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HANSARDDefence Business ServicesI thank the Minister for that answer, but I have had many constituents contact me about the planned closure of the Ministry of Defence Business Services office in Liverpool. The…12 Dec 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ3. At a recent Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee session, the author of the Government’s own national food strategy and the United Nations special rapporteur on the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDReligious Education in Modern BritainI thank the hon. Member for bringing this important debate to this place. Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions for me as it was the end of De La Salle School in my Liverpool…01 Nov 2022HANSARDKinship CarersI thank the hon. Member for all the outstanding work that she has done on this issue with her Bill. It is important that the issue of support for kinship carers, including many in…18 Oct 2022HANSARDThe Growth PlanWe have a Budget for the 1% from a grim, bankrupted Thatcherite tribute act. One in three people in my great city are in food poverty now. I have constituents who are unable to…23 Sept 2022HANSARDHealthy Start SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for securing this incredibly important debate; I know the work that she has done on the issue. A report from Feeding Liverpool, published today, has found…07 Sept 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.19 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have been contacted by many constituents working in the NHS who are struggling to cope with financial pressures, exhaustion and stress. I recently spoke to a district nurse…19 Jul 2022HANSARDFree School Meals: EligibilityI thank my hon. Friend for securing the debate, and for the incredible work she has done campaigning on this issue for many years. Does she agree that the bureaucracy and means…12 Jul 2022HANSARDFree School Meals: EligibilityWhere are we now in society? Come September or October, we will see further rises in the cost of heating a home. We have seen exponential price rises, as prices have moved…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsAbsolutely. I agree with everything my hon. Friend said. This is a Government who furiously defend the class interests of those they represent in this place, and that is never the…11 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. One in five pensioners in the UK is living in poverty, 1.3 million retirees are undernourished and 25,000 people die each year because of cold weather. The situation is dire…11 Jul 2022HANSARD Employment Agencies and Trade UnionsI would like to put on record that I am proud member of Unite the union and the GMB. I start by paying tribute to all those in Liverpool, West Derby and indeed across the country…11 Jul 2022HANSARDRail StrikesI have listened to the hon. Gentleman and I am glad that he was not a trade union rep who I worked with. I know what side I stand on. I know and I believe that the trade unions…15 Jun 2022HANSARDRail StrikesAs a proud trade unionist, I start by paying tribute to all rail staff in Liverpool, West Derby and across the country. I stand in absolute solidarity with them and am fully…15 Jun 2022HANSARDRail StrikesI agree with my hon. Friend. Why did we not see the same urgency in calling out British Gas for using fire and rehire? Where was the anger and the motion calling out P&O for its…15 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. I have heard from constituents in West Derby how the use of fire and rehire tactics by employers such as British Gas and British Airways put them in unbearable situations…07 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Almost a fifth of pensioners are living in poverty under this Government. With the abandonment of the triple lock, a real-terms cut to their state pension—already one of the…06 Jun 2022HANSARDChampions League Final: ParisI was there last Saturday in Paris. I was also there at Hillsborough in 1989. I can say, without any shadow of doubt, that if it was not for the magnificent efforts of the…06 Jun 2022HANSARDChampions League Final: ParisTo ask the Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the significant problems arising at the champions league final on 28 May in Paris.06 Jun 2022