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HANSARD Overseas Electors Billrose —22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Thank you for allowing this point of order; I appreciate your generosity. Clearly time has run away with us, and we have had three urgent…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors Billrose —22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI acknowledge the important point that the hon. Gentleman is making: it is important that we properly scrutinise legislation that comes before us. However, it appears from the…22 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. This is a very important issue. Although the regulations appear to be very technical, they are fundamentally about…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Far-right Violence and Online ExtremismThe Muslim community in Oldham is deeply concerned about the prospect of being targeted in further attacks. The drip, drip of the type of lower-level abuse that I see online…18 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionWe need to call out the idea that the Irish Government are trying to deliberately cause problems to push for a referendum to try to get a united Ireland. The Irish government have…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionThe 2014 Euro elections cost £100 million, which seems like a lot of money, but the Transport Secretary could spend it in a morning, so I would not worry too much about that. The…14 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThe Government will know that, since they walked away from local councils, frontline services such as adult social care and children’s safeguarding have been massively…13 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I do not intend to exceed the Minister’s brief introduction. We recognise that the Government acted very quickly in…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityThe Minister must surely know that the reason there are more people in work is that there are more working-age people. In my constituency, unemployment is higher this year than it…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterOver the past decade, we have seen 32 million fewer bus journeys a year as a result of poor services. I congratulate my hon. Friend and neighbour on the work that she does in…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI congratulate my hon. Friend on the points that she is making, many of which will resonate with my constituents. Does she agree that in-work poverty is a modern-day scourge on…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityDoes the hon. Gentleman see that as a justification for removing the free TV licence?04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I congratulate her on the work that she does in supporting constituents for whom this is a real issue. Middleton and Heywood have…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterI would first like to place on the record an interest, as a family member works for Transport for Greater Manchester, although not in the buses division. I bring to the House an…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier, there were exchanges relating to the Seaborne ferry contract, and I was staggered to see that the Secretary of State for Health…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterMadam Deputy Speaker, I cannot tell you how reassuring it is in these crazy parliamentary times to have an intervention from the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon); it gives…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterWell, I had to say it. Give me some credit, please. In 2014, the devolution agreement was reached with Greater Manchester leaders. At the time, I was the leader of Oldham Council,…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Bus Services: Greater ManchesterJust for the record, the additional powers the Mayor of Greater Manchester will receive through the statutory instrument tomorrow relate to precepting powers to pass the charge…04 Mar 2019