"7. What recent meetings she has had with women who have been affected by changes to the retirement age; and if she will make a statement...." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"Indeed the Government’s position has been made clear, and they are cloth-eared in listening to women who are affected by these pension changes. If the Minister had been present yesterday in the debate on providing transitional protection for women affected by the pensions changes, she would have heard Conservative Members—indeed, …..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"8. What comparative assessment she has made of the potential effect on women and men of proposed changes to working families tax credit; and if she will make a statement...." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"The Minister says that it has been considered, but it has not been acted upon. We know that benefits such as child tax credit are twice as big a proportion of women’s income as they are of men’s. He will recall that in August 2014 the Prime Minister said that
"Are there any fundamental principles, as opposed to details and modernity, which conflict between Magna Carta and the Human Rights Act?..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for noticing that one of the problems with the prison system is that women prisoners are too often treated as though they were “not men” prisoners. Will she tell the House how far from their children the average woman prisoner is compared with the average male …..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"Will the Solicitor General consult victims’ organisations about what the scheme should look like, and how will he do that?..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"Does the Minister accept that clauses 73 and 74 of this Bill precisely help to protect women from family coercion to have an abortion?..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech
"I speak as one of the 13 MPs who co-sponsored the original ten-minute rule Bill of the hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce). I did that because I think she was right to make people aware that sex selective abortion is illegal, and I thought her Bill was a powerful …..." Fiona Mactaggart - View Speech