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HANSARD Health InequalitiesThe Minister is right that this is a very complicated issue and that health inequalities have existed for a considerable amount of time. On the research she refers to, will she…04 Mar 2020HANSARD Health InequalitiesWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2020HANSARD Social CareI agree entirely about the need for cross-party consensus on this issue, but there can be no consensus until there is an acknowledgement of what has caused the care crisis—the…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareIt is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green). I found myself agreeing with many of the priorities that he set out; that gives us some hope…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareI welcome the Minister to her post, and I welcome what she says about carers. Would it not be wonderful if, rather than just giving them her warm words, support and admiration,…25 Feb 2020HANSARDRough SleepingIn Chesterfield, we have one-bedroom flats available, yet we also have people sleeping rough on the streets. The reason is that the benefits they receive do not cover the rent…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Beer and Pub TaxationI congratulate the hon. Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood) on securing the debate. There will be a huge level of excitement and enthusiasm across the publicans’ world when they…05 Feb 2020HANSARD Beer and Pub TaxationI congratulate the hon. Member on securing this incredibly important debate. Alongside what he said about the economic and social value of pubs, does he agree that the pub is also…05 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. The recently leaked Network Rail paper, which showed that the alternative to HS2 was 29 years of weekend closures and interminable delays, should be all that we need to know…30 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth and Social CareI do not know whether the Minister is aware, but we have a winter every year. We have had one for the past 71 years, and yet these are the worst A&E waiting times in history, and…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Transport Secretary has just today put out a written statement about the nationalisation of Northern Rail. This is a matter of huge…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessI thank my right hon. Friend for bringing this incredibly important debate to the House and for referring to the number of people who died while homeless. David Fuller died…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessWill the Secretary of State give way?29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I appreciate the tone of his rhetoric, but it bears no relation to the performance of the Government’s policies over the…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessMy hon. Friend is right to speak of the sense of shame that I think we all feel when we see people sleeping outside Westminster tube station, but they are not just sleeping there.…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessI am glad that my right hon. and hon. Friends tabled this motion, because I believe that homelessness is one of the most significant issues facing our country. I do not doubt the…29 Jan 2020HANSARD HomelessnessWill the Minister give way?29 Jan 2020HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting Times14. What recent assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in A&E waiting times.28 Jan 2020HANSARDAccident and Emergency Waiting TimesI do not know whether the Minister is aware, but we have a winter every year. We have had one for the past 71 years, and yet these are the worst A&E waiting times in history, and…28 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State’s answer to my earlier question about homeless people’s universal credit payments going to their landlords missed the point completely. Many people who are…27 Jan 2020