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HANSARDSchool Closures: Support for PupilsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Angela. I, too, congratulate you on becoming a dame in the new year’s honours, which was very well deserved. I thank and…13 Jan 2021HANSARD Financial Services BillI support amendments 1, 2 and 8 and the remarks made by our Front-Bench team to oppose any post-Brexit race to the bottom in regulation. It is also vital that we move towards a…13 Jan 2021HANSARDSchool Closures: Support for PupilsMy hon. Friend is making a very important point about the chaos and confusion caused at the time of the BTEC exams in January. I had three schools that each told me something…13 Jan 2021HANSARDSchool Closures: Support for PupilsWill my hon. Friend give way?13 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy constituent Charlotte, a single parent, has twice this term had to stop work due to her five-year-old son’s class self-isolating. She has been told that, because it is her son…16 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I thank the Minister for her responses, but I would be grateful if she will clarify one point. She talked about how the HSE’s existing capabilities could be built on, and said…09 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I thank the Minister for her responses to my hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Kemptown, and I understand that some of the REACH regulations are covered by other SIs. However,…09 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Hosie. I thank the Minister for her opening remarks. The regulations are needed to address deficiencies in retained EU law on…09 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution, which I am sure the Minister noted. It relates very much to the next point that I was about to make. In February 2019, Mary Creagh,…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Future of Pensions PolicyIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Hosie. I welcome this debate in which I speak on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey). I…08 Dec 2020HANSARDCourt Cases: BacklogWhat progress he has made on tackling backlogs in HM Courts and Tribunals Service.08 Dec 2020HANSARD Future of Pensions PolicyThe Minister knows, indeed, the importance that we also give to cross-party consensus on such important strategic directions in pensions policy, and that we have worked closely…08 Dec 2020HANSARDCourt Cases: BacklogThe backlog for individual cases in employment tribunals has already passed the post-2008 financial crisis record, with 37,000 workers in the queue. Analysis by Citizens Advice…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Kenyan Civil Service Pensions: Non-paymentI thank and congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this debate, which, as he said, is a matter of great concern for many of our constituents. I want to acknowledge and…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Kenyan Civil Service Pensions: Non-paymentI thank the Minister for the detailed response he is giving. Do the Government have any sort of taskforce that is dedicated to trying to get a resolution on this issue and to…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Kenyan Civil Service Pensions: Non-paymentrose—07 Dec 2020HANSARD Kenyan Civil Service Pensions: Non-paymentDoes my right hon. Friend agree that, as well as being an administrative nightmare for our constituents, it is also highly distressing for people to have to battle for something…07 Dec 2020HANSARD Kenyan Civil Service Pensions: Non-paymentMy right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. He raises the very confusing issue of why we have not been able to get an answer to the questions around the non-payment…07 Dec 2020HANSARDBenefit Cap: Families with ChildrenSome 85% of capped households have families with children, and the Minister revealed last week that more than 160,000 households on UC could see their benefits capped in December,…30 Nov 2020HANSARDThe Future of WorkIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Hollobone. I join colleagues in congratulating the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Kirsten Oswald) on securing this debate on…19 Nov 2020