Penny Mordaunt: ...the UK Government to legislate on their behalf? While the hon. Lady is looking up the SNP’s record on education, I would ask her also to check how many concurrent police investigations there are into the SNP’s antics. Owing to her party’s antics, I am afraid her quest to take the moral high ground is stuck at a subterranean level. But given that she has, as is standard SNP operating...
Christian Wakeford: ...chance to escape earlier, and I want that option for anyone in my situation.” I could go on and share countless testimonies from many people, but I will share the words of just one more person. Penny, 50, from Portsmouth, said it best in 2018: “Conversion therapy…is abuse of the worst kind and must be stamped out.” That was not just any Penny; that was our current Leader of the...
Jim McMahon: ...are offshore or around the world. The Government could make that change, but they choose not to do so. On taxation, how odd is it that with business rates, someone is taxed before they can take a penny through the till? They are taxed to open the shop door. They can take not a single penny through the till during a trading day, and they will pay to exist. There is no other form of taxation...
Diana R. Johnson: ...my conscience I would think it would trouble the conscience of a caring government, and you have said that’s what you would wish to be.” That is why I tabled the new clause and amendments, into which I have copied Sir Brian's recommendations. Amendment 142 would extend interim compensation payments to bereaved parents, children and siblings who have lost loved ones as a result of...
Penny Mordaunt: .... Our thoughts are with my hon. Friend’s constituents and all those affected by this appalling tragedy. The Lord Chancellor is aware of this case. I am sure it will need to be subject to a review into what happened in this instance, but I know the Lord Chancellor’s door is always open to her and I think he may have already contacted her. I thank her for all she is doing in her...
Baroness Kramer: ..., that no matter what the excellent qualities of her successor, in her portfolio she will be very much missed. The headline message of the OBR is that, even after the Autumn Statement, and taking into account every government policy and promise, the forecast growth rate for the economy is essentially—and let me quote the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes—“uninspiring” and, to use my own...
Vaughan Gething: ...in other markets and to find new markets as well where possible. Our challenge, though, is that the end of EU investment, and the broken Conservative promise that Wales would not lose a single penny, has cost us £1.1 billion; there is no hiding from that. Despite that, the Welsh Government provided additional resources to continue our commitment to micro and small businesses. Despite...
John Redwood: ...Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Underneath the exchanges of words, I welcome the outbreak of agreement, given that the Labour party now strongly supports the idea of helping more people into work. I suspect that the Opposition will not vote against the main items in the autumn statement because they understand that the Government have had success in keeping so many people in...
Penny Mordaunt: The Procedure Committee has announced an inquiry into this issue and it would not be appropriate for me to pre-empt the conclusions of that inquiry.
Penny Mordaunt: ...gave earlier, but the hon. Lady will know that we have protected those on benefits and also pensioners through the triple lock, and we are ensuring that those who are on benefits and trying to get into work have additional support to do so. The result of our record is 1.7 million more people lifted out of absolute poverty, 200,000 of whom are pensioners and nearly 500,000 are children.
Rachael Maskell: ...food. And of course there was no promise of additional help today. We must remember that 4.3 million children in York and across the country now live in poverty; 18% of pensioners are counting the pennies to get by and we have a harsh winter ahead of us, with the energy price cap due to go up tomorrow and a tough year beyond that. Food prices are up about 25% on April 2022 figures, while...
Jeremy Hunt: ...to every corner of the country, and cut business taxes. The Office for Budget Responsibility says that the combined impact of these measures will raise business investment, get more people into work, reduce inflation next year and increase GDP, but Conservatives also know that a dynamic economy depends on the energy and enterprise of people more than any diktats or decisions by Ministers,...
Tim Farron: I thank the hon. Lady for making such a valid point and for being so generous in giving way. It seems to me that even if we did not put an extra penny of funding into supporting young people with autism spectrum disorders—although we should—if we spent the money more intelligently and more fairly, we would do more good. We have a situation in which schools that do the right thing and...
Andrew Mitchell: ...that my party is not in government after the next election, any other Government would, I hope, build on it to make it a huge success. I note the hon. Lady’s remarks about the merger of DFID into the Foreign Office. My task, which the Prime Minister gave me, was to try to make the merger work. That means there needs to be an ability within Government to focus on global public goods and...
Sammy Wilson: People in Northern Ireland will be angry tonight that not one penny of a fund that the Minister describes as creating opportunities across all regions and nations of the UK, and aimed at tackling regional inequality, is allocated to Northern Ireland. He gives the flimsy excuse that it is because the Northern Ireland Executive are not up and running. The Northern Ireland Executive did not have...
Penny Mordaunt: ...our colleagues in this place. I thank Mr Speaker for his care in ensuring we can go about our business and do our duties. I thank the families of those held hostage by Hamas for their time coming into Parliament this week to talk to parliamentarians. I know I speak for all here when I say that we will do all in our power to bring them home. Turning to the questions raised by the shadow...
Bob Doris: ..., my pension would be automatic and I would get a lump sum. People who are diagnosed with terminal conditions in the UK should get their UK pensions early. In my constituency, too many people pay into a pension pot all their life and never draw out a penny because of their life expectancy. That has to change also. This is not the end of the story for those dying in the margins. Some have...
Preet Kaur Gill: ...a plan for Great British Energy, which will procure the grid supply chain that Britain needs and bring down bills. The Government’s flagship King’s Speech energy policy will not take a single penny off energy bills, and even the Energy Secretary has admitted that. The UK has some of the least energy-efficient homes in Europe, and Birmingham has some of the worst rates of mould and damp...
Baroness Penn: ...now in work, with more than 1 million new businesses created. Increases in tax thresholds made by successive Chancellors mean that people in our country can earn £1,000 a month without paying a penny of tax or national insurance. At the same time, educational outcomes have consistently improved. All this has been delivered while we have cut our carbon emissions by more than 48% between...
James Murray: ...from the King’s Speech. It is astonishing that the Government announced new legislation on energy and yet their Energy Secretary was immediately forced to admit that the new laws would not take a penny off people’s bills. It is deeply frustrating, although sadly unsurprising, that the Government have announced legislation on housing that walks away yet again from unfulfilled promises...
