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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Oct 2014
National Minimum Wage

"The exclusivity of zero-hours contracts is one issue, but it is not the only way in which they exploit people. A constituent of mine is a care worker who has to wait for a weekly text message telling her what hours she will be working at the end of that …..."
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Written Question
Domestic Visits
Tuesday 9th September 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2014, Official Report, column 621W, on official visits, what domestic visits she and her predecessor have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Department for Education does not hold a list of domestic visits in the format requested. Information about visits, meetings and events held in the diary is not set out in a way that would enable a list to be compiled without exceeding the cost threshold. Domestic visits attended by the current and former Secretary of State would include attendance at events, visits to schools and other institutions as well as external meetings held from May 2010. To compile a list of all domestic visits stating the purpose of each in an accessible format would therefore exceed the cost threshold.

Written Question
Official Visits
Wednesday 18th June 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what visits each of the Ministers in his Department have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

The Department does not hold a list of ministerial visits and to compile a list would exceed the cost threshold.

Written Question
Court of Justice of the European Union
Monday 7th April 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) 20 highest and (b) 20 lowest value contracts awarded by his Department were in each financial year since 2009-10.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude) on 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 721W.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Jul 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Government suggested that trainees might be eligible for jobseeker’s allowance while they are undertaking their traineeships. Has the Minister sorted out the details with the Department for Work and Pensions because, at the moment, someone studying for more than 15 hours a week would not be eligible for the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Apr 2013
Girls and ICT Careers

"Does my hon. Friend have a view about the suggestion of some educationists that it would be helpful if some schools separated girls in ICT classes? Some people say that when boys get into the ICT classroom they dominate the machines...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Mar 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"T10. The Secretary of State has often told us of his plans to rebalance the economy. Is he as worried as I and many commentators are that a huge plank of the Chancellor’s growth strategy seems to be predicated on a policy that could reinflate the housing bubble?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Feb 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Warm words butter no parsnips. The cost of child care holds women back from entering the work force. Does the Secretary of State regret his decision to support the reduction in child care tax credits and will he now push for that to be reversed?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"What steps is the Minister taking to work closely with colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that obstacles do not come in the way of people trying to enter further education while they are in periods of unemployment? I have a constituent who had to give …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"From today’s answers about regulation, it appears that, in the Government’s eyes, progress has already been made. Why, then, has growth slowed so far that we are now back in recession? Does that not show that all this deregulation is not working and that we need measures to increase demand?..."
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