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HANSARDEngagementsThey may have changed the name, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies says that child poverty will rise to over 5 million by 2022 at the current rate because of the strategies…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsMy question was about a food bank in a Government Ministry, which seems to suggest that in-work poverty is the problem in Britain. The Trussell Trust handed out 1.6 million food…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI seem to recall that it was the Conservative party that opposed the national minimum wage in 1997. I seem to recall that it was the Conservative party that predicted millions of…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsReal wages are lower than they were 10 years ago. How can it be fair that we live in a society where the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company now earns 145 times the…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Nobel prize-winning economist Sir Angus Deaton said that the UK risks having extreme inequality levels of pay, wealth and health. Of the G7 countries, only the United States…15 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, if you go to any A&E department in the country, you will find that staff are under enormous pressure precisely because there is a shortage of GPs available to see…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsUnder the NHS in Wales, more people are surviving cancer than ever before. We should welcome the work that has been done. The Royal College of Radiologists said, “our workforce…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsNobody on this side of the House ever talks down the NHS—it is Labour’s greatest achievement. The principle of healthcare free at the point of need as a human right was a Labour…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsUnder the last Labour Government, NHS investment rose by 6% a year, but under this Government it has barely reached 1.5%. Five thousand nurses and midwives from European Union…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in sending condolences to the family and friends of Guardsman Mathew Talbot, who died while on anti-poaching activities. It is a reminder of the diverse…08 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe reality is that, under a Tory Government, spending and investment in the NHS is less than it was under Labour, and, even with the Prime Minister’s funding announcements, that…08 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeWe need to see a growth in renewable sources and green energy, and I am coming on to that in my speech. We also need to see a reduction in the use of fossil fuels.01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsIf the Prime Minister does not believe me, perhaps she will believe her own Home Secretary. He said in March: “Serious violence is on the rise. Communities are being torn apart…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI beg to move, That this House declares an environment and climate emergency following the finding of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that to avoid a more than…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI fear that my hon. Friend has unwittingly provoked lots of strange thought processes among Conservative Members.01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in congratulating all those who ran the London marathon. I think that the shadow Health Secretary getting a personal best shows just how fit the Labour…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The message is that we need to do far more in this country, but we also need to carry that message elsewhere. I cannot be the only person in…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeIndeed. My hon. Friend knows my views on that. I attended a public meeting in a village in Derbyshire to discuss fracking, and I was impressed by the fact that all the people…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeMy hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I shall come on to it in a moment. At the heart of the environment and climate emergency is the issue of justice, and it is those here…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeThe hon. Gentleman is right that that must be a high priority. I will be coming on to it towards the end of my speech, but he is correct that forests not only sustain a high level…01 May 2019