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HANSARDDraft Food and Feed (Chernobyl and Fukushima Restrictions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Food and Feed (Maximum Permitted Levels of Radioactive Contamination) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My constituency hosts children coming over from Chernobyl and Ukraine. Children as young as three are already getting cancers, so although levels of radioactivity in foodstuffs…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Food and Feed (Chernobyl and Fukushima Restrictions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Food and Feed (Maximum Permitted Levels of Radioactive Contamination) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My constituency hosts children coming over from Chernobyl and Ukraine. Children as young as three are already getting cancers, so although levels of radioactivity in foodstuffs…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Disability Assessment ServicesI echo much of what has been said across the House. I am glad that Members on the Government side are taking an interest. I would love for some of them to take up the vacancies on…13 Mar 2019HANSARD Disability Assessment ServicesWill my hon. Friend give way?13 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Civil Service Responsibilities4. What assessment he has made of the capacity of the civil service to manage its additional responsibilities as a result of the UK leaving the EU.13 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Civil Service ResponsibilitiesWhat assessment has the Department made of the impact on other Departments, many of which have seen civil servants transferred into working on our strategy for exiting the EU?13 Mar 2019HANSARD Disability Assessment ServicesThe hon. Lady is making an excellent speech and is putting into words what a lot of us experience in our constituencies. In my area, it takes 48 weeks for an appeal to be heard,…13 Mar 2019HANSARDPAVA Pepper SprayIn the past 12 months, there were more than 10,000 assaults on staff in our prison service, which is more than one every hour and represents a 30% increase year on year. Clearly…12 Mar 2019HANSARDFire Safety and Sprinkler SystemsMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. He mentioned the Housing Minister, the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mrs Wheeler). The chief fire officer for Derbyshire is the…12 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT10. Derbyshire Law Centre is the only place to which I can refer many of my constituents who are in desperate need of legal support. Will the Minister commit to securing Treasury…12 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt a time when pupils’ emotional and mental health needs are increasing, cuts to our schools mean that teaching assistants are being lost. In Derbyshire, we are about to lose 200…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Leaving the EU: Protection for WorkersAs well as echoing other tributes paid today, I would like to pay tribute to Lord Davies of Coity, who died on Monday. He was a doughty champion of workers and workers’ rights for…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI welcome the fact that Ministers are seeking to improve the accuracy of PIP and ESA assessments and to reduce the number of appeals, but it still takes 48 weeks for an appeal to…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI assume that in claiming that I am attacking policies aimed at job creation, the Minister is referring to the huge cuts in mainstream corporation tax, which I analysed at the…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityThe benefits freeze affects 10.7 million of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable people in our society. It comes on top of not just two years of a benefit cap, but a three-year…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI thank my hon. Friend for being prepared to give way to me, which the Minister was not. Does she agree that the freeze on housing benefit and local housing allowance is driving…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Securityrose —04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityWill the Minister give way?04 Mar 2019HANSARD Tax Avoidance, Evasion and ComplianceI echo the words of the Chairs of the Treasury Committee and the Select Committee on Justice. The Minister’s words that the Government will not focus on enforcing historical IR35…04 Mar 2019