Speeches by Dixon.

“Sorry—just to clarify, what is your robust modelling? You keep talking about this 23%; what is that?”

“I have a quick follow-up on this point. Steve asked a really excellent question about whether it would be possible to come up with a cost-benefit analysis of the value for money relative to other schemes that might try to close the disability gap, and indeed, as we reform PIP, where that personal independence payment i…”

“Indeed. Thank you, Chair, for allowing me to raise that.”

“We could follow those up specifically to make sure that reducing job aides to 20% is not inadvertently reducing support for people with BSL needs, which should be at 100%.”

“Yes, that may be the case. One of the examples is a business owner. If she does not get the BSL support and she has to give up her business, that will have consequences for the other 24 people she hires. It would be possible to get some examples from the RNID.”

“Apologies to everyone for my late arrival. Further to the figures relating to support workers, particularly for deaf people, the support of a BSL interpreter is one of the categories that has increased most proportionately, yet the feedback coming from the deaf community is that they are experiencing reductions in the …”

“I recently visited Leeds Crown court, where I saw the benefits of some of that investment in a victim support suite, which ensured that victims, particularly of violence against women and girls, were safe and secure. Does my hon. Friend agree that both the investment and the reforms that we are considering are necessar…”

“Will the Minister take a brief intervention?”

“No—I withdraw.”

“The hon. Lady is making her case very personally and passionately, describing the harms to young people’s mental health that result from the predatory algorithms that the tech giants have devised to create addictive content for children. I, too, think that there is cross-party agreement on the need to look very careful…”

“I thank the Minister for his remarks, and I hope that part of the consultation will involve looking at research. The Born in Bradford study is a huge cohort study that has recently looked at social media use by 12 to 15-year-olds in the Bradford district. It found that they are using social media for 3.36 hours per day…”

“I thank the hon. Member—I will call her my friend, as she gave way to me on the last sentence of her speech. She has made a powerful case for cross-party working, hearing different perspectives and bringing forward change quickly, but that is the point of consultation: to find out how we should do something, get the vi…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”

“Our politics are increasingly fragmented. There is a real threat that an extreme minority party could win a majority of seats with just a fraction of the popular vote at the next general election—the situation is urgent. Some 60% of the public now support proportional representation. Will the Minister meet me and other…”

“That would be the end of April? I am just trying to be as specific as possible.”

“Finally, on the recurring payments, you have talked about the end of February for these prioritised cases to get payments and that that will go into a normalised process by the end of March. I do not think that I heard a date by which you expect the recurring retirement payments to be normalised.”

“I really want to press you on how you are mitigating the financial hardship. I am hearing that you have had to make some prioritisation, clearly, for people who you have put in this priority category. But it matters, too, for somebody who has reduced their working hours and was expecting to be able to defer and receive…”

“As we have said, even before the transition many MPs were well aware of the problems that people who have worked in public service their whole lives were finding with MyCSP. There was a promise that things would get better, yet things have got a lot worse for many of them. I took part in a Westminster Hall debate with …”

“Q7. Last week I met Lleyton, a T-level construction student at Bradford college. He was working on the remediation of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete at Airedale hospital. In the last few years, Bradford has made tremendous progress in reducing the rate of young people not in employment, education or training, s…”