PLP – Jeremy Corbyn - North Dorset Labour Party

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. A very clear request was made by my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor that we get embargoed copies an hour or half an hour—whatever it...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Following what the SNP spokesman just said, may we ask you, through your good offices, to arrange for the leaders of all the parties to be included in...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

And good luck to the city of Southend.

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

And good biscuits.

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

Could the Minister tell us how quickly this will be done, because the levels of stress out there among the self-employed are absolutely huge?

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

I thank my right hon. Friend for her intervention and for what she is doing about that. There are people with no recourse to public funds all over the country. Typically, they are people who are...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

Exactly. How on earth can she go around looking at places if she is not allowed out of the house? It is absurd. Labour’s demands are very clear: ban evictions for six months and suspend...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

My hon. Friend understands the issue and represents his constituency extremely well. I know that a lot of his constituents are in that situation. We have to have better regulation of the private...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

It is absolutely disgraceful and totally unnecessary. If someone feels they are at risk, the advice from the Department of Health is that they should self-isolate—and eventually get tested,...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

My hon. Friend anticipates the point I was about to make. We have all seen the images this morning of construction workers packed on to the London tube and other trains all around the country,...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

If employers are putting us all at risk by forcing people to work in a non-essential industry or company or non-essential work, they should be sanctioned, and those sanctions should include...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

My hon. Friend makes a very strong point. Indeed, that has been raised by my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary and others on many occasions. It is absurd that we have highly skilled...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

It was not so long ago that I was making lengthy speeches about those subjects, and I am quite prepared to hand a copy of our manifesto over to the Government. They are already being forced to...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is right. There are lots of enthusiastic volunteers, which is great, but the initiatives need co-ordination and protection. We are dealing with assisting vulnerable people, so we...

Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Commons debates

I beg to move, That this House has considered the emergency financial and social package needed to support people, families and business through the covid-19 outbreak. Thank you, Mr Speaker, for...

Business of the House

Commons debates

It already has!

Engagements

Jeremy Corbyn made a speech in the House of Commons

All I can say to the Prime Minister is: please make sure you make yourself available for scrutiny by this House and everybody else, because we represent people who are desperately worried about...

Engagements

Jeremy Corbyn made a speech in the House of Commons

I do not want to appear totally negative, but it would be better if the whole place had been better staffed in the first place. But I will take it from what the Prime Minister said that there is...

Engagements

Jeremy Corbyn made a speech in the House of Commons

This is not a time for levity. The statutory sick pay level is £94.25 a week, which the Health Secretary admitted he could not live on, and despite the Prime Minister promising he would...

Engagements

Jeremy Corbyn made a speech in the House of Commons

Hang on, I have not finished yet. My question, while he is about it—and this will give him time to think of the answer—