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HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageWill the Minister advise Members as to whether local authorities will be given full information about the number of universal credit claimants? As he rightly points out, many of…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageMy right hon. Friend mentioned profiteering a short while ago. There are very unscrupulous retailers and wholesalers. While some of them are acting very responsibly, the…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageToday, we have heard the sad and shocking news of the death of a 21-year-old lady in Buckinghamshire who had no underlying health conditions. Does my hon. Friend agree that there…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageI thank the Minister for allowing me to intervene. He will have heard about today’s shocking and saddening terrorist attack on a Sikh gurdwara in Afghanistan. I am sure he will…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageDoes my right hon. Friend not agree that many of the individuals on universal credit and jobseeker’s allowance are having to go to food banks, and at the very time that we need…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageI thank my hon. Friend for allowing me, too, to place on record that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition is a principled, down to earth, decent individual who is…25 Mar 2020HANSARDStatutory Sick Pay and Protection for WorkersIn order to claim statutory sick pay, workers need to prove that they are earning a minimum of £118 per week. So does my hon. Friend agree that rather than just regurgitating…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Educational SettingsAs my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) pointed out, millions of children in our country live in poverty, which is why I particularly welcome the…18 Mar 2020HANSARDRecruitment and RetentionThe proportion of all personnel reporting satisfaction with service life in general was 60% in 2010, but that has fallen to a mere 46% in 2019. Will the Minister set out what…16 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsDoes the right hon. Gentleman share my concerns that the Chancellor is not doing enough to tackle the problem of the quality of social care, given that he barely mentioned it in…11 Mar 2020HANSARD Recent Violence in IndiaIncited mob violence in Delhi on the basis of someone’s faith brings back painful personal memories, as a religious minority, of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs while I was studying in…03 Mar 2020HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)Due to the huge cuts in policing budgets and youth services, knife crime is now at epidemic proportions. We have had another fatality in Slough in recent weeks. The Minister has…24 Feb 2020HANSARDApprenticeships: SMEsI beg to move, That this House has considered apprenticeships in small and medium-sized enterprises. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. Apprenticeships…13 Feb 2020HANSARDApprenticeships: SMEsIt has been a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, and to engage in this important debate. I am particularly thankful to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham,…13 Feb 2020HANSARD Leaseholders and CladdingI congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this immensely important debate. Does he agree that, although the Government’s recent announcement of the aluminium composite…12 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesThe right hon. Lady is making some excellent points on behalf of her constituents. The railway links benefit not only Maidenhead but my Slough constituents. The western rail link…05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesOn increasing choice, and further to my earlier intervention, I hope the Minister will give us some good news about the western rail link to Heathrow.05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch Linesrose—05 Feb 2020HANSARD Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' AccessDoes the Minister agree that, unlike what happened in the US, it was brilliant to see our journalists showing solidarity with those journalists who were barred from the briefing…04 Feb 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeDoes my right hon. Friend agree that violent crime, particularly knife crime, is now at a record high—in my constituency we have recently had two fatalities—and that this is a…29 Jan 2020