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HANSARDBarriers to Work: Supported Housing and Exempt Accommodation24. What assessment she has made of the barriers to work for tenants who are in (a) supported housing and (b) receipt of housing benefit at exempt accommodation rates.21 Mar 2022HANSARDMental Health Provision (Children and Young People) BillThe hon. Member is making a powerful speech. I am glad that she is talking about children in crisis, because too often, we talk about the softer side of things, including the need…18 Mar 2022HANSARDExecutions in Saudi ArabiaThis is all incredibly depressing. I remember trying to ask questions in 2012, when I was shadow Minister for international human rights, about David Cameron’s visit to Saudi…14 Mar 2022HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]The Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish), is quite right that we have made heavy work of getting…14 Mar 2022HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, particularly as we have a Government who cannot be trusted to keep their promises, as we have seen recently on imports of hunting trophies,…14 Mar 2022HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]I was actually just coming to that point. I was going to say that if the hon. Member for Buckingham thinks that nobody who has aligned themselves to a particular cause can be…14 Mar 2022HANSARD Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]The hon. Member is making an excellent speech. I entirely agree with him on the iniquities of fur and foie gras. Is it not that we deem it cruel enough to have banned its…14 Mar 2022HANSARDLivestock FarmersMost livestock farmers want to follow the best animal welfare standards, and consumers need to have confidence in that. I do not know whether the Minister saw the recent…10 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Oil Import BanThe Minister has been asked twice now specifically about fracking and has completely avoided answering the question. Would he like to have another go?09 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateI welcome the Defence Secretary’s very strong condemnation of, as he put it, the “indiscriminate and murderous” attacks on civilian areas. What will the UK Government’s position…09 Mar 2022HANSARDCOP26 Presidency: PrioritiesI thank the President for attending the meeting on small island developing states recently; they really appreciated that. If global warming is kept at 2°, we will lose 99% of our…02 Mar 2022HANSARDCorporate Transparency and Economic CrimeThe Minister said in his statement that the new register will require anonymous foreign owners to reveal their real identity, to ensure that criminals cannot hold property behind…28 Feb 2022HANSARDSanctionsFollowing on from that, we know how ruthless Putin can be when it comes to internal opposition. Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Navalny is in…28 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic ProcurementThe Government spend £2 billion every year on food for schools, hospitals, prisons and so on. When they eventually respond to the national food strategy, will they accept its…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Procurement8. What steps he is taking to facilitate open and transparent public procurement.24 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationThe fact that this debate is about non-commissioned exempt accommodation goes to the heart of it, because in an ideal situation Bristol would be able to commission all the…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEngagements5. How does the Prime Minister think it looks, when we are in a cost of living crisis, with our constituents struggling to put food on the table or coats on their kids’ backs, and…23 Feb 2022HANSARD Non-commissioned Exempt AccommodationWith one particular problematic property in Bristol, we found we could get only so far with the Charity Commission, because we had questions about the management structure; we…23 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]I beg to move amendment 5, in clause 2, page 1, line 13, leave out “adverse”. This amendment would change the prescriptive wording of the question clause 2 requires the Animal…10 Feb 2022HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]That is an illogical argument. If we were to follow that through, there would be no point having amended the Bill to incorporate the recommendations of the report. It would have…10 Feb 2022