Speeches by Bradley.

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the tenth anniversary of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It is an honour to open this debate. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting it and thank all right hon. and hon. Members and Friends who supported the application for it. I also want to put on the record m…”

“The media are reporting that the earliest the contract can be broken is September next year. Can the Minister confirm whether that is the case? What liability does the taxpayer have for a contract ending today that we cannot get out of until September next year?”

“The hon. Member makes a good point, and that was a difficult decision because it was the way we could ensure that those at the higher end of the earnings spectrum were taxed on their child benefit. That is a different way of dealing with a benefit that some people may not be in need of but are in receipt of. It would h…”

“What was happening then was once in a generation, and it was not a real increase in earnings; it was merely that people had gone from 80% of their earnings back to 100%. When earnings had gone down by 20%, we did not cut the state pension but continued to increase it in line with the triple lock. I want to make a point…”

“It is an honour to take part in this debate, and this is an extremely pertinent time for it. We all hope we are through the worst of the winter—although in my part of the world nobody puts their snow boots away until we have got through lambing season, because lambing storms usually bring snow—but we need to know, as w…”

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“My hon. Friend is so very generous to indulge me a second time during his excellent speech. I am struck by the impact on charities. As any trustee of a charity will know, trustees quite regularly have to prove their identity at the bank that the charity chooses to bank with. When it is simply not possible for trustees …”

“The recent National Audit Office report on the Government’s response to violence against women and girls, which includes domestic abuse, made a number of recommendations. My Committee will be considering that issue, but will the Minister comment on what the Government’s response will be to those recommendations, and sa…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. In Leek in my constituency we are about to lose our last two banks. We will be left with a building society with a cashpoint and the post office, yet Link has done a review suggesting that we do not need a banking hub because there are sufficient branches…”

“Will my hon. Friend indulge me a second time?”

“It is an honour to follow my fellow member of the Home Affairs Committee, the hon. Member for Telford (Shaun Davies). He made exactly the right point in saying there are no easy answers to this problem. I stand here in another immigration Bill debate—I do not know how many I have attended in the 15 years that I have be…”

“I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement, and my thoughts are with everybody involved. The list that she set out of the points where the agencies and institutions could have intervened sooner is truly terrifying. What reassurance can she give the House that this is a cross-Government piece of work and that all agencies…”

“I welcome the statement, which my Committee will look at carefully. Professor Alexis Jay will be in front of us next Tuesday and I am sure that we will come back with further points, but I have two points today. The first is about the duty to report. In many cases, reports were made but the victims were simply not list…”

“I am pleased to see that Staffordshire is not on the list and that we will have our county elections this May. The Minister will know, however, that my constituents do not want to be subsumed into greater Stoke-on-Trent. Will he give them some reassurance—any at all—that they will have the choice and can say no if they…”

“It is, and thank you very much, Chair, for giving me the opportunity to put forward this proposal. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was absolutely world-leading. We were the first country to pass a dedicated Modern Slavery Act, in which we introduced new offences, new protections for victims, different ways of approaching p…”

“I fully support this application. I have taken part in the debates myself over the years, both as a Minister and as a Back Bencher, and they have been the House at its best. They have been the kind of debates that have given Members the opportunity to speak about really difficult issues, particularly global issues such…”

“The following week is the UN conference on the status of women, and a lot of the Select Committees and APPGs will be in New York discussing the status of women. If it is the week after 8 March, we will not have such a good turnout, because the global conference is happening at the UN at that point.”

“We want to do quite a lot of events to mark the 10 years, and it would be more powerful to have it as close to the 10-year mark as possible. Clearly, if the only opportunity we have is to do it sooner, we will not say no, but there will be a lot of things happening in Parliament and beyond to mark the 10 years, and it …”

“A focus on neighbourhood policing is welcome; we have seen it in Staffordshire for some time. Police leaders have said that if they do not have the flexibility to recruit as they need to, there is a risk that police officers will end up having to fill vacancies in specialist areas. Will the Home Secretary listen to pol…”