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HANSARDHome Learning: Covid-19What estimate he has made of the number of school children that did not have access to (a) a laptop or (b) another device to facilitate home learning when schools were closed…12 Oct 2020HANSARDHome Learning: Covid-19But from 22 October schools will be required to provide remote education to those pupils isolating because of coronavirus. Ofcom estimates that up to 1.78 million children in the…12 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsI want to pursue the problem that what looks like a resolution—offering status on the basis of no recourse to public funds—has instead created an industry of people involved in…08 Oct 2020HANSARDPlanning and House BuildingI say to the right hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) that one thing has changed more frequently than the title of the Department, and that is the Housing Ministers…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsCan the Minister add to his list women whose children are born and brought up here and are UK citizens, and are going nowhere?08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsMay I ask my right hon. Friend whether that suggests to him that the Prime Minister has probably not had an advice surgery in a very long time? Does my right hon. Friend think…08 Oct 2020HANSARD Town and Country PlanningI invite all Members, especially the Ministers, to come and have a look at an example of permitted development that is probably the worst and most shocking that I have ever seen…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsBefore lockdown, children on free school meals finished education on average 18 months behind their classmates and the gap was getting worse. Schools closed and a quarter of these…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEnd of Eviction MoratoriumThe end of the moratorium on eviction strikes fear in my heart, and it should strike fear in most Members’ hearts, because we know what is coming for so many families with…23 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillOrder. I am sorry, but we have strayed a bit off the point. I like to give flexibility and latitude, but I do not want to kick off a long-standing discussion about something that…22 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThey herd them on to trains, they shave their heads, they abort their babies. A genocide of the Uyghur people by the Chinese Government is taking place before our eyes. It is easy…09 Sept 2020HANSARD Summer AdjournmentThe coronavirus experience has introduced us all to many businesses and organisations in our constituencies, which, however long we have lived in them or represented them, we did…22 Jul 2020HANSARDFamilies in Temporary AccommodationWhat steps his Department is taking to ensure that recipient local authorities are informed when a family is moved by another local authority to temporary accommodation in their…20 Jul 2020HANSARDFamilies in Temporary AccommodationHow does the law work without enforcement? We know from the programme “Ross Kemp: Living with...” that homeless families travel approximately 400,000 miles—or 16 times round the…20 Jul 2020HANSARDStamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) BillNo. The measure allows us to believe that we can change the housing market by tinkering at the edges, but we know that tax forgone is money that cannot be spent on something else.…13 Jul 2020HANSARDStamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) BillDoes the Minister agree that this is actually more than a threat for first-time buyers at the moment—it is a reality? First-time buyers are queuing online for websites of lenders…13 Jul 2020HANSARDStamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) BillI rise to speak not as somebody who opposes owner occupation but as somebody who celebrates it. I am new Labour to my core. I want choice and opportunity for all, and this stamp…13 Jul 2020HANSARDStamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) BillI am not sure whether the hon. Lady saw the article in The Sunday Times yesterday identifying not only first-time buyers as people having problems in securing mortgages, but…13 Jul 2020HANSARDHousing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental SpendingMy contribution to today’s debate is on the eye-watering £1 billion spend by the Ministry on temporary accommodation. There are now 88,330 families trapped in temporary…09 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsAt year 6, children on free school meals are nine months behind their better-off classmates. By GCSE year, that has extended to 18 months. Some 700,000 children have had no access…01 Jul 2020