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Written Question
Maternity Leave
Thursday 19th July 2018

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of women who took unpaid maternity leave in 2017.

Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford

Our most recent data on unpaid maternity leave is from the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey in 2009, which found that 11% of mothers received neither statutory maternity pay, occupational maternity pay nor Maternity Allowance. The main reasons for not receiving pay include not having sufficient continuous service with the same employer and being unemployed.

The Government will shortly commission a new survey, which will provide updated information.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Geothermal Energy

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the potential for geothermal energy resources in the UK.

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Evans. I am pleased to have the opportunity to open this debate on what is a huge carbon-free energy resource for …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Geothermal Energy

"My hon. Friend has just inserted it into the debate, so it obviously fits. Yes, that is a country that is already using the resource, as are others, and I will come on to that in a moment.

As I said at the outset, there is significant fuel poverty in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Geothermal Energy

"The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We need two maps. We need the map of the geological possibilities and the map of the former coalfields. The Coal Authority has done a lot of work on that. I am sure it has shared that with the Department for Business, Energy and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Geothermal Energy

"My hon. Friend tempts me down a path that will be familiar to many colleagues. His point raises the question of whether it is appropriate to use the same Treasury discount rate for something that is so long-run as we would for a project that would last for 25 years. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Geothermal Energy

"I am pleased that we have had this debate, and I am grateful to all hon. Members who have taken part, because the subject is extremely worthwhile and important. I am grateful to the Minister for her positive attitude to geothermal. She does not need to worry: we shall come …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jun 2018
Retail Sector

"When I went to talk to my local jobcentre, it complained about the way the supermarkets treat their workers. My local jobcentre says it is grossly unfair and unreasonable to give people short 12-hour or eight-hour contracts. Is the Secretary of State confident that the increase in the number of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jun 2018
Retail Sector

"I am very pleased to be able to speak in this debate, because 4,000 of my constituents work in retail. There are now more shop workers in my constituency than there were miners 50 years ago, although I have some questions about the quality of some of those jobs: the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jun 2018
Retail Sector

"Of course she has. It is a marginal. [Laughter.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jun 2018
Retail Sector

"There isn’t one!..."
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