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HANSARDFuture Relationship with the EU(Urgent question) : To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make a statement on the fourth round of the negotiations on the UK’s future relationship with the…09 Jun 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: UK ApproachI thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement and the Command Paper. During the election campaign, the Prime Minister told Northern Irish businesses that if they were…20 May 2020HANSARD Future Relationship with the EU: Negotiations(Urgent Question) : To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on the third round of the negotiations on the UK’s future relationship with the EU.19 May 2020HANSARD Future Relationship with the EU: NegotiationsWe left the European Union at the end of January and we now have seven months to agree new arrangements with our nearest neighbours. It was always a tight timetable, but the…19 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19I thank the Minister for that thoughtful opening speech. We all need the Government to get this right. Labour has been clear: we will always put the national interest first. We…11 May 2020HANSARDPPE Manufacture: UK BusinessesColleagues have made important points about shortages of PPE. Those who look after the sick and the vulnerable deserve our protection, and getting PPE to them is the priority of…04 May 2020HANSARDPPE Manufacture: UK BusinessesI thank the Minister for that, but it is of huge concern that he lacks clear answers to the questions that I put, especially given the ongoing fiasco of getting PPE to health and…04 May 2020HANSARD Public ServicesI thank the Minister for his good words about the constructive approach taken by the Opposition, which is very much our approach, and for an advance copy of his statement. This…28 Apr 2020HANSARDStatutory Sick Pay and Protection for WorkersThe hon. Gentleman is right. For many people, if they have a temporary reduction in their work, they can draw on their savings, but many of the people I represent—and many of his…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Educational SettingsParents may not be key workers but they will be key workers in their homes, because they are the ones who are paying the mortgage, the rent and the bills. So if parents cannot go…18 Mar 2020HANSARDStatutory Sick Pay and Protection for WorkersIt is an honour to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms), who made a powerful speech, particularly about refugees and asylum seekers. Their plight,…18 Mar 2020HANSARDStatutory Sick Pay and Protection for WorkersI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for addressing the points that hon. Members have made. It is true that people will not have to take that long off to self-isolate for…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Economic UpdateFor those who are currently off work on statutory sick pay or are self-isolating for public health reasons, who are laid off because there is no work or who are self-employed or…17 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19We are now rightly asking people, including the self-employed, to self-isolate for seven or 14 days if they show symptoms of coronavirus. The self-employed do not qualify for…16 Mar 2020HANSARD Budget ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stockton South (Matt Vickers). Like him, I want to see a levelling up of investment in the north of England to benefit places such…11 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirusTo follow up on the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (John Cryer), there are 4.7 million self-employed people, and currently they will not be…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingIt is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Holly Mumby-Croft). Many of us in this House deeply miss Nic Dakin, but it was a real pleasure to hear her story…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He and I, and the right hon. Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) have today written to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food…04 Mar 2020HANSARDCOP26I welcome the Secretary of State and his new ministerial team to their places. The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee looks forward to taking evidence from them,…03 Mar 2020HANSARDFloodingMore than four years on from the Boxing day floods in 2015, the flood defence scheme for Kirkstall in my constituency is still £23 million short of Government funding. Small…24 Feb 2020