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HANSARDSteel SafeguardsThis is absolutely the right decision, and it will be warmly welcomed by steelworkers and their families in my Aberavon constituency. Unusually for this Government, it actually…29 Jun 2022HANSARDWindrush ReviewIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, McVey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Kate Osamor) for securing this important debate on the latest report by…29 Jun 2022HANSARD Delivery of Public ServicesWhere?28 Jun 2022HANSARD Delivery of Public ServicesThe British people participate in democratic elections, and when we see the desperately bad results that this Conservative Government are delivering, I am absolutely confident…28 Jun 2022HANSARD Delivery of Public ServicesI would like to start by thanking all the hard-working people who keep our public sector and our public services going day in and day out. They are not responsible for the fact…28 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol BillIn a tweet that the Secretary of State issued on 1 January 2021, he said: “There is no ‘Irish Sea Border’. As we have seen today, the…preparations the Govt and businesses have…27 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol BillMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. He understands that foreign policy begins at home, and that if you do not have your own house in order, your ability to project influence,…27 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley). As a patriot, I find that many things make me proud to be British, but perhaps what makes me proudest of…27 Jun 2022HANSARD EU Retained LawSmall and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the British economy: they drive forward innovation and they create jobs, but they do not have huge departments to help them…22 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is nice to know that his friend the Minister is helping him out, but the reality is that our inboxes are groaning with issues,…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. He is referring to the two main companies, I think, which are TNT and Teleperformance. In both cases, the level of performance is abject. The…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogIs it not extraordinary that the Government’s response to the crisis we are seeing is to cut the civil service by 90,000 jobs? In what world is that going to work, when we clearly…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI thank my hon. Friend. What an utterly absurd position to be in that somebody who lives and works in London has to go to Belfast to get their passport processed. What kind of…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on getting those passports. I have to say that he was one of the lucky ones. The reality is that it was absolutely clear that at some point…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogThe right hon. Lady is absolutely right. There are holidays, weddings and funerals, but there are also direct impacts on people who have needed to go on work assignments abroad.…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogOn the causes of this, it is absolutely vital to recognise that the lack of investment in our public services is what has fundamentally left us exposed, and these are the problems…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. A Government who fail to plan are a Government who plan to fail, and that is what we have seen throughout this process. We have seen nothing…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI beg to move, That this House censures the Minister for Safe and Legal Migration, the hon. Member for Torbay, for his handling of the crisis at Her Majesty’s Passport Office; and…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. The cost of this issue is not just in broken-hearted families who were not able to go on long-planned holidays, or to go to weddings and…14 Jun 2022HANSARDForeign LobbyingI absolutely welcome, as my hon. Friend does, the Government’s decision to stop the golden visas scheme. Does he not think it would be incredibly helpful for the Government to…25 May 2022