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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)My hon. Friend makes an important and interesting point. If we are to be confident that these new scheme trustees will make decisions that are fair to both the working members of…03 Nov 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am very grateful for the support that has been expressed and for the points that the Minister has made. I take his point that there is a consultation under way. I very much hope…03 Nov 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)This part of the Bill gives new powers to the regulator, so it is worth recapping the problems that gave rise to the need for them. Most of the thinking here came from the joint…03 Nov 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I have listened with great interest to the case that the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts has been making. I have also been contacted by a reputable industry body, the Pensions…03 Nov 2020HANSARDBlack History MonthIn opening the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare), whom I congratulate, called for a review of the national curriculum so that we have…20 Oct 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: Covid-19The Government were right to increase universal credit and working tax credit by £20 a week. Surely, it would now be inconceivable to remove those increases in April as planned,…20 Oct 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: Covid-19What assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of removing the temporary uplift in universal credit from April 2021 while the covid-19 outbreak continues.20 Oct 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI am very pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley), and I agree with the points that she made. Last month, the Home Office published its…19 Oct 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: £20 Covid-19 PaymentThe Select Committee’s report published today calls for new starter payments to claimants of universal credit to help tide them over the very difficult five-week wait for their…19 Oct 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: £20 Covid-19 PaymentIf she will increase jobseeker’s allowance by £20 per week in line with universal credit.19 Oct 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI very much agree with the right hon. Gentleman. He says that he has given up asking the Home Office for compassion, but I wonder whether he has seen, in the comprehensive…19 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsWe have had an excellent debate. I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to it and to the Minister for listening and for the offers that he has made. The big expansion of no…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsI beg to move, That this House has considered No Recourse to Public Funds. I begin by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for facilitating the debate in our first week back…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Any London MP who has done an advice surgery in the recent past would be very familiar with this issue. Under the “no recourse to public funds”…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsMy hon. Friend made a point in passing that I want to highlight. I do not know whether it is well known, but we are talking about a large number of British-born children whose…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsThe letter from the Home Office chief statistician dated 3 July, which is on the UK Statistics Authority website, states: “Home Office administrative data only captures…08 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Government were right to increase universal credit by £20 a week to help families with the extra costs of the pandemic, but, at the moment, that increase is due to be removed…07 Oct 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [Lords]As has already been widely said, there is much to welcome in this Bill. Some important changes were made in the other place, and I pay tribute to the work that it did. I also…07 Oct 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [Lords]I welcome this measure in the Bill, reflecting changes in the other place. As the Secretary of State said, the intention is to require, in certain circumstances, savers to take…07 Oct 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [Lords]I am extremely grateful to the Minister for those points and for the work that he has done, for the responsive way that he has looked at the issue over the past couple of months,…07 Oct 2020