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HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesMy hon. Friend is always fighting for her constituents, and she is absolutely right. As someone who was on the shadow Education team before I came to this role, I know that if our…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. The situations being described are not what we want to hear about in our country in 2023, and we should not be proud of this record;…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She is a doughty champion for the children from deprived families who live in her constituency. We have surgeries where people line…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI beg to move, That this House condemns successive Conservative Governments for their mismanagement of the economy over 13 years; regrets that this has resulted in the UK being…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI am just about to come to the part of my speech about the windfall tax and business rates, so if the hon. Gentleman listens carefully, he will hear. The talents and efforts of…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI will make a bit of progress. We need a bold plan for growth that confronts the problems of the UK’s declining economy head on. That is why the Government must adopt Labour’s…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesNot now, as I want to make some progress. At the same time, the Chancellor has given the 1% wealthiest pension savers a £1 billion handout, and he has continued to defend the…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Having campaigned in her constituency, I know there are huge levels of poverty in certain places. Someone from the back said that we…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesThe Conservatives can manipulate the stats as much as they want, but they cannot run away from the fact that we are falling behind our peers. [ Laughter. ] I do not care how much…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesYes, please.25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI think the hon. Gentleman should listen, actually. By refusing to backdate the tax to January 2022, end the investment allowance tax loophole and raise the rate in line with…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesThe hon. Member may want to sit down and hear the next bit because I am sure he is going to ask the same question. However, we also recognise that people need help today. That is…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI will give way one more time.25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesWith pleasure.25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesMay I remind the hon. Gentleman that the last Labour Government introduced the first minimum wage, slashed child poverty and slashed pensioner poverty because we grew the…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI thank the hon. Member for her intervention. She is absolutely right. This Conservative fantasy just does not match up to the reality on the ground. Instead of putting forward a…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesI hope hon. Members hear that before they start criticising any sort of Labour Government. Things are only set to get worse. The Government’s stealth tax and freeze on income tax…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Cost of Living IncreasesAs I figured, the hon. Member did not have a response to the question I asked. If we do not break with the Tories’ failed economic model, the necessary underpinnings of a good…25 Apr 2023HANSARD Infected Blood Inquiry UpdateOne of my constituents contracted hepatitis C from a botched blood bag in the 1980s. Her daughter wrote to me last year: “I am furious that you have grudgingly decided to pay…19 Apr 2023HANSARDAmendments of the Law (Resolution of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited) Order 2023It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Hollobone. The Labour party welcomes the quick work done by the Treasury, the Bank of England and regulators to secure the HSBC…27 Mar 2023