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Written Question
Blood: Contamination
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South and Mid Down)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure interim payments to infected blood bereaved families are made without delay.

Answered by John Glen

In October 2022, we made interim payments of £100,000 to chronic infected beneficiaries and bereaved partners registered with existing support schemes. I recognise the importance the infected blood community places on interim payments relating to those deaths not yet recognised, and the Government is working through the technical implications of recommendation 12.

Written Question
Former Ministers: Redundancy Pay
Thursday 3rd November 2022

Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South and Mid Down)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will reassess the criteria for ministerial severance payments.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The entitlement to severance payments for those who cease to hold ministerial office is set out in the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991. The Government has no current plans to amend the Act.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the Minister to his new role. We are concerned about his politics, but the SDLP will work constructively with anybody to get solutions. He will be aware of the absence of a fuel poverty strategy and that UK-wide solutions do not account for the fact that 68% of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q9. This Prime Minister has been the very embodiment of the excess and the vice that the ministerial code was designed to protect against, and once trust is broken it is very hard to rebuild. The trust of the Good Friday agreement between the peoples and the Governments of these …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"We hear a lot about the egregious use of powers and regulations being imposed, but we hear very little about what specific powers people do not want to have. I think they are about the volume of lawnmowers and other such crucial things. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"Will the Minister please clarify? I am struggling to understand. He repeatedly refers to the need for cross-community consent. Does he understand and has he noted the letter from a majority of MLAs—[Interruption.] Does he acknowledge that all MLAs representing others and representing nationalists reject this Bill in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"And there is not cross-community consensus!..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why, in the case of all the Bills that preceded Britain’s exit from the European Union, he repeatedly voted against all the SDLP’s amendments to design in consent for the people of Northern Ireland? Where was this regard for the delicacies of the Good …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"I genuinely share the right hon. Lady’s concern that all the elected Unionist Members oppose the protocol. It is not a desirable situation, which is why I poured six years of my life into preventing it at the time. Will she also acknowledge that every single other Member of the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"This afternoon’s amendments focus on the disapplication of the protocol and the extravagant powers that the Government hope to grant themselves. Our amendments, consistent with our amendments tabled on other days—I think we are on day 712 of this Bill—seek to balance and, where necessary, curtail those powers, to ensure …..."
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