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HANSARDLabour and Skills Shortages: Temporary Recovery VisaI really do thank the hon. Lady for that. There will be so many migrant workers who have worked their backsides off in the NHS, especially during the pandemic, and who will be…08 Nov 2022HANSARDScottish Independence and the Scottish EconomyI do not whether my hon. Friend, like me, has been contacted by many constituents about that. If she has, she will know that it is not just us, and that the people of Scotland are…02 Nov 2022HANSARDScottish Independence and the Scottish Economyindicated dissent.02 Nov 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThe Prison Officers Association’s Andy Baxter has described this as: “A humanitarian crisis on British soil”. As we have heard, the independent chief inspector of borders and…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI appreciate the Minister taking another intervention—I am doing so to help his throat and give him the chance to have a glass of water. If he is saying, “It was set up quickly…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantTo clarify, I was blaming individual politicians and sections of the media for besmirching the character of people in receipt of social security payments. I am not suggesting that…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman. It is really important that we monitor it. We are talking about the people in these four countries who are the very poorest and…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI thank the Minister for his response. He said that the number of claims increased by 275% during the week of pension credit awareness day. That seems to me to be an argument in…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI beg to move, That this House has considered pension credit and the cost-of-living support grant eligibility period extension. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship,…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI am trying to help the Minister’s throat.26 Oct 2022HANSARD Departure of Previous Home SecretaryLet us be clear: the idea that this Conservative Government are suddenly avid followers of the ministerial code is for the birds. What was the real reason for the Home Secretary’s…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI am so disappointed that we are debating a piece of legislation that should have been resigned to the scrap heap, along with the previous Cabinet’s regressive legislative…18 Oct 2022HANSARDHuman RightsI am not sure that that was an answer to my question. However, assuming that the Secretary of State does agree with Professor Aileen McHarg and that he will consult the Scottish…18 Oct 2022HANSARDHuman RightsTo save me raising a point of order later, I want to say in response to the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the hon. Member for Dartford (Gareth Johnson), that we are…18 Oct 2022HANSARDEnergy crisis support for small and medium sized businesses, the public sector and charitiesSmall and medium-sized businesses are the lifeblood of our local economies, but energy price increases threaten to cripple them. In addition, when times are tough, it is the…22 Sept 2022HANSARD Energy Prices: Support for BusinessI am a member of the voluntary board of the Scottish Pantry Network, whose shops are significantly affected by rising energy costs. It exists for environmental reasons to stop…22 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateMr Deputy Speaker, if you, I, the Minister or anyone on these Benches were to stop paying our energy bills, we could be cut off or disconnected from gas and electricity, but it…05 Sept 2022HANSARDOverdose Prevention Centres11. If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a pilot project to evaluate the effectiveness of drug consumption rooms.05 Sept 2022HANSARDOverdose Prevention CentresLast week I spent an evening in Glasgow with families who, like me, have lost someone to drug addiction. They and I accept that the ideal situation is that people will conquer…05 Sept 2022HANSARDHOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEEI thank the right hon. Lady and the Home Affairs Committee for the work that went into the report. I do not agree with it all—some of it does not go far enough for me—but I agree…21 Jul 2022