Speeches by Hack.

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this really important debate. I pay tribute to our local jobcentres, particularly in North West Leicestershire, which are working tirelessly alongside local employers and the voluntary and community sector to ensure that my constituents are equipped to enter the workforce. Does she a…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) for securing this incredibly important debate. He is a true champion for miners across our country. My constituency of North West Leicestershire has a rich mining heritage, with most of the Leicestershire pits falling in my constituency. It fills m…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) for bringing this crucial conversation to the Chamber. We are not born with the ability to open an ISA, choose a private pension or invest our savings. We do not have a natural intuition about how to save or manage debt, or how the tax system works, so …”

“How would you describe your approach to enforcing compliance with health and safety regulations? What is the balance between proactive inspections and responding to complaints or concerns that have been raised with you?”

“I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a Leicestershire county councillor. I thank the Secretary of State for her statement on local government reorganisation. As Leicestershire has applied to go forward in the fast-track scheme, but was unsuccessful, can the Deputy Prime Ministe…”

“Reducing mental health and stress is part of your 10-year strategy. How successful has your Working Minds campaign been and what does it mean to be a Working Minds champion?”

“In correspondence with the previous Committee you said that you reserve investigations into work-related stress for cases where there was evidence of organisational or systemic problems. What would that look like and have you ever conducted such an investigation so far?”

“Going back to mental ill health, it is referred to in the overall health of the working population. Can you tell us the difference that you think the HSE can make to reduce—or reduce the impact of—mental health stress and anxiety within the workplace?”

“I thank the Minister for her update on the settlement. I start by thanking Leicestershire police’s chief constable, Rob Nixon, and all his officers and staff for their dedicated service locally. Despite the Conservative party’s protests, we all know that the significant cuts to the policing budget resulted in a signifi…”

“Before I move on to exploring the mental health stuff in a bit more detail, I have a couple of questions that we will discuss later in particular on gender-based data. How do we do that? There is a lot of evidence that a lot of PPE, for example, is unisex PPE and therefore does not work for female bodies. I would be in…”

“That is great. Finally, just briefly, if you could talk about your relationship with local authorities and how that has changed in recent years.”

“You recently restructured your regulatory divisions. Why did you do that and how successful has it been?”

“Yes, to quickly follow up on that, thank you for coming along. I appreciate we are running out of time. Are you aware of any other options for financial redress that were costed and considered by the DWP before it came to its decision? On the other side, did you consider alternatives?”

“Thanks so much; it has been fascinating so far. In terms of financial resilience, it would be useful to understand the financial resilience between men and women at pensionable age but also at that pre-pension stage. I was wondering how many women are reliant on state pension as their main source of income and how does…”

“One thing in the paperwork that we received was that poverty increases as pensioners age, but clearly that is partly because women live longer, so there are more of them in each group as they get older. I thought that was interesting. In terms of the state pension being the main income, how does that deliver against ad…”

“How does it vary for different groups of women—for example, by age, for those who are single at the point of retirement or for those who become single in retirement? Picking up the point that Daniella made on intergenerational wealth too, how does that vary for different groups of women in terms of the pension being th…”

“You could not have that dialogue. Why could that not take place?”

“I welcome the Minister’s commitment to bringing forward the deposit return scheme. In my constituency, we have a dedicated community of volunteer litter pickers who work tirelessly to ensure that our environment is free from litter. However, their job is never-ending. A member of the Castle Donington Litter Wombles vis…”

“I thank the hon. Member for giving way and I thank you, Dr Huq, for your excellent chairmanship; it is a pleasure to serve under you today. The Bill already introduces a duty on water companies to produce and publish pollution targets and a reduction plan. We can also get data fairly straightforwardly on how water comp…”

“Community organisations are the backbone of many events in towns and villages across North West Leicestershire. For the past 10 years, the Rotary Club of Ashby de la Zouch Castle has organised our annual charity Santa fun run in Ashby, which I have had the pleasure of taking part in alongside hundreds of local people. …”