Recent Speeches and Appearances

The hon.

I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman that one child in destitution is one too many. One person in poverty is one too many.

Heaven forbid that we do have another Labour Government, Mr Speaker, because I have just set out the case against the last one and their app

The common theme in all the questions that we have had on this substantive question is a lack of memory as to what happened under the previo

No, I am afraid that I cannot agree with that at all.

Child poverty and its reduction is absolutely core to the mission of my Department, which is why we have focused on cost of living payments,

I think that our record is extremely clear.

We have a number of projects that use artificial intelligence within the Department to drive performance, efficiency and the service we prov

Let me take the second of my hon. Friend’s points first. As I have outlined, there is always human intervention when it is appropriate.

That sentiment of taking on the employers is probably not conducive to having an economy that is generating the jobs that have occurred unde