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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsLet me say to the hon. Gentleman that sometimes when the Whips come calling and they have a piece of paper that they would like you to read out in the Chamber, just say no. We…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones), the Labour Chair of the Business Committee, is doing a fantastic job. I see him out there all the time,…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will happily give way again, but when I do, will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether he will work with me to get the Government to look again at our restoring your railway fund…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a privilege to respond for the Opposition as we conclude our debate on last week’s Budget. Politics is about priorities, and that has been made crystal clear in not only…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSupply Chain IssuesMr Speaker, “energy price rises…increased evidence of supply bottlenecks …shortages in key occupations”. Those are not my words but those of the Office for Budget Responsibility,…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will make a little progress, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will happily work with the hon. Gentleman. I know that he tries to work hard for his constituents.02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget: Pre-announcement of ProvisionsThank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. We face an urgent cost of living crisis. Prices are up in our shops, at our petrol pumps and on our heating bills.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBudget: Pre-announcement of Provisions(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a statement on the details of all the provisions in the upcoming Budget that have been made public in advance of the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI beg to move, That this House is concerned about the negative impact of Government policy on the finances of working people, with a growing squeeze on living standards caused by…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyLike my hon. Friend, I have heard from care workers and many others in my constituency about the anger that they feel. The average care worker is set to lose more than £1,000 in…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I pay credit to her for all the work that she has been doing to highlight these issues and the impact on families and children, and the much…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyWe would not be cutting it in the first place. We would replace universal credit with a better and fairer system that supports people into work. If the hon. Member wants to have a…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who did so much in government to tackle issues of poverty and of child poverty in early years, in particular. Conservative Members will have…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. The single biggest difference that all of us could make right now would be to cancel the cut to universal credit. That would…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyFirst, it is worth considering why the increase to universal credit was put in place. It was because, during the pandemic, the Government had to recognise that universal credit…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI will make a little more progress but will happily take another intervention in due course. Having gone from no interventions to a flurry of them, I should probably press on. The…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyThe difficulty with the Government’s approach is that they like to pretend that theirs is the only way to do it, with the only option being to hike national insurance on workers…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyI will shortly come to a section of my speech that deals with the extensive problems that we face as a result of the Government’s Brexit deal; I will say a little bit more at that…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is frankly indefensible. We knew that poverty was already beginning to rise before the pandemic even hit, and we know the impact that the…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyYes, absolutely. These are political choices—who we seek to prioritise, what we do from Government and what matters most to us all.21 Sept 2021