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HANSARDWelfare SpendingThe shadow Minister talks about trade-offs in public finances, growth and child poverty. In the period since 2015-16, there was zero progress on absolute poverty and zero progress…15 Jul 2025HANSARDGovernment Performance against Fiscal RulesThe Leader of the Opposition has appointed every member of Liz Truss’s Treasury team to her Front Bench, apart from those booted out by the public. Does my right hon. Friend agree…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTransport: Economic Growth14. What steps she is taking to help ensure that the transport system supports economic growth.26 Jun 2025HANSARDTransport: Economic GrowthWe have a proud community in St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan that is both growing and thriving thanks to the economic opportunity provided by the Bro Tathan enterprise zone.…26 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsJust this week, the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) put a singular burning injustice first: the plight of overseas billionaires who pay too much tax. Does the Deputy Prime…25 Jun 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Chemicals SectorI very much welcome the Minister’s recognition of the chemicals sector’s contribution as a foundational sector and an anchor employer in constituencies such as mine; we have the…01 May 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Chemicals Sector4. What steps he is taking to include the chemicals sector within the industrial strategy.01 May 2025HANSARD Retail InvestmentIt is a privilege to speak with you in the Chair, Mrs Hobhouse. It is a particular privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham and Bletchley (Callum Anderson),…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Retail InvestmentYes, absolutely. My hon. Friend speaks with a great deal of expertise on this and on the wider question of how we support people with care needs. She is exactly right. I would be…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Space Industry (Indemnities) BillMy hon. Friend has given detailed and eloquent descriptions of the UK space sector, and Glasgow’s contribution in particular, but what will the provisions of the Bill do for the…07 Mar 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI notice that the motion is on family businesses, but 96% of them have either no employees or a very small number. They are unaffected, if not helped, by the doubling of the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI will start by doing what the Opposition failed to do, which is to recognise the particular contribution of family businesses. I think family businesses in the Vale of Glamorgan…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesI thank the hon. Member for her question; let me say something that I was going to come to later. In all my experience of business, the one thing I have learned is that businesses…26 Feb 2025HANSARDFamily BusinessesThe hon. Member talks of cutting one’s cloth. Perhaps he can tell the 14 million people employed by family businesses how he would cut the public services they rely on to fund the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyHarold Wilson said: “The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” Today, we can add to that the Tory party. Will the Chief Secretary ditch that Tory past,…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Women’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationWill the Minister give way?15 Jan 2025HANSARD UK-China Economic and Financial DialogueUnlike the bickering in the Conservative party, we are cutting deals in the national interest and putting Britain at the frontier—£600 million just over the weekend, and an AI…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceHe lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceMay I convey to the Minister my disappointment that his ChatGPT prompt yielded the Sugababes and “Football Manager” but not the enduring institution of “Gavin and Stacey” from the…18 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperI thank my right hon. Friend for her response, not least given the dire inheritance from the previous Government: the worst performance of an employment rate in the G7 since the…16 Dec 2024