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HANSARDAnimal Cruelty Crimes: Sentencing2. When he plans to bring forward legislative proposals for maximum five-year sentences for the most serious crimes of animal cruelty.17 Jan 2019HANSARDAnimal Cruelty Crimes: SentencingI am grateful for that answer, but the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs called for five-year maximum sentences in 2016, Ministers promised that in 2017 and…17 Jan 2019HANSARD Universal CreditI also welcome these modest steps in the right direction, but why did the Secretary of State and the Minister both deny a week ago the change that the Minister has now announced…14 Jan 2019HANSARD Universal Credit: Managed MigrationTax credits were a great success. In answering my question yesterday about the five-week wait before claimants are entitled to their benefit, the Minister pointed out that…08 Jan 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Self-employmentI hope it does turn out to be the case, as reported, that the Secretary of State is going to pause the roll-out of universal credit in order to fix it. I hope she has noticed that…07 Jan 2019