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HANSARD Office for Value for MoneyIt is important that we know what the Treasury is expecting from this body. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, who was at our session, will agree that the chair was…20 Jan 2025HANSARD Office for Value for MoneyI thank the right hon. Gentleman, who is a fellow member of the Treasury Committee and a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, for his question. We could have a whole debate…20 Jan 2025HANSARD Office for Value for MoneyI thank the right hon. Gentleman very much, although I should stress that it is not my evaluation but the Committee’s. We were unanimous in our concerns and unanimous in our…20 Jan 2025HANSARD Office for Value for MoneyThe hon. Gentleman tempts me to stray into the territory of the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for North Cotswolds (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown)—this is…20 Jan 2025HANSARD UK-China Economic and Financial DialogueI welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to growth in this country and to encouraging investment in the UK. Listening to the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Public Finances: Borrowing CostsWe all know that fiscal rules and certainty are vital for the markets and the good stewardship of the public finances, so will the Chief Secretary to the Treasury explain what…09 Jan 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ11. Every week, I visit constituents living in the most appalling, overcrowded social housing, some with triple bunk beds in the bedroom and the parents on a sofa bed in the…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI know that my right hon. Friend has a good head for numbers. Will she be doing some evaluation of the cost and benefits of investing in kinship care, so that we can reduce not…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI have lived the dream of the academy programme from the very beginning under London Challenge, and I have seen Hackney children go to university—they did not when I was first…08 Jan 2025HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementI welcome this commitment to local government and recognise that the Minister has a big job to do in addressing the challenges that have arisen because of the last 14 years—not…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Grenfell Tower InquiryI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; I want to repeat the point I made earlier, to see if I can get a response this time. We knew at various stages that there needed to be…02 Dec 2024HANSARD Grenfell Tower InquiryI associate myself with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington and Bayswater (Joe Powell), and others, and I very much welcome the Deputy Prime Minister’s…02 Dec 2024HANSARD Grenfell Tower InquiryOne issue that arose at an early stage, about a year after the tragedy at Grenfell, was the need for fire safety surveyors. These people are experts and take about three years to…02 Dec 2024HANSARD Grenfell Tower InquiryThe hon. Gentleman has spent a lot of time in this House thinking about how systems work. Does he not think that there is now an argument for the Government to have a proper…02 Dec 2024HANSARD Grenfell Tower InquiryAs my right hon. Friend has just said, many of my constituents feel very trapped, so I welcome the acceleration of action. However, does she have any timeframe—or will her…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhere I do agree with the hon. Gentleman is that the time is not right. We have not had the proper discussions about palliative care. Some of us have been trying to talk about it…29 Nov 2024HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is absolutely right. When we see the system working, it is great, but some of what we have heard today has referred to a failure…29 Nov 2024HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIn my brief remarks today, I want to touch on principle, policy and practice. We have to be very clear that we are having a debate not just on the principle, but on the Bill. The…29 Nov 2024HANSARD Financial Services: Mansion House SpeechI draw the House’s attention to the fact that a family member works for Allied Irish Bank, and to the fact that I am a trustee of a pension fund. I want to ask my hon. Friend…18 Nov 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageThe path to carbon capture and storage is littered with failure: three previous projects never got off the ground, despite lots of taxpayer money going into them. What precisely…12 Nov 2024