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Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise — House of Commons, 2018-05-23
Topic: Transportation
Rachel Jane Reeves (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. At 10 minutes past 3 this afternoon, just after the Secretary of State for Transport left the Chamber, he issued a press release on plans to tackle poor performance at Northern Rail. I wonder whether the Secretary of State, who is almost back in his place, has indicated any intention to make a statement to the House allowing right hon. and hon. Members to question the Government on those plans, which are of huge significance to many of our constituents.
Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise — House of Commons, 2018-05-23
Topic: Government Operations
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): I have to notify the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following Acts: Data Protection Act 2018 Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 Smart Meters Act 2018 I should also like to announce to the House the deferred Divisions result in respect of the Question relating to the Somerset West and Taunton (Modification of Boundary Change Enactments) Regulations 2018. The Ayes were 298 and the Noes were 17. Of the English Members voting on that Question, the Ayes were 270 and the Noes were 14, so the Question was agreed to In respect of the Question relating to the Somerset West and Taunton (Local Government Changes) Order 2018, the Ayes were 298 and the Noes were 17. Of the English Members voting on that Question, the Ayes were 270 and the Noes were 14, so the Question was agreed to In respect of the Question relating to the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (Structural Changes) Order 2018, the Ayes were 293 and the Noes were 19. Of the English Members voting on that Question, the Ayes were 265 and the Noes were 16, so the Question was agreed to In respect of the Question relating to the draft Dorset (Structural Changes) (Modification of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007) Regulations 2018, the Ayes were 294 and the Noes were 19. Of the English Members voting on that Question, the Ayes were 266 and the Noes were 16, so the Question was agreed to.
NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation — House of Commons, 2018-05-23
Topic: Social Welfare
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): I shall take your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is always a pleasure to indulge the right hon. Lady, but I have to point out to her that Councillor Cutts of Nottinghamshire County Council is cutting care homes across Nottinghamshire. The record will show that.
NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation — House of Commons, 2018-05-23
Topic: Labor
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): I do agree. May I reassure my hon. Friend that those Unite and Unison members who are taking industrial action at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh have our support? We stand with them in solidarity. I congratulate her and my hon. Friends the Members for Leigh (Jo Platt) and for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on the campaign that they have been running. These jobs should not be outsourced to wholly owned subsidiaries; they should be in-house.
NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation — House of Commons, 2018-05-23
Topic: Labor
Victoria Jane Foxcroft (Labour, Centre-left): I thank my hon. Friend. He is right: the candidate in Lewisham East will absolutely be campaigning on that, because it is out of order and outrageous that many of the people working under that contract are not receiving pay for one week because Interserve is not paying them.
Digital Sector: Economic Contribution — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Technology
Stephanie Louise Peacock (Labour, Centre-left): Ninety-five per cent. of respondents to my broadband survey are not happy with their service, which is not surprising, given that Barnsley’s broadband speeds are 20% slower than the national average. What are the Government doing to invest in broadband in the north?
Digital Sector: Economic Contribution — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Liam Dominic Byrne (Labour, Centre-left): I can tell the Minister that, based on last year’s sales, next year the big five will be paying 0.01% of their sales in tax. That is the Treasury forecast in the Red Book, but even the Office for Budget Responsibility says that that is highly uncertain, and it will be outweighed by the cut in corporation tax to 17%. So is it not true that she has conspired with the Treasury to give a free pass to some of the wealthiest firms on earth?
Loneliness — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Gareth Craig Snell (Labour, Centre-left): What significance does the Secretary of State place on the role of the voluntary sector in helping to tackle loneliness in our country? If, like me, he thinks that it is an important role, will he say what discussions he has had with the Department of Health and Social Care and with local government to make sure that commissioners of services now understand that the voluntary sector should be taken seriously?
Leaving the EU: Rights of EU Citizens — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: International Affairs
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): The Foreign Secretary yesterday told the Foreign Affairs Committee that the Foreign Office is doing work on what will happen if UK citizens are trapped after Brexit in other parts of Europe because there are no flights. Can the Attorney General tell us how many people that will affect and which circle of hell they will be in?
Exploitation of Vulnerable People — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Environment
Kerry Gillian McCarthy (Labour, Centre-left): The anti-slavery charity Hope for Justice has said that two thirds of UK modern slavery victims are in the waste industry. The Environment Agency is training its staff to spot this exploitation. What liaison is the CPS having with the Environment Agency on this matter?
Exploitation of Vulnerable People — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (Labour, Centre-left): The number of rapes reported has more than doubled since 2013-14, yet the Crown Prosecution Service’s "Violence against Women and Girls Report 2017-18" highlights a 23.1% fall in the number of defendants charged with rape compared with the previous year. Why does the Solicitor General think this has happened?
Exploitation of Vulnerable People — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (Labour, Centre-left): I hear the Solicitor General’s words, but clearly actions are necessary, too. This is a deep concern. I am sure that he will have seen the recent story in The Guardian newspaper that staff at the Crown Prosecution Service have been told: "If we took…weak cases out of the system, our conviction rate goes up to 61%." Clearly, decisions to prosecute are subject, under the code for Crown prosecutors, as the Solicitor General knows, to the evidential test and the public interest test, not to some kind of arbitrary decision to get the figures up. Has that been said, and if it has been said, what action is he going take?
CPS 2020 Strategy — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: In taking forward prosecutions for hate crimes, will the Attorney General encourage the CPS to work with the Community Security Trust, which has great expertise in combating antisemitism?
Barry John Sheerman (Labour, Centre-left): Is the Attorney General aware that a cross-party group of MPs has recently been told by senior police sources that the Crown Prosecution Service has not got the capacity to take on new cases involving dreadful crimes against children and that men who they know have committed such dreadful offences are not being pursued because the CPS does not have the resources? That is a very serious worry.
Domestic Abuse Victims — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: What steps he is taking with the CPS and Cabinet colleagues to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system for victims of domestic abuse.
Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire (Labour, Centre-left): Prosecuting cases of domestic violence is only possible if the police have sufficient officers and resources, so what conversations did the Solicitor General or Attorney General have with the Chancellor about police funding and were they satisfied with the result?
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Christian John Patrick Matheson (Labour, Centre-left): I have a constituent who has been convicted, I believe wrongly, for fraud. Despite the prosecution accepting that he made no financial gain whatever from the allegations, the SFO went after him and his wife, who is entirely unconnected. Does the Solicitor General think that is fair and what possible avenues for redress do I have for my constituents?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Foreign Trade
Jonathan Neil Reynolds (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. One of the biggest issues facing the UK economy is whether our financial services sector will have access to the EU once we leave next year. The degree of that access and the terms under which it takes place will have a significant impact on our tax base and employment. Following press reports this morning that a deal may have been agreed, can you advise us whether you have had any notice from the Treasury about a statement coming before this House with details of what that deal might entail?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Labor
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. We were surprised and shocked to hear the announcement this morning that the Appledore shipyard in Devon is to close. It will mean the loss of 200 jobs. I wonder whether the Government will make a statement to the House on Monday about this very serious situation.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Stephen Creswell Timms (Labour, Centre-left): I want to take the Secretary of State back to what he said about the position the Government found themselves in in 2010, when of course, his former right hon. Friend, George Osborne, promised to eradicate the deficit by 2015. They failed to do that, and now there is no target date at all in the Budget for eradicating the deficit. Why that dramatic change?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Government Operations
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour, Centre-left): As a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and having been an elected councillor for the last decade, I have become all too aware of the devastation wrought on local government by the continuing cuts in previous Budgets. Does the Secretary of State not agree that the Chancellor has missed a massive opportunity to reverse those cuts so that local government can provide those much needed services?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alison McGovern (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Secretary of State for giving way, just as I was grateful to him for meeting my constituents from New Ferry, but when they heard the Budget on Monday and heard about the investment he is talking about for potholes, they felt abandoned once again. There was nothing in the Budget for the people in New Ferry, who face absolute devastation, as the Secretary of State knows well.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Clive James Charles Betts (Labour, Centre-left): Obviously the £650 million for social care is welcome, but does the Secretary of State accept the Local Government Association figures that the gap next year is actually £2.6 billion? Has he any concerns at all about comments from leaders in East Sussex, Surrey, Somerset and Lancashire, all Conservative county councils, that they are facing a cliff edge that they are likely to fall over at some stage unless the Government take more dramatic action?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Seema Malhotra-Saluja (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State is laying out his plan for towns, but does he not agree that the plan needs to be inclusive and give young people something positive to do? Youth services have seen massive cuts of more than 60% in real terms since 2010. This Budget does not seem to be investing in young people. Should it not be doing so?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): I beg to move an amendment, after "tax year 2019-20" insert "provided that the condition in paragraph (2) of this resolution is met (2) The condition in this paragraph is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has, no later than 5 April 2019, laid before the House of Commons a distributional analysis of— (a) the effect of reducing the threshold for the additional rate to £80,000, and (b) the effect of introducing a supplementary rate of income tax, charged at a rate of 50%, above a threshold of £125,000." We have had the fiction and now it is time for the fact. It is a pleasure to open the final day of the Budget debate for the Opposition. This Budget was sold as ending austerity, but it does not do that remotely. It is a Budget of failure; a Budget of broken promises. Labour is not opposed to any modest benefit—however modest that may be—for lower and middle-income earners, but that measure is the only one that puts some money in their pockets. We also need to support those who do not reach the lower threshold, which is why we support a real living wage, and the restoration of sectoral collective bargaining and trade union rights. However, putting more money into the pockets of higher earners is obviously wrong, which is why the next Labour Government will increase taxes on only the very wealthiest—people with incomes in the top 5% and the corporations that have had a tax cut under the Tories.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): The hon. Gentleman was clearly not listening. It is in our amendment and was in our manifesto at the last general election. We mean the people in the top 5% of incomes, and Labour’s amendment sets out the changes to income taxation that we would introduce in order to achieve that.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Janet Jessica Daby (Labour, Centre-left): Does my hon. Friend agree that the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 caused £34 billion of cuts, resulting in 14 million people, including 4 million children, living in poverty? The Government have reduced the deficit by taking from the poor instead of from those who have much more—the wealthy.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Whatever this Government say, austerity is far from over for the people who require our help through the social security system Turning to communities, it was only a few weeks ago, in a speech that began with the Prime Minister dancing across the stage, that we were told that austerity is over. After almost a decade of cuts that have made life difficult for families across the country, I expect that many people welcomed the news coming out of Birmingham and breathed a sigh of relief. No longer would they have to visit food banks after work because they could not afford to eat. No longer would they feel unsafe in their neighbourhoods after 21,000 police officers had been cut. No longer would too many people be left shivering in the cold, unable to afford somewhere to live and with nowhere to turn. No longer would local councillors be worrying about balancing their books, about providing care for vulnerable children, or about ensuring dignity for the elderly people who need the care that their councils should be providing Fast-forward to the Budget presented to the House this week, and many people will have been left bitterly disappointed. This is not an end to austerity, but merely more of the same. Two thirds of the welfare benefit cuts planned by the Government will still happen, and headteachers will still be forced to write begging letters to parents to pay for the basics. No wonder that the "little extras" referred to by the Chancellor—a frankly insulting term to schools at a time when the independent pay review body has said that they do not have the resources to give any pay rises to their staff—were so badly received. Teachers’ pay is down £4,000 in real terms since 2010, and headteachers are writing to parents to ask for donations just to keep services at current levels.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Government Operations
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker As I was saying, £1.3 billion of cuts next year are hard-wired into the system—[Interruption.] The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government can shake his head, but the statistics come from the Tory-led Local Government Association. The cuts will devastate councils that are already struggling. Austerity is certainly not over for local government. Councils were the first and perhaps the easiest target of the coalition Government, and they have had to endure some of the largest cuts across the public sector.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Government Operations
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): No, I am going to make some progress After all, by cutting funding to councils, Ministers have shifted the blame on to councillors, including Conservative councillors. Councils of all political persuasions and none are now at breaking point. The effects of that on our communities are plain to see across the country. More than 500 children’s centres have shut down and 475 libraries have closed. Support for disabled children has been stripped away—for example, the transport that helped them to get to school to learn like their friends. Support for older people has been slashed, with 1.4 million older people now not getting the necessary help with essential tasks such as washing and dressing. Bus routes have been cut. Our roads are in disrepair, and before the Government laud the £420 million for potholes, I must point out the £1 billion backlog created by this Government’s cuts. Swimming pools, leisure centres and community spaces have closed. Bin collections have been reduced. Youth clubs have closed. Planning departments have been stripped out. Trading standards offices have been slashed, leaving more people at risk of fraud or dodgy goods. Streetlights have been turned off to save money.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Ruth Stephanie Nicole George (Labour, Centre-left): We see the impact of all those cuts in Derbyshire, where elderly people are not receiving care packages, early help for children is being cut and libraries are threatened. Does my hon. Friend agree that the cuts are actually contributing to long-term growth in the numbers of older people in hospital and children being taken into care? The cuts are not only cruel, but a false economy.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend is absolutely right, because all this does is shunt costs on to other parts of the public sector. That is not a sustainable way of continuing. Sadly, I could give many more examples, yet the Government’s answer to these problems is not to drop the £1.3 billion cut to funding next year, nor to properly address the crises in social care and children’s services, but to offer mere crumbs from the table, which will do little to fix the problem that has been created.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Law and Crime
Michael Lee Amesbury (Labour, Centre-left): The police and crime commissioner for Cheshire has written to me to say that austerity is far from over there and that funding pressures mean 250 police officers might be cut from the frontline in that patch alone.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Macroeconomics
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): If Conservative Members really cared about the safety of our citizens, and about the soaring crime in some of our communities, they could have fixed it by stopping the police cuts The Budget shows that this is not a Government who are interested in public safety, in our children’s future, in our elderly, in our public sector workers—our doctors, our nurses, our teachers, our police officers, our firefighters—or in the disabled. Indeed, they are not interested in our constituents Politics is always a question of priorities, and this Government have clearly got their priorities wrong. Since 2010 they have handed out £110 billion in tax giveaways to the richest and to corporations, but the services on which most people rely have been cut to the bone and to breaking point. In the coming days and weeks—as children’s centres and libraries remain closed, as roads continue to go without repair and as crime continues to rise—people will recognise that the Prime Minister’s promise to end austerity has been broken. In fact, it was a mirage from the start We need a fresh approach: a real end to austerity, investment in our communities, and a Government intent on rebuilding Britain for the many, not the few.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Government Operations
George Edward Howarth (Labour, Centre-left): It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldershot (Leo Docherty). I think it would be fair to describe his speech as a bit of a mixed grill, but perhaps I should move on In a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday, the Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the hon. Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Rishi Sunak), talked about local government cuts since 2010. He said that they had been mitigated by what he referred to as "core spending power", which had gone up by 2% this year and over previous years. He went on to say: "The idea that the funding formulas do not take account of deprivation or the differing ability of areas to raise council tax is totally erroneous."—[Official Report, 30 October 2018; Vol. 648, c. 332WH.] Note that he said not just "erroneous", but "totally erroneous". I want to spend a moment looking at the veracity of that statement. He must know that the Government’s grant cuts since 2010 have hit those councils with the greatest need the hardest. Knowsley’s cut to "core spending power", as he puts it, amounts to £485 per person, compared with the average for England as a whole of £188.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2018-11-01
Topic: Social Welfare
Marie Elizabeth Rimmer (Labour, Centre-left): Knowsley is one of the most poorly resourced areas in the country. Indeed, it suffers from one of the highest levels of income deprivation. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the impact on the streets is dangerous and sickening?