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HANSARDEngagementsObviously, the inquiry must go on and we await its response to what actually happened at Grenfell, but the answer that the Prime Minister gave is of no comfort to the 60,000…19 Jun 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe question was: will the Prime Minister ensure that this is done by the end of this year? At the current rate of progress, it will take three years for even the social housing…19 Jun 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe coroner’s report made it very clear that she thought that sprinklers would make blocks safer; I do not think we should be playing around with semantics—we should be making…19 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsToday would have been the 90th birthday of Anne Frank had she survived, but she died in the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. In her diary, she wrote many things, but…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsThey promised net zero by 2050, yet they have failed on renewables and are missing their climate change targets. They promised an industrial strategy; output is falling. Which…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsThe legacy of the Prime Minister’s Government is one of failure. They claimed that they would tackle burning injustices; they failed. They told pensioners that their benefits were…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsSince the Government did nothing to protect the steel industry in Redcar, I hope that they will do a bit better in Scunthorpe, where 5,000 jobs are at risk. The Select Committee…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsThe Prime Minister may not have noticed, but her deal was rejected three times by Parliament. Another industry failed by the UK Government is UK steel. Why did the Government not…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsLast week, Ford announced it would end production at its Bridgend plant. UK car production has been virtually halved in the last 11 consecutive months. Ford has also said that a…12 Jun 2019HANSARDEmployment: West MidlandsThe answer the Prime Minister gave has a sort of unreality about it all really. [Interruption.] Let me explain, as I am trying to help Conservative Members. If they could contain…12 Jun 2019HANSARD Leaving the European UnionI thank the Prime Minister for an advance copy of the statement. In fact, I received it yesterday when she made an appeal entitled, “Seeking common ground in Parliament”. Where…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy question was actually about funding for arts and creative subjects in schools. A survey has shown that nine out of 10 secondary schools have cut back on lesson time, staff or…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Department for Education’s funding chief met school leaders recently and told them: “the first thing to say is obviously they are not generous budgets”— he is very cautious…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsWhat this Government have squandered is what they inherited: children’s centres, Sure Start, children taken out of poverty. They squandered the future for so many of our children.…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI can help the Prime Minister out in two ways. One is that a Labour Government would properly fund our schools—We would not short-change our children—and we would not use…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI do not know if the Prime Minister has had a chance to listen to or read the words of the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers. He said: “The fact so…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThat would explain why 26 schools close early on a Friday every week because they do not have enough money to keep themselves open. More than 1,000 schools across England are…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in commemorating all the victims of the Manchester bombing two years ago. Our thoughts are with the friends and families of all those who were killed,…22 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in acknowledging Mental Health Awareness Week. I want to send my support to all those campaigning all across the country to raise awareness of mental…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy question was about food banks in a Government office— [ Interruption. ]15 May 2019