Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill
"This is a Bill of naked discrimination against the trade unions, designed to cut the funding of the Labour party severely and, thus, to entrench the Tory party in power, as well as to make it almost impossible to strike in certain industrial sectors. However, it is worth quoting the …..."Michael Meacher - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 22nd June 2015
Asked by:
Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings she plans to make to education for 16 to 19 year olds; and how such savings will be applied.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The savings announced by the Chancellor will come from a variety of measures including expected departmental underspends in demand-led budgets, efficiencies and some small budgetary reductions.
The allocations for the education of 16- to 19-year-olds in the 2015/16 academic year that were announced in March remain in place and we are not planning to change them.
Written Question
Friday 6th March 2015
Asked by:
Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will give a guarantee that in her tenure as Secretary of State for Education there will be no for-profit schools.
Answered by Edward Timpson
All academies must be set up as charitable trusts, which ensures that any income must be spent on their charitable aims. The government has no plans to change these arrangements.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Inequality
"I beg to move,
That this House calls on the Government to set guideline targets for remuneration which over time reduce the ratio between top and bottom incomes in large organisations to no more than 50 to 1.
Even at this rather late hour, when the first debate would normally …..."Michael Meacher - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Inequality
"Does the Minister accept that, despite the good intentions of the Business Secretary’s reforms, the fact that they have not actually been exercised suggests that we need to go significantly further and that that is probably because of the excessive influence of very wealthy fund managers and, in particular, because …..."Michael Meacher - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Inequality
"This has inevitably been a rather short and truncated debate, but a useful one for all that. I think it fair to say that there is broad cross-party agreement that inequality is now out of control and further action needs to be taken. My hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool …..."Michael Meacher - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Nov 2012
Industrial Policy and Manufacturing
"I, like others in the Chamber, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Andrew Sawford) on his excellent, confident speech. I am sure that we will see a great deal more of him in the Chamber.
Today’s debate is about one of the most important and neglected areas in …..."Michael Meacher - View Speech
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