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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"What is the Minister going to do about employers such as the one in my constituency who sacked a lot of young people without paying them the wages they were owed, with the result that one of them—a pregnant woman—ate nothing but Smash for three weeks?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Jan 2018
Private Sector Pensions

"The Secretary of State does not seem to have grasped the fact that the decision to carry on paying dividends and to boost the bonuses of the board while running up a pensions deficit was made by the board itself. What will she do to prevent that from happening again?..."
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Written Question
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Dupuytren's Contracture
Wednesday 20th December 2017

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress he has made on plans to include Dupuytren's disease in the list of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit diseases.

Answered by Sarah Newton

After considering the recommendation made by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, we have decided not to add Dupuytren’s contracture to the list of prescribed diseases.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Dec 2017
Pension Equality for Women

"I am very pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Thelma Walker), who spoke beautifully. I, too, am a 1950s woman, but I am speaking in the debate because this issue affects 6,300 of my constituents. We are all in favour of equalisation, but we need …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Dec 2017
Pension Equality for Women

"I do. My overall message to Ministers is that they should stop looking at actuarial tables and start listening to the way lives are lived. I have more examples. Chris wanted to stay on at school and get more education, but her father made her go out to work aged …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Nov 2017
State Pension Age: Women

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Nov 2017
State Pension Age: Women

"My hon. Friend is making a very good case. As a 1950s woman, I am extremely sympathetic to the 4,000 WASPI women in my constituency. Does my hon. Friend agree that what the Government have failed to understand is that some of these women have been working since they were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Nov 2017
Universal Credit Roll-out

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Nov 2017
Universal Credit Roll-out

"I am pleased to take part in this debate because in my constituency, 10,700 households will be moved on to universal credit. That is 21,000 people, which is almost a quarter of my constituents. On 13 December, those with new claims and changes of circumstance will be moved across to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Nov 2017
Universal Credit Roll-out

"I am sorry to inform the hon. Lady that that is not the case for new claimants and those whose circumstances have changed.

I am alarmed at what is happening to women in low-paid work. Many are trying, with great difficulty, to do their best to balance their need to …..."
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