Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Mary Glindon Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd February 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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I certainly join my hon. Friend in that, and he makes an important point: across the country we have different councils coping with the issues of fostering and adoption, and producing very different results. We need to publish all these figures so that we can see which councils are doing well and getting value for money, as they clearly are in Lancashire, and, above all, which councils are doing the best to get children out of care and into a warm and loving home.

Mary Glindon Portrait Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab)
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Q2. The national minimum wage has lifted millions of workers out of poverty pay, so will the Prime Minister support hard-working people and give a commitment today to drop unjust plans to freeze it?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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We support the minimum wage, we have supported its uprating and we have already uprated it. It has an important role to play.