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11 November 2026

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Women and Equalities questions examine child poverty strategy and social mobility structures, then broaden to period poverty, trans rights, disability access, violence against women and girls, and the application of the Equality Act and EHRC guidance, with MPs probing gaps between policy commitments and frontline delivery.

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Women and Equalities Questions — Poverty, rights and enforcement

00:18

Women and Equalities — Child poverty and social mobility

00:18

Opening and Q1 & Q4 — Child poverty strategy

00:18

Child poverty in Scotland and abolition of Social Mobility Commission

02:02

Women and Equalities — Period poverty, trans rights, disability and topical issues

04:37

Q2 — Tackling period poverty, free products and ‘pink tax’

04:37

Q3 — Trans people and EHRC services code

06:54

Q5 — Disabled people’s transport costs and rural mobility

08:19

Q6 & Q12 — VAWG strategy, SARCs, public safety and NDAs

11:06

Enforcement, early‑release tagging, FGM data and high‑profile abuse

15:07

Q7 — Disabled people’s reasonable adjustments and access to services

17:31

Topical Women and Equalities — Misogyny, race, class, conversion practices and justice

19:36

Prime Minister’s Questions — Executive accountability across domestic and foreign policy

26:59

Prime Minister’s Questions — Opening, NI politics, economy, energy, welfare and other policy issues

26:59

Transition to PMQs — Prime Minister’s opening statement

26:59

PMQ — Claire Hanna on Stormont dysfunction and reform

28:23

Leader of the Opposition’s opening — Economic vision and advisory role

30:02

Prime Minister — 10-year plan and spending review

30:44

Q — Kemi Badenoch: Rosebank oilfield approval

33:42

Energy policy — Falklands drilling and North Sea

37:27

Closing clash — government direction, NEETs and welfare

39:36

Q — Elsie Blundell: Heywood bus service and public control

41:46

Q — Ed Davey: English identity and census categories

43:04

Q — Ed Davey: welfare costs, youth employment and the single market

45:31

Q — Alan Strickland: Skynet satellite and defence jobs

47:49

Q — Jeremy Corbyn: Gaza aid, casualties and UK role

48:50

Q — Mary Kelly Foy: North Durham hospital and capital funding

50:24

Q — Ian Sollom: social care capital limits and disabled savers

51:48

Q — Martin Rhodes: illegal high-speed e-bikes and online sellers

53:20

Q — Gagan Mohindra: Watford General rebuild and Mount Vernon

54:21

Q — Kirith Entwistle: Bolton tram connectivity

55:29

Q — Caroline Dinenage: Gosport small boats and public order

56:13

Q — Andrew Cooper: Down Syndrome Act guidance delay

57:41

Q — Bob Blackman: Commonwealth and Jewish ex-servicemen remembrance

58:25

Q — Member for Southwark: inclusive SEND education in mainstream schools

01:00:08

PMQs — Q on heating oil and support for off-grid households

01:00:43

PMQs — Q on immigrants’ contribution to NHS and care

01:02:37

PMQs — Q10 Sir Julian Lewis: Russian threat and defence spending

01:04:01

PMQs — Re-industrialisation strategy and 10-year plan

01:06:26

PMQs — Scottish wealth fund and de‑industrialisation concerns

01:07:06

Transition — PMQs conclude and Online Platforms Regulation Bill scheduled

01:07:53

Ten Minute Rule Bill — Compulsory Purchase Fees reform

01:09:27

Compulsory Purchase Fees Bill — Ten Minute Rule and first reading

01:09:27

Ten Minute Rule Motion — compulsory purchase fees: problem of neglected buildings

01:09:27

Ten Minute Rule Motion — compulsory purchase fees: proposed reforms and regeneration aims

01:13:38

Compulsory Purchase Fees Bill — first reading and scheduling

01:18:28

Opposition Day (Welfare) — Competing welfare reform models and fiscal claims

01:19:45

Opposition Day (Welfare) — Conservative motion on welfare cuts and savings plan

01:19:45

Point of order — delays in answering named day questions

01:19:45

Opposition Day (Welfare) — opening attack on welfare costs and defence funding

01:21:51

Opposition Day (Welfare) — challenge on savings figure and scale of inactivity

01:25:45

Opposition Day (Welfare) — benefits, mortgages, and wider welfare reform argument

01:27:39

Opposition spokesperson attacks Labour welfare record

01:31:09

Q — Labour MP Irons: impact of lifting two‑child cap

01:34:10

Cross-party focus on PIP assessments and Tory reform principles

01:36:55

ADHD prevalence, work capability and assessment concerns

01:40:18

Conservative plan on migrants’ access to benefits and tougher conditionality

01:42:39

Government response — Welfare system failures, employment support and Labour’s reform agenda

01:45:12

Minister moves amendment and attacks 14 years of Conservative welfare policy

01:45:12

Priti Patel defends past reforms; Minister details failed Conservative savings

01:47:51

Government agenda: fix inherited system, restore face‑to‑face assessments

01:51:40

Youth guarantee, employer incentives and concerns over hiring costs

01:54:30

Debate on Treasury policy, vocational routes and wider employment support

01:57:45

Minister: disability employment and Connect to Work

02:01:34

Q — Alison Griffiths MP: tax, regulation and hiring

02:02:54

Minister: Labour welfare philosophy and contrast with Tories

02:04:43

Opposition Day (Welfare) — Cross-party scrutiny, impacts on migrants, disability and children, and divisions

02:07:34

Deputy Speaker: putting the Question; Liberal Democrat response

02:07:34

Liberal Democrat spokesperson: in-work poverty, LHA and system failures

02:12:25

Labour backbencher: inherited welfare crisis and critique of Tory cuts plan

02:14:36

Scrutiny of proposed savings from ‘foreign nationals’

02:18:52

Who loses from cuts to support for migrants and refugees

02:23:05

Questioning the £9.5bn figure and pension-age disability proposal

02:26:37

Labour’s welfare reform stance and closing argument

02:29:59

Former DWP Minister — defence of 2010 welfare reforms

02:31:52

Q — Fenton-Glynn: where is investment in work?

02:34:11

Q — Alex McIntyre: food banks and in‑work poverty

02:38:51

Government backbencher — Milburn review and youth jobs agenda

02:43:04

Opposition backbencher — welfare trap and cost of employing youth

02:47:28

Government response — redesigning support for work and disability

02:52:12

Opposition critique — sustainability of welfare state and tax burden

02:57:32

Conservative backbencher — welfare reform and work incentives

03:02:24

Labour frontbencher — critique of UC and PIP incentives

03:03:53

Conservative backbencher — welfare savings and defence funding

03:09:50

Labour backbencher — disability, SEND and cross‑departmental failures

03:15:52

Conservative backbencher — welfare as social insurance and fairness

03:21:05

Labour backbencher — child poverty, in‑work claimants and Labour reforms

03:25:49

Opposition MP — austerity, working poor and youth welfare pressures

03:29:20

SNP MP — rejection of Opposition welfare motion

03:32:40

Labour backbencher — Conservative record on welfare and defence

03:33:24

Government backbencher — worklessness, mental health claims and fraud

03:37:07

Work incentives, foreign nationals and parental responsibility — Q&A

03:40:50

Labour MP Chris Curtis — welfare sustainability and housing impacts

03:43:50

Conservative backbench critique — Labour’s past opposition to reform

03:48:20

Scottish perspective — youth unemployment and devolved employability

03:54:00

Shadow Minister Joe Robertson — Conservative savings plan and attack on Labour

03:56:58

Backbench contribution — ADHD and disability benefits

04:03:06

Minister’s closing speech — youth unemployment and welfare cuts

04:04:08

Minister — critique of disability and pensioner benefit reforms

04:09:09

Chair: motion put and division called

04:12:02

Chair: question repeated and tellers appointed

04:12:41

Division in progress in the lobbies

04:12:51

Speaker: order as division concludes

04:25:13

Clerk: announcement of division figures

04:25:19

Chair: formal declaration of result

04:25:31

House procedures — question on proposed words and second division

04:25:52

Division result and new Opposition Day motion

04:36:05

Opposition Day (Employers) — Employer NICs, labour costs and SME pressures

04:37:09

Opposition Day (Employers) — Employer NICs rise, ‘working people’ and budget choices

04:37:09

Lopez (Opposition): ‘Employers are working people’ and Labour NI pledge breach

04:37:09

NI consistency challenge and SME/part‑time labour impacts

04:43:51

Youth employment consequences and Conservative alternative proposals

04:47:09

Treasury Minister Murray: budget rationale and support for families and firms

04:53:42

Bank surcharge debate and defence of fiscal choices

04:57:38

Tourism levy powers and unresolved business energy cost concerns

05:01:20

Treasury Minister — energy bills and business support

05:03:39

Q — Hayes: solar farms and food security

05:06:42

Minister — employer NICs, fiscal discipline and Conservative motion

05:12:01

Opposition Day (Employers) — Lib Dem position, backbench business impacts and government closing case

05:16:04

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — shocks to business and tax burdens

05:16:04

Liberal Democrats — single market strategy and Brexit record challenged

05:20:04

Liberal Democrats — proposals on NICs, youth work and bank taxation

05:25:03

Backbench phase — Labour MP on good jobs and rejecting NIC cuts

05:26:39

Closing pro‑business case from opposition frontbencher

05:34:03

Priti Patel — criticism of government tax and employment policy

05:36:26

Priti Patel — Essex business examples, Labour tax burden and Finance Bill challenge

05:40:23

Norfolk MP — local employers, energy costs, infrastructure and devolution

05:43:56

Stuart Andrew — business pressures, employers’ NICs and charities

05:49:20

Charities’ funding strain and proposal to cut under‑25s employers’ NICs

05:53:30

Jayne Kirkham — small Cornish businesses and youth employment support

05:58:23

Patrick Spencer — defence of employers and jobs as anti‑poverty tool

06:02:27

Patrick Spencer — Work, welfare and employer taxation

06:03:54

Danny Kruger — Local hospitality closures and critique of Labour growth model

06:08:37

Danny Kruger — Reform UK tax proposals and VAT debate

06:13:01

Paul Holmes — Employer NICs rise and constituency business impacts

06:15:53

Peter Bedford — Small business confidence, ‘jobs tax’ and Conservative alternative

06:21:52

Luke Evans — ‘Yes economy’, hiring disincentives and youth NEETs

06:26:12

Graham Stuart — Entrepreneurial experience and critique of employer NICs rise

06:30:57

Rt Hon Graham Stuart — Labour ‘jobs tax’ and youth employment

06:34:31

Nigel Huddleston — Kanes Foods closure and labour cost increases

06:36:35

Esther McVey — Tax rises, energy policy and family businesses

06:41:20

Rebecca Smith — Apprenticeships, SMEs and NI relief for under‑25s

06:47:37

Robbie Moore — Broken NI pledges and constituency business pressures

06:53:55

Sarah Bool — Employers’ status, youth NEETs and Employment Rights Bill

06:58:34

Peter Fortune — Opposition closing: tax on growth and jobs

07:03:18

Shadow Minister — Critique of employer NI rise

07:04:42

Shadow Minister — Impact on hospices and manufacturers

07:08:50

Paul Holmes MP — Manifesto pledge on NI

07:11:56

Minister Blair McDougall — Opening and macroeconomic context

07:14:35

Q — Esther McVey MP: business failures under Labour

07:17:18

Minister — Employer NI to fund public services

07:18:57

Q — Stuart Andrew MP: hospices hit by NI; employer reliefs

07:19:41

Minister — Business tax burden, youth NI relief and employment allowance

07:20:44

Lincoln Jopp MP — Question on unemployment trends

07:22:03

Minister — Youth employment incentives and critique of Conservative approach

07:22:55

Deputy Speaker — Putting the Question and division

07:25:38

Division result and committee motions agreed

07:38:34

Adjournment Debate — Charity Commission remit and village hall governance

07:41:09

Adjournment debate — Charity Commission powers and village hall governance

07:41:09

Adjournment motion and Charity Commission remit

07:41:09

Scarisbrick Village Hall case and calls for stronger regulation

07:47:43

Minister Foxcroft on Scarisbrick case and Commission role

07:54:34

Charity Commission resources, powers review and adjournment

08:00:55

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House of Commons

11 November 2026

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00:18 - 00:24

Speaker 1

Now, we start questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities. Michelle Welsh.

00:24 - 00:28

Speaker 2

Question number one, Mr. Speaker.

00:28 - 00:52

Speaker 5

Mr. Speaker, with permission, I will answer questions 1 and 4 together. This government is taking decisive action to tackle child poverty, including removing the two-child limit, expanding free school meals and rolling out best start family hubs. Measures in the Child Poverty Strategy are expected to lift over half a million children out of poverty in 29-30. That is what Labour governments do, Mr. Speaker, make the choices that lift children out of poverty.

00:52 - 00:53

Michelle Welsh.

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