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Engagements — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): May I start by wishing all women a very happy International Women’s Day today? I am proud that the Labour party has more women MPs than all other parties in this House combined and a shadow Cabinet of which half the members are women A month ago, I raised the question of the leaked texts between the leader of Surrey County Council and Government officials about social care. The Prime Minister’s response was to accuse me of peddling "alternative facts". Will she explain the difference between a sweetheart deal and a gentleman’s agreement?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Can I just say to Members on the Government Benches that I want to hear the Leader of the Opposition? I do not want him to be shouted down. You might not be interested, but our constituents out there want to hear what the alternative is, so please—[Interruption.] If the Whip wants to be funny, he can go and get a cup of tea now. Let us show the same respect that was given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Alison McGovern (Labour, Centre-left): The right hon. Gentleman says that we ought to get rid of forecasters in the OBR and the Bank of England if they get the forecasts wrong. Plenty of modellers and forecasters in the City of London got their forecasts wrong before the crash in 2008, but I am sure he does not believe that we should end the banking trade in the City of London.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Rachel Jane Reeves (Labour, Centre-left): I am sure that the hon. Gentleman read that article; I said I would be tougher than the Tories in controlling the rising costs of benefits. For all the cuts we have seen from the Tories, the benefits bill keeps rising. Why is that? More young people are out of work, more is being spent on housing benefit because we are not building social housing, and one in five people is not paid a living wage. I will take no lectures at all from the Tories on controlling social security benefits; in fact, they have breached their social security cap, and they have had to come back to Parliament to explain themselves Thirdly, I welcome the announcement that the Government want to crack down on the small print in contracts, but I have a specific request, which the Minister at the Dispatch Box knows about. In 2013, Parliament capped charges on payday loans, resulting in a maximum charge of £24 a month if someone borrows £100. However, if someone goes overdrawn with their high street bank, they can be charged as much as £5 a day—almost £100 a month. If the Government are serious about protecting consumers from unscrupulous business practices, they should get tough on the banks that are using excessive overdraft charges to exploit customers, particularly those who are vulnerable and getting into debt Finally, I want to say something about grammar schools. The Budget documents say that the Government will spend £1 billion on new schools—presumably, those will be primarily grammar schools—but only £260 million on all other schools combined. How can that possibly be right? How can that new spending be fair and ensure that all our children get access to good schools? Instead of spending £25 million on bussing children to these new grammar schools, why do we not do more to ensure that all our children have the best possible start in life? That would be a fair Budget; that would be a Budget that addressed the concerns of all our constituents. We will not get it from the Conservatives; we will get it only from a Labour Government.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Margaret Olivia Hillier (Labour, Centre-left): Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that problem simply hammers small businesses in the UK that are trying to do a good thing, and that it creates such an un-level playing field that it really is time for the Government to act?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Immigration
Geraint Richard Davies (Labour, Centre-left): I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, but does he not agree that after we trigger article 50, it will be for the other EU 27 member states to decide among themselves what is good for them and to stop other people leaving the EU? If we hold the line on migration, we will not be in the single market or the customs union, and that will be it. The people deserve a final say on the exit package, because that is not what they voted for.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert Howard Marris (Labour, Centre-left): I will tell the hon. Gentleman what I was chuntering on about. He talks about periodic payments. They are called structured settlements, and in order to calculate the future value, we have to use a discount rate. That is what it is all about.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Before I call the next speaker, who will maintain the eight-minute limit, I should warn Members that after that the limit will go down to seven minutes and it may have to come down a little lower.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Karin Marguerite Smyth (Labour, Centre-left): Does my hon. Friend agree that the opportunity has been missed to give us an understanding of what postponing part 2 of the Care Act will mean, and of the Conservative party manifesto commitment that people would not have to sell their house to fund their care, once their spending on care had gone above a certain level?
Unfinished Dwellings in Heol Berwyn, Cefn Mawr — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Housing
Susan Elan Jones (Labour, Centre-left): I rise to present this petition concerning Harron Homes and unfinished developments and dwellings in Heol Berwyn, Cefn Mawr. In so doing, I wish to pay a special tribute to Councillor Derek Wright for all his work on this issue The petition states: The petition of residents of Cefn Mawr in the constituency of Clywd South, Declares that the petitioners believe that it is unacceptable that Harron Homes has only part finished the construction of residential dwellings in Heol Berwyn, Cefn Mawr; further declares that part finished construction sites may become magnets for anti-social behaviour and infestations of rats due to partially constructed sewers; and further that such part finished construction sights are a blight upon communities The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to declare and enforce that part finished construction sites be completed, sold outright, part sold or gifted to the Local Authority or a Housing Association And the petitioners remain, etc [P002025]
Controlling and Coercive Behaviour — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of current legislation on controlling and coercive behaviour; and if she will make a statement.; May I commend the Government for their recent action to combat coercive or controlling behaviour by creating this new offence? Will the Minister outline the work that police forces are doing up and down the country to combat crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as stalking?
Diane Julie Abbott (Labour, Centre-left): The Opposition welcome the introduction of this legislation—it was, after all, Labour party policy—but when are the Government going to put their money where their mouth is on domestic violence? We know that local authority spending cuts have severely impacted on specialist domestic abuse services, which has meant cuts and closures. Women and children are being turned away daily at the point of need. Data from the Women’s Aid annual survey showed that on just one day in 2015, 92 women and 75 children were turned away from a refuge. When are the Government going to address the financial pressures on women’s refuges?
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (Labour, Centre-left): The Home Secretary advises Members to tell their EU constituents that they are safe, and many of us have been doing that, but, frankly, they need to hear it from her and from the Prime Minister. We really need the Government to step up and say to those individuals that their lives here in Britain are secure, at the same time as trying to ensure that the people who went from Britain to Spain will be equally secure.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Diane Julie Abbott (Labour, Centre-left): Is the Secretary of State aware that British public opinion increasingly thinks that the Government are being callous in continuing to seek to use EU nationals as bargaining chips? Is she also aware that, given the cloud of uncertainty hanging over EU nationals and their families, employers in sectors that rely on their labour—notably financial services, health and education—want that uncertainty to be removed?
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Alexander Cunningham (Labour, Centre-left): When the Calais camp was cleared last year, 550 of the 750 children who came to the UK did so under an accelerated process based on the family reunion criteria of the Dublin regulation, which has since been discontinued. How will the Minister ensure that refugees in Greece, France, and Italy, including unaccompanied children with family members in the UK, can be reunited with their families?
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: I am pleased that Cambridgeshire County Council has accepted people from the unaccompanied asylum seekers dispersal scheme and that Cambridge City Council, together with East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire District Councils, is welcoming 100 refugees. Does the Minister think that councils should do what they can and, more importantly, that we should properly welcome the people who come and integrate them into our communities?
Rupa Asha Huq (Labour, Centre-left): On Holocaust Memorial Day, Michael Brown movingly described his experiences as a child refugee fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and advocated the need for Britain to be open to children from Europe fleeing atrocities today. Numerous local authorities, such as Ealing, Hammersmith, and even Hastings—the Home Secretary’s backyard—are willing to take more, so why are the Government pulling the plug on the world’s most vulnerable by closing the Dubs scheme?
Refugee Camp: Calais — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Robert Howard Marris (Labour, Centre-left): Many economic migrants dispersed from Calais refuse to apply for asylum in France, so they are not fingerprinted there: thus they can get smuggled to the UK and claim asylum here. Has the Minister urged upon the French authorities the desirability of all such individuals being fingerprinted in France and the records exchanged?
Refugee Camp: Calais — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Joanna Meriel Stevens (Labour, Centre-left): Thank you for the second opportunity, Mr Speaker. My constituent Bashir Naderi came to Cardiff as an unaccompanied child refugee aged 10. Two months ago, Bashir and I personally delivered to the Home Secretary my letter and a petition against his forced removal to Afghanistan signed by more than 14,000 people. I have had no acknowledgment from the Home Secretary, never mind a response to the letter or the petition. When will she reply to me?
Non-UK EU Nationals: Status Regularisation — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: How many non-UK EU nationals have applied to regularise their status since the EU referendum took place; and what application fee is charged by her Department for such regularisation.
Chinyelu Susan Onwurah (Labour, Centre-left): Three per cent. of Newcastle’s population are EU nationals, and be they in our hospitals, universities, restaurants or high-tech start-ups—or in our championship- topping football team—they are an integral part of our lives. Does the Minister realise how insecure they feel as bargaining chips, and how does he justify charging them for the privilege?
Non-UK EU Nationals: Status Regularisation — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: How many non-UK EU nationals have applied to regularise their status since the EU referendum took place; and what application fee is charged by her Department for such regularisation.
Katherine Anne Green (Labour, Centre-left): Some EU nationals—for example, Roma or those from central Europe—find it particularly difficult to produce documentation, as they may have been in insecure employment, have ended up sleeping rough and so on. Following on from the Minister’s answer to the hon. Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), what can be done to ensure that those who have lived, worked and contributed here but who struggle to produce documentation will also receive a fair hearing?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the £10 million of investment that has been spent refurbishing Southend police station, and does he agree that the extra investment and better technology should result in improved crime detection and crime prevention?
Carolyn Harris (Labour, Centre-left): Does the Home Secretary really believe that the 45 days of support for suspected victims of trafficking is adequate, given that the organisations working at the coalface of the problem, such as the Human Trafficking Foundation, the Salvation Army, the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, the Snowdrop Project, City Hearts and ECPAT, all say that it is completely unrealistic to expect to deal with the immigration, psychological, economic and housing issues that these vulnerable individuals are experiencing in 45 days? All those organisations also agree that this lethal combination is exposing victims to the real possibility of being re-trafficked.
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Iain David Wright (Labour, Centre-left): The plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port are productive and efficient. They have a highly skilled workforce that any company would be proud to employ—this is not a basket-case industry—but in the face of strong foreign Government support, we need an active and interventionist Government who are determined to safeguard these competitive skills and manufacturing assets for Britain. If the new enterprise plans to become profitable through the development of products and the supply chain, and by moving the production of Opel cars on to PSA assembly lines, what specific things will the Government pledge to do both to win the new model Astra for Britain and to develop this country’s automotive supply chain?
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kelvin Peter Hopkins (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State will be aware that the Luton workforce are brilliant. They produce a superb vehicle. Today’s news is very positive, but Britain is still a net importer of motor vehicle products, in particular high value added components. Will he discuss with PSA the possibility of developing more high value added production in the supply chain over here, particularly in view of the recent depreciation of sterling, which looks likely to be permanent?
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Christian John Patrick Matheson (Labour, Centre-left): I echo the thanks to the Secretary of State for his efforts to keep those of us with a constituency interest involved. I am most grateful to him. Does he accept that our car industry is at a competitive disadvantage compared with those in other European countries because of the way that business rates operate, and that when new plant is installed, it increases business rate costs? Will he speak to his colleagues in the Government to see if we can find a way around this disincentive to invest?
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Geoffrey Robinson (Labour, Centre-left): Is the Secretary of State aware that the reassurances he has obtained from Peugeot, welcome as they are, are very limited in extent and duration, and that it would probably not take much longer than that if it were decided to close one of the British factories, which is exactly what happened at Ryton in Coventry, as the hon. Member for Rugby (Mark Pawsey) would confirm? Is it not therefore the case that he cannot rest on the assurances at this point, such as they are, but must push and continue to push for the only reassurance that we really have, which is replacement models for the plants in the UK?
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Richard Haines Burden (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State is right to acknowledge that today’s announcement underlines the importance of reinforcing the UK’s role as a centre for research, innovation and the development of connected and ultra-low emission vehicles. What more can be done to ensure that PSA and other manufacturers—I hope the Minister will pardon the expression—take a leaf out of Nissan’s and Jaguar Land Rover’s book, and make those vehicles in the UK as well?
Opel/Vauxhall: Sale to PSA Group — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Madeleine Moon (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Secretary of State for his kind offer after last week to meet me later today along with colleagues representing seats along the south Wales M4 corridor to talk about what happened with Ford in Bridgend last week, but today we have another announcement. It looks as though we are going to have drip, drip, drip announcements, causing great anxiety to people in the automotive industry. I asked the Prime Minister if we could have a summit involving MPs, manufacturers and the trade unions; is it not now time to call such a summit, so that rather than companies being taken apart one by one, we can discuss this as a whole House?
Sky/21st Century Fox: Proposed Merger — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Helen Catherine Goodman (Labour, Centre-left): The Secretary of State is handling this matter in a very careful and considered manner. On Leveson 2, is she saying that she is now legally constrained there as well and that she cannot simply decide to go ahead, which is what many people think she should be doing?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your advice on the timely response of the Home Office to MPs’ offices. I made representations to the Home Office on 18 January on behalf of my constituent Iryna O’Reilly, who had been informed by the Home Office at the end of October 2016 that she would be notified by the end of the year of whether her spousal visa had been successful. At the beginning of last week, despite numerous phone calls from my office, neither she nor I had heard from the Home Office. As a consequence of those delays, she lost the job that had been held open for her since the beginning of this year. As you know, Mr Speaker, Government Departments are meant to respond to MPs in a timely manner. Please will you advise me on how we can ensure that the Home Office is held to account on this matter and that this situation never happens again?
Leaving the EU: Business Consultation — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (Labour, Centre-left): All the five business organisations to which the Secretary of State refers have come out against the Prime Minister’s extreme and damaging Brexit. What is he personally doing to ensure that the Prime Minister not only hears what they are saying, but listens to it?
Leaving the EU: Business Consultation — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Immigration
William Roffen Esterson (Labour, Centre-left): The Government said yesterday that EU citizens will be able to apply for what they called "settled status", so that they can continue to live and work in the UK. Application processes can be time-consuming, not to mention complicated, expensive and off-putting, especially when this Government are involved. How can the Secretary of State guarantee that all EU nationals working in the UK will be allowed to stay not just in theory but in practice, to the benefit of the many businesses that rely on EU workers?
Construction Industry: Cash Retentions — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Matthew Toby Perkins (Labour, Centre-left): If the Government had only listened in 2015 to the amendments the Labour party tabled to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, we would already have a solution. We were told then that the Government were going to take action. We were told again a few months ago that they were taking action with their proposals about naming and shaming businesses that did not publish their late payments. We now have yet another consultation. Research from Crossflow Payments shows that 74% of small businesses do not believe that the Government’s recent changes will make any difference. Can we have a policy that actually enforces action on late payments, rather than the series of consultations that we have had?
Electric Cars — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What steps he is taking to ensure that the electric grid is able to support the charging of the number of electric cars estimated to be in use by 2020.
Albert Owen (Labour, Centre-left): May I welcome the hon. Lady to her new position and, indeed, Front-Bench Members, new and old, to their roles? Can we have proper local accountability and ownership of local community grids, so that we break the monopolies of the distribution companies, which make masses of money and do not always reinvest?
Leaving the EU: Small Businesses — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Wesley Paul William Streeting (Labour, Centre-left): Many SMEs in my constituency are part of European and global supply chains. Does the Minister understand that those businesses, as well as larger financial services businesses, need clarity and certainty? When will she and the Government be in a position to give those businesses certainty about the transitional arrangements that will be put in place? As she knows, businesses are already making investment or de-investment decisions.
Energy Price Cap — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour, Centre-left): I am afraid it is not clear. The Secretary of State’s recent letter to Ofgem simply asks it to advise him of the action it intends to take to safeguard customers on the poorest value tariffs. It was not a direction to implement a price cap. Can the Secretary of State confirm that should Ofgem not take directions to implement a price cap, or if it directs a price cap that is narrower than the Conservative manifesto commitment, he will legislate to uphold his party’s manifesto commitment and, if so, when?
NHS Shared Business Services — House of Commons, 2017-06-27
Topic: Other
Dennis Edward Skinner (Labour, Centre-left): How many more times is the Secretary of State going to come to this House, as he has done on countless occasions, when he personally is at the centre of a controversy? Even a cat has only nine lives.