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HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to ask a couple of questions of clarification. Minister Western, are you open to a negative eventual human rights verdict on this? Many witnesses have said they need…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is helpful, because a lot of people have said it is contingent. I want to ask about one more thing to do with error. You said earlier that you were aiming to reduce the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q I just want to clarify that if someone’s financial situation gets better, you withdraw the payment, but if you saw from the data you are collecting that their situation had got…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry, Chair, the second question I asked about the percentage of error was not answered. What percentage of error do you think would be acceptable, in terms of innocent people…25 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeI have met parents from Smartphone Free Childhood, but also young people. This is a big issue in Brighton Pavilion. Has the right hon. Member thought about pushing for the…24 Feb 2025HANSARDHIV Testing WeekIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship for the second time this week, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David…13 Feb 2025HANSARD LGBT+ History MonthI thank the Minister for chairing an excellent roundtable yesterday through the all-party parliamentary human rights group. The key message we heard from human rights campaigners…13 Feb 2025HANSARD Youth Provision: Universal and Targeted SupportDoes the hon. Lady agree that the Minister should answer two questions? The first is about the funding and jobs that will flow from the national youth strategy, and the second is…11 Feb 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillThis Bill is, at heart, Conservative legislation left over from the most dark corner of the last Administration, and I have no qualms about opposing it. I will speak against…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI will press on, because I have one more point to make. That shows a contrast with the current system for general elections, where people believe that the national politics…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI associate myself with the comments of many other hon. Members today, and thank the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) for introducing the debate. This…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsYes, exactly. I am describing the different kinds of work that different kinds of Members in the additional member system can do and how that benefits equality and representation.…30 Jan 2025HANSARDAirport Expansion(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will make a statement on Government policy on airport expansion.28 Jan 2025HANSARDAirport ExpansionI am grateful to you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question, and I thank the Minister for his response. It is vital that Parliament is not sidelined when the Government…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Creative IndustriesI am late in the debate, and we have a bit of a time limit already, so I will struggle to make all the points I would like to make. I will write to the Minister with any I fail to…27 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsFollowing up on the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt, will the Secretary of State say when he expects a substantial response to his engagement with the Egyptian Government?…14 Jan 2025HANSARDWomen’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO ReportThis is a very harsh statement. It admits wrongdoing but offers a bitter dose of nothing to a generation of women who already faced prejudices and disadvantages in their careers…17 Dec 2024HANSARD LGBT Veterans: Etherton ReviewSorry. Would the Minister be willing to be challenged on those terms in the future? This compensation must bring the full comfort and security in older age that is enshrined in…12 Dec 2024HANSARD LGBT Veterans: Etherton ReviewWe have heard some very powerful stories today. It is not every day that my constituency surgeries lead me to well up—I am normally as hard as nails—but I recently had the…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Puberty-suppressing HormonesI am extremely worried and fearful about this decision to continue the blanket ban, and I want to ask the Secretary of State about his reliance in the terms of reference and…11 Dec 2024