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HANSARDAfghanistan Humanitarian Crisis: UK ResponseNot only does famine kill, but starvation and malnutrition will scar the bodies and brains of a generation and beyond. Every day that we delay means that recovery will be more…09 Feb 2022HANSARDChild PovertyWe know from the Department’s own recently published abstract of benefit rates statistics that the real-terms value of child benefit fell by 16% between April 2010 and April 2021.…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI join the Minister in thanking all the staff in the Department for Work and Pensions who, year in and year out, do so much to serve people on lower incomes. I can certainly speak…07 Feb 2022HANSARDIOPC Report on Metropolitan Police Officers' Conduct: Charing Cross Police StationAs one of the two Members of Parliament for Westminster, I have always greatly valued and supported the work of our local police, and I think that our good and decent police…02 Feb 2022HANSARDTechnical Qualifications: Strengthening their Value14. What estimate he has made of the number of students studying for (a) BTECs and (b) T-levels in the 2021-22 academic year.31 Jan 2022HANSARDTechnical Qualifications: Strengthening their ValueMore than a quarter of a million students are studying BTECs, but the Government are rushing ahead with a set of changes about which parents and schools and colleges are very…31 Jan 2022HANSARD Afghanistan: Humanitarian CrisisWith a large Afghan community as well, I am hearing every day stories of relatives who are murdered, who are disappeared, who are hungry and who are suffering from medical…12 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Government Support for BusinessI am acutely aware, having a constituency on the edge of the west end, of the impact that the pandemic has had not only on hospitality and tourism, but on the culture, arts and…16 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationLeading human rights lawyer and expert, and former adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Adam Wagner, said of these proposals this morning that this Government may be…14 Dec 2021HANSARDIncreased Living Costs: Benefit ClaimantsWith housing costs a major driver of poverty, the Government have decided yet again to freeze the local housing allowance, hitting millions of renters. As the Minister well knows,…13 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Further to the Minister’s reply on the question of Afghanistan, Afghan residents in my constituency and elsewhere are watching the slide of that country into starvation with…30 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. The Everyone In policy was very successful in taking rough sleepers off the streets at the beginning of the pandemic, but it was abandoned too quickly and last winter…29 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The Glasgow climate pact included a request that countries return next year with stronger targets for 2030, yet within hours the Australian Government had issued a statement…15 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsTwo and a half years ago, practitioners were promised that the criminal legal aid review would be published in summer 2020. We are still waiting. The all-party parliamentary group…09 Nov 2021HANSARDHousehold Support FundAccording to the Resolution Foundation, the combined effect of the removal of the £20 universal credit uplift and the Budget measures means that 3.6 million households on…08 Nov 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)Will the Secretary of State give way?28 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Adaptation and ResilienceThe most climate-vulnerable states need and demand more assistance from the developed world for climate transition and adaptation. This has the potential to derail COP26, so can…20 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. Is it the COP President’s view that if the world is to be set on a 1.5 °C pathway, states will need to report on an annual basis rather than waiting until 2025, the next…20 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Adaptation and Resilience8. What steps he is taking to ensure that progress is made on strengthening climate adaptation and resilience at COP26.20 Oct 2021HANSARD Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint CommitteeMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. Many of us on the Opposition Benches and across the House will have constituents who have family members in Afghanistan—for example, I…15 Sept 2021