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HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI would be very happy to.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyWith all respect to the Minister, I asked how he would suggest that one of his constituents with a house worth £186,000, and no other savings, will pay £86,000 for their care…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyThe Minister has had a chance and he did not manage it. I will take an intervention from my hon. Friend.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyMy hon. Friend makes the point very well. People will still have to sell their homes to pay for care under these plans. There were three important points—08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI have already taken an intervention from the Minister, and he did not answer the question. [ Interruption. ] Okay, I will take the intervention on the basis that he answers the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyThe Minister is wasting the House’s time, because he is not answering the question. There were three important points in the Minister’s opening speech. The first was that it is…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will give way to the hon. Lady. I will be interested to hear what she is going to say to her constituents at her surgery.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyThe truth is that the Tories are all tax and no strategy. When it comes to the NHS and social care, last year the public clapped them; this year the Tories tax them. There are far…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyMy hon. Friend is exactly right. The Conservatives walked out of cross-party talks in 2010, and despite offers from my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall),…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyThat is exactly the question that all our constituents ask, but as the Minister has failed to say today when the backlog will be cleared, we have to wonder whether this plan adds…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI am not sure what the constituents of South Ribble will make of that, but I know what they will think after seeing less money in their pay cheques time after time because of…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will give way to the Chair of the Select Committee.08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will give way just twice more: to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Alex Sobel) and then to the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott).08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI think many councils and the people who work for them and provide social care at a local level will be incredibly worried about what they are hearing from this Government, which…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyI will give way again in a moment, but I have taken a lot of interventions—a lot more than the Minister. In contrast, who has been shielded by the Chancellor? Which types of…08 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care LevyMy hon. Friend speaks well of what our constituents in Leeds North West and Leeds West will be facing with that double whammy of universal credit and the national insurance…08 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Prime Minister’s and the Chancellor’s plans to increase national insurance will hit workers and businesses hard at the worst possible time. The British Chambers of Commerce…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsYou cannot have it both ways. Cutting national insurance either benefits jobs or it does not. The Chancellor told voters at the election: “Our plans are to cut taxes for the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and he speaks powerfully of what he has seen. What has guided former Prime Ministers and Ministers is a moral compass, and I ask…13 Jul 2021HANSARDInternational Aid: Treasury UpdateThe Government say that global Britain is at the heart of how we engage with the world, but this move to unilaterally cut overseas aid is a direct attack on what it means to be…13 Jul 2021