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HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceWherever people go in the world, whichever bar they walk into, the one thing we can guarantee is that they will see a premier league game being played. That is the strength of the…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceWill the Minister give way?06 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillWhen the Government decided to take away the winter fuel payment, they said that people could apply for pension credit to try to get some support. The problem is that there are…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillI agree entirely with the shadow Minister. Only today, the Prime Minister said at the Dispatch Box that our economy is security, and security starts with our defence and looking…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillWhile we as politicians can read and scrutinise those real impacts, when pensioners who will have to pay tax on their state pension come to the hon. Gentleman’s surgeries—they…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillI am grateful to my Leicestershire colleague for giving way. He will know that housing targets and housing numbers have gone up in Leicestershire—the figures in my patch are up by…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillThe shadow Minister is absolutely correct. At Davos, the Chancellor said she had listened to that community. Why would she make changes for that community, but not the farming…03 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineThe difference between “decent” and “deceit” may only be one letter, but the gap defines a man’s character. Given what we saw on Friday, whatever the context of that meeting, when…03 Mar 2025HANSARDFinance BillThe Minister is right to point to the amendments in front of us. New clause 3 looks at household income specifically. If he is so confident in the measures he and the Chancellor…03 Mar 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthI am really sorry; I am tight on time. Question No. 4 is, could the Minister kindly clarify, confirm and commit to that promise? If not, why not? On the menopause, when the…27 Feb 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthMay I, too, welcome the Minister? Gosh, what a debate to come into—it is such a wide-ranging field. I am so glad that she has been ably supported by the hon. Member for Hastings…27 Feb 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseOn Saturday I joined the 1st Newbold Verdon Scouts group for part of their celebration of 70 years of scouting. They chose 22 February because it commemorates the birth of Robert…27 Feb 2025HANSARD Women’s HealthCan the Minster comment on HRT medication and making sure that there is equal access to it across the country?27 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 26 February.26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe point is about the culmination of all the changes the Labour Government have brought in. This Government have indeed raised national insurance, and may need to do so again in…26 Feb 2025HANSARDEngagementsCould the Prime Minister tell this House whether the outcome of his Budget was by design or by mistake? Did he mean to push 100,000 pensioners into poverty with his own analysis…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesIn an interview, the Prime Minister said that the reason for doing this to farmers was to be able to give them the NHS that they might need. Only a week later, the £10 million…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe context is that back in 2010 the then Government had to borrow £158 billion. Fast forward another decade, and we had something called the pandemic, when we had to borrow £400…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesWill the Minister give way on that point?26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe way I see it, the problem that Liz Truss had with her Budget was that she did not set out her workings. The problem with Rachel Reeves’s Budget is that she did, and the…26 Feb 2025