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Urgent question (Commons) on Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled People - Mar 6

Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) (Lab) Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will make a statement on the changes that her Department intends to make to social security and employment support...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:47

Ten minute rule motion on Charity Trustees (Time Off for Duties) - Mar 6

Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South) (Lab): I beg to move, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Employment Rights Act 1996 to give charity trustees the right to time off work for the purposes of carrying out the duties of that office...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:43

End of day adjournment debate: Special Educational Needs: Wiltshire - Mar 6

Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con): Society can be judged by the quality of the provision it makes for its most vulnerable members....

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:39

Extract from Northern Ireland Questions: Leaving the EU: No-Deal Preparations - Mar 6

Stephen Kerr (Stirling) (Con): Once we have left the European Union, one of the important aspects of the economic make-up of our country will be how the UK shared prosperity fund works...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:37

Extract from PMQs - Mar 6

Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) (Lab): It is my daughter’s 16th birthday on 29 March, and it is her generation that will be most impacted by Brexit...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:35

Extracts from Parliamentary proceedings - Mar 6

Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP): There has been a bomb attack in Londonderry...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:28

Extracts from Lords proceedings - Mar 6

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con): My noble friend will be aware that the Secretary of State for Agriculture promised, at the NFU Conference more than two weeks ago...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:22

Extracts from Report stage (Lords)(day 1) of the Trade Bill - Mar 6

Lord Bilimoria (CB): I emphasise how important this issue is. From my experience, the UK has arguably the finest legal services in the world...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:19

Extracts from Question for Short Debate (Lords) on Schools: Swimming and Life-saving Skills - Mar 6

Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab):...Swimming comes under physical education, and the narrowing of the curriculum since the introduction of the EBacc has reduced opportunities as a result...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:08

Extracts from Parliamentary proceedings - Mar 6

Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East) (Lab):...In talking to the families of the victims of the Anfal in 2011, I was struck by the comparison they made to the holocaust of the Jewish people in the second world war...

Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:03