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HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillI agree with the case that the Secretary of State has made: that the Bill is needed because in all likelihood there will be no growth in earnings this year. In those…01 Oct 2020HANSARDOccupied Palestinian TerritoriesMy hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that the developments he is now describing pose a threat to the feasibility of a two-state solution, because there will…24 Sept 2020HANSARDThe EconomyOn universal credit, the Chancellor rightly, at the start of the pandemic, suspended the minimum income floor in universal credit to avoid an unnecessary barrier to new…24 Sept 2020HANSARDOccupied Palestinian TerritoriesIt is a good thing that the annexation of the west bank has not gone ahead, but suspending it, with the implication that it will go ahead at some future point, is not enough. It…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Andrea Jenkyns), and I share her objective of ending vexatious claims. But it is to our shame that Governments of…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillWhen the Secretary of State’s Department consulted on the Bill in July last year, it suggested that there were two categories of offence that might be excluded from the Bill. One…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19Children were delighted to return to their primary schools earlier this month, but—not surprisingly, after six months of isolation—coughs and colds have spread rapidly among them…22 Sept 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe National Audit Office told the Work and Pensions Committee two weeks ago that the “sophisticated” analysis of the Trussell Trust has established an association between…14 Sept 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: UK Legal ObligationsDoes the Secretary of State recognise that, as others have reminded him, there would be terrible future consequences for Britain if the Government failed to abide by an…08 Sept 2020HANSARD Kickstart SchemeI opposed the closure of the future jobs fund in 2011. The Work and Pensions Committee, in its report in June, highlighted what a great job that scheme did 10 years ago, and I…03 Sept 2020HANSARD Windrush Lessons Learned ReviewThe Home Secretary knows of my concern that the Department is still not engaging with the scandal of thousands of overseas students whose lives were ruined when they were falsely…21 Jul 2020HANSARD Flammable Cladding RemovalMy hon. Friend is making an excellent argument. Is it not particularly unsatisfactory that Ministers have signed up to the principle that leaseholders should not have to bear…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsWill the Minister confirm that the problem is not with Huawei’s hardware, but with its software? As part of his OpenRAN solution, might an alternative be to mandate the use of…14 Jul 2020HANSARD EU Exit: End of Transition PeriodLast September, the Minister acknowledged that there is a material risk of long delays at Dover. Will he tell us what his current assessment of that risk is? The Freight Transport…13 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken), but I was disappointed that she struck a more partisan tone than other speakers have…06 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Government were right to raise universal credit by £20 a week at the start of the crisis, but other benefits, such as employment and support allowance, claimed by other people…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy hon. Friend is right. “No recourse to public funds” is one reason for what is happening in Leicester. Is she aware that both the Home Affairs Committee and the Work and…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillWill the Minister give way?30 Jun 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit (Reducing Poverty)I welcomed the Minister’s confirmation last week of no appeal in the universal credit court case that the Department lost, but has he yet grasped the full scale of the problem…29 Jun 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: Court of Appeal JudgmentThank you very much, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. If a universal credit claimant is in work and is paid monthly, but those monthly payments do not align…25 Jun 2020