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HANSARD Flammable Cladding RemovalWill the Minister commit to looking at the issue of professional indemnity insurance? This does need a good political fix at the top.14 Jul 2020HANSARDHousing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental SpendingIt comes to something when the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee joins forces with my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), the Chair of the Housing,…09 Jul 2020HANSARDHousing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Spendingrose—09 Jul 2020HANSARDFree Travel for Under-18s: LondonI thank my hon. Friend for securing this vital debate. Does she agree, further to the point made by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson), that this is effectively a tax…08 Jul 2020HANSARDFree Travel for Under-18s: LondonThe Minister quotes the Mayor of London. I wonder whether she can tell me the date on which he made that comment about children not travelling on buses?08 Jul 2020HANSARDMerger of Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I know that I am not the only Member who has written to Ministers in the past few months about serious matters yet had responses from quite…08 Jul 2020HANSARDFree Travel for Under-18s: LondonI thank my hon. Friend for being generous in giving way again. One of the benefits of this project when it was introduced was that it got whole generations of young people to…08 Jul 2020HANSARDFree Travel for Under-18s: LondonIn my constituency, sadly, we have a problem with gangs, and a parent has written to me saying that she does not want her son to be another statistic. She chose a school on a safe…08 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesIt was an achievement, but although there was a planning exercise—there have been many planning exercises for pandemics—the Treasury has told us that in 2016 there was no economic…07 Jul 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe all know that there are huge problems in culture and theatre. The Hackney Empire has served residents in Hackney for 120 years and the Graeae theatre company in my constituency…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesWe were shocked in the Public Accounts Committee to discover that, despite planning for a pandemic, there had been no planning for what to do with the economy in a pandemic, which…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesI thank the right hon. Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride) and his Committee for their work on this issue. I represent a constituency—indeed, part of a borough—that is the…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support for Local AuthoritiesOf course, one of the areas that local government has gone into more in order to fund its services is commercial investment. The package last week does not cover the shortfall in…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesThe hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. One of the issues that I have been looking at in the Public Accounts Committee is the fraud and error in this. I am absolutely in…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesYes.07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesI want to go back to the point about people who had to use personal service company set-ups in order to get liability insurance. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is a crazy…07 Jul 2020HANSARD National Audit OfficeIt gives me great pleasure to support the motion proposed by the Prime Minister to appoint Dame Fiona Reynolds, who, as he has highlighted, has had a distinguished career,…01 Jul 2020HANSARDBlack Women: Domestic AbuseI thank the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful and sensitive intervention. That is exactly what I think everybody is aiming for: to make sure that women are not living in fear and…30 Jun 2020HANSARDBlack Women: Domestic AbuseIt gives me great pleasure to raise an issue that is very important to the UK and to this House, particularly as we are about to debate the Domestic Abuse Bill, which returns to…30 Jun 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillAs the MP for a constituency that has a lot of small breweries, I have some sympathy with this. I would not want to see more off-sales in my constituency, but does the hon. Member…29 Jun 2020