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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' Access

"(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on the barring of certain journalists from official civil servant media briefings at the direction of special advisers and the arrangements for future lobby and media briefings...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' Access

"Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this timely and important urgent question. The ability of the lobby to have access to briefings without favour is a long-standing tradition, and one vital to the health of a functioning democracy. Yesterday, certain publications were barred from a briefing on future trade deals …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

"I know that the Prime Minister has been doing a good job trying to reassure MPs such as me from towns that voted leave, but can he explain the loopholes on workers’ rights in the document that would not give us the security we would need on non-regression for manufacturing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Preparations for Leaving the European Union

"On a recent trip to a pharmacy in Birstall, the staff and I had a conversation about their anxiety about generic drugs becoming more expensive because of delays and tariffs, and also because pharmaceutical companies might not want to launch their drugs in the UK because they are now more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Prime Minister's Update

"We are hearing from the Prime Minister words such as the “humiliation” Act, the “surrender” Act, and the “capitulation” Act. All of these words suggest that we, because we disagree with him, are traitors, that we are not patriots, but nothing could be further from the truth. Now this may …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Brexit Readiness: Operation Yellowhammer

"Picking up on the questions from my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Janet Daby) and the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller), Primary Care Network Leeds has told me that shortages are already being caused by the stockpiling of HRT and Naproxen, a painkiller, and the health …..."
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Written Question
Prime Minister: Apprentices
Tuesday 26th February 2019

Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of staff employed by in No. 10 Downing Street are apprentices.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

The Cabinet Office currently employs 90 apprentices who are actively completing an apprenticeship, this equates to 1.31% of our workforce.

As set out in the Civil Service apprenticeship strategy, the Civil Service has pledged to achieve 30,000 apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, annually delivering 2.3% of our workforce in England as apprenticeship starts.

Work is underway to produce detailed plans, at business unit level, to identify how they will meet their target in 2019/20

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q4. Batley and Spen is a community made up of small towns and villages, and buses are a valued and essential service. I am sure the Prime Minister will sympathise with my constituents’ anger at the cuts to services announced by Arriva this week, so much so that commutes are …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jan 2019
No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jan 2019
No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government

"I thank the hon. Gentleman so much for giving way. I do appreciate it. I know that we are short of time. Does he agree that there are more children in good and outstanding schools because there are more children? Do his figures include the poorest children?..."
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