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HANSARDUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment BillMillions of disabled people will listen, view or read about this debate and its consequences, and feel fear. For some Members of the House, this is just an afternoon’s political…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThis may be the most fateful Bill that we discuss this Parliament. It is literally a matter of life and death. I have heard talk today of the injustices of the current situation.…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThere has been a lot of talk about there being no evidence of coercion, but within the family, the most powerful coercion is silence: it is the failure to answer when a question…20 Jun 2025HANSARDChurch Assets: Historical Link to Slavery10. Whether the commissioners have made an estimate of the proportion of the Church’s assets that may have a link to historical involvement with slavery.22 May 2025HANSARDChurch Assets: Historical Link to SlaveryMy hon. Friend will be aware that there is a lot of interest in the relationship between the Church and the slave trade. Is she able to say over what period the Church made…22 May 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDoes my hon. Friend agree that far too many people do not have confidence in the face of authority, and that if a doctor raises assisted suicide with them—no matter how tactfully…16 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. The Government insist that the rising disability benefits bill means that something must be done, but in a recent report, the New Economics…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleWe undoubtedly need more information before we can meaningfully vote on these proposals. Some of us are old enough to remember Mrs Thatcher and her poll tax, which was her…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleIt is indeed a political choice. I would prefer my Government to introduce a wealth tax or some taxation system that asks the very wealthy to pay a little more than take money…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleIt is indeed a cruel and brutal system that needs reform. It does not need cuts. Elements of the Labour party seem to want to claim that the loss of the by-election in Runcorn and…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleThere is no question but that my hon. Friend is correct. These cuts will put even more pressure on local authorities, which are already in difficulties. There is all this talk…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI entirely agree, and I would add that if Ministers think that the recent local election results were bad, they should wait until next year’s council elections in Scotland, Wales,…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleFar from enabling the Government to put people into work, removing PIP will actually stop people working, because they depend on PIP for the extra cost of going to work. Perhaps…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeoplePIP is certainly not an income, and I imagine that the Minister will be in contact with Leicester city council to try to understand what it thinks it is doing. The new points…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI beg to move, That this House has considered Personal Independence Payment and disabled people. I am proud to have secured this debate today, and to be able to stand up for the…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleThe Minister has again repeated the line that the number of people claiming PIP has shot up and that there must be something dubious about that. I ask him to look at the New…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI entirely agree. Furthermore, it seems to me that Ministers have not really looked into the costs that PIP is covering, otherwise they would not be talking about slashing it in…07 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleI entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. We need an equality impact assessment now, and I cannot understand why the Government are introducing these random welfare benefit cuts…07 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillNobody is trying to stop judges sentencing in individual cases. All the Sentencing Council was seeking to do was ensure that judges and magistrates had the maximum amount of…30 Apr 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillThe Sentencing Council has at no point suggested treating defendants differently according to their ethnicity or religion. All it has tried to do is ensure that judges and…30 Apr 2025