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HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Assessment ReviewThere has rightly been a lot of focus on the 250,000 people the Government’s own impact assessment says will be pushed into poverty by this cruel disability benefit cut, but the…12 May 2025HANSARDPersonal Independence Payment: Disabled PeopleHarold Wilson once said: “The Labour party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing.” We need to be clear, as millions of people outside this place are clear, that to try to balance…07 May 2025HANSARDClimate Change: International LeadershipIt is welcome indeed to see the Government now playing a leading role internationally on climate action through the global clean power alliance, especially after a decade of…29 Apr 2025HANSARDClimate Change: International Leadership11. What steps he is taking to establish international leadership on climate change.29 Apr 2025HANSARDPalestinian Authority Prime Minister VisitIn his meeting with MPs, the Palestinian Prime Minister was clear that Israel will change course only if there is real action from states. He stressed that, in line with the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI congratulate my hon. Friend on his eminently reasonable and common-sense approach to this debate and on amendment 11. Does it seem to him, as it seems to me, that this…29 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionI take that as congratulations from the Speaker of the House of Commons on the promotion of Leeds United, so thank you very much, Mr Speaker. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] That…22 Apr 2025HANSARD“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court RulingThe Equality Act is a vital piece of legislation that is there to protect the essential rights of oppressed groups, including women and trans people, in a world that is still far…22 Apr 2025HANSARD Statutory Sick PayI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate and on running an important campaign to increase statutory sick pay so that it is a real sick pay on which people…22 Apr 2025HANSARDGaza: Israeli Military OperationsWe are back here again—aid workers shot dead and dumped in a shallow grave; hunger used as a weapon of war; hospitals bombed. Now there are new plans to seize large areas of Gaza.…02 Apr 2025HANSARDSpring StatementMaking cuts instead of taxing wealth is a political choice, and taking away the personal independence payments from so many disabled people is an especially cruel choice. A…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Welfare ReformLast night I received a response from the Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Sir Stephen Timms), to a written question that…18 Mar 2025HANSARDWomen’s Changed State Pension Age: CompensationI congratulate the hon. Lady on opening this important debate. Some 74% of the public support fair compensation for WASPI women. What does it say about this place and our…17 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ6. Disabled people in my constituency are frightened because they are again hearing politicians use the language of “tough choices”. They know from bitter experience that when…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWill the shadow Minister give way?11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillIt is always a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour from the other side of the House, the right hon. Member for Wetherby and Easingwold (Sir Alec Shelbrooke). I really…11 Mar 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy hon. Friend has played such an important role in the development of these policies. He is making a wide-ranging speech—in his remaining remarks, will he reflect on the…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI certainly do. The previous Government never got round to introducing such a Bill. When the Conservative party was in government, all we had about the P&O debacle were crocodile…11 Mar 2025HANSARD Palestinian Rights: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir John. I congratulate the Father of the House, the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), on securing this…04 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineI very much welcome the growing push from numerous countries for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. That must be a just peace. Too many lives have already been lost…03 Mar 2025