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HANSARDHousing Market: First-time BuyersFor many first-time buyers, especially in cities, the options are mainly new-build and leasehold properties, but many of them are walking into a new nightmare of costs. Inside…19 Apr 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine: Take-up Rates in LondonI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith (Andy Slaughter) on introducing this very welcome and extremely timely debate. He has set out the arguments very…09 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccine: Take-up Rates in LondonMany apologies. I will conclude on that. I have concerns about the data and the investment in support for reaching hard-to-reach populations, and I hope the Minister will address…09 Mar 2021HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Rent ArrearsOf the 1.3 million universal credit households who are claiming housing support for their properties in the private rented sector—that is, the people who are most at risk of…08 Mar 2021HANSARD Housing and Homelessness (Local Accommodation Duty)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to place a duty on local authorities to ensure that persons for whom a homeless duty has been accepted are accommodated in…08 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Child PovertyBut the number of children in poverty has increased by 600,000 after housing costs since 2010, and that has been in substantial part due to the £9 billion that the Government have…25 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Child Maintenance ServiceThis has been a welcome, albeit brief, opportunity to consider an essential service, and I thank the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows) for securing it. We…21 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsFollowing on very closely from the previous question, does the Minister agree that one of the key ways in which we can counter some of the very virulent anti-vax and covid denial…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryIf I may continue on the theme of resources for home-based learning, we know that it is less satisfactory than children being at school but infinitely better than nothing.…30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdatePeople want to spend the Christmas holiday with their loved ones—of course they do—and the message of doing so with care is one that we all must stress, but given the very…14 Dec 2020HANSARDCounty Lines: SafeguardingWhat steps she is taking to tackle county lines drug trafficking and safeguard vulnerable children from exploitation.14 Dec 2020HANSARDCounty Lines: SafeguardingIn my constituency there is one estate where it is believed that at least 20 county lines are being run. We have had a spate of killings this year, including two teenagers, one of…14 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Social Security Co-ordination (Revocation of Retained Direct EU Legislation and Related Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020Secondly, can the Minister clarify the implications of the draft regulations for EU citizens living in the UK who are not covered with the withdrawal agreement provisions, in…07 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Social Security Co-ordination (Revocation of Retained Direct EU Legislation and Related Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020—let alone whether that deal will include social security co-ordination or whether it will replace the regulations being ended by the draft SI. It is testimony to the Government’s…07 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Social Security Co-ordination (Revocation of Retained Direct EU Legislation and Related Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Gray. As I think is reasonably obvious, the Opposition will not oppose the draft regulations. Social security…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Homelessness and Temporary AccommodationWe could have had a whole day of debate on this important and wide-ranging subject. We heard a number of superb speeches. I hope that we will return to this because a number of…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Homelessness and Temporary AccommodationI beg to move, That this House has considered homelessness and temporary accommodation. It is a pleasure to speak in this debate under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I am grateful…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Homelessness and Temporary AccommodationBefore the Minister moves off that point, will she explain exactly why, if the Government are spending more money, homelessness has risen by 14% in the last year alone?02 Dec 2020HANSARDSpending Review 2020The Secretary of State announced that the local housing allowance would again be frozen in cash terms in 2021, having only moved out of the previous freeze in March. That means,…30 Nov 2020HANSARDSpending Review 2020The fact is that the number of children in poverty in the private rented sector rose by half a million between 2010 and 2019, so whatever uplift has been put in over the past year…30 Nov 2020