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Thames Water: Contingency Plans (15 Mar 2024)

Mark Spencer: ...to make clear that it is for the company and its investors to manage the company’s financial resilience within the context of its licence and broader statutory obligations. The Government are confident that Ofwat, as the economic regulator of the water industry, is working closely with all water companies, including Thames Water, and ensuring that action is taken when financial...

Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill (15 Mar 2024)

Sarah Champion: ...are struggling. The Office for National Statistics reported that over 6,000 agricultural businesses have closed since 2017. Meanwhile, the National Farmers Union reports that business certainty and confidence within British farming is at an all-time low. Alongside the obvious economic and social benefits of buying more British food, such as boosting the economy and creating jobs, there are...

Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill (15 Mar 2024)

Mark Spencer: ...from across the House will agree that the UK has some of the highest welfare standards anywhere in the world, and that we have a proud history of being at the forefront of protecting animals. I am confident that Members of all parties will agree that animals have been of great support to individuals and families, particularly during covid-19, when my pets were certainly of great support to...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Prisons and Young Offender Institutions: Pepper Spray (15 Mar 2024)

Edward Argar: PAVA is intended to protect staff and prisoners in very serious assaults. Safe implementation of PAVA use is accompanied by clear and explicit guidance ensuring staff are confident as to when PAVA spray should be used. Staff can use the PAVA spray where there is serious violence or an imminent or perceived risk of it, and there is an immediate need to create a safe and protective...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Employment: Musculoskeletal Disorders (15 Mar 2024)

Mims Davies: ...conditions, including people with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions, to start, stay and succeed in work. These include: the Work and Health Programme; Access to Work grants; Disability Confident; a digital information service for employers; Disability Employment Advisers and increasing Work Coach support in Jobcentres and Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care. In the...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Employment: Musculoskeletal Disorders (15 Mar 2024)

Mims Davies: ...conditions, including people with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions, to start, stay and succeed in work. These include: the Work and Health Programme; Access to Work grants; Disability Confident; a digital information service for employers; Disability Employment Advisers and increasing Work Coach support in Jobcentres and Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care. In the...

Written Answers — Attorney General: International Law (15 Mar 2024)

Victoria Prentis: ...provide advice or the contents of any such advice. This is a longstanding principle of Cabinet collective agreement which enables the Government of the day to obtain frank and full legal advice in confidence.

Written Answers — Treasury: Retail Trade: Sales (15 Mar 2024)

Baroness Vere of Norbiton: ...to 8% which, will make an average worker on £35,400 over £900 a year better off than before. This means more money in people’s pockets, helping to increase disposable income and consumer confidence. Government continues to back retailers. At Autumn Statement 2023 we extended Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief for 2024-5, a tax cut worth £2.4 billion, and froze the small business...

Written Ministerial Statements — Department for Education: Update on childminders and applications for the September entitlement expansion (15 Mar 2024)

David Johnston: ...at Spring Budget 2023 for the next two years. This is an estimated additional £500 million of investment over two years. The sector has welcomed this certainty on future funding and the additional confidence it creates to expand. We continue to make good progress supporting the sector to ready to provide parents with the places they need: We launched our new ‘Do something BIG. Work with...

St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon (14 Mar 2024)

Helen Whately: ...their constituents are heard, and I have no doubt that they will continue to do so. I am very much looking forward to meeting them to discuss in greater detail the questions we debated today. I am confident that the local NHS has been listening, and I know the importance of St Peter’s to the area. Any change in NHS services must be made with the utmost sensitivity to local views....

Housing: Young People - Motion to Take Note (14 Mar 2024)

Baroness Valentine: ...struggling with idea of socialising with other people. However, from the beginning, I felt at ease and loved spending time with some amazing staff and young people. Element really helped build my confidence in speaking in front of people. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them”. Finally, a young Blackpool homeless person said: “My Positive Transitions officer has helped with...

Post Office Legislation - Statement (14 Mar 2024)

Baroness Brinton: ...Badenoch. The Government are responsible for the payments—I shall come on to that later—but this gives them some skin in the game and one thing has to happen now, which is to give postmasters confidence that oversight is truly independent. Can the Minister therefore describe how independent the independent panels or independent individuals will be? Who will appoint them? Will there be...

News Broadcasting: Regulation - Question for Short Debate (14 Mar 2024)

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...of its function, and by law it carries out its duties independently of the Government. Ofcom is accountable to Parliament, with its duties and enforcement powers set out in statute, and we are confident that it has the resources it needs to carry out its important job. As noble Lords are aware, Ofcom is required by legislation to draw up and enforce a Broadcasting Code for television and...

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Diana R. Johnson: ...and good governance. Big question marks hang over Ministers’ spending decisions on asylum and migration, particularly on accommodation and the UK-Rwanda partnership. If the Home Office is confident about how it plans to spend public money, it should have no problem letting Parliament see the full details in advance of how that money will be spent. If it is not confident, then it must...

Backbench Business: St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK — [Dame Siobhain McDonagh in the Chair] (14 Mar 2024)

Claire Hanna: ...to follow Members from across the House who have done so much to honour and deepen the contribution of the Irish to Britain. They have represented the Irish in Britain for years with inclusivity, confidence and brilliant stories. I am proudly a Belfast woman and a Belfast MP, but I am a native of Galway. I was born there, so next time I am down I will look for the ancestors of the hon....

Extremism Definition and Community Engagement (14 Mar 2024)

Robert Jenrick: ...the visas of visitors who do not share our values—that appears to have stalled—and on ensuring that the police vigorously and fairly implement our existing laws so that everyone can have confidence that there is not, and will never be, two-tier policing in our country.

United Kingdom: Union - Motion to Take Note (14 Mar 2024)

Lord McInnes of Kilwinning: ..., making them ever more vibrant and successful parts of their country. These steps and this progress will then in turn make people even more risk averse to constitutional change, but in a positive, confident way—not the politics of financial transaction and “project fear”. For the union to build on its current structural stability, it needs to culturally change its attitude from...

Business of the House (14 Mar 2024)

Penny Mordaunt: ...This is a programme of work that we initiated following a review that was conducted with the help of many clubs around the country. When we bring legislation to the House, it will need to have the confidence of the English Football League, and, having attended many events with the EFL myself, I know that that is clear and understood. The hon. Lady claimed that the Conservatives had no...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Department for Education: Staff (14 Mar 2024)

Robert Halfon: ...essential digital skills development, where it is needed, into their learning programme. The department has also funded community learning and other non-regulated learning, such as building confidence in essential digital skills, through the AEB. Many local authorities and other further education providers are already delivering these courses that help equip adults with the essential...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Chevening Scholarships Programme (14 Mar 2024)

Andrew Mitchell: ....48% 43.19% 0.88% 0.29% 0.07% 0.07% We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion amongst awardees and ensure applicants of all genders, sexualities, races and religions feel confident in applying for Chevening.


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