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HANSARD Universal Credit: Effect of Child Element on Separated ParentsI seek clarity on that point. It is the understanding of Chesterfield Borough Council that discretionary housing payments are a transitional payment for local authorities to work…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Further Education FundingThe Minister has previously spoken about the five colleges that have had direct financial support, and 40 colleges she has identified that might need that support. Can she update…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Further Education FundingIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough (Gill Furniss) for securing this…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Further Education FundingWe are here for a debate about funding for further education, which my hon. Friend is coming to, and many of us are concerned about the overall amount of funding. However,…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Universal Credit: Effect of Child Element on Separated ParentsI remind the Minister of the question I asked and invite him to respond. Is the gender of each party a deciding factor in who ends up getting the original payment? Certainly, the…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Universal Credit: Effect of Child Element on Separated ParentsI beg to move, That this House has considered the effect of child element of universal credit on separated parents. It is a tremendous pleasure to serve under your…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportHe’s not the Chancellor.03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportMany small business owners have been forced to raid their personal savings to keep their businesses afloat over the past eight months, but that is not a bottomless pit. Many small…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe all recognise that the Prime Minister has got a difficult job, but by God he is doing it badly. He said a few moments ago that he is having to balance lives and livelihoods,…02 Nov 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and thank her for the case that she is making. Is she interested, as I am, that not a single one of the interventions that she has…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportThe Minister suggested a moment ago that the Mayor of Manchester had not been constructive; he praised how constructive the Mayors who had come to an agreement with him were. The…21 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportIt is a huge misfortune that, at the moment the entire world is grappling with this pandemic, the United Kingdom should be stuck with this Government—probably the most incompetent…21 Oct 2020HANSARD Colleges and Skills: Covid-19I thank the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing the debate. He is a powerful advocate for our colleges as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Health Secretary’s attempt to divide and rule the Mayor and the Members of Parliament in Manchester is absolutely transparent. It is shameful that some of those Conservative…20 Oct 2020HANSARD Colleges and Skills: Covid-19Will the Minister confirm whether the “Get Help to Retrain” scheme has been scrapped?20 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI spent an early part of my career in the sales industry, selling in the IT sector. I just wish that at some point I had come across a customer with as much money as this…14 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageThe hon. Member is absolutely right about the appalling health and economic consequences of this. Do he and his party support the advice from SAGE for a two-week circuit breaker…14 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageThere seems to be a basic dishonesty at the heart of these tier 2 plans. There is no support for pubs. They are being told that they are allowed to stay open, but the measures…14 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageThe Chancellor’s response would have more credibility if he was not stood there following month after month of failure by a Government whose testing and tracing regime—whose…14 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageWill my hon. Friend give way?14 Oct 2020