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Written Question
Stroud Station: Disability
Tuesday 6th May 2014

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of unscrupulous money lending in (a) the UK, (b) East Midlands, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) Ashfield in each of the last five years.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

The Government has not made an estimate about levels of unscrupulous money lending. The National Audit Office estimated that unaddressed detriment in the UK consumer credit market cost consumers £450m in 2011-12.

The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market. The new, more robust Financial Conduct Authority regime will help to deliver the Government's vision for a well functioning and sustainable consumer credit market which is able to meet consumers' needs.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 May 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome both Ministers to their new roles. We have the new Minister for Equalities, and it is always good to see people from ordinary backgrounds at the top table of politics, and the new Minister for Women, and it is a pleasure to shadow another woman from the east …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"I beg to move,

That this House believes that the Government is failing to deliver a recovery for women and is making women pay three times more than men to bring down the deficit, according to research by the House of Commons Library; notes that under this Government, women’s unemployment …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"There have never been more women saying that they are working part time and cannot get the hours to work full time. The female employment rate is lower than it was under Labour before the crash...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will discuss some of the measures that a Labour Government would introduce...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"Those comments were absolutely offensive. I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting them, and for asking the question that exposed the reality of the Government’s position.

Women feel it when their Sure Start centres are cut and the cost of child care continues to rise. They understand that the Government …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"It is absolutely right that women are hit three times as hard, and I will explain later how that has happened.

Half of mums surveyed by Netmums said that to save money they turned off the heating when their children were out. The Government talk about recovery, but these women …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"That is absolutely right. That is why it is important to tackle long-term unemployment, and that is exactly what a Labour Government would do.

When women do manage to find work, more often than not it is part time, low-wage or temporary. The number of women working in temporary jobs …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. I vividly remember one lady—a mum in her 40s—coming into my office just before a Morrisons opened in my constituency. She was in tears because when Morrisons announced it was recruiting, she kept calling but the number was constantly engaged.

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
Women and the Cost of Living

"My hon. Friend makes a fantastic point.

What is the Government’s response? It is to hit women harder. Of the £14.4 billion George Osborne has raised through direct taxation and benefit changes, about £11.4 billion—79%—is coming from women. David Cameron is asking women to pay more than three times as …..."
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