All 2 Debates between Rosie Duffield and Alison McGovern

Mon 18th Dec 2017
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Commons Chamber

Committee: 1st sitting: House of Commons

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rosie Duffield and Alison McGovern
Monday 11th November 2024

(1 month, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rosie Duffield Portrait Rosie Duffield (Canterbury) (Ind)
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Given the new Government’s collective condemnation of the two-child limit over the eight years since it was introduced, which includes condemnation from many Government Members on Select Committees, will they at the very least commit to scrapping its heinous, sexist and frankly disgusting rape clause element?

Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern
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The hon. Lady raises some of the worst aspects of the consequences of 14 years of Conservative Government. We will consider all those issues through the child poverty taskforce.

Finance (No. 2) Bill

Debate between Rosie Duffield and Alison McGovern
Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern
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My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Given the comments that we heard earlier about recent history, does she agree that the brutal cuts to important children’s services such as those that she describes go completely against the rhetoric with which David Cameron and George Osborne came to this House when they went into government in 2010, after the events we heard described just a moment ago?

Rosie Duffield Portrait Rosie Duffield
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Absolutely—