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HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesWill the Minister set out what the English requirements and the earning requirements will be for someone with a learning difference? Clearly, those requirements will be…25 Nov 2025HANSARDTwo-child benefit capI rise to present a petition on the two-child benefit cap. Tomorrow we all trust will be a turning point for children living in poverty, as the third child and subsequent children…25 Nov 2025HANSARD COP30Leadership at home, leadership globally, and now we need leadership on the fossil fuels road map. I am sure that my right hon. Friend will play a pivotal role in setting the terms…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Edward. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) for securing today’s debate. In a dangerous and…25 Nov 2025HANSARDG20 and UkraineIt is feared that the brutality in El Fasher will only intensify and spread to Tawila and beyond if international action is not convened and focused on the resolutions that are…25 Nov 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian ObligationsOf course. Journalists are the eyes of the world, and they open all our eyes to the suffering and the scale of what is happening. We need to ensure their safety and security, as…24 Nov 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian ObligationsIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Ms McVey. I thank all the petitioners for their efforts, as well as my constituents who, as the hon. Member for Argyll,…24 Nov 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian ObligationsI thank my hon. Friend. It is an obscenity that mothers cannot feed their infants and have only filthy, disease-ridden water to give to their children. Of course we have to use…24 Nov 2025HANSARDMyalgic EncephalomyelitisI am really grateful to the Minister. We know that, at the heart of this, we need to ensure that all clinicians have a basis of training, and that is certainly missing at the…19 Nov 2025HANSARDUNESCO: 80th AnniversaryIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) on securing the debate. The power of culture to…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Gaza and SudanI thank the Foreign Secretary for the focus she is putting on Sudan. We know from the horrific bloodshed in El Fasher that the RSF has got its sights, as we have heard, on Tawila…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Warm Homes PlanI am really grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this issue, because the two things are intrinsically linked. It is absolutely vital that we have a strategic plan that brings…18 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI urge caution. We are in this predicament because the very people who championed Brexit failed to warn of the consequences of leaving the Dublin agreement. Since then, the EU has…17 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWhen the last Government allowed the sale of Royal Mail to billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s company, they maintained a golden share, which I now ask Government to use. Services are…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityI want to draw another two bodies to the Minister’s attention. Integrated care boards are completely unaccountable as they make clinical decisions about our constituents. They…12 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityCould the Minister quickly say how we can participate in the review the Government are undertaking?12 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Bodies: Governance and AccountabilityI take a real interest in these matters, and my right hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. I believe it is ultimately about unaccountable power, and we need to find ways to…12 Nov 2025HANSARDConflict in SudanThe Independent Commission for Aid Impact, in its evidence to the International Development Committee, made some insightful observations about the focus of the Government as the…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stourbridge (Cat Eccles) on her outstanding speech, and other colleagues too. I…05 Nov 2025HANSARDOfficial Development Assistance ReductionsIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Desmond. I congratulate the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) on securing the debate. I refer hon. Members to my…04 Nov 2025