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HANSARD Automatic Enrolment: Lower Earnings LimitIt is a pleasure to take part in this debate with you in the Chair, Sir Gary. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Mhairi Black) on…12 Mar 2019HANSARD Automatic Enrolment: Lower Earnings LimitWe accept and are grateful for the Government’s continued commitment to scrapping the lower earnings limit and reducing the age limit. We welcome that commitment today. It is not…12 Mar 2019HANSARD Automatic Enrolment: Lower Earnings LimitWe are going for consensus in this debate, Minister, so we should continue on that ground. The SNP supports and has always supported auto-enrolment but, as my hon. Friend the…12 Mar 2019HANSARD Exiting the European UnionEverything has changed but nothing has changed. Will the Minister explain why, of all the information published this evening, the only unilateral declaration was the UK’s opinion…11 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI understand that the hon. Gentleman is about to turn to some of the questions he would like the Secretary of State to answer, but does he agree that one of them should be about…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI thank the Minister for giving way. I appreciate some of the uprating, but we have to note, as key stakeholders in this sector have, that the biggest driver of child poverty that…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI am glad that the Chair of the Select Committee has raised the benefits freeze. Our research through the Library shows that this final year of the benefits freeze is due to raise…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationIt is a pleasure to follow the impassioned, articulate and erudite speech by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and to speak from the Front Bench for…26 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe Prime Minister has so far been rather slippery and spun her way out of answering a direct question that has been put by many Members across this House, so it begs to be asked…26 Feb 2019HANSARDEmployment and Support Allowance: UnderpaymentsSome 20,000 people have died since failing their work capability assessment in one way or another. Regardless of the circumstances of their deaths—we have to remember that six…25 Feb 2019HANSARDWork and PensionsWe know from a series of academic and stakeholder reports that the rise in food insecurity can, at least in part, be put down not just to the implementation but to the value of…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUrose—14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?14 Feb 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThis Government must surely seek a new mandate for their proposed massive cuts to low-income pensioner households, given that they were approved seven years, two Governments and…14 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Healthcare Environmental, based in Shotts, collapsed before Christmas, leaving 150 of my constituents and 450 across the UK redundant. We have managed to sort out redundancy…12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUrose—12 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUThank you, Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister asked us to hold our nerve and essentially to trust her, but does she not have a nerve in asking us to support her plan when it has been…12 Feb 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Food InsecurityWe know from a series of academic and stakeholder reports that the rise in food insecurity can, at least in part, be put down not just to the implementation but to the value of…11 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government are about to enact an element of policy passed seven years, two Parliaments and two Governments ago without a debate or a vote. Mixed-age pensioner couples are set…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSocial SecurityI am grateful for the opportunity to speak briefly in this debate. I concur with the hon. Members for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey) and for East Renfrewshire (Paul…04 Feb 2019