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsFirst, may I offer my congratulations to the right hon. Gentleman, who is proving that being ginger is no barrier to becoming Deputy Prime Minister? I hope to take his example…11 May 2023HANSARDPrime MinisterThe right hon. Gentleman says that rape conviction has gone up. What he really means is that 300 women will be raped today while he boasts about an increase of 0.5%. He has not…30 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsI would like to see the ministerial code introduced and adhered to on the Government Benches, because it is not just the right hon. Gentleman’s Department where antisocial…29 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman says that rape conviction has gone up. What he really means is that 300 women will be raped today while he boasts about an increase of 0.5%. He has not…29 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and welcome back to the Chair. I share the Deputy Prime Minister’s words on our Baroness, and our thoughts are with her family today. I am sure…29 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Member will not apologise for the Government’s failure on charge rates. Sixty-nine per cent of 1.6%—is that really something to boast about? Let me ask him about an…29 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsNot a word of apology, no sense of responsibility and not even a shred of shame. The reality is that while people in Britain feel more and more unsafe, the right hon. Member seems…29 Mar 2023