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HANSARD Easter AdjournmentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. May I start by commending the hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce) for her work in championing the rights of…30 Mar 2023HANSARDChristianity in SocietyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell, and thank you for getting me in at the last moment. I also thank the hon. Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) for…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) Billrose —29 Mar 2023HANSARD Finance (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does he agree that the pressures that are, as he rightly said, felt by many families are also felt by our hard-working small…29 Mar 2023HANSARDPensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No.2) BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Christopher. I will address my remarks purely to the amendments. I thank the hon. Member for Glasgow East for his work on the…15 Mar 2023HANSARDPensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No.2) BillOnce again, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I commend the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North for his work on this Bill, and, indeed, other…15 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. It is good to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. Thousands of retired Gurkha soldiers who left the Army before 1997 live in considerable poverty, many of them in my…13 Mar 2023HANSARD Draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration, Investment, Charges and Governance) and Pensions Dashboards (Amendment) Regulations 2023I think the right hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth makes an excellent point in asking the Minister about the number of revisions of the programme. Has the Minister discussed…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration, Investment, Charges and Governance) and Pensions Dashboards (Amendment) Regulations 2023I appreciate the Minister’s candour. It is indeed vital that we get this right. It is an important piece of pensions infrastructure for the future and hugely important to both…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration, Investment, Charges and Governance) and Pensions Dashboards (Amendment) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I welcome the Minister to her post and thank her for her recent work on auto-enrolment. The dashboard is clearly an…08 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ10. My constituent Olly Stephens was just 13 years old when he was stabbed and brutally murdered in a local park just yards from his home. The two boys who attacked him had…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Racial Discrimination in SchoolsI thank my hon. Friend for her excellent work in securing the debate and campaigning on this important issue. Does she agree that the Government can learn from some of the…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation: Sanctions and TariffsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Fovargue. I thank the Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) for allowing me to speak…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation: Sanctions and Tariffsrose —08 Mar 2023HANSARD Science and Technology FrameworkI thank the Secretary of State for her statement. Small and medium-sized tech companies provide a vital engine of growth in our economy, particularly in the Thames valley and in…07 Mar 2023HANSARDPension CreditThe Government seem to be trying to pat themselves on the back after years of failure on pension credit. As we just heard, hundreds of thousands of pensioners are still missing…06 Mar 2023HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech that picks up on issues around the whole country. Does she agree that there is a particular problem for people who are disabled and…28 Feb 2023HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresThe Minister may be interested to know that the issue in my constituency was with the Nationwide building society, with many of its members unable to use the post office, which…28 Feb 2023HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresI am grateful that my hon. Friend is being so generous in giving way. Is she aware that another issue for customers of some banks or building societies is that the software does…28 Feb 2023HANSARD High Street Bank ClosuresMy hon. Friend is again making an excellent point about the importance of cash purchasing. Does she agree that this is a huge issue for certain small businesses that still trade…28 Feb 2023