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HANSARD Social Security and PensionsOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister may have inadvertently misled the House in saying that that sum was for the Scottish Government, rather than the devolved…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the Minister allow me to chunter on that?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe Government are not just giving overseas pensioners the right to vote but changing legislation to allow overseas pensioners the right to donate to election campaigns. So the…07 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe know the benefits regime is counterproductive and punitive. In 2016, the National Audit Office told the Department for Work and Pensions to carry out its own research into…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsIt is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) who, unlike most of his colleagues, makes quite a thoughtful contribution that is perhaps just…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesGosh, that could have been a career-ending one for me there. At the moment, it appears that the Labour party and the Conservatives are getting on quite well. The fact that a Tory…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI find it rather ironic to take lectures from the hon. Gentleman about getting on with the job. He was touting for plenty of jobs recently, so that is rather a sticky wicket for…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI beg to move, That this House notes there is a cost of living crisis hitting homes across the UK; regrets the UK Government’s current plan of reductions in certain benefits and…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. Yes, absolutely. The SNP has stood on successive election manifestos with a commitment to scrap the cap: both the benefit…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesYou are right, Mr Deputy Speaker—it is not a conversation, and I am not in a position to help the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham with his school fees, so if he just hangs…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I agree that it is important that we invest in renewable energy. That is why we on the SNP Benches are fully committed…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury talks about the big decisions that the UK Government have taken. Of course, part of the reason they can take these so-called big decisions is…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI ask the hon. Gentleman to reflect on the fact that the UK was one of the worst hit by coronavirus, perhaps due to the bungling of this Government in the initial days in locking…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. During the Brexit campaign, we were all told that Parliament would be taking back control. Given that the House has just voted by a…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIt is. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who very ably chairs the all-party group for terminal illness. It is one of the things that really sticks in the craw of many of us. My…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIt is on the record that the SNP supported a number of those schemes. For example, the furlough scheme was hugely important, certainly at the beginning of the pandemic; about…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThe problem with the hon. Gentleman’s intervention is that he suggests that this is some issue the Government have just happened upon. His Government have been in power for 11…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I have great respect for him, and I only wish that that was extended to him by the Leader of the House, who I think said…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIt is reassuring that at least today the mantra from the Tories is that Scotland is the highest-taxed part of the United Kingdom, because sometimes we are told we are not doing…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesUnfortunately, we on the SNP Benches have to turn our guns everywhere because there are very few guns behind the hon. Gentleman. He is focusing on social security and what we can…24 Jan 2022