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HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportI thank my hon. Friend for his contribution. I will go a little bit further and compliment some of the Tory Members who have stood up as part of Greater Manchester, and I will be…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportThe hon. Member invites me to be clear and honest, and the one thing that probably most people know is that I tell it how it is and I always have. I can be clear and honest with…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportThe right hon. Member makes a point about what the Welsh Government are doing. What they are doing is putting people, business and lives first. They are working with local…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Over the past 24 hours, the people of Greater Manchester, regardless of their political persuasions or colours, have been absolutely…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportAs the hon. Member has turned up today, I hope he will do the right thing and support people with an economic package so that they can do the right thing and we can save people’s…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to publish clear and fair national criteria for financial support for jobs and businesses in areas facing additional…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I ask your guidance on the hon. Member for Heywood and Middleton (Chris Clarkson) saying things in his speech about Labour Front…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportI thank the hon. Member for his contribution. I absolutely agree. All our nations and regions —the whole of Great Britain—have to come together, because this virus is a challenge…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI welcome the Prime Minister’s comments; I think that was a yes, but I will follow it up. Thank you for those comments. Infections are rising. The testing system is collapsing.…16 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMany people in the Chamber will think that the battle of Britain is today, but actually we marked the 80th anniversary of those veterans yesterday, and I want to put on record our…16 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsAh, he’s finished. The whole country will have seen that the Prime Minister does not know how much a care worker earns—that was my question. The shameful fact is that the average…16 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do welcome the Prime Minister’s comments, but I must say to him, get some skates on it. Those care workers are still not getting the PPE they need. They are still not getting…16 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWell, Mr Speaker, I heard what the Prime Minister had to say, but I have to say to him that, yesterday, the chief executive of Care England said, “We were promised weekly testing…16 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsOnce again, I see that the Prime Minister says that it is somebody else’s fault—it is the public who are using up the tests. These were the Government’s own figures and their own…16 Sept 2020HANSARD Educational SettingsI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement and for the discussions that we have had over recent days. As he knows, I have written to him with a number of…18 Mar 2020HANSARDEducation (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) BillI start by wishing my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) a happy birthday—[Hon. Members: “Hooray!”] I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Weaver Vale…13 Mar 2020HANSARDMinisterial Codeindicated dissent .02 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsAcross the country, hard-working staff in universities and colleges have been forced to strike against effective cuts to their pay and attacks on education that hurt students and…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFree School Holiday Activities and MealsMay I welcome the new Ministers to their places? It is a damning indictment of this Government that the United Nations found children in our country regularly turning up to school…02 Mar 2020HANSARDMinisterial CodeNo, please don’t.02 Mar 2020