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HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsWill the Minister give way?08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. It is a privilege to listen to my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms). I thank him for the way…08 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateOn 3 July, the Secretary of State said that asymptomatic testing in residential care homes would give staff the confidence to continue their work. Yesterday, the Transport…08 Sept 2020HANSARD Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion ProtestsI disagree with XR’s strategy of targeting the press, but there is an irony in a Government who are renowned for avoiding the scrutiny of the mainstream media, and happy to…07 Sept 2020HANSARD Fire Safety BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point when he talks about the impact that this is having on many families. He may have instances in his constituency, as I do in mine, in which…07 Sept 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsYesterday, a dear friend of mine died of stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It has the lowest survival rate of all common cancers, yet it receives less than 2% of funding for cancer…01 Sept 2020HANSARDRented Homes: End of Evictions BanI dread the autumn. Even before covid, my borough of Brent had the second highest level of evictions in London; a third of households live in poverty and more than 30% of…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillWill the Minister give way?20 Jul 2020HANSARD Endangered Species: Developing CountriesI have listened to all the contributions to the debate with great interest. Earlier, the situation in the overseas territories was adverted to. For the UK, 95% of our biodiversity…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillThat is patently false. All the new clause does is to say, “If you want to produce food to export into our market, it must be produced to these standards.” It does not in any way…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillThe hon. Gentleman is making a fine speech. Does he agree that it seems a considerable irony that those Government Members who were so determined that this country should not be…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillDoes my hon. Friend share with me the sense that the Government have told us that they needed the Bill to be able to produce these roll-over agreements? Yet the Minister has stood…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillWill the Minister give way?20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillThe Minister talks of CRaG as if it is a process under which this Parliament has any power. He knows that it is the Government who enable Parliament to have a debate whereby it…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Trade BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that many people who go to restaurants or to fast-food outlets will have no way of knowing the provenance of the food that they are consuming? It is not…20 Jul 2020HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe Chancellor has made some excellent announcements, and none more so than to the hospitality sector. The prospect in his May announcement to that sector of grants of up to…08 Jul 2020HANSARDTransition Pathway InitiativeWhat assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the effectiveness of the transition pathway initiative managed by the Church of England pension fund trustees.25 Jun 2020HANSARDTransition Pathway InitiativeI am very grateful for that answer, and congratulate the Church’s pension trustees on their innovation and vision. The TPI has worked with major global companies to reduce their…25 Jun 2020HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeHis school had been demolished more than 30 years before and he had never been in trouble, so there was no record of him with the police either. We searched the archives at Kew,…23 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseProfessor Newton spoke today of the vital importance of increasing serology to tackle the virus. Capillary blood from fingerprick tests has long been used to test and control…02 Jun 2020