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The Chancellor delivered his Budget statement to the House of Commons yesterday spending an hour telling people they are better off and have never had it so good.

I am lending my support to the Contact a Family charity’s Counting the Costs campaign.

I welcome the result of last week’s vote in favour of standardised packaging of tobacco.

Parliament’s Education Service is hosting the summer Teachers’ Institute residential course in Westminster from 29 June-3 July 2015 and applications are now open.

I am supporting the National Autistic Society’s (NAS) campaign to improve employment opportunities for young people with autism.

Under this Government, nurse numbers have failed to keep pace with demand while more than half of nurses say their ward is dangerously understaffed.

Pensioners’ living standards have been hit hard by the Government's refusal to act against rip-off energy bills and pension charges, while social care funding has been slashed.

From the trebling of tuition fees through to declining training opportunities and rising housing costs, no generation has been dealt as bad a hand by their Government as young people today.

My fellow Rotherham MPs and I are backing bids for Government funding to help child abuse survivors in Rotherham.

The Office for National Statistics published figures last week showing a 20% rise in the number of people with a zero-hours contract.