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Gender Pay Gap — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Centre-right): A huge amount of work is going on, and as the hon. Lady rightly says, the focus this year has been on gender inequality, but we are extending it to ethnic diversity and so on. Interestingly, we have just announced that we are consulting on whether businesses should publicise their parental leave policies to help women and carers.
Gender Pay Gap — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Questions: What steps are the Government taking to mitigate the effects of the rising retirement age for the millions of women who will have accrued less in their pension pot due to the gender pay gap? [Interruption.]
Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Centre-right): Forgive me if I have had not heard the hon. Gentleman correctly because of the hubbub in the Chamber; it is wonderful that everybody is so excited about women and equalities today The gender pay gap for women between the ages of 40 and 49 has fallen since 2010, but we published the "Fuller Working Lives" strategy last year and continue to work with businesses to ensure that everyone can adapt to the changing face of the workplace.
Business Start-ups — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Kelly Jane Tolhurst (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government-owned British Business Bank provides start-up loans for new entrepreneurs, and women account for 39% of recipients. The bank is also conducting a review into specific barriers female-led businesses face in accessing venture capital. All entrepreneurs in England can access advice and support from growth hubs and business support helplines, and 45% of the helpline users were women in 2017-18.
Business Start-ups — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Theresa Anne Villiers (Conservative, Centre-right): Will my hon. Friend welcome the work of the entrepreneur Alison Cork in setting up the Make It Your Business network to support women who want to start their own businesses, including a branch in my constituency, Chipping Barnet?
Business Start-ups — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Kelly Jane Tolhurst (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome such initiatives that encourage and support women to start their own businesses, and I also appreciate the work of my right hon. Friend’s constituent Alison Cork. Connecting people and building networks is an important part of supporting entrepreneurs. That is why the Chancellor announced in the autumn Budget another £20 million to strengthen local networks.
Women in Parliament: Centenary — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government Equalities Office will be holding a conference to celebrate the centenary of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 on 21 November 2018. The GEO is also providing financial assistance to ensure that every MP in this House can invite a woman constituent into Parliament for the day, and I hope that all MPs will be doing that.
Women in Parliament: Centenary — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Christopher Paul Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for her answer. It was great to see female MPs from around the globe pledge to support one another’s fight for gender equality recently. Will my right hon. Friend update the House on that first ever meeting of women MPs from every Parliament around the world?
Women in Parliament: Centenary — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. One of the outcomes of that day, alongside the issues that the women discussed, was the desire expressed by me and the other host of the event that those women should form a lasting network to support one another in fighting for gender equality around the world.
Budget 2018 — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I will be making an announcement on this in my topical questions statement. It is important that the Government Equalities Office, which has rightly concentrated on executive women and women in the workplace, should broaden the scope of its work to look at wider issues, including the financial fragility of some women.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): To ensure that the Government Equalities Office is at the heart of this Government’s work, the Prime Minister has agreed that it will join the Cabinet Office from 1 April next year. This machinery of government change will provide a permanent home for the Government Equalities Office in line with the key recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee earlier this year. It will enable the GEO to have even more influence and leverage within the Government, working with the Race Disparity Unit, the Office for Disability Issues and others to drive meaningful progress on equalities. This will be a step up in the work that the GEO can do to reduce inequality in the UK.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The women’s centenary suffrage fund supports initiatives across England to engage women in local democracy. We will also be funding an Ask Her to Stand event. We funded one in July that was attended by more than 300 women, many of whom were interested in becoming councillors. I congratulate my hon. Friend’s borough on the progress that it has made.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Questions: There are now more than 1 million women-led small and medium-sized businesses in the UK—women such as my constituent Erin Rodgers, who set up Our Little Globe, an educational subscription box that aims to teach young children about the world and the people in it. New businesses such as Erin’s need financial support in the initial stages to grow. Will my hon. Friend outline what support is available for women wanting to start their own businesses?
Kelly Jane Tolhurst (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for her question and for highlighting her constituent Erin Rodgers. The Government support offer is available to all those wishing to grow a business, regardless of their age, gender or ethnicity. We back the Start Up Loans Company, which has been providing funding and incentives to support new entrepreneurs since 2012. It has delivered loans totalling £446 million, 39% of which went to women. I wish Our Little Globe every success for the future.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): It has always been a Brexiteer illusion that the country can leave the European Union treaties while selecting to retain all the benefits that we enjoy under the treaties and repudiating most, if not all, of the obligations. We have to face up to the fact that that is an illusion. Does my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister agree that the biggest single economic benefit—in fact most of the main economic benefits—that we have enjoyed from our membership over the last decades flow from the completely open border between the whole of the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union and that upon that have been based huge flows of inward investment, the creation of just-in-time lines of supply and very many thousands of jobs in this country? So will she undertake not to change the present basis of that, which is the single market and the customs union, until we know what we are changing to and until we are satisfied that any change will retain those benefits and keep us completely open from any delays and costs caused by regulatory differences or anything else that would be created by moving away from where we are now? The economic future of this country will be threatened very considerably if we just decide, unilaterally, to walk out, as some of my colleagues seem prepared to recommend.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The Leader of the Scottish National party must be heard and heard with courtesy. [Interruption.] We are very grateful for your sedentary observations, Mr Graham, but I do not think that they greatly add to the quality of our deliberations. Everybody will be heard.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. A moment ago I protected the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford), quite properly, when he was being brayed at in an unseemly manner. Let me say to Scottish National party Members that, having asked the question, they must hear the Prime Minister’s reply with courtesy. Don’t worry, everybody will get a chance, but the Prime Minister’s responses must be heard with a basic courtesy and respect.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. This is extremely discourteous. The right hon. Gentleman has a right to be heard without being shouted down while he is speaking. I invite him to begin his question again and to deliver it in full.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Amber Rudd (Conservative, Centre-right): Whether we voted remain or leave, whether we sit on this side of the House or the other, we know that millions of people voted for Brexit because they were anxious about the futures, about their children and about their families. Away from the Westminster bubble, we must remember to consider those vast communities when we consider the outcomes today. We know that it is no deal that would be most damaging to them May I ask the Prime Minister what the response has been from the business councils that she set up—those major employers in the country that will protect those jobs?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady refers to the withdrawal agreement. What is important in terms of the relationship that will persist for decades between this country and the European Union is the future partnership that we negotiate with the EU. As we have said, the outline political declaration is based on the concept of a free trade area and on ensuring that we can continue to have that good trade relationship. I can assure her, as I have assured hon. Members across the House before, that when the meaningful vote is before this House, Members will have the appropriate analysis to inform them in coming to their decision.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will not be surprised that the answer I give him, despite the fact that we have known each other throughout my career in this House, will be no different from that I have given to other right hon. and hon. Members in relation to taking the vote back the people. It was a decision of this Parliament by six to one that the people should have that choice, and they exercised their vote, as I said earlier, in numbers that we have not seen before. It is only right and proper that this Parliament—this Government—delivers on that vote.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Immigration
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The issue of immigration was indeed important for many people during the vote. They wanted free movement to end. What we are negotiating is an end to free movement. We will publish the immigration White Paper in due course.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew William Murrison (Conservative, Centre-right): First, there is huge personal respect for the Prime Minister wherever Members stand on this matter May I urge my right hon. Friend to study evidence given to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee this week by customs experts, particularly their suggestions around facilitation and technical ways of achieving a soft border that does not require a backstop? Does she agree that the independent arbitration panel is bound to find that, if the EU does not negotiate the future arrangement with that in mind, it is likely to be found to have acted in bad faith?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister and I know that politics is ultimately the art of the possible. That is why I support her deal and why the City corporation and all the representatives of the financial services industry have supported it, not least because it creates, in their words, the transition that is "vital" to take forward the complex issues in our future relationships in that sector. Does she agree that anyone who seeks to thwart the deal should weigh very carefully indeed the impact not just on that key economic area, but on the rest of our economy?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Immigration
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I am happy to give that confirmation to my hon. Friend. Free movement will end. That is one of the key elements, I believe, of the vote in the referendum that we need to ensure we deliver for the British people.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The decision taken yesterday gives that certainty to business, which is why business has been welcoming the deal. Richard Walker of Iceland says: "it delivers a clear path ahead that business so desperately needs" As I mentioned earlier, the FSB says it "brings with it some certainty that our small businesses have craved." There are other quotes from business welcoming the fact that we have recognised the needs of manufacturing industry in putting forward our proposals for the future relationship.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I fully recognise that the issue we are dealing with raises some difficult decisions for individual Members of this House. The choices before Members of this House are not easy, and I absolutely recognise that. As I said, when the final deal is brought to the House, individual Members will want to look at the details, with the interests of their constituents and of this country as a whole at the forefront of their consideration. As I say, I recognise that this is not an easy decision for people to take. I believe that what we have negotiated is in the best interests of our country overall. We will fill in more detail before the matter comes before the House, and I hope hon. Members will look at the fuller detail and consider the various issues, but that is in no way to say that the choice will be an easy one, and I fully recognise that.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Oliver Heald (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister will be aware that Hertfordshire is fortunate enough to have major businesses in the pharma, aerospace and motor industries. Those businesses rely on just-in-time arrangements for the delivery of parts and have integrated manufacturing across Europe. Does she feel that the agreement she has put before us will be in the best interests of such businesses and all the jobs in Hertfordshire that rely on them?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I can reassure him that we will be filling out the detail of the future framework in negotiations in the coming days, so that when the House comes to take the meaningful vote, it will have a better understanding of the nature of the future relationship. As I say, I believe that the future relationship will deliver for industry across the country, for agriculture, for fishing and for our security.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
Nigel Paul Huddleston (Conservative, Centre-right): On all important political decisions, I not only listen to my constituents and the businesses that employ my constituents, but ask myself, "Is this in the long-term interests of my children?" I have a great deal of respect for the Prime Minister, who is a dedicated public servant, so I ask her with all sincerity, given all the viable options available: is this deal in the best interests of my children?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I think I heard the hon. Lady say that the regulations were ambiguous, and claimed that that ambiguity necessarily contradicted what had been said previously. In the interests of making sure that she gets as accurate a reply as possible, I will write to her on this matter.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman’s portrayal of the position of the Secretary of State for Scotland is completely wrong. The Secretary of State for Scotland is doing an excellent job, together with my Scottish Conservative colleagues on the Government Benches, in defending the interests of Scotland, and is doing so in a rather better way than the SNP.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. This is really the height of discourtesy. The Prime Minister is answering the question and she must be heard. The question has been asked, the Prime Minister is answering it and the hon. Gentleman is jabbering away from a sedentary position to no obvious benefit or purpose.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady says she is concerned. I have set out before why I think this deal, the future partnership we can have with the European Union and trade deals around the rest of the world can benefit our economy, benefit jobs and benefit the hon. Lady’s constituents. She says her constituents worry about how to make ends meet. That is precisely why this Government continue to increase the national living wage and put through tax cuts for millions of people.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): That is certainly nothing to do with the rules of the House. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman if he thinks it is, but it is not. There are judgments to be made in this matter and opinions will differ as to the wisdom of particular courses of action, but there has been no breach of order. I absolutely recognise his irritation or dissatisfaction, but that is distinct from any question of procedural impropriety.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. This is not a debate. If the hon. Gentleman is seeking a ruling from the Chair, he can raise a point of order. If he just wants to have a tit for tat with another hon. Member, it is not the proper use of a point of order—[Interruption.] He wanted a tit for tat—[Interruption.] No, he wants a ruling. Very good.
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
Luke Patrick Graham (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am looking for your ruling, advice and clarification on how to make sure that the record is read correctly in relation to a point that was made in the House earlier today regarding what Scottish Conservatives said about looking at Government texts before they had been released to other MPs. During the previous statement, I mentioned my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister engaging with Scottish MPs, but as I am sure Hansard will reflect, it was in relation to the statement this morning and not a preview of any other text. How can I clarify this, Mr Speaker?
EU Exit Negotiations — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Clarification—I advise the hon. Gentleman in terms that brook no contradiction or misunderstanding —is contained within the terms of his own inquiry. As he just emphasised, statements were made earlier during the course of exchanges. Because those statements were made, they will be recorded in the Official Report. Therefore, all people need to do is study the Official Report, including to establish what was and what was not said by the hon. Gentleman. I hope that that is helpful to him and that he will now go about his business with an additional glint in his eye and a spring in his step for the rest of the day. Very good.
Veterans Strategy — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Mark Gino Francois (Conservative, Centre-right): I apologise, but as the hon. Lady has introduced a note of partisanship into this debate, I have to ask her something. Last Thursday, I took part in a debate on LBC with a vile man called Aaron Bastani, who is a close associate of the Leader of the Opposition. During that debate, he said, first, that the poppy was a militaristic symbol and that it was racist to wear it, secondly, that the Royal British Legion should be abolished and, thirdly, that celebrating the Invictus games was like "putting lipstick on a pig" As I understand it, this man is a member of the Labour party. Will the shadow Secretary of State condemn unequivocally those remarks and assure the House that he will be thrown out of the Labour party without delay?
Community Broadband Schemes — House of Commons, 2018-11-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
David James Duguid (Conservative, Centre-right): I am following my hon. Friend’s speech with great interest. He represents Stirling and we all think of Stirling as being the city of Stirling but it is a large rural constituency much like my constituency of Banff and Buchan, and we face similar issues, as we have discussed. We are often told that what we have to overcome are the technical, geographical and topographical issues, but these same premises have power cables and water lines going through the same topographical areas. It is actually a matter of cost.
Land Value Capture — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Housing
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government have recently published their response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee’s report on land value capture. We have committed to using existing mechanisms of land value capture as effectively as possible and are bringing forward significant changes to developer contributions in order to do so.
Land Value Capture — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Housing
Scott Leslie Mann (Conservative, Centre-right): Given that many challenges on housing delivery rely on the availability of land, will the Government consider introducing a Bill to make it easier for sites that have not been earmarked for development to be provided for local housing developments and have value captured?
Land Value Capture — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Housing
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly recognise the need for more homes, including more rental and affordable homes for people, as we deliver against our agenda. The best way to do that is through local plans, which allow local councils to provide housing in suitable locations. Local plans will certainly ensure that local communities get the houses they need, but I take on board the point my hon. Friend rightly makes about communities and making sure that value is felt.