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HANSARDBTEC QualificationsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Mark. I start by congratulating the 13,437 people who signed the petition entitled “Don’t scrap funding for BTEC Performing…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsMy hon. Friend makes a powerful and important point. These are people’s lives, future and opportunities to get on in life. Quite often, they are lifelines. I speak from…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBTEC QualificationsMy hon. Friend makes a good and important point about everybody having access to the education at the points and times in life that they need it. This Government’s decision to…18 Jul 2022HANSARDDisabled People: Support in WorkThe Government-commissioned National Centre for Social Research report confirms that many disabled people live in poverty. Ministers claim that work is a route out of poverty, yet…11 Jul 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThousands of immunocompromised people are still shielding because they know that the vaccine does not really work for them. However, there is hope with Evusheld, so will the…16 Jun 2022HANSARDNHS BacklogsFollowing the covid-19 outbreak and the roll-out of vaccines, thousands of immunocompromised people are still shielding, so can the Secretary of State update the House on where we…14 Jun 2022HANSARDBenefits Rates: People with DisabilitiesThousands of disabled people are due to lose £150 because the Government are removing their eligibility for the warm home discount. The Chancellor has announced that they will…06 Jun 2022HANSARDBenefits Rates: People with DisabilitiesI am really not sure that the Minister heard my question; maybe she has been rather distracted. Some disabled people will not be better off. The Government’s disability strategy…06 Jun 2022HANSARDEconomy UpdateDoes the Chancellor now admit that he got it wrong in excluding disabled people from the warm home discount, which excluded 210,000 people who desperately needed help? Can I have…26 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Last week, the Government published a list of BTECs that they intend to scrap, and impact assessments show that 27% of BTEC students are deemed the most disadvantaged. I was…23 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeWill the Home Secretary give way?11 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeI thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. It was a shame that the Home Secretary did not want to give way to me, because I wanted to ask her why, more than 30 minutes into her…11 May 2022HANSARDEngagements5. Hundreds and thousands of people are still shielding. They are living in fear of covid, as they know that the vaccine has not mounted an antibody response for them and they…27 Apr 2022HANSARD Easter Recess: Government UpdatePrime Minister, I personally found that apology shocking. People have lost loved ones and have not been able to attend their funerals. My BTEC tutor in performing arts, Martin…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Carer’s AllowanceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Bardell. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner) on securing this extremely important…30 Mar 2022HANSARD Carer’s AllowanceI appreciate the Minister taking up that case afterwards and thank her for doing so, but this happens all the time. I am sure that many other Members present will know of such…30 Mar 2022HANSARDDisabled People: Benefit RatesDisability benefits are being cut in real terms. Charities such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Scope, Leonard Cheshire and the MS Society have been pressing the Government to…21 Mar 2022HANSARD British Sign Language BillI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) on all her work in this area. We heard her speak so eloquently today, on Second Reading and in the Bill…18 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Research by Scope showed that one third of disabled households were already living in poverty last year. NatCen’s recent report on health and disability benefits, which was…15 Mar 2022HANSARDLegal AidWill the review of legal aid specifically look at how disabled people can enforce their rights under the Equality Act 2010?15 Mar 2022