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HANSARDBuilding Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) BillAn auspicious year.07 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT5. Last month I received a letter from my local NHS trust regarding children’s services at Southend Hospital. It referred to women and “birthing people” going into labour. Can my…07 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI am not far from finished, so I will carry on. There are more students from state schools at our best universities. School performances are skyrocketing up the PISA tables, and…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. [ Interruption. ] He absolutely is. Would he like to comment on Labour Members’ conversion on the road to Damascus, with their sudden…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformIf anyone had any doubt that the Opposition are not fit to govern this country, that doubt must have been dispelled this afternoon. There were many things they could have chosen…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI would be very interested to know what score she would give to each of the four Labour leadership candidates who did not give back a single penny of their severance pay after…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformWill the hon. Lady give way?06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformWill the right hon. Lady accept that when our party came to power in 2010, we cut ministerial pay, and we have kept it frozen ever since? In the unlikely event of her side getting…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformIt said, “I am afraid to tell you there is no money left.”06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformThat is an exact quote: “There is no money left.” I do not mind saying it again, because that is the mess that Labour left us with. The point here is that having said that there…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI totally agree with my hon. Friend. That is absolutely appalling. We also know that shamed SNP MSP, Derek Mackay, who has left office, claimed £155,000 in expenses, including, as…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformNo, I will not. I am about to finish my remarks. We have a national living wage, a welfare system that is simpler, fairer and better targeted, more hours of free childcare,…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Ministerial Severance: ReformI completely agree with my hon. Friend’s brilliant point, which brings me naturally to my next point. The last Labour Government had the opportunity to amend the 1991 legislation…06 Feb 2024HANSARDIran: Freedom and DemocracyI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way yet again. He is making an absolutely brilliant, first-class speech, and shining a light on the despicable, brutal regime in Iran.…01 Feb 2024HANSARDIran: Freedom and DemocracyMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that the Iranian people are locked in a vital struggle for justice, democracy and particularly equality, and that that…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseA very happy Essex birthday to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Leigh Heath Court is a low-rise block of 42 flats in my constituency that had cladding installed as part of the…01 Feb 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir George. I thank all right hon. and hon. Members for considering my Bill and being in Committee today. Before we get into the…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point, which is exactly why I have reiterated the obligations in England on a person who finds a dog in just that scenario. They are still under…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillSubsection (6) provides that, in relation to the three safeguard defences or exemptions set out in clause 1, as long as sufficient evidence of the defence is established, the…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He is absolutely right; the proof of the pudding will be in the enforcement of the Bill. The police need to now know that there will…31 Jan 2024