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HANSARD Bank Profits: Windfall TaxThe hon. Member makes a valuable intervention. I will come to how it was unjustifiable for the Government to reduce the surcharge in that way. Both approaches are possible and…06 Dec 2023HANSARDHillsborough: Bishop James Jones ReportPeople, including those personally affected by the Hillsborough tragedy, will have listened to the Government’s response today and been deeply disappointed. What is needed, among…06 Dec 2023HANSARD Bank Profits: Windfall TaxThe hon. Gentleman is completely correct: there is something immoral about the way that banks’ profits are soaring while they are not delivering a better service for their…06 Dec 2023HANSARD Sentencing BillI thank the Justice Secretary for giving way and very much welcome the introduction of the presumption against short sentences as a way, as he said, of cutting reoffending,…06 Dec 2023HANSARD Bank Profits: Windfall TaxToday I am calling on the Government to introduce a windfall tax on the banks, which have exploited the cost of living crisis to make super-profits, just as the energy companies…06 Dec 2023HANSARD Bank Profits: Windfall TaxThe hon. Member makes an important point. The example he gives of the closure of so many high-street banks, which disadvantages people in my community as well as in rural…06 Dec 2023HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationI must say that the Minister comes across as a passive observer while the further horror unfolds. I wish he would use his agency and his role, because 1.8 million people in Gaza…04 Dec 2023HANSARDCOP28The Government are going into these global climate talks having announced new North sea oil and gas fields. If every country copied this Government’s approach of squeezing out…29 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Code of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)I am sorry to draw a political parallel, but sometimes the parallel between politics and industrial practice is useful. It is the job of the Conservative party, in my area and…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Code of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)When we strip it down, is this not really about trying to set up a whole series of complicated and uncertain hurdles so that employers or the Government can say that strike action…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023Will the Minister give way on that point?27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Code of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)My hon. Friend and I have many things in common, one of which is that we were both trade union lawyers, which Government Members perhaps think are not a good thing. Why are the…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Huq. I do not want to make a meal of the Minister’s refusal to even acknowledge the presence of Members trying to intervene, but…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023Will the Minister give way?27 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement ResolutionsListening to the Chancellor yesterday, it was clear that his words were simply at odds with the lives of millions of people up and down the country. The Tories are acting as if…23 Nov 2023HANSARDEconomic GrowthI will address the crisis in the middle east and the Government’s failure to back the growing calls for a ceasefire from the UN Secretary-General and beyond, and I will speak to…14 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesFrance’s President Macron has called for a ceasefire, joining other European nations such as Spain, Norway, Portugal and Ireland, as well as the UN Secretary-General. Securing a…14 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. Banks are taking advantage of higher interest rates to make bumper profits. A new poll shows that people have had enough, with big support for a one-off windfall tax on bank…14 Nov 2023HANSARD Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian SituationTo tackle this humanitarian crisis, we need to strain every sinew for a ceasefire. The UN Secretary-General says that we need a ceasefire, one binding on all sides. The UN high…08 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIs it not simply impossible to get aid in on the scale that is needed if we are to end the humanitarian nightmare under way in Gaza without a ceasefire?24 Oct 2023