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HANSARD Prepayment MetersSeeing as the Minister is all about encouraging and asking companies to do things rather than enforcing any action, perhaps he might encourage or ask the energy companies to…23 Jan 2023HANSARDSocial Security Payments: Cost of LivingFood prices rose by 16.8% in the year to December, according to the Office for National Statistics, and that disproportionately affects households with children, particularly…23 Jan 2023HANSARDSocial Security Payments: Cost of Living10. What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of social security payments in the context of increases in the cost of living.23 Jan 2023HANSARDJagtar Singh JohalI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate and on all the work that he has done on behalf of his constituent, and, indeed, his constituents. Plenty of constituents in…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseMay we have a debate on the importance of civil society links for promoting understanding and awareness of international development issues? The Scotland Malawi Partnership has…19 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe Minister would not take an intervention, but I think the right hon. Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg) is going to be pretty disappointed. I suspect it will,…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIs that not precisely the point: any Department, at any time, that identifies areas of retained EU law that it thinks need to be reformed can bring forward primary…18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Billrose —18 Jan 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is interesting to hear some Members go on about how retained EU law has a special status in UK law. It is only special because the UK says it is; for everyone else, it is just…18 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe calls that we have already heard to take action to support people on prepayment meters are echoed by more than 40 Members of both Houses on the all-party parliamentary group…17 Jan 2023HANSARDScotland Act 1998: Section 35 PowerThe Secretary of State for vetoing Scotland will be disappointed when he eventually gets to the House of Lords, because, even for all its faults, the House of Lords does not have…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsI thank my hon. Friend for giving way; I do not want to keep him. He is absolutely right. That Bill is of major constitutional importance and normally we would expect such a Bill…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsWill the Minister give way?12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. He was in a debate with me the other day about the House of Lords. When we started to describe the House of Lords and how it…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsWill my hon. Friend give way?12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsWill the Minister give way?12 Jan 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI echo the calls for a Minister to come to the House and outline more steps that can be taken to help our constituents to keep warm this winter. Over Christmas, through the Warm…12 Jan 2023HANSARDIranIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Clwyd West (Mr Jones) and everyone who has already spoken so powerfully today. I congratulate the hon. Member for Harrow East…12 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesI thank the hon. Lady for giving way and congratulate her on securing the debate. I have heard many similar testimonies from constituents, particularly over the festive period,…11 Jan 2023HANSARD House of Lords ReformThat is the point; the pattern continues. We keep talking about but never actually implementing any meaningful or wholesale reform. The report does at least recognise that we…10 Jan 2023