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Speech in General Committees - Mon 17 Dec 2018
Draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

"I extend my earlier question to the capability in the Treasury. Are there sufficient skills and resources in the Treasury to undertake its new and additional roles?..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 17 Dec 2018
Draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I will keep my comments brief. I want to put on the record my dismay and despair at where we are. Without having had a meaningful vote on the Floor of the House, we now have to discuss so …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 17 Dec 2018
Draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

"I will indeed. I am making a broader point about why we are here in Committee in the first place, and that is important. This is one of the most undemocratic Governments we have had in my lifetime. To back up the points made by my hon. Friend the Member …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Dec 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Chancellor work with the Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to support my ten-minute rule Bill on project bank accounts for Government projects? It will protect small businesses from losses when tier 1 suppliers such as Carillion and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"Before I speak to my new clause 18, I want to gently chastise the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He is not in his place at the moment, but I am sure that someone will respond to this for him. He very inappropriately raised quite selective data on inequalities, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"My hon. Friend is totally right. Those budgets were ring-fenced to start with, but they are now absolutely emaciated. This is stopping us doing the prevention work that we should be doing. We made massive investments in public health, and they were having a real impact in terms of health …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"That is absolutely right. I will come on to some of the really worrying figures about how, from birth, our children are being affected because of the poverty that they are experiencing.

What about disabled people? Disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty as non-disabled people because …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"On a point of order, Dame Eleanor. The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) suggests that I have used statistics inappropriately. I can cite all my sources of evidence; can he?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Finance (No. 3) Bill

"Can the Minister recollect whether there has been a UN report in the last eight years that this Government have agreed with?..."
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Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 20th February 2017

Asked by: Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients have been naturally migrated onto universal credit since March 2016.

Answered by David Gauke

Since March 2016, 52,660 tax credits recipients have naturally migrated onto Universal Credit.