Speeches by Abrahams.

“I want to follow up from John. First, on the evidence of the impact of child poverty on NEETs, I have a preprint of some work from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, which shows quite a strong impact: you are five times more likely to be NEET if you have experienced prolonged child poverty. I think that also reflects inte…”

“But specifically on the impact of child poverty.”

“Is there anything internationally that you have come across that says similar stuff?”

“I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on an excellent and really important debate. May I take her back to what she was saying about the food industry, wider population prevention measures and what this means for school meals and for our poorer communities, who are reliant on food supporters, such as the Trussell Trust an…”

“Health Equity North recently produced an analysis for the Select Committee that revealed that getting just 5% of people with disabilities or health conditions into employment would yield cost savings of over £12 billion. What progress is being made with employers to enable sick and disabled people who want to work, and…”

“I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and add my congratulations to him, the National Security Adviser and all his Ministers on the months and months of work that they have done that has contributed to this—it was so generously acknowledged by the US envoy to the middle east, if not by the Leader of the Oppositi…”

“I thank the Home Secretary for her excellent statement. I pay tribute to the men who were killed and I send my condolences to their family and friends, and the wider Jewish community. As the Home Secretary has said, there is no place whatsoever in the UK for hate crime of any sort, directed at any group or any individu…”

“My constituents in Oldham East and Saddleworth were delighted to learn that Oldham has received a £20 million award from the Pride in Place programme. Will the Secretary of State expand on the transformational change that the award will mean to places like Oldham, where Government support was decimated under the Conser…”

“T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”

“My constituent’s seven-year-old son has been waiting 13 months for an assessment, and she has had to give up her job to care for him. Does my hon. Friend agree that the issue has an impact on not only the children and their parents—as she rightly says—but the economy, if we are losing people who are already in work?”

“My hon. Friend is being very generous with her time. Just before this debate, I met Antoine Renard, who made a point to me about the disinformation that is being spread about rotten food, and emphasised the importance of having trusted NGOs, a point my hon. Friend made earlier in her speech. Does she agree that we must…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her statement. No one doubts her, and her team’s, absolute commitment to addressing the root causes of the abuse and exploitation that so many women and some boys have experienced. In my contact with women this morning—I speak on their behalf—I heard that they are absolutely committed and und…”

“I thank the Home Secretary for her statement, and I recognise the complexity of the issues that she is facing. I was very struck by Lord Dubs’s description of his personal circumstances on the radio this morning. His father left Prague as soon as the Nazis invaded in 1939. Lord Dubs got Kindertransport—he was one of th…”

“I was delighted to see the establishment of the disability advisory panel a week or so ago. [Interruption.] I am so sorry, Mr Speaker; I have a cold. How will the advisory panel link with the co-production in the Timms review?”

“I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and the extensive work that he, his team and his officials have done to secure the international coalition of allies in the recognition of the state of Palestine—although that has been very much undermined by the Israeli Cabinet and what it proposes in relation to the E1 a…”

“I could not agree more. Everybody agrees that reform needs to happen; it is a broken system. But, as you mentioned right at the beginning, in your introduction, reform does not mean cuts to the incomes of already struggling households. We must do better. You mentioned reducing poverty; this actually had the potential t…”

“I am aware of the trailblazer examples. Those are pilots, with tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands that will be affected next April. I would like to point out that in my part of the world there is one job for a disabled person for every 333 disabled people chasing a job. It is slightly different in the sou…”

“What specifically had you in mind, given that we have had a disability employment gap for well over 10 years?”

“On that very point, you will be aware that your Government still estimate that 50,000 newly disabled people, in April next year, will be pushed into poverty because of the reduction in the UC health element of the Bill. You spoke about getting more disabled people into work. Charlie Mayfield, who as you know is doing t…”

“Good afternoon, Prime Minister. Since you were last before us, my Committee published our interim findings from the “Pathways to Work” inquiry in May, in which we expressed our considerable concerns about the imminent UC and PIP legislation, and particularly about the change to eligibility for those benefits, which has…”