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HANSARD Building SafetyMy constituents welcome the Secretary of State’s grasp of their problems, but his changes have required some arrangements that were previously in place to be reworked. In the case…30 Jan 2023HANSARDLocal Housing Allowance19. What assessment he has made of the impact of real-terms reductions in local housing allowance rates on families.23 Jan 2023HANSARDMinisterial Appointments: Vetting and Managing Conflicts of InterestThe current chairman of the Conservative party went on television before he settled his tax debt and said that his tax affairs were “fully paid and up to date”. We now know that…23 Jan 2023HANSARDLocal Housing AllowanceRightmove reported last autumn that rents in London had increased by more than 16% in a year, yet, as the Secretary of State has said, housing support through local housing…23 Jan 2023HANSARDWindrush Lessons Learned Review: Implementation of RecommendationsWill the Minister give the House a clear assurance that the Home Office will appoint a migrants commissioner?10 Jan 2023HANSARD Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority BackgroundsI am grateful for the case the Minister is making, and I agree with what she has said. On the point about Companies House, would it not be a welcome step if it recorded the ethnic…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityI welcome the case that my hon. Friend is making, and congratulate him on securing the debate. Has he seen the report published today by the Select Committee on Work and Pensions…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority BackgroundsI beg to move, That this House has considered support for entrepreneurs from ethnic minority backgrounds. I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I am grateful…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority BackgroundsI very much agree with the hon. Member. That point is made in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry report, and she is right to highlight it. Over half of black business…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority BackgroundsI completely agree with the Father of the House. I had not seen that article, but it sounds to me as though it makes exactly the case that needs to be made. I wonder whether the…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Benefit SanctionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his points about the Select Committee’s report, and I pay tribute to him for his work on this subject. I understand that his membership on…13 Dec 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI agree with the case that the hon. Lady is making—indeed, I have signed her new clause. I wonder whether she has seen the report produced by the Work and Pensions Committee in…07 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe were grateful for the answers that the Secretary of State gave at the Work and Pensions Committee meeting last week, and we are looking forward to him returning on 11 January.…05 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Groceries Code Adjudicator has done a good job over the past 10 years, leading to a big fall in the number of breaches of the fair purchasing code, but bad practice is still…29 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is estimated that 4,000 Muslim young people every year choose, with a heavy heart, not to enter higher education because their faith bars them from paying interest on a student…28 Nov 2022HANSARDUN International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesThe hon. Lady is right and my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea made that point as well. I think that is unhelpful and should be removed. We also called in our report for…24 Nov 2022HANSARDUN International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesI welcome the initiative that my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) has taken in applying for and obtaining this debate. I want to pick up on a number of…24 Nov 2022HANSARDUN International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesMy right hon. Friend is absolutely correct that this has quite a long history, but my sense is that it has got considerably worse in the last few years and the Department has…24 Nov 2022HANSARDUN International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesAs the Minister is running through the things that the Government are doing, can he clarify what their intentions are on the national disability strategy? That was stuck in the…24 Nov 2022HANSARDUN International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesI agree. There is a big job to be done, and involving disabled people in doing it would be an important part of the solution. There is also an industrial injuries disablement…24 Nov 2022