Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Zarah Sultana Excerpts
Wednesday 11th March 2020

(4 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I do not think that I can be accused of anticipating the Budget excessively when I say that there is about to be an infrastructure revolution in this country, which will benefit, among other places, the west midlands, and Dudley in particular.

Zarah Sultana Portrait Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Lab)
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Q14. As the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) said, statutory sick pay in the UK is among the lowest in Europe. It is less than £95 a week. If the Prime Minister does not think he can live on that, he should not expect our constituents to live on it either, so I urge him to act before it is too late and introduce decent sick pay for every worker in Britain.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I answered the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) earlier. We will do everything we can to ensure that people get protected throughout this outbreak and nobody is penalised for doing the right thing.