"It is pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Andrew Ranger) on securing this very popular and important debate.
The Milburn report shows that we have to change how we talk about young people out of work and education. As …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"When the Education Committee looked at online harms, we had every major social media corporation before us. They did not recognise our characterisation of their features as inherently addictive. Does my hon. Friend agree that, with that kind of denial going on, we have very few options available other than …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"I agree that this is not the deal that I think our country wants to offer its young people, particularly if the Government are about breaking down barriers to opportunity.
Secondly, on universities, the Office for Students reported in May that more than a third of English higher education institutes …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) on securing this important debate.
Southampton is home to two excellent universities and yet in my constituency, only 7% of kids on free school meals will hold …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"My hon. Friend makes an absolutely salient point. Many of us never imagined that we would get to an even worse place, but here we are.
Only the top three earnings deciles of recent intakes will ever pay off their student loans in full. The nurse, the teacher or the …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"Southampton Itchen is one of the places in Hampshire with the most buildings with unsafe cladding. As hon. Members have said so eloquently, that means people live with the worry that the horrendous tragedy that befell Grenfell all those years ago could well befall them. Even where there has been …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"We are all fighting for our constituents to be protected from the bills that are landing on them through no fault of their own. They certainly did not choose any of this. They want the simple comfort of having their own home, and they work incredibly hard to achieve that, …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman’s closing point. The Bill must fix that, which is why I welcome its progress, but like Members from across the Chamber, I will follow its progress very closely to ensure it is not just a Bill that gets a headline, but instead fixes …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"I absolutely agree. As I will come on to say, it is simply unforgivable that too many companies still have no plan whatever for remediation, and people are paying the price, financially, but also with their life ambitions...." Darren Paffey - View Speech
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn) on her years of hard work on this issue and on securing this debate. The Government’s core mission is to provide stable, loving homes for every child. That policy happens to have come out of the …..." Darren Paffey - View Speech