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HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Leader of the House will probably be as aware as anybody of the genocidal attacks on Christians, which are happening on a weekly or daily basis in Nigeria. I represent quite a…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Business of the HouseFurther to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins), could the Leader of the House give some indication as to when the Fire Safety Bill will be…04 Feb 2021HANSARDHolocaust Memorial Day 2021I would like to pay tribute to all the Members who secured this debate. We really should have an annual debate to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The indications are, and the figures…28 Jan 2021HANSARD Xinjiang: Forced LabourAs others have said repeatedly, this is genocide—very clearly genocide—and the parallels with the 1930s are equally clear. The Foreign Secretary knows that at least as well as…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Provisional Local Government Finance SettlementWould the Secretary of State look again at suspending, even if temporarily, the no recourse to public funds rule? He mentioned a number of groups who have been removed from that…17 Dec 2020HANSARDScheduled Mass Deportation: JamaicaWhat worries me about the case of my constituent, who is due to be deported, is that I cannot even name him today, because there are genuine and credible grounds for him to…30 Nov 2020HANSARD Spending Review 2020 and OBR ForecastToday the Chancellor has announced a pay freeze for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers who do not deserve it. Firefighters, care assistants and teaching assistants…25 Nov 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe Leader of the House, as well as every other Member of this House, will be acutely aware of the 3 million excluded people who have fallen between all the Government covid…12 Nov 2020HANSARDBlack History MonthI will be brief, because I have not got much choice. Following that last speech, I would just point out that the early MPs whom the hon. Member for Wakefield (Imran Ahmad Khan)…20 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms), my constituency neighbour, on securing the debate. I will be brief, because I have no choice. I have…08 Oct 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseHas the Leader of the House seen early-day motion 884, in my name and the names of others? [ That this House recognises the constructive approach taken by GMB Union and Unison in…01 Oct 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateDespite what the Secretary of State has said today, we are still hearing myriad stories of people—our constituents—being unable to get tested. The worst story I have heard is from…21 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19Could the Secretary of State now answer a question that he has been asked repeatedly this afternoon about the creation of the National Institute for Health Protection? What…01 Sept 2020HANSARDSale of Arms: War in YemenThe Government lost the Appeal Court case, then admitted that they had contravened the instructions given by the Appeal Court, then abandoned their own appeal to the Supreme…13 Jul 2020HANSARDGlobal Human Rights Sanctions RegimeI agree with everything the Foreign Secretary has said today—he will not be surprised to hear that—but in the interests of transparency, will he look at the possibility of…06 Jul 2020HANSARDFree School Meals: Summer HolidaysI will be brief, Mr Deputy Speaker, because I have no choice. I pay tribute to the maiden speech by the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford). For a moment, I thought…16 Jun 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMay we have a debate, or at least a statement, specifically on incorporating black history into the national curriculum? I say that quite aside from recent events; the period when…11 Jun 2020HANSARD Public OrderThe violence at the weekend was simply wrong—that is straightforward —but would the Home Secretary agree that we should look at what President Trump is doing in America and do the…08 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseFurther to the previous question, is the Secretary of State saying that the publication of the report by Public Health England on the wildly disproportionate level of deaths among…02 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19Many of us have thousands of constituents who are either on zero-hours contracts or are self-employed. I have raised this question before, but unless the Government can offer…16 Mar 2020