Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"3. What assessment he has made of trends in the level of new homes available for social rent since 2010. ..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Secretary of State fails to point out that only 199 houses have been built in the past six months. Given his failure to build new housing, can we instead look at actions to deal with the 7,235 privately owned empty houses in Stoke-on-Trent?..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Windrush
"To follow on from my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), such is the chaos of our immigration system post the Windrush crisis that a gentleman called my office this morning asking whether he was going to be “Windrushed”. He arrived here from Italy in 1967 …..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
"I am devastated that we are discussing this issue in this place. We should never have had to reach a point at which we are discussing one of the oldest hatreds and how it is back in our political discourse as a norm. However, I am proud to be supported …..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
"I thank the hon. Gentleman.
Over the past two years, however, I have experienced something genuinely painful: attacks on my identity from within my own Labour family. I have been the target of a campaign of abuse, attempted bullying and intimidation from people who would dare to tell me that …..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
"I thank my hon. Friend.
To move on to my final piece of abuse:
“The gallows would be a fine and fitting place for this dyke piece of Yid shit to swing from.”
This is merely a snapshot, and the comments are those that I would feel comfortable—if that is …..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
"I have run out of time; I am sorry.
There is something more fundamental at stake here than any party’s policy platform or electoral performance: the right of Jewish people to participate in the politics of our country as equals. Last month we heard a plea: enough is enough. I …..."Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 27th February 2018
Asked by:
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what powers his Department has to create new unitary authorities.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, together with the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016, provide powers for the Secretary of State, subject to Parliamentary approval, to implement, by secondary legislation proposals for unitarisation made by one or more councils in the area.
Written Question
Tuesday 27th February 2018
Asked by:
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses for the creation of new unitary authorities.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
Our policy as stated in my Department’s Single Departmental Plan is that we will consider proposals for unitarisation and mergers when requested, and reach a judgment in-the-round as to whether the proposal, if implemented, is likely to improve the area’s local government, commands a good deal of local support in the area and whether the area itself is a credible geography for the proposed new structures.