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HANSARDNHS Staff PayI thank my hon. Friend for the answers she has given thus far. Clearly we have to await the results of the independent pay review body, but can she explain to the House the basis…08 Mar 2021HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Rent ArrearsHow many and what proportion of benefit claimants are in rent arrears.08 Mar 2021HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Rent ArrearsI thank my hon. Friend for that answer. The evidence produced by the National Residential Landlords Association and a lot of housing charities demonstrates that rent arrears are…08 Mar 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome). The Budget obviously has to be set against the situation in which we found ourselves in recovering…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy right hon. Friend clearly understands that we have a huge number of UK citizens who have gone to fight for Daesh and at the moment have been captured. What action is being…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend will be aware that my constituency is extremely diverse in its racial and religious makeup, and our national health service staff have done a brilliant job in…02 Mar 2021HANSARD Rough SleepingI congratulate my right hon. Friend on the success of the Everyone In programme, which has taken 37,000 people off the streets. I also congratulate him on making sure that all…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Uber: Supreme Court RulingMy hon. Friend will know that the private transport market is a market, and clearly the position of the iconic black taxi cabs in London and the rest of the private hire market…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Fire Safety BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Andy Slaughter). This is a horrendously complicated issue involving cladding—ACM, high-pressure laminate and other…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewI am a great believer in competitive tendering to gain the right value for money for the public sector. At the height of the first wave of the pandemic, my local hospital,…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Building SafetyI thank my right hon. Friend for listening to the representations our Select Committee, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, has made, and to other colleagues.…10 Feb 2021HANSARDYemenOther Members have raised the issue of the nefarious activities of Iran, acting in a proxy fashion in Yemen. The reality is that the people of Yemen are suffering as a result.…08 Feb 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseIn 2018, a terrorist plot would have meant that Members of Parliament from a UK cross-party delegation and from around the world who were attending the free Iran rally were…04 Feb 2021HANSARDReoffendingWhat steps his Department is taking to reduce reoffending.02 Feb 2021HANSARDReoffendingMy hon. and learned Friend will know that, under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, it is the duty of prison governors to enable people leaving prison to have a secure roof over…02 Feb 2021HANSARDUnsafe Cladding: Protecting Tenants and LeaseholdersIt is a pleasure to follow the Chairman of the Select Committee, who spoke about the inquiries that we have done—seemingly endlessly—over the past six and a half years. Three and…01 Feb 2021HANSARDHolocaust Memorial Day 2021We come together today to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, which is held on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau more than 10…28 Jan 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy right hon. Friend will be aware that last week the deeply unpopular Streetspace scheme was found by the High Court to be unlawful because of the failure to consult residents,…28 Jan 2021HANSARDEducational Settings: ReopeningI know that my right hon. Friend is as keen as everyone else to get schools fully open with children back in them. As we emerge from the national lockdown, it is likely that we…26 Jan 2021HANSARDEquitable LifeI beg to move, That this House expresses grave concern regarding the Government’s continued inaction with respect to the injustice suffered by Equitable Life policyholders, the…21 Jan 2021