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HANSARD Protecting the Public and Justice for VictimsThe title of this debate is “Protecting the public and justice for victims”. Young people are part of the public, so I want to raise the issue of young people, particularly those…09 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillThe Bill will bring relief to thousands of investors who were let down not just by a failed company but by a failed system. That is why we need a Bill that will address the…08 Jun 2021HANSARD Employment RightsThat is possibly one of the most mealy-mouthed, weak-kneed, ineffectual statements that I have ever heard in this House. It is a betrayal of working people. Fire and rehire…08 Jun 2021HANSARD Finance BillI am glad you are sitting down, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I do not want to shock you. I want to see if we can try something different tonight. Let us try and undertake some…24 May 2021HANSARD Finance BillWe are at a stage in the Bill’s progress that is almost like a wash-up. We are trying to make last-minute appeals to the Government for action on a number of key issues, and all…24 May 2021HANSARD Finance BillI have to say that my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) has eloquently put forward the case for these proposals, both those from the Opposition Front…24 May 2021HANSARDSafe Streets for AllAfter 11 years of harsh austerity and a year in which the covid pandemic has resulted in such a scale of human suffering, the Queen’s Speech should have been a paradigm-shifting…17 May 2021HANSARD ImmigrationI find it hard to believe that we are having this debate today, and that this delegated legislation has been introduced at all. Emotionally, many Members of the House will find it…28 Apr 2021HANSARDFire and RehireI want briefly to outline some of the implications of fire and rehire in its latest use for individuals, families and communities. I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’…27 Apr 2021HANSARDSupport for Asylum SeekersI have two detention centres in my constituency, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook. I will come back in another debate to explain the brutality of the regime in those detention centres,…27 Apr 2021HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillNew clause 4 stands in my name and those of several right hon. and hon. Members. As I said in the debate on the provisions for super deductions, if the Government are giving tax…19 Apr 2021HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillFollowing on from my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge), I find it almost incredible that we are having this debate at all, given what we know about…19 Apr 2021HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillWith the greatest respect for the previous speaker, I think there is a view across the House and in all parties that we need to manage the economy effectively in the interests of…19 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No. 2) BillBudgets and their associated Finance Bills give practical meaning to the political aims of Governments. Manifestos and the rhetoric of party-leading Members and eventually the…13 Apr 2021HANSARDOnline Anonymity and Anonymous AbuseI am the secretary of the National Union of Journalists parliamentary group, and on behalf of the NUJ, I wish to refer to the particular vulnerability of journalists, and the…24 Mar 2021HANSARD Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.22 Mar 2021HANSARD Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords]He has confused me as well, Mr Deputy Speaker. There has been an acknowledgement of the issues raised in the new clauses and amendments. It is clear that we all agree on the…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords]I wish to speak to new clauses 1 and 2 and amendment 1, standing in my name. I will seek to be as brief as possible, Mr Deputy Speaker; with your permission, I will aim to speak…22 Mar 2021HANSARDSri LankaI agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting): how many more times do we have to be here before we get firm action? I thank the hon. Members who secured…18 Mar 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillHarold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics and chair of the Labour party in the Attlee period, said that in this country, we will not see the arrival of fascism…16 Mar 2021