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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020It would be good to rename my constituency for the benefit of colleagues, but it is good to see you in the Chair, Mrs Murray. I hope you can hear me okay. Colleagues might prefer…08 Dec 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I am grateful to the Minister for saying that he will set these things out in writing, and I get that the Home Office is not requiring landlords and employers to do those checks.…08 Dec 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020Thank you, Minister. I am grateful to the Minister for the way he introduced the regulations. I concur with 99% of what the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Halifax, had to…08 Dec 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillTo present this appalling Bill to the House once was outrageous, showing contempt for our European friends and neighbours, trampling all over international law and riding…07 Dec 2020HANSARDScheduled Mass Deportation: JamaicaWhile some deportation decisions are clearcut, many more involve careful balancing exercises weighing up a whole range of factors. The problem is that it is very difficult to…30 Nov 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsFixing the low uptake of pension credit could lift 450,000 pensioners out of poverty and save taxpayers £4 billion of NHS and social care costs. Unlike the Scottish Government,…30 Nov 2020HANSARDEthiopiaAs the Foreign Secretary said, this conflict has implications for the whole region, including Somalia, with Ethiopian troops being pulled out of that country to be redeployed to…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEthiopiaWhat recent assessment he has made of the (a) political and (b) security situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe uplift in universal credit was welcome, but people on legacy benefits, the sick and the disabled have also faced additional costs and hardships because of the pandemic, many…23 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyThese deals cut across many devolved powers, so surely there should be a significant consultation and scrutiny role for devolved Parliaments and Governments, learning from…17 Nov 2020HANSARDLegal Profession: Government CriticismI think many in the legal profession will be horrified by the approach that the Attorney General is taking today. She must, like the Lord Chancellor, accept that the comments from…05 Nov 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsFreelancers in my constituency and across the UK are the backbone of the culture and arts industries, but many have suffered badly through their exclusion from the furlough and…05 Nov 2020HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton). We provide safe, legal routes so that fewer people feel compelled to try the more…04 Nov 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillAbsolutely, and it would be the perfect trial of the Home Office system; if it really works as the Home Office anticipates, there will not be a demand for it. If the Home Office…19 Oct 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), who always speaks so expertly on issues of modern slavery. The Lords…19 Oct 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?19 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWill the Prime Minister look at the case of a young constituent of mine who has gone from a successful career in banking to facing the real prospect of bankruptcy, all because he…12 Oct 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWe mark Challenge Poverty Week this week, but Save the Children reports today that more than one third of families on universal credit and child tax credit have had to turn to…08 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportThe fact is that more and more people are struggling just to put food on the table, as the Trussell Trust and others have highlighted, so with furlough being wound down, will the…06 Oct 2020HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Resettlement and RelocationConditions on the Aegean islands were an overcrowded living hell for asylum seekers, even before the fire at Moria left 13,000 homeless. Given what the Home Secretary said to my…28 Sept 2020