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HANSARDWhistleblowingThe hon. Member for Stirling (Stephen Kerr) has made a good and wide-ranging speech, and he is right that this is the start of the process, not the end of it: there is clearly a…03 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI welcome this opportunity to scrutinise the DWP’s spending, because when I sit in my surgery, week after week, listening to the stories of people living in poverty and struggling…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsThe hon. Gentleman makes a helpful suggestion. Certainly those who have, by definition, a very short time to get these matters sorted due to terminal illness should have as much…02 Jul 2019HANSARDDepartment for Work and PensionsI thank my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for her intervention. I do sometimes wonder what kind of country we live in when vulnerable people feel the cards are so stacked…02 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Long-Term Plan: ImplementationThe Secretary of State clearly identified three critical areas for improvement to cancer survival rates. He is absolutely right about early diagnosis. I do not want to make my…01 Jul 2019HANSARD EU Structural Funds: Least Developed RegionsIt is good to see you in the Chair, Ms McDonagh. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) on securing the debate. If we have learned…26 Jun 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMay we please have a debate on the statutory requirements for changes to bus services and the consultation process? Stagecoach has announced that seven services in and around my…20 Jun 2019HANSARDJunior Doctor Contract: Exception ReportingIs the Minister aware that research by the Hospital Consultants & Specialists Association shows that, despite thousands of exception reports from junior doctors in unsafe hospital…18 Jun 2019HANSARDCox Report: ImplementationThis place has a culture of “deference, subservience, acquiescence and silence, in which bullying, harassment and sexual harassment have been able to thrive and have long been…18 Jun 2019HANSARDCox Report: ImplementationI thank the right hon. Gentleman for plugging the course because I certainly was not aware of it. I did, however, get an email last week advising me about a compulsory fire safety…18 Jun 2019HANSARDCox Report: ImplementationIf only there was an election.18 Jun 2019HANSARDChildhood Obesityrose—18 Jun 2019HANSARDCox Report: ImplementationI thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and I might well vote for her if there is an election. On historical cases and the point about people no longer being here, is there not a…18 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI want to bring to the Secretary of State’s attention some mental health waiting times that my constituents have recently come to me with. Someone with an urgent referral for…18 Jun 2019HANSARDJunior Doctor Contract: Exception Reporting6. What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the exception reporting process in the junior doctor contract 2016.18 Jun 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.18 Jun 2019HANSARDSocial HousingI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Yes, we were familiar with the sign, “No DSS”—the one that used to apply. Letting agents, lenders and landlords all need to get the…13 Jun 2019HANSARDSocial HousingFirst, let me congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) on securing this debate and on his excellent introduction. He is right that social…13 Jun 2019HANSARD Inequality and Social MobilityI refer the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) to the report on access to the professions by the all-party parliamentary group on social mobility, which talks about…12 Jun 2019HANSARDFord in BridgendThe workers at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port send their solidarity to those in Bridgend who have lost their jobs and to those who are going to lose their jobs in the wider supply…10 Jun 2019