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Covid-19 — House of Commons, 2020-10-22
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (Labour, Centre-left): Absolutely. There have been problems with the app. When I am in Leicester, it tells me that I am in an area that is both medium and high alert. Leicester has been under lockdown for 100 days, so how can the app say that in the part of Leicester where I live?
Covid-19 — House of Commons, 2020-10-22
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for being so understanding. I am going to reduce the time limit to four minutes, but Members will need to brace themselves for the fact that not everyone will get in. However, there is a whole day’s debate on covid-19 on Monday 2 November, the day we come back from recess.
Support for rugby league — House of Commons, 2020-10-22
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Yvette Cooper (Labour, Centre-left): I rise to present a petition on behalf of residents of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford calling for support for rugby league clubs during the covid crisis. The petition is signed by my constituents, and it also has the support of more than 1,300 people from across our area—many of them strong Castleford Tigers supporters but also supporters of other rugby league clubs—who have shown their support online. The petition calls on the Government to recognise the importance of rugby league to our towns, the role that Castleford Tigers and other clubs play supporting our community, families and people young and old, and the pressure that rugby league is under, as supporters cannot return to grounds but bills still need to be paid. The petitioners therefore request "that the House of Commons urge the Government to recognise the importance of" rugby league to our towns and to ensure that our important rugby league clubs get the support they need so they can keep supporting our communities through the covid crisis Following is the full text of the petition: [The petition of the residents of the constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, Declares that Castleford Tigers rugby league club is at the heart of the town of Castleford, and supports the whole community, but is now under pressure; further declares that the rugby league faces financial difficulty as COVID-19 restrictions mean that supporters cannot go to the Jungle or other grounds but clubs still have outgoing bills to pay; and further declares that it is vital that the Government provides proper support for the rugby league over the course of the pandemic. The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urge the Government to recognise the importance of the rugby league to towns by ensuring that they get the support they need to survive the pandemic. And the petitioners remain, etc.] [P002617]
Down Syndrome Awareness Month — House of Commons, 2020-10-22
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachael Helen Maskell (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful to the hon. Member for securing this debate, having worked with people with Down’s syndrome for many years. I put on the record my huge gratitude to the Once Seen theatre company in York, where people with Down’s syndrome act. Their acting is so powerful and so moving, because it is about life experience. Does she agree that we need to put on a platform so much of the talent that people with Down’s syndrome have?
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Matthew Toby Perkins (Labour, Centre-left): The Minister is right to say that apprenticeships are more important than ever, but for all the rhetoric, the way that the Government introduced the apprenticeship levy saw level 2 and level 3 apprenticeship numbers falling to their lowest level for a decade before coronavirus. Since then, we have seen generous incentives in the new kickstart scheme and much less generous incentives for apprenticeships. For all that the Minister says, why do this Government consistently introduce policies that have the effect of reducing the numbers doing level 2 and 3 apprenticeships?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. I say to those on both Front Benches that topical questions are meant to be short and punchy, not full-blown questions. If people want full-blown questions they should ask them earlier. I have to get through topicals. I call the shadow Secretary of State to ask a question to the Secretary of State.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Housing
Kerry Gillian McCarthy (Labour, Centre-left): I hope the Secretary of State is aware of the Children’s Commissioner’s recent report, "Unregulated", about children in care living in unregulated, semi-independent accommodation. Next month I am introducing a ten-minute rule Bill that seeks to regulate the supported housing sector. I urge him to speak to his colleagues in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to see whether we can all join together to support such vulnerable people.
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Housing
Hilary James Benn (Labour, Centre-left): We all know that rising infections will mean more restrictions, but worried staff in viable businesses in Leeds want to know that they will be looked after if they are forced to close in future. I presume that the Prime Minister can give the House an assurance that the council would be consulted before that happened, but for someone on the minimum wage who would lose a third of their income in those circumstances—by the way, the French and German schemes are more generous than those applying here—can the Prime Minister assure my constituents that they will not, under any circumstances, be evicted from their homes because they could not afford to pay the rent?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Civil Rights
Victoria Jane Foxcroft (Labour, Centre-left): Prime Minister, disabled people have felt like an afterthought throughout this pandemic. I would like to ask one simple question that requires only a yes or no answer. Will there be a sign language interpreter at your press conference this evening?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Jessica Elizabeth Morden (Labour, Centre-left): Football clubs such as Newport County AFC have, like many industries, been hard hit by the pandemic. They need to see the Premier League stick to its obligations to provide assistance to lower division clubs. Will the Prime Minister ensure that happens?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Matthew Toby Perkins (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister will be as aware as anyone that people do not generally go to the pub to meet their own wife; they go to the pub to be with other people. In the current programme that the Prime Minister has put together, there is no support for those pubs, so he is saying that he will cover and support pubs that are forced to close, but many of those pubs will find their business model and their businesses untenable. Will the Prime Minister do more to support those pubs that might be open but, frankly, are not able to make a living?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kim Marie Johnson (Labour, Centre-left): Liverpool will be placed on the highest restrictions from Wednesday, with the closure of pubs, clubs, gyms and other leisure facilities for at least four weeks. Will the Government stand by their commitment to safeguard businesses by properly compensating them and allowing them to survive the latest restrictions imposed on Liverpool city region, and provide us with the necessary financial support to protect jobs and livelihoods?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Barbara Mary Keeley (Labour, Centre-left): Under the initial furlough scheme, staff had 80% of their salary paid if there was no work for them, but the Chancellor’s new scheme pays only two thirds of wages, which for minimum wage staff can be as little as £5.80 an hour. And only those businesses forced to close will get support, even though supply chain businesses will also be hit. If we are going to beat this virus, we need a full package of financial support in all tier 2 and tier 3 areas that pays everyone affected 80% of their wages. Can the Prime Minister commit to providing that support?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachel Louise Hopkins (Labour, Centre-left): Many of my constituents in Luton South work for Luton airport, its supply chain and linked businesses, such as Theobolds Coaches, which I visited last Friday. While businesses in tier 3 that are forced to close will be offered some Government support, what support will be offered to those businesses in tourism and airports that are not in tier 3 but are so distinctly affected by the addition of tier 3, and are struggling due to a lack of consumer confidence?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Zarah Sultana (Labour, Centre-left): Key to stopping the spread of the virus is giving people the financial support they need to self-isolate when they need to, but millions of working people still do not have that. The Government’s test and trace support payment scheme is totally inadequate; only a small proportion of workers qualify, and even for those who do, at £500 for up to two weeks, the scheme pays less than the minimum wage. Will the Prime Minister finally do as I urged him at Prime Minister’s questions back in March and raise statutory sick pay to the level of the real living wage, extend it to cover all workers and give people the financial security they need to self-isolate?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Maria Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I understand and agree with the need to prevent households from mixing to cut covid rates on Merseyside, but this tough local lockdown is going to destroy many businesses and jobs that will not be eligible for the limited local furlough so far announced by the Chancellor, because they will not be forced to close by law—they will just lose most of their business. Will the Prime Minister undertake to look again, with his Chancellor, at the business support scheme, with the aim of ensuring that jobs and businesses can survive this tough next six months and will be able to grow bigger again in better times, rather than have to close now, with all the misery, unemployment and bankruptcy that is going to result?
Covid-19 Update — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Mixed Topics
Judith Mary Cummins (Labour, Centre-left): In areas such as Bradford, which have had local restrictions since July, people living in care homes have gone months without face-to-face contact with loved ones. For people with dementia, a lack of social contact can cause a marked decline. Will the Prime Minister commit to doing everything he can not only to keep care home residents safe, but to work to reintroduce visits, for example, by testing loved ones on a regular basis? Can he confirm whether there will be changes to the shielding guidance in tier 2 or tier 3 areas?
Agriculture Bill — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Lords amendments 2 to 8. Lords amendment 9, and Government motion to disagree Lords amendment 10 Lords amendment 11, and Government motion to disagree Lords amendment 12, and Government motion to disagree Lords amendments 13 to 15 Lords amendment 16, and Government motion to disagree Lords amendment 17, and Government motion to disagree Lords amendment 18 Lords amendment 19 to 46.
Agriculture Bill — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): Order. I am sure that colleagues will be aware that this debate must finish at 9 o’clock and there are still two Front-Bench contributions to come. I will therefore set an immediate limit of four minutes on Back-Bench speeches, although I fear that may have to go down if we are to have any chance of getting everybody in.
Agriculture Bill — House of Commons, 2020-10-12
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): Order. As colleagues will appreciate, there is still a lot of pressure on this debate, and if those who have already spoken intervene again, somebody else will not get in. In view of that, after the next speaker I will reduce the time limit to three minutes.
Women Leaving Prison: Resettlement — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Housing
Carolyn Harris (Labour, Centre-left): The independent monitoring board recently reported that almost 60% of female prisoners are leaving prison to homelessness, which overwhelmingly leads to reoffending. To give these women a chance in life we need an effective through-the-gate strategy, including community support and adequate housing, so can we expect the autumn statement to deliver extra resources to allow that to happen?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Mixed Topics
Olivia Frances Blake Dagnall (Labour, Centre-left): The prison operator G4S is withholding full sick pay from workers who operate in close contact with prisoners. Does the Secretary of State agree with me and the GMB union that that is scandalous? Will he support calls for G4S to provide the sick pay its workers deserve?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Mixed Topics
Emma Ann Hardy (Labour, Centre-left): I have been contacted by a local resident who works in a shop and who told me about the increase in abuse that she has faced during covid-19. She said that she has managed to get a full-time guard and body cameras but still the abuse continues. Further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas), will the Government support the trade unions and the British Retail Consortium in their call for tougher action on those who assault retail staff?
Covid-19 — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Margaret Olivia Hillier (Labour, Centre-left): Back in July, the Government introduced the Business and Planning Act 2020, which allowed the sale and consumption of alcohol off the premises for as long as the licence of licensed premises. Today, just weeks later, the Prime Minister has come to the House to say that there will be no sales and no service in hospitality after 10 o’clock at night. Will he explain the rationale behind that 10 o’clock curfew and the Government’s very fast change of plan?
Covid-19 — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Mixed Topics
Grahame Mark Morris (Labour, Centre-left): Mr Speaker, you will be aware of the recent imposition of further restrictions in the north-east of England. First, I thank the Prime Minister for listening to and acting on the concerns, both individual and collective, from the northern group of Labour MPs about informal childcare arrangements in my constituency and others. However, before he feels my warm embrace, I ask him to provide assurances to businesses in my constituency in relation to the latest announcement of restrictions on businesses. Will he outline what sector-specific support the Government will offer to those worst affected by covid, such as the coach sector, which is on the brink of collapse because of Government inaction, in the main, and the failure to listen to the "Honk for Hope" campaign?
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): I should explain that, in these exceptional circumstances, although the Chair of the Committee would normally sit in the Clerk’s chair during Committee stage, in order to comply with social distancing requirements, I will remain in the Speaker’s Chair, although I will be carrying out the role not of Deputy Speaker but of Chairman of the Committee. We should be addressed as Chairs of the Committee, rather than as Deputy Speakers Clause 1 Purpose of Part 1
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he should not address another hon. Member directly. When he uses the word "you", he is talking about me, and I am sure he would not want to do that.
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): It is important to remember, as the hon. Gentleman has said, that Sir Robert Neill is not in his place at the moment. It is a question of the amendment having to be moved and withdrawn, neither of which has happened, so I think we need to wait until he is here. At the moment, we work on the assumption, obviously, that it is something that can be discussed.
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — House of Commons, 2020-09-22
Topic: Other
Rosalie Winterton (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Just a gentle reminder that because we are in Committee, it is usually customary to call me "Chair" rather than "Deputy Speaker". I know that it is difficult to follow, because we said this at the beginning and people are in and out of the Chamber, but that is just a reminder.
Storm Dennis — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Public Lands
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): That was useless yet again. I have been asking for the money for the Rhondda for months. The Prime Minister wrote to me in June saying that he recognised that Wales had been particularly badly hit by Storm Dennis and that the UK Government would look seriously at any requests for funding. I am delighted that we have got the £2.5 million for the Tylorstown tip, but we need £60 million to mend culverts and drains and to make people’s houses secure in Pontypridd, the Rhondda and across the whole of Rhondda Cynon Taf. Make sure you earn your money by getting us the money in the Rhondda.
Covid-19: Financial Support — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Antonia Louise Antoniazzi (Labour, Centre-left): Tourism and hospitality is the backbone of the economy of the Gower peninsula. My constituent Lara Joslin runs the Kings Head in Llangennith. She is fighting to keep her family businesses alive. Lara runs a popular rural pub with accommodation, which, like many others in Gower, provides vital part-time jobs for local people. Why is the Secretary of State not banging on the door of the Treasury to right the wrong of the job support scheme failing to support independent hospitality businesses such as Lara’s?
Covid-19: Financial Support — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Nia Rhiannon Griffith (Labour, Centre-left): Throughout this pandemic, Welsh businesses have done all they can to stay open and stay trading, with so many drawing on the support grants and loans that have been so important in keeping them afloat. But as more areas of the country come under local restrictions, with trading halted or severely limited, and amid fears about public confidence, many businesses feel that they have absolutely maxed out on their borrowing and are worried about the future. What plan do the Government have to support businesses that are now heavily in debt, to make sure that the burden of repayments in the coming months does not mean that they go under?
Speaker’s Statement — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Before Prime Minister’s Question Time, I wish to make a short statement. On Monday, in answer to a question from the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) about virtual participation in debates, the Prime Minister—inadvertently, I would accept—said "I defer to you and the House authorities."—[Official Report, 12 October 2020; Vol. 682, c. 40.] As the Prime Minister will know, decisions on the scope of virtual participation are for the House itself. All decisions have been made on the basis of motions moved by the Leader of the House I know that the House of Commons Service would be more than happy to facilitate virtual participation in debates, if the House voted for it. If the Government wished to pass me the power, I would be more than happy to accept it, but the decision to bring forward the relevant motion is a matter for the Prime Minister and the Government he leads, not for me and the House authorities.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Housing
Matthew Raymond Western (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has a habit of hitting the headlines, and not always for the right reason. At the weekend, we discovered that his constituency had been awarded £25 million from the regeneration scheme and that that was approved by one of his own Ministers. The Secretary of State returned the favour by approving funding for that Minister’s constituency. We have one Department, two Ministers and tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money. Does the Prime Minister think that the approval process is appropriate, or does he think that the public might be right in thinking that this all looks a bit grubby?
Engagements — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Housing
Helen Elizabeth Hayes (Labour, Centre-left): My constituent, Luke Thomas, has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He urgently needs to move closer to his family for support. Luke has a shared ownership flat in a low-rise building with wooden cladding, but he cannot sell it because mortgage lenders require an EWS1 certificate and Luke’s building does not have one. Estimates suggest that it could take 10 years to certify every building affected, but Luke and hundreds of thousands of people like him cannot wait that long. When will the Prime Minister end this scandal?
Covid-19 Economic Support Package — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Anneliese Jane Dodds (Labour, Centre-left): I regret to say that the hon. Member, for whom I have a lot of respect, is sadly confused. It would have been useful if he had listened to the point that I just made, which was to provide contrast to the support that was provided to the Leicester area, specifically focused on businesses. I believe that negotiation occurred through the local business improvement district, the local enterprise partnership and local authorities, to ensure that that support was there for businesses—for his area, yes. Can he please intervene on me now to say which other areas of the country subject to additional restrictions have received funding specifically focused on businesses of that type? No, he cannot, because that support has not been provided to other places in the same manner as it was provided to Leicester. This lack of consistency is causing enormous problems for local authorities.
Covid-19 Economic Support Package — House of Commons, 2020-10-14
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Anneliese Jane Dodds (Labour, Centre-left): I regret that the hon. Member did not answer the question that I asked him, which was whether he knew of any other area of the country that had been treated in the same way as his constituency by being provided with business-related support. He could not answer that question; the reason why is that it appears that no other area has been. A radically different approach is being taken to different parts of the country, so local leaders and local businesses cannot plan because they do not know whether or not support will be there.