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Debate between Torsten Bell and Ann Davies
Monday 12th May 2025

(2 days, 22 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Torsten Bell Portrait Torsten Bell
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I can guarantee that this Government are going to deliver on our priorities for pensioners by raising the state pension, with a £470-a-year increase this April, and saving the NHS, with a £26 billion increase every single year. What will the Conservatives be doing? None of that, because they oppose every single measure required to fund it. We know what the Tory plan is, because we have just lived through it: pensioner poverty rising and the NHS collapsing.

Ann Davies Portrait Ann Davies (Caerfyrddin) (PC)
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13. What steps she is taking through the social security system to tackle poverty in Wales.

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Debate between Torsten Bell and Ann Davies
Tuesday 28th January 2025

(3 months, 2 weeks ago)

Westminster Hall
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Ann Davies Portrait Ann Davies
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Absolutely. We all know that is the case.

Alistair Carmichael Portrait Mr Carmichael
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The Minister is shaking his head. I wonder whether the hon. Lady would join me in inviting him to intervene to explain why that fact is wrong.

Ann Davies Portrait Ann Davies
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I do not know whether the Minister would like to do so now or at the end. It is up to him.

Torsten Bell Portrait Torsten Bell
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I will at some length explain why the remarks that the right hon. Gentleman just made—