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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Jun 2019
EU Parliament Elections: Denial of Votes

"Is the Minister seriously trying to say that nothing went wrong here, and that is why he will not apologise? I, too, have constituents who sent all the forms off in time and who went on the day with an extra form just in case, and they were denied the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q15. More than 50 years since the closure of the J & J White chemical factory in my constituency, the local area is still blighted by carcinogenic hexavalent chromium contamination. To date, Clyde Gateway has received £6 million of EU funds to decontaminate and regenerate land, but tens of millions …..."
Ged Killen - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2019
Leaving the European Union

"I welcome the decision to waive the fee for the EU settlement scheme, even if it should never have been implemented in the first place. I have spoken to several EU citizens who are completely unaware of the scheme, and problems with it are already being reported. Does the Prime …..."
Ged Killen - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the allocation of the savings accrued from the reduction in the pay of Members of the Legislative Assembly. ..."
Ged Killen - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"In their LGBT action plan, the Government allocated £4.5 million for an implementation fund that will be available to voluntary sector groups in England, but when I was in Northern Ireland recently, I met people in similar groups facing even greater challenges who have never received Government support from Stormont …..."
Ged Killen - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"indicated assent...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Sep 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"6. What steps she is taking to help promote LGBT rights in Northern Ireland. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Sep 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"But flags are not enough. On everything from mental health to civil rights, LGBT people in Northern Ireland are worse off than those in the rest of the UK, but groups I met recently say they get no funding from the Assembly or from Westminster, and there was nothing in …..."
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Written Question
Civil Servants: Redundancy
Monday 23rd July 2018

Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants received voluntary redundancy under the 2016 terms of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme before those terms were quashed by judicial review and the 2010 terms were reinstated.

Answered by David Lidington

350 individuals received and accepted an offer of Voluntary Redundancy under the 2016 Civil Service Compensation Scheme terms.

Written Question
Civil Servants: Redundancy
Thursday 12th July 2018

Asked by: Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2018 to Question 158812 on Civil Servants: Redundancy, what obligations the Government has to those people that left on a payment under the 2016 Civil Service Compensation Scheme terms.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

The Government has reviewed all exits under the 2016 Civil Service Compensation Scheme and where appropriate has made additional payments so that the same total amount has been paid as would have been under the 2010 Civil Service Compensation Scheme terms.