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HANSARDWork Capability Assessment ConsultationThis will lead to a lot of fear among disabled people. I appreciate the tone that the Secretary of State has taken, but the record of the past 13 years has been one of excluding…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In a previous point of order on 12 July I said that I had not received a reply to the letter I sent to the Prime Minister on 17 January,…04 Sept 2023HANSARDDisability Benefits: AssessmentsIs my right hon. Friend as concerned as I am about the safeguarding of our most vulnerable claimants when they apply for PIP or have a work capability assessment and about their…04 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT9. In 2016 the United Nations committee responsible for monitoring the UN convention on the rights of disabled people published a damning report that found that the Government…04 Sept 2023HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is a related point of order. I wrote to the Prime Minister on 17 January to ask him to support my Elected Representatives (Codes of Conduct)…12 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have known for a while that our life expectancy is shorter than it was in 2010. However, we are now seeing impacts on children in the UK, who are about 7 cm shorter at five…11 Jul 2023HANSARDFinancial Services ReformsThe Minister will be aware that the Bank of England had to intervene in the gilt market after the disastrous mini-Budget last September to restore market functioning, when sharp…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillCan the Minister tell me how many Afghan women have been able to avail themselves of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme phase 3 programme? That is the Government’s position…11 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillThe Minister is being generous with his time. We in the all-party parliamentary group on Afghan women and girls have hundreds of civilians who would like a “homes for Afghans”…11 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023The Minister has not responded to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central.11 Jul 2023HANSARDDraft Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023The point about the inequalities that there will be between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and whether there has been an assessment of them. I gently remind the Minister…11 Jul 2023HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North East Fife (Wendy Chamberlain). I find myself resonating with her comments on carers and the lack of support that exists in so…04 Jul 2023HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsWell, that is an offer that I definitely will refuse this time. As I said, poverty and inequality are not inevitable—they are political choices—and I believe that, like our NHS,…04 Jul 2023HANSARD NHS Long-term Workforce PlanI welcome the workforce plan. Given that it has taken 13 years, one tends to wonder why it has taken so long, but then of course we remember that there is a general election on…03 Jul 2023HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillDoes my hon. Friend agree with the Secretary of State, as I do wholeheartedly, about the importance of the positioning of this memorial, and of it being right next to the mother…28 Jun 2023HANSARD In-work PovertyDoes my hon. Friend want to comment on the fact that work is now not the route out of poverty, as we have heard? Nothing in what the Government propose on in-work progression will…28 Jun 2023HANSARD In-work PovertyWill the Minister give way?28 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage and Rental CostsI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Can he give an answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves), who asked whether the mortgage charter,…27 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage CharterI will put aside the fact that the Chancellor did not answer my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) on what happens to the 1 million people who are outside…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023The Minister may not know that I tabled an amendment to the Building Safety Bill in relation to payment practice. In her investigation of Grenfell, Dame Judith Hackitt found a…26 Jun 2023