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HANSARD Budget 2025: Impact on GraduatesI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on graduates. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the Minister…16 Dec 2025HANSARD Budget 2025: Impact on GraduatesI intend to get to the implications of plan 2 loans—both the freeze in the threshold for repayment and the freezing of the interest rates in a falling-interest-rates environment.…16 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget: Work Incentives4. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the autumn Budget 2025 on levels of incentives to work.09 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget: Work IncentivesHaving 1 million young people not in work, education or training and 2.8 million people out of work on long-term sickness benefits is both a financial catastrophe and a moral…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Catapults and Antisocial BehaviourIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp), and my constituency neighbour, for…02 Dec 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ10. The Prime Minister has expressed “sincere regret” for appointing David Kogan as Independent Football Regulator. Will he now put on record the full amount that Mr Kogan has…19 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorThe Justice Secretary’s team say that he found out about the accidental release of Algerian sex offender Kaddour-Cherif on Tuesday evening. He contradicted them by saying he only…11 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOld Windsor is a small village in my constituency with an approved premises that has morphed to include high-risk offenders. It causes problems. Does the Minister agree that,…11 Nov 2025HANSARDDiversity, Equality and Inclusion: Public Sector4. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of diversity, equality and inclusion schemes in the public sector.05 Nov 2025HANSARDDiversity, Equality and Inclusion: Public SectorEarlier this year, the Education Secretary said that white working-class boys “have been betrayed”, yet this summer, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ ran an internship scheme that was open only…05 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsEvery MP in this place thinks that they have the best constituency in the United Kingdom, but I am afraid that only one of us can be correct. Perhaps with the exception of Romsey…04 Nov 2025HANSARDRemote Betting and Gaming Duty: HorseracingBoth Ascot and Royal Windsor racecourses are incredibly important to my constituency. I have visited both, and I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsThe point was well made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat) that there are people who benefit from the minimum wage and new rights, but thousands of…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am afraid that I do not have time. That would lift 250,000 businesses out of business rates altogether, and it would provide essential relief to keep businesses afloat and money…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI absolutely agree. It goes beyond that, because a lot of hospitality jobs are the first jobs that people do. We talk about youth unemployment; we need to get people into the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend is right, as always. The best way to back workers in this country is to back our small businesses, and our hospitality businesses in particular, which provide…04 Nov 2025HANSARDUK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago: Funding12. How much and what proportion of the funding due to be allocated to Mauritius as part of the agreement concerning the Chagos archipelago will come from her Department’s budget.28 Oct 2025HANSARDUK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago: FundingIn what proportion?28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxWill the hon. Member reflect on the fact that one in six people in this country on universal credit are not British citizens? How would he justify that to his constituents?28 Oct 2025HANSARDStamp Duty Land TaxI agree with the hon. Member wholeheartedly, and he is making an excellent speech, but I would gently say that lots of us in the shires who face Liberal Democrats in our…28 Oct 2025