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HANSARDAssisted DyingI will make a bit more progress. In setting out this view, I am mindful of the stern instruction we all received last week from the National Secular Society, which wrote: “Dire…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingI accept wholly the point my right hon. Friend makes. I think a lot of the people I am concerned about, and expressing a worry about, are deeply loved by their children but do not…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingI cannot give way again. We should renew our determination not to impose fear and an awful moral dilemma on frail and conscientious elderly people approaching the end of their…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAssisted DyingI have not seen the polls that the right hon. Member refers to, but I think it is the case that all the major organisations representing disabled people in the UK oppose this…04 Jul 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillI just want to check one point. At the moment, about 150,000 working-age people who receive universal credit have their benefits limited by the benefit cap. Am I right to say that…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillI am very pleased that the Bill is in front of us. The Select Committee has been clear in the past few weeks that, without a big measure on this kind of scale, low-income families…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillThat would help—just modernising the old systems would help, and I will say something about that in a moment. We are getting ad hoc payments from the Treasury to tide us over. The…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillIt certainly does need to be done. I am pleased to tell the hon. Lady that on Monday the Select Committee will visit Social Security Scotland and that our vice-chair, the hon.…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillI want to go back to what the Minister said about the benefit cap, and I welcome the point he made. Does he recognise that, in a very high inflation environment, there really is…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Social Security (Additional Payments) BillMy right hon. Friend makes a very important point. The Select Committee will certainly be looking at that. We are conducting an inquiry later this year on the question of the…22 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Gross Domestic ProductIt is, I think, clear that, as anticipated, we are starting to see an economic penalty from the new barriers to our trade with the European Union. Does the Minister agree that we…13 Jun 2022HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Producers: Investment AllowancesIt has been reported that this concession will deliver an additional subsidy of £200 million to Shell for its development of the Jackdaw field, which was going to go ahead anyway.…06 Jun 2022HANSARDPensioners: Cost of LivingThank you very much, Mr Speaker. I welcome the efforts on pension credit take-up. The Chancellor’s additional payments are very welcome, but the need for them highlights the…06 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe household support fund now accounts for billions in public spending. What information is the Department collecting about how that fund is being used, who is benefiting from…06 Jun 2022HANSARDEconomy UpdateI welcome the recognition in the Chancellor’s statement that benefit rates have fallen too low in real terms, given current inflation. Does he agree that it is time now to rethink…26 May 2022HANSARDEvacuations from AfghanistanBritish citizens’ relatives who are trapped in Afghanistan cannot apply for visas to come to the UK because no biometric service is available, and they have to have biometrics in…26 May 2022HANSARDIndia’s Foreign Contribution Law: NGOsI am grateful to the Minister for setting out the increasingly close nature of the relationship. Can she assure us that Ministers will make representations to the Indian…25 May 2022HANSARDIndia’s Foreign Contribution Law: NGOsI welcome the intervention of the Home Office permanent secretary. Can the Minister tell us whether the case of Oxfam India has been taken up by Ministers, perhaps by the Prime…25 May 2022HANSARDIndia’s Foreign Contribution Law: NGOsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about that. It seems clear that the FCRA is being used to make life difficult for organisations that from time to time might be critical of…25 May 2022HANSARDIndia’s Foreign Contribution Law: NGOsI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of India’s foreign contribution law on NGOs. I am very pleased to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Twigg.…25 May 2022