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HANSARDFinancial Reward for Government Workers and Key WorkersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship today, Mr Stringer. I start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for securing this important debate.…14 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NAO Report on Government ProcurementThank you, Ms Eagle. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden) on securing this important…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19I am delighted to start my contribution to this debate by paying tribute to the key workers on the frontline of this pandemic. Their commitment to public service and their…18 Nov 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsOur home care workers have gone above and beyond during the pandemic. Tragically, they are some of the lowest paid workers in the entire labour market. Does the Secretary of State…17 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I join in the congratulations to you, Mr Speaker, on your first anniversary? Private care homes such as St Martin’s in my constituency of Liverpool, Wavertree, are closing…04 Nov 2020HANSARD External Private Contractors: Government Use and EmploymentSadly, I concur with the hon. Gentleman’s observations. Covid-19 has brought into sharp focus the inequality between the sick pay provisions of civil servants and those of…21 Oct 2020HANSARD External Private Contractors: Government Use and EmploymentI beg to move, That this House has considered Government use of external private contractors and effect on employment. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr…21 Oct 2020HANSARD External Private Contractors: Government Use and EmploymentI thank you, Mr Pritchard, for chairing this important debate today, and I thank all hon. Members who have spoken and the Minister for her considered approach. The Minister said…21 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateToday the Government have placed Merseyside into tier 3 lockdown. For 10 long years, my city has been under the boot of Tory austerity, and now the Prime Minister intends to shut…12 Oct 2020HANSARDMerseyside: Sustainable Energy ProductionWhat steps he is taking to support (a) the Mersey tidal project and (b) other new jobs and environmentally sustainable energy production on Merseyside.29 Sept 2020HANSARDMerseyside: Sustainable Energy ProductionHighly skilled, green manufacturing jobs should power our economic recovery beyond the pandemic and it is calculated that the Mersey tidal scheme could have the potential to…29 Sept 2020HANSARDState Pension Errors: Retired WomenWhat steps her Department is taking to (a) investigate and (b) rectify errors made in the payment of the state pension to retired women.14 Sept 2020HANSARDState Pension Errors: Retired WomenI join my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) in paying tribute to the WASPI women. Estimates suggest that as many as 130,000 women could have…14 Sept 2020HANSARD Awarding of Qualifications: Role of MinistersThe publication of A-level results confirmed that nearly 40% of A-level grades in England were downgraded on the basis of an algorithm that was based on the prior performance of…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the deep and systematic inadequacies of the current social care system and revealed the true extent of the impact that underfunding,…08 Jul 2020HANSARD Finance BillI remember the 1980s: 3 million people on the dole and my city of Liverpool left to managed decline. We did not cope then, but people got by. There were the remnants of the…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support for VeteransHalf of respondents to a recent Army Families Federation survey said that they had received no information at all about the Ministry of Defence’s future accommodation model. What…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Support for VeteransWhat support his Department is providing for veterans during the covid-19 outbreak.12 May 2020HANSARDBudget 2020Northern Ireland has the highest prevalence of mental illness in the UK. The Government pledged money to Northern Ireland as part of the confidence and supply arrangement to…18 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget 20201. What assessment he has made of the effect of Budget 2020 on the Northern Ireland economy.18 Mar 2020