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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)

"The Secretary of State talks about the needs of Wales. A couple in my constituency are moving into a property. As a result of the move from employment and support allowance to universal credit, they will be £169 a month worse off, and they will be hit by the bedroom …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)

"There are two responses to that. First, the jobs referred to are often, I am afraid, zero-hours contract jobs and very insecure. They are not the jobs where people can build a life, whether by taking out a car loan or indeed having a mortgage. Secondly, and worse still, we …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)

"When the previous Tory Prime Minister, David Cameron, said how transformational that project would be and committed to it, he was wrong, was he?..."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)

"Does my hon. Friend share my disappointment about the Tory Government’s lack of investment in communities? I am referring to the closure of local Department for Work and Pensions centres, including the proposed closure of the pension centre in Cwmbran. That is taking jobs out of communities...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Social Mobility (Wales)

"It is a pleasure to serve under you as Chair, Mrs Moon.

I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Chris Elmore) on securing the debate and on the very considered and thoughtful way in which he opened it. He covered a number of the issues, and I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Social Mobility (Wales)

"I do not for a moment underplay the wider challenges. I agree with the hon. Lady about a holistic approach that involves support for teaching, but at the moment I am merely remarking that all the data suggest that those early years are important to the results achieved later, in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Social Mobility (Wales)

"My hon. Friend makes a very good point. On average, around 7% of each cohort goes to fee-paying schools, but that percentage is far higher at our elite universities. Why might that be? My experience was that there were never enough applicants from the state sector in any cohort. As …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last Friday’s progress report on the negotiations was described by the Brexit Secretary as a mere “statement of intent”. Is that the position of the Government?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Hub airports are more important than ever, so will the Minister join me in congratulating the Welsh Government on purchasing Cardiff airport, which has led to a great increase in passenger numbers? Should not the Tory party back that as well?..."
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Written Question
Parking Offences: Wales
Friday 20th October 2017

Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether the power to legislate to make parking on the pavement an offence in Wales is a reserved or devolved matter.

Answered by Alun Cairns

Road traffic offences are not devolved under the current conferred model of Welsh devolution, and will be reserved under the new reserved powers model which comes into effect on 1 April 2018. This means that whilst the National Assembly for Wales cannot legislate to make parking on the pavement a traffic offence it could legislate to make it a traffic contravention subject to civil enforcement.