Support for New Adoptive Parents

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ghani. I thank my hon. Friend the Member fo...

I am delighted to be here and hon. Members will realise why shortly. I congratulate the hon. Memb...

Order. Mr Esterson, I do not wish to stop your flow, but I think you are getting the constituency...

I apologise to the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) and to the constitu...

I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate and for the contributions of my hon...

Order. The hon. Member must speak through the Chair and not say “you”.

I apologise for saying “you”.

It is noted, Minister. You may continue.

I am grateful to you for pulling me up on that, Ms Ghani.

Moving on to the substantive poin...

The Minister is right to say that the circumstances of an adoptive family are different from thos...

I am grateful for the hon. Lady’s comments, and she makes an important point. I am not in a posit...

Thank you, Ms Ghani, for letting me intervene, given that I could not be here for the start of th...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his characteristically incisive intervention. My answer i...

Before the Minister does, will he give way?

I would be delighted.

The Minister has made the point, which I accept, about how, for health reasons, benefits for pare...

The principle is that while we recognise that the world of work changes—the hon. Member for York ...

Will the Minister give way one more time?

Allow me one more moment and then I will happily give way.

I hope that I have been able to ...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time and indulging me. I am just conscious ...

I am grateful for the request for clarification, because my point was about the general parliamen...

Will the Minister give way?

If I can just say a couple more sentences, I will be happy to do so. I just want to draw towards ...

I just seek another commitment from the Minister. Will he meet the Children’s Minister to discuss...

I am very happy to give a commitment that I will meet the Children’s Minister and pass back the s...

Thank you for calling me to sum up, Ms Ghani—I promise that I will not take the remaining half-ho...