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HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee Report on RussiaCongratulations on your election, Mr Speaker. I have noted that two or three times the Minister has said that there has been no successful penetration into the British electoral…05 Nov 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI beg to move, That this House has considered bus passes for 1950s women. Thank you very much for chairing the debate, Sir Christopher. You and I have known each other a long…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. As I understand it, a number of WASPI women or women born in the early 1950s have submitted complaints and given evidence to the…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI fully agree. The factors that I have set out mean that many of these women are already at a financial disadvantage. The Conservatives’ changes to the state pension age only add…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenIt is a problem, but an additional point is that central Government could fund the bus passes and not leave that to local authorities. We all know that at the moment local…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI agree with my hon. Friend on those credits, but I think that what he refers to can only be an interim measure. We have to look at the longer term and putting the injustice…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI do not disagree with my hon. Friend.30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI agree wholeheartedly. For women who are isolated, live on their own and do not have children, the bus pass is a means of communicating with the outside world. Without it, they…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI agree. We could go a step further. I do not know if the Minister has any input on the Conservative manifesto, but if he has, my hon. Friend has just given him a good idea to put…30 Oct 2019HANSARD Bus Passes: 1950s-born WomenI would need to check it out, but I understand that there may be an appeal on that ruling, so I do not think that the matter is finished.30 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, can I follow on from my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), our Front-Bench spokes- person, and say that…29 Oct 2019HANSARD Leaving the EU: Workers’ RightsThank you, Mr Speaker. We now have a situation, under this Government, where we actually have the working poor. We all want to know what the Government’s intentions are regarding…29 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Following on from previous speakers on the taxi issue, we have been raising it now for well over 12 months, probably nearer two years. We have had Adjournment debates and…24 Oct 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI know that the Leader of the House is quite well up on history. Will he talk to the Secretary of State for Defence about the names of the five new frigates? Since 1658, there has…24 Oct 2019HANSARDEngagementsQ8. When is the Prime Minister going to sort out the difference between the BBC and the Government in relation to his party’s manifesto commitment at the last general election to…23 Oct 2019HANSARD British Children: SyriaChildren’s services in this country are overstretched at the moment. Will the Minister ensure that adequate resources are made available to deal with this situation? Is he waiting…22 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillLike my right hon. Friend, we in Coventry have many issues with young people and knife crime, and some instances of more serious crimes. Does he agree that it is totally illogical…22 Oct 2019HANSARDDefence Industry17. What steps he is taking to support the UK defence industry.21 Oct 2019HANSARDDefence IndustryCan the Secretary of State tell us the future value of contracts to British companies such as GKN and Rolls-Royce and the future cost of those contracts?21 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActsI was one of those who worked in industry in Coventry during the period of the Thatcher Government when, as my right hon. and learned Friend, like his father, will know, every…19 Oct 2019