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HANSARD Self-employed Persons: Financial Support(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor to make a statement on financial support for the self-employed in the light of the covid-19 pandemic.24 Mar 2020HANSARD Self-employed Persons: Financial SupportI thank the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for that answer. He knows that parties on all sides of the House have been supportive of the way in which the Chancellor and the…24 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIt is good to see the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Ms Dorries), back in her place—I am not sure whether the Secretary…24 Mar 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund BillCan the Minister confirm that the amounts that we are talking about in this Bill relate to departmental spending that may need to happen over the next few months, and that they do…24 Mar 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund BillI hope the Minister is right on the banks, but my main point is about the estimates. Actually, we have only three days to debate the estimates. I have attended estimates debates…24 Mar 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund BillThe hon. Gentleman is shaking his head. Without rules and regulations on competition, on fair play for employees and on consumer protections, markets will not work. Where there is…24 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus BillI begin by thanking everyone who is working hard to keep our country and our world as safe as possible from this dangerous pandemic. Above all, I want to thank the staff of our…23 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus BillIs the Secretary of State aware that many people in the refugee community in the UK are qualified healthcare professionals? I have spoken to the refugee charity RefuAid, which…23 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewWe took no such evidence and no such evidence was proffered to us. It might exist out there, but we have certainly not seen it. I do not want to detain the House any longer, as I…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewWill the Minister set out which piece of legislation, before the loan charge legislation, saw loans as income?19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis). I am delighted to say that on this occasion I agree with every word he said. It is the nature of…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewThe intervention from the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) was spot on: this has brought the House together. The issue is not about tax avoidance. I think everyone…19 Mar 2020HANSARDLoan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse ReviewI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on bringing this debate to the House. In the all-party loan charge group, we took evidence from a number of family members of people who…19 Mar 2020HANSARD Economic UpdateOur economy is suffering a heart attack, one deeper and bigger than in 2008, so the Chancellor has a serious responsibility and he deserves constructive engagement from everyone…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThe World Health Organisation pronounced today that the coronavirus is now a pandemic, so it is not surprising that the Bank of England and the Government have together issued a…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is the failure to invest in skills and the failure to realise that Brexit is going to damage productivity, while the attack on…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI agree with everything the hon. Lady said. Although the Government are trying to say that Brexit negotiations will continue, if coronavirus is a pandemic it is frankly only a…11 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI associate my party with the good wishes sent to the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Ms Dorries) and, indeed, to anyone who has contracted coronavirus. I welcome the fact that…11 Mar 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier today, the Court of Appeal handed down an historic and fantastic ruling, judging that the Government’s Heathrow expansion…27 Feb 2020HANSARDRough SleepingDoes the Secretary of State agree that it is a moral scandal that hundreds of homeless people are still dying every year on our streets, without the palliative care that they…27 Feb 2020