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HANSARDUK Citizenship TestI find that quite shocking. We are so many years on from the Good Friday agreement, which gave residents and citizens of Northern Ireland the right to be part of both countries,…22 Nov 2023HANSARDUK Citizenship TestMy hon. Friend knows that we and our party are aligned on that: we should give people the right to work while they are waiting for their applications to be processed. If nothing…22 Nov 2023HANSARDUK Citizenship TestCan the Minister tell us whether a review date has been set, and what the scope of the review will be? It appears that up to this point, the Home Office has not met the commitment…22 Nov 2023HANSARDUK Citizenship TestI am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. I will come on to speak about the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee report last year and the Government’s…22 Nov 2023HANSARDUK Citizenship TestI beg to move, That this House has considered the Life in the UK citizenship test. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I want first to talk about…22 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn StatementToday is Equal Pay Day, which means, because of the gender pay gap, it is the day on which women, based on their average earnings, stop being paid compared with men, who continue…22 Nov 2023HANSARDInternational Development White PaperLike my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran), our foreign affairs spokesperson, I welcome many aspects of the White Paper. However, as co-chair of the…21 Nov 2023HANSARDBenefits UpratingFigures from the Trussell Trust show that food bank usage is at its highest ever level, and over the summer months a record 41,878 parcels of food were provided to 21,000 children…14 Nov 2023HANSARDBenefits Uprating7. If he will have discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential merits of uprating benefits in line with inflation.14 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureMy colleague in the Scottish Parliament, the MSP for North East Fife, Willie Rennie, has raised the issue of a £10.9 million funding shortfall in NHS Fife, and that is before we…13 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FutureI know that we say “the Government of the day”, but this Government seem to be taking that term to new heights. The NHS is top of what I hear about on the doorsteps. People talk…13 Nov 2023HANSARDBuilding an NHS Fit for the FuturePart of that comes from the fiscal framework that the Scottish Government have signed up to. The Barnett consequentials have always recognised that services in Scotland are more…13 Nov 2023HANSARDSeaton Community HospitalMy hon. Friend is making a passionate speech on behalf of his community. What strikes me is that when the community came forward and made those contributions or bought those…13 Nov 2023HANSARD Pakistan: Evacuation of AfghansI congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) on securing this urgent question, particularly as it has given us some clarity today. The Minister has talked…08 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsAccording to the Department’s own regulations, it should have reported on medical licences for fishermen this week, but it has not, so when will the Department publish the review?…26 Oct 2023HANSARD Voter Identification Scheme(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to make a statement on the voter identification scheme.14 Sept 2023HANSARD Voter Identification SchemeI suspect that the Minister and I were reading different reports, because the first report cards on the roll-out of voter identification in England are out, and they are not good.…14 Sept 2023HANSARDPANS and PANDASI beg to move, That this House has considered PANS and PANDAS. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Dowd. I will refer to paediatric acute-onset neuro-…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Retirement of the Clerk of the HouseLike other speakers, I associate myself with your remarks, Mr Speaker, and those we have heard so far today in recognising Sir John Benger and his departure from the House to St…12 Sept 2023HANSARDPANS and PANDASI am conscious that we need to deal with the medical profession in relation to this condition, but we must be able to do things as parliamentarians, and the Government must be…12 Sept 2023