May 2024

Further to this morning’s business statement, it may help the House if I confirm that, prior to the House rising tonight, we intend to consider the following business: Consideration of Lords amendments to the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill, followed by consideration of Lords amendments to the Media Bill. For the further convenience of the House, it may help if I also confirm that the business for tomorrow, Friday 24 May, will include the following items: Consideration of Lords amendm

Parliamentary appearance by Rebecca Harris

Parliamentary appearance by Gen Kitchen

Parliamentary appearance by Gen Kitchen

Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 22 May.

I, too, welcome the hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) back to the House and wish him well in his duties. I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks. The Association of Dental Groups, in its May 2022 report, identified my Wellingborough constituency as one of England’s dental deserts. I welcomed the Prime Minister’s grand scheme to send dental vans to constituencies like mine but, months on, he is having to U-turn because there are not enough vans. Why can he not address th

13. In Wellingborough and Rushden, organisations such as Serve and the Teamwork Trust offer digital support for the excluded, but for low-income households, access to the internet through libraries and schools is a key tool for employment and betterment. In rural towns such as mine, what is the Department doing to ensure that low-income households have access to digital services?

8. What recent estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in poverty.

My inbox is full of constituents who are sick of the economic chaos inflicted by this Government and by the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss). Can the Minister explain why the number of elderly individuals resorting to food banks has doubled in the past year to nearly 100,000? Are the people of Bury South wrong, and if they are, what is the reason why so many elderly residents cannot afford to eat in this country?

Parliamentary appearance by Christian Wakeford