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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Mar 2017
Easter Adjournment

"I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate and pleased to follow the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman). I am grateful to him and the mover of the motion, the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, for the work that they do in facilitating colleagues …..."
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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Poplar and Limehouse
Monday 6th March 2017

Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of freezing rates of child benefit and child tax credit on families in Poplar and Limehouse constituency.

Answered by David Gauke

The Government has considered the impact on all benefits and tax credits rates that are included in the four year uprating freeze. The Government has published an impact assessment at:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf

Speech in General Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Draft Immigration Act 2014 (Current Accounts) (Excluded Accounts and Notification Requirements) Regulations 2016

"It is a pleasure to see you presiding over our considerations this morning, Mr Nuttall. I apologise to the Minister if he has already covered this point but I will be brief. My concern reinforces that articulated by the two shadow spokespersons.

Over many years, I have seen constituents failed …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Draft Immigration Act 2014 (Current Accounts) (Excluded Accounts and Notification Requirements) Regulations 2016

"My point is that I have had a number of constituents over the years who have exhausted, or apparently exhausted, those avenues and been declared illegal, who have then found—to pick up on the comment made by the right hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield—another route to challenge the decision. Sometimes …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
Summer Adjournment

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am very surprised that he said “finally” without having mentioned that our football club West Ham United will move into the Olympic stadium and play its first match there during the recess. I am sure he will want to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
Summer Adjournment

"I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I am very pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)—I call him my friend despite having been on different sides of the argument earlier, and despite having been brought up in Glasgow, where the …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 04 Jul 2016
Draft Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) Order 2016

"The Minister and I have debated the anomalies in Tower Hamlets before, where there have been accusations of electoral fraud and so on. How will the Electoral Commission accommodate those anomalies into the overall scheme of things to make sure that the results are not skewed and that they provide …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 04 Jul 2016
Draft Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) Order 2016

"I was not defending them...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
Electoral Fraud: Tower Hamlets

"I am grateful to you, Mr Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to raise the concern of many of my constituents not only about the breathtaking decision of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police Service not to prosecute following the judgment of the election court in the case …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Canary Wharf Bombing: Compensation

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered compensation for victims of the Canary Wharf bombing.

It is a pleasure to see you presiding over the debate, Ms Dorries. It is also very good to see the Minister, for whom I have the highest regard, in his place. I …..."
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