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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillDoes my right hon. Friend agree that Ministers must set out how failing schools will be tackled? We cannot have a system in which children are left in schools that let them down…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy right hon. Friend will be aware that although many home-educated children with autism are known to local authorities, there is very poor support for them. How will this…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillIt is a pleasure to take part in the debate. Let me begin with the question of the need for a national inquiry into the rape grooming gangs. Given what has been said so far, I…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNo one can be against the principle of breakfast clubs and efforts to make sure that families do not have excessive charges imposed on them by schools, although we need to look at…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillAs was my right hon. Friend, of course. I do not think that anyone with whom I have been in this House over the last 20 years has a more personal and visceral record of fighting…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillDoes my hon. Friend share my hope that Government Members will follow the example of the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) and put the Bill under genuine…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillCan the hon. Member give a single case of a home-educated child being harmed who was not already known to social services? Again and again, it is a failure of social services when…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillWill the Minister give way on that issue?08 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. We can see from the attendance on one side of the Chamber how important charities are to Opposition parties of all…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesDoes the Minister agree that if it turns out that it will cost the NHS more to bring in the changes than it will gain, as colleagues from across the House fear, then it would be…07 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformThe Secretary of State said that 12,000 patients had to stay in hospital beds because of a lack of social care, yet we have it kicked down the road once again. What will Louise…06 Jan 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner: AppointmentThe Government have said that part of their inspiration for the Armed Forces Commissioner was such a role in Germany, yet Germany has a parliamentary armed forces commissioner.…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that Labour Back Benchers need to speak to their Ministers? As my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) suggested, the Government…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillFurther to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans), we hear the hon. Gentleman’s critique of the previous Government, but we are trying to…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady. She rightly highlights interest rates and mortgage payments. Was she disappointed when the OBR’s assessment of the Budget suggested that…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe hon. Gentleman is most gracious for giving way. He is also a highly distinguished economist. He has talked about this record tax-raising element. What will the net value of…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe hon. Gentleman can intervene to rectify that in a moment if he feels the need to do so for reasons of tribal loyalty. Again, the OBR said there was nothing in its calculations…17 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell), who I am pleased to say honoured his words at the beginning of his speech, quite rightly. I…17 Dec 2024