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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jan 2016
Children in Care

"I am delighted to join the hon. Member for Telford (Lucy Allan) in sponsoring this debate.

To declare my interest, I am the patron of the Family Rights Group, the charity that works with parents in England and Wales whose children are in need, at risk or in the care …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jan 2016
Children in Care

"I do not concur with that at all.

All these problems are profound and multidimensional —of course they are—but I could sum up the problem in my time, although more recent children’s Ministers may sum it up differently: children are pushed into care too easily, moved around too much and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jan 2016
Children in Care

"I will come on to research that might help the hon. Gentleman because I believe that it is indeed the case, not in every instance of course, that a higher proportion of children who are left to be raised with families—and friends, incidentally—will not end up in the situation that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jan 2016
Children in Care

"I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman’s contribution. Nobody supporting this motion or sponsoring it does not believe that children who are in danger should be removed from that danger quickly. His whole contribution and opposition to this motion are based on a total misconception. What we are saying is …..."
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Written Question
Carers
Thursday 3rd December 2015

Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department plans to allocate for specialist services for kinship carers in the period to March 2019.

Answered by Edward Timpson

We will set the Department’s individual budgets as part of the internal business planning process. We will announce the future of specific programmes in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"Will the Secretary of State explain why the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is pursuing auto-enrolment for contributions to pension funds?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"I draw to the House’s attention my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my membership of the Communication Workers Union.

In no other country in Europe would a mainstream, right-of-centre party bring forward such a Bill. It is an attack upon the trade union movement that may …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"I suggest that we set a room aside with some crayons and colouring boards and perhaps a “Teletubbies” DVD for those who want to engage in that level of immaturity. We are seeing the lowest level of industrial action practically since records began. The wonder of the past five years …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In fact, the RPC has said that the Bill is not fit for purpose. I will come to that in a second...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"Of course industrial action has an impact, which is why, as I said, no trade unionist, trade union leader or trade union shop steward would ever contemplate industrial action unless it was as a last resort. When there was a protest in Parliament Square, as there frequently are, I was …..."
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