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Karen Lumley

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Ways and Means
Wednesday 20th March 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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It would have been nice to hear the hon. Gentleman celebrating the rise in employment and the fact that since the election 1.25 million new jobs have been created in the private sector. It would be very good if he and his colleagues would occasionally support that.

Karen Lumley Portrait Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)
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T2. Will my right hon. Friend assure me that the residents of Redditch will not suffer too much today from the strike action by the Public and Commercial Services Union?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I am happy to be able to tell my hon. Friend that the latest numbers suggest that fewer than 95,000 civil servants went on strike today. The leadership of the PCS, who are not serving their hard-working members at all well, claimed this morning that 250,000 civil servants were on strike. That was simply untrue—it is fewer than 95,000.

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