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Speech in General Committees - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Claims Management Activity) Order 2018

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I, too, think that claims management companies are intensely interesting for various reasons.

I wonder whether the Minister can give some assurances about how he expects the regulation to improve over the next period. I concur, as I am …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Oct 2018
Food Labelling and Allergy-Related Deaths

"Pret is not a small corner shop, but a large industrial producer of food. It baked into that baguette a known allergen and then proceeded to sell it without labelling it, using a loophole meant for small corner shops. The Minister should be outraged about that. I welcome the fact …..."
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Written Question
Children: Day Care
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that families with one working parent that were previously in receipt of childcare vouchers do not face financial hardship as a result of the removal of their entitlement under the new tax-free childcare scheme.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 22 December 2017 to the Honourable Member for Tottenham (PQ119871) and to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Written Question
Children: Day Care
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on families that were in receipt of childcare vouchers but were not entitled to tax-free childcare.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 22 December 2017 to the Honourable Member for Tottenham (PQ119871) and to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Written Question
Children: Day care
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of tax-free childcare in Garston and Halewood constituency in the most recent period for which data is available..

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 22 December 2017 to the Honourable Member for Tottenham (PQ119871) and to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Written Question
Child Care Vouchers: Garston and Halewood
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor the Exchequer, how many claimants of childcare vouchers there were in Garston and Halewood constituency in each year since April 2010.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 22 December 2017 to the Honourable Member for Tottenham (PQ119871) and to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Written Question
Children: Day Care
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of previous claimants of childcare vouchers in Garston and Halewood constituency have had their entitlement removed under the new-tax free childcare scheme.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 22 December 2017 to the Honourable Member for Tottenham (PQ119871) and to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2018
Business of the House

"The most recent figures show that a staggering 69% of new houses built in the north-west are unnecessarily sold as leaseholds, leaving homeowners at the mercy of cowboy financiers who block-buy their freeholds in job lots in order to exploit them financially. The hon. Gentleman gave a poor answer to …..."
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Written Question
Mersey Gateway Bridge: Tractors
Wednesday 13th December 2017

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have had with the (i) Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs and (ii) Department of Transport related to the liability of tractors to pay tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

HMT Ministers and officials meet with Defra and DfT counterparts regularly to discuss important matters relating to their departments. The administration, operation and collection of tolls and penalty charge notices on the Mersey Gateway Bridge, including for tractors, are a matter for Halton Borough Council and the Merseylink consortium to decide.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 11th December 2017

Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will answer the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood's letter to him of 18 October 2017 about tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I replied to the hon. Member on 15 November 2017. A copy of my reply has been resent.