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HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. It is absolutely right that we ask the questions we are asking today. The statistic that has shocked me most in this debate is that of…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister has just said that, as it is an Opposition day debate, he will speak exclusively about what the Opposition think and say.…19 Mar 2025HANSARD Welfare ReformOne of the first acts of this Government was to take away the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners on incomes as low as £13,000 a year, including 44,000 who are—or…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBusiness Support: Rural AreasThe Business Secretary, the Minister and the Chancellor have all said that they want growth, including in rural areas. I have searched high and low for business growth statistics…13 Mar 2025HANSARDPost Office Horizon: CompensationThe Business Secretary met recently in Japan with Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon system and has offered to contribute to the compensation for victims. Can the Minister tell…13 Mar 2025HANSARDDepartment for Business and TradeI shall try to make my speech short and snappy, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne) on securing…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe art of taxation is extracting the largest amount of money with the lowest amount of squeaking from the goose. Yet the Chancellor will have heard the honking of the tractors on…04 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineI thank the Prime Minister for his statement and for the hard yards he is putting in at the moment for our national security. May I suggest another angle on which the House would…03 Mar 2025HANSARDGroceries Code AdjudicatorIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I congratulate the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) on securing the debate. It will…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersWill the Minister give way?12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersI congratulate my hon. Friend on the excellent speech that he is making. Only today I heard from a pensioner in West Worcestershire on an income of £13,500 who was stripped of his…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersThe hon. Gentleman mentions the important role that third-sector organisations play in our society. Was he as shocked as I was to learn from Marie Curie cancer care not only that…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersWill the Minister give way?12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersOn a point of order, Dame Siobhain. Is it orderly for me to point out that the NHS is suffering from a number of over-65s who sadly have a high level of mortality—12 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import TariffsThe United States is our greatest ally and our greatest single trading partner. The UK and the United States are the biggest investors in each other’s economies. Yet this is a…11 Feb 2025HANSARD US Steel Import Tariffs(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if he will make a statement on US steel import tariffs.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChagos IslandsIt is outrageous that we only know the detailed speculation about this deal because of the briefing from the Mauritian Prime Minister to his Members of Parliament. It is…05 Feb 2025HANSARDCareer Breaks: Parents of Seriously Ill ChildrenThank you for calling me to speak, Ms Vaz. This debate on the petition has highlighted an unimaginably difficult situation when one’s child is seriously ill. In a series of…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Local Post OfficesThis has been an excellent debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) on securing it and thank the Backbench Business Committee for…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Post OfficesI am just getting to that—the hon. Gentleman is absolutely on point with where I am going. Sadly, it was under the previous Labour Government that the network really shrank in a…30 Jan 2025