Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. At noon, the new Prime Minister promised “integrity, professionalism and accountability”. At 5 pm, he reappointed the former Home Secretary, who resigned from the post just one week ago, saying that she had broken the ministerial code and admitting that she had …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill
"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Home Secretary has been sacked or has resigned this afternoon—this is utter chaos. The Prime Minister appears to have appointed and sacked both a Chancellor and a Home Secretary, two of the great offices of state, in the space of six …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Feb 2022
Points of Order
"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Earlier this afternoon, in response to the Home Secretary’s very confusing statement on sanctuary arrangements for Ukraine, I asked her whether the elderly Ukrainian mother of a British resident who was prevented by Border Force from travelling from Paris to the UK …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
" What recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on providing additional support to businesses affected by covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the run up to Christmas. ..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
"Pubs and high street shops are particularly hard hit by losing pre-Christmas takings. The Minister will know that it is also the hospitality and retail sectors that are most at risk from accelerating automation, which will affect jobs. What will he do to work with those sectors on sector-specific plans …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme
"My hon. Friend is completely right and is making a really powerful case on behalf of mineworkers all over the country. Does she agree that we need to know whether the Government are seeing the mineworkers’ pension as a source of income generation? If they are, that would be utterly …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jan 2018
Office for Students: Appointment
"The problem is that this man thought it was okay to publicly leer at women’s bodies while they were in the workplace, including tweeting repeatedly about women, about their knockers, their breasts, their boobs, their baps—on and on. What does it say to women and young girls across the country …..."Yvette Cooper - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 13th April 2016
Asked by:
Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) jobs and (b) businesses that have been created in Wales through European Regional Development Fund projects since 2010.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The number of jobs estimated to have been created in Wales through European Regional Development Fund projects from the start of the 2007-2013 programmes to the end of February 2016 is 36,400. The number of businesses created in the same period is 11,900.
Written Question
Wednesday 13th April 2016
Asked by:
Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) jobs and (b) businesses that have been created in Scotland through European Regional Development Fund projects since 2010.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The number of jobs estimated to have been created in Scotland through European Regional Development Fund projects from the start of the 2007-2013 programmes to the end of February 2016 is 44,311. The number of businesses created in the same period is 17,543.
Written Question
Wednesday 13th April 2016
Asked by:
Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) jobs and (b) businesses that have been created in Yorkshire and the Humber through European Regional Development Fund projects since 2010.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The number of jobs estimated to have been created in Yorkshire and the Humber through European Regional Development Fund projects from the start of the 2007-2013 programmes to the end of February 2016 is 20,149. The number of businesses created in the same period is 2,748.