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HANSARDSaving for Later LifeIt is a great pleasure, as ever, to see you in the Chair, Mr Hosie. I absolutely agree with the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Duncan Baker) on that last point, which I will come…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeI am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way and to the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Gareth Davies), who intervened before me and talked about the KiwiSaver scheme. I…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]Will the Minister give way on that point?07 Feb 2023HANSARD Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]My understanding was that 52 weeks was the original threshold in the Government’s proposals and that that was changed after consultation with industry. The trade unions supported…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]I rise to speak to new clause 4 in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands). I will come on to the substance of the new…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and Pensionsrose—06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe right hon. Gentleman is spot on. Several of us are looking with great interest at the ombudsman process, which has just finished stage two and will now move to stage three. I…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman is missing what is happening, given the limited social security powers that the Scottish Government have. Bearing in mind that 85% of welfare spending is…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), who is always incredibly thoughtful on these issues, and it is certainly a pleasure to serve alongside…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI am certainly very much in favour of people in Scotland having control of their own immigration system, because our problem has never been immigration; frankly, our problem has…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the right hon. Gentleman go one step further and join those of us who want the benefit cap not merely raised, but scrapped in its entirety because it is having such a…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman is obviously on overtime tonight.06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsYes, I think we are going to have a political “Lady and the Tramp” moment where we actually agree on this. There will be spaghetti across the House. The hon. Gentleman is…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI am happy to give way.06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman and I could probably have a long drawn-out debate about why there are so many vacancies in the jobs market and how the UK Government’s immigration policy…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the hon. Gentleman give way?06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI will give way to my very honourable Friend.06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think I am unique in that I am one of the few people who serve as a Member of this House who has been in his…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsMay I point out that the Scottish child payment is not dependent on a family’s having two children, but is per child? Unlike the UK Government and the People’s Republic of China,…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I understand that political ideology will separate us, but in the five years that I have been a Member of this House I have struggled to get my…06 Feb 2023