Support for Children Entitled to Free School Meals

The hon. Lady has outlined the fact that child poverty is rising, and has been rising for a numbe...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I am not sure whether it is ignorance, or not wanting...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Dr Huq. I congratulate my h...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hor...

Patricia Gibson will be speaking at the end of the debate as one of the Front-Bench spokespersons...

I am sorry, Chair, but I wondered if I could be delayed slightly?

We have Jim Shannon, who has just made it over from the main Chamber. Are you ready, Jim?

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Thank you, Ms Huq. It is an absolute pleasure to speak on this issue. I have applied to speak in ...

Although it is a real pleasure to be able to speak today, it is disturbing to be speaking in a de...

From south-east London to south-west London, and from the virtual world to the Boothroyd Room, I ...

Thank you for your indulgence, Dr Huq. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and W...

I put on the record my hon. Friend’s excellent work on the digital divide during the pandemic. It...

I thank my hon. Friend. So many people got involved in providing devices, such as football clubs ...

A good bit of lateral thinking in that speech, but it made it worth the wait. We now come to the ...

I am glad to be able to participate in today’s important debate about support for children in rec...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Huq, for the first time. I thank my hon. Frien...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I understand that at least one Member ...

Was Marcus Rashford making it up, then? Did he have nothing to do? Was it just something in his o...

The holiday activities and food programme, which we announced, during the spending review—this is...

Can the Minister tell us whether the UK has the most expensive or the second most expensive child...

We have also introduced many other different measures to help with childcare, for example the tax...

We are expecting a vote any second, but Jim Shannon is the only Member in the debate without a pr...

Thank you, Dr Huq, and I am sure I can keep my remarks to under five minutes.

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You can carry on.

I accept that not all of those elements are in the Minister’s brief, but she did very well to cov...