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HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThe Minister shakes his head. If what I am saying is not true, why does he not take that measure out of the Bill, so that workers cannot be sacked for not complying with work…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThe Minister has let the cat out of the bag in relation to the Government’s attitude to this dreadful Bill and to amendment 2D from the other place. The Minister objected to Lords…17 Jul 2023HANSARDNew Housing: Swift BricksThe hon. Gentleman is making a wonderful speech. One of my constituents, Helen Lucy, came to see me and presented me with a very informative booklet about this campaign. Does he…10 Jul 2023HANSARD Building Safety and Social HousingI thank the shadow Minister for his thoughtful and detailed remarks. Taking him back to a point he made about ACM cladding, survivors of the Grenfell fire and the bereaved are…06 Jul 2023HANSARD Building Safety and Social HousingAs the Secretary of State has said, it is now six years since the Grenfell fire, but new data gathered by Inside Housing shows that only a fraction of high-rise social housing…06 Jul 2023HANSARD Rail Ticket OfficesMy constituents who use Cross Gates station and people across the country will be worried about this proposal, because closing ticket offices is yet another example of private…06 Jul 2023HANSARDViolence in the West BankI have listened carefully to the Minister, but since 2015 the Government have sold £500 million-worth of arms to Israel, and UK arms have been implicated in previous atrocities…04 Jul 2023HANSARD Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillThree decades ago, Margaret Thatcher said that the ANC was a “typical terrorist organisation”, adding “Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is…03 Jul 2023HANSARD Rosebank Oilfield: Environmental ImpactsI congratulate the hon. Member on securing this important debate. Of course Rosebank oilfield should not go ahead, and of course it is an act of climate vandalism for it do so in…28 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage CharterMany of the banks that the Chancellor has been talking about are raking in bumper profits by refusing to pass on higher interest rates to their savers. Surely, a windfall tax on…26 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for Money1. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure value for money in public spending.22 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyIt is not just the lies by the former Prime Minister that have damaged trust in our politics; the contracts handed out to Tory friends and donors through VIP lanes did great…22 Jun 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI will briefly touch on the reasons why I think it is important that this elected Chamber does the right thing and rejects the Government’s opposition to the message from the…21 Jun 2023HANSARDInflation17. What recent steps he has taken to reduce inflation.20 Jun 2023HANSARDInflationThe rich and powerful have repeatedly sought to blame workers for high inflation, even though workers’ real wages have been falling as inflation soars. Many leading economists now…20 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI want to put on record my deep disappointment that there is no commitment to a debate on Grenfell. I wrote to the Leader of the House on 10 May asking for the Government to…15 Jun 2023HANSARD Public OrderWill the Home Secretary come clean and admit that this authoritarian clampdown on our society’s hard-won democratic freedoms is being intensified by this Government because their…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI rise to speak in support of all the Lords amendments, but I especially want to focus on Lords amendment 4 and Lords amendments 5 to 7, because they are about protecting two key…22 May 2023HANSARD Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI would. My hon. Friend is always light on his feet in the Chamber, as he has shown, but I would be happy to give way to the Minister if he has anything of merit to say as this…22 May 2023HANSARD Council Tax and Stamp Duty AlternativesI congratulate the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Simon Fell) on securing this important debate on alternatives to council tax and stamp duty. The Government need to look at…17 May 2023