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HANSARD Social Security Advisory Committee: Winter Fuel Payment(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to respond to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s letter, published on 17 October 2024,…12 Nov 2024HANSARDYoung People Not in Education, Employment or TrainingThe right hon. Lady will know that under the Conservative Government youth unemployment fell by 380,000, and that we were tackling inactivity with our WorkWell programme, helping…11 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI wonder if the Secretary of State did not hear my earlier question; I said that I was grateful that she is continuing the work that we did in government, through the WorkWell…11 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Conservatives are the party of work and aspiration, and once again, we left office with unemployment at a historic low. We all know that Labour always leaves unemployment…11 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThank you, Mr Speaker. The Budget is not the only thing frightening the life out of businesses at the moment. Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is a wrecking ball for the UK labour…11 Nov 2024HANSARDYoung People Not in Education, Employment or TrainingMay I say how nice it is to be sitting opposite the right hon. Lady again, albeit, regrettably, having swapped places with her? I enjoyed our exchanges on social care during the…11 Nov 2024HANSARDDraft Merchant Shipping (General Lighthouse Authorities) (Increase of Borrowing Limit) Order 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris, to discuss lighthouse borrowing rules. This Budget day does not seem to be a good day to be a borrowing rule.…30 Oct 2024HANSARDBroadband ConnectivityMy constituents in Throwley and Wichling have been battling for high-speed broadband. We thought we had it over the line, but in a recent telephone conversation Building Digital…16 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI was expecting the right hon. Lady to say something along the lines of “wait for the Budget”, or “wait for the spending review”, as we have heard many times during this question…10 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAfter just 100 days, this is already one of the most anti-growth Governments in history, from investor-scaring taxes to the right hon. Lady hitting the brakes on our transport…10 Oct 2024HANSARDLocal Bus ServicesI wonder if the right hon. Lady can see the irony in the fact that the new bus system that she is so excited about introducing is broadly the same as the train system that she is…10 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsCatapults are not classed as offensive weapons, but they are being used increasingly in my constituency to injure and kill livestock and pets. Will the Minister responsible for…10 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillThe hon. Gentleman and I probably do have different views ideologically; I will acknowledge that. I think that he probably, as was implied in his intervention, thinks that profit…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillUnfortunately, the right hon. Lady’s approach is deeply flawed and risks our facing more strikes in future, rather than fewer. [ Interruption. ] Yes, to directly answer her…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillThere are a few problems with what the hon. Member has just said. One is that he talks about those figures, but the Government have not taken the time or trouble to set out what…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI accept some of the points that the hon. Gentleman made. That is why I said that the record of DOHL had been mixed. Sometimes there has been improvement in performance, but that…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillNo, I will make some progress. For the reasons I have described, we have also tabled amendments to put some conditions on franchises moving into the public sector. Under the…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillWe recognise the Government’s mandate to nationalise the railways. We are not seeking to frustrate that, but simply to improve their legislation. I have heard the arguments of…03 Sept 2024HANSARD Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillIt is good to see hon. Members so soon after the summer recess. I know that the Secretary of State for Transport, the right hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh), has…03 Sept 2024