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HANSARDInflation: Student Maintenance Loan Increases8. Whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential merits of increasing student maintenance loans in line with actual rather than…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Free Bus Travel: Care LeaversI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I will say a bit more about the work situation later. We have a problem with vacancies that cannot be filled, and the…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Free Bus Travel: Care LeaversI beg to move, That this House has considered free bus travel for care leavers. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I am pleased to have the…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Free Bus Travel: Care LeaversThat would be an extremely valuable use of the idea. As I said, it is not the only reason for considering this proposal, but it is a crucial reason. Will the Minister commit to…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Autumn StatementAs we have seen, the Tory party might learn more from its mistakes if it wasn’t so busy denying them, and I congratulate the Chancellor on a wonderful, “not me, guv” performance.…17 Nov 2022HANSARDSocial Housing StandardsI do not doubt the Secretary of State’s sincerity, but I suspect from my own caseload that this problem is far more widespread than has hitherto been acknowledged. What guarantee…16 Nov 2022HANSARD IranWhat measures are the Government taking to curb the activities of agents of the regime attempting to operate in this country and elsewhere in Europe? In particular, what actions…16 Nov 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresWhen the Home Secretary said that Indian migrants represented the largest number of visa overstayers in this country, was that based on a Home Office briefing? Would she consider…31 Oct 2022HANSARD Exempt AccommodationI acknowledge the way that the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes) engaged with the issue when he was a Minister. I congratulate the Chair of the Select Committee on the…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Crisis in IranI congratulate the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) on securing the urgent question. I am delighted to join him in that select group whose members have obviously upset…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI, too, congratulate the right hon. Member for Maidenhead on having the courage and determination to establish this inquiry, at a time when, I recall, it was not popular…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Public Order BillI apologise for not having been here earlier, Madam Deputy Speaker; I was dealing with other parliamentary business. I have a clinic on Station Road in my constituency where,…18 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateDoes the Chancellor’s compassionate conservatism extend to raising the minimum income component of pension credit, or is he prepared to let the poorest pensioners in the land be…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic SituationFurther to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Halton (Derek Twigg), will the Minister give us a few details of the Government’s back-up plan to protect people’s…12 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Minister admit that, if the Government do not increase the guarantee credit component of pension credit in line with inflation this year, they are effectively cutting the…11 Oct 2022HANSARD Mahsa AminiI welcome the Government’s sanctions, but the Minister should take a leaf out of the book of the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith).…11 Oct 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. On the question of the cap, the Prime Minister indicated that one of her reviews will be of regulation. Does the right hon. Gentleman…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy Costsrose—08 Sept 2022HANSARD Jagtar Singh JohalThe Minister has referred to two meetings: one where the former Foreign Secretary raised the case and one where the former Prime Minister raised it with Mr Modi. Presumably, that…07 Sept 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. [R]06 Sept 2022