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Most recent annotations on things by Yvette Cooper

  • Anthony Wheeler: Why always play party politics? Do your job and you might get some respect. If you have to play the silly game remember what was said to Neville Chamberlain and go. (20 October 2009)
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  • uk bix: "Yvette Cooper (Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions; Pontefract & Castleford, Labour) "He will also know that after the numbers on sickness benefit rose for more than 20... (22 July 2009)
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  • Andrew Pearce: Did you really just quote the CE of a company who have made obscene profits this year, that could in part be the result of not passing the benefits of lower VAT to its customers? What does the CE... (7 May 2009)
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  • Richard Dixon: Question 1 - Not answered - 0 out of 10 Question 2 - Not answered - 0 out of 10 Yvette see me after class! (1 November 2008)
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  • Wendy Weaver: As a Pensioner I make the same comment as Mr J H Hall: I cannot make use of my bus pass as the bus stop is too far away from my home so I am paying via my community charge for something I cannot... (25 June 2008)
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  • J H Hall: As a pensioner in Douglas Carswell's constituency, I find the assumption and tone of Yvette Cooper's regrettable. Mr Carswell has talked to pensioners and while she is right in some aspects of... (25 June 2008)
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  • David Clark: Unfortunately, the Governments own red book shows that they assume the take-up of tax credit will be low. They have allowed for this in all their budgetary calculations. Every time they refer to... (22 April 2008)
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  • David Clark: Although the minimum wage was increased by the Government, it is the employer who has to pay it and the Government gets a cut through tax. And the cut will be even bigger now the 10% rate has... (22 April 2008)
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  • Ian Seale: Echo Alistair Burt's comments regarding the independent observation: "The Department does not know how much the regeneration of the Thames Gateway will cost the taxpayer"; "The Department has... (28 November 2007)
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  • veronica jordan: I Assume at the end of the labour conference the singing of Jerusalem was just being more labour spin [Green and pleasant land } A more suitable song at the next conference would be {Concrete... (4 October 2007)
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  • Chris Davies: Oh please The EPC will do nothing to improve a homes carbon emissions as the measures needed to reduce them in the homes involve spending vast sums of money Such as double glazing cavity... (11 July 2007)
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  • Carolyn phillippo: The question about the definition of number of bedrooms in a house has not been answered. This will become contentious on 1 August, so a definition is paramount. (13 June 2007)
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  • Malcolm Walpole: It seems to be increasingly the way of this government, that local concerns are not acknowledged, or responded to. Concentrating decision making away from the people it directly affects only... (8 June 2007)
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  • Mark Bestford: "instead feel that they need to join social housing waiting lists" that suggests that buyers have a choice. They don't, housing is just too expensive. Also, once on the social housing list they... (16 May 2007)
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  • John Gilmore: Do the labour party expect to meet the 3.2 million demand for social housing or are they going to regulate the escalating cost of buying a house. If the amount that can now be borrowed for the... (16 May 2007)
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  • Oliver Sims: The Minister's answer shows everthing that is wrong with this government - they announce things to sound good in tomorrow's media, but not only have no intention of delivering, but no idea how to... (10 May 2007)
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  • Mark Bestford: Where's that 60,000 figure coming from? The estate that was championed as the 60,000 pound home was proven to be a farce. Every home on that estate was sold for over 170,000. There is NO... (9 May 2007)
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  • stephen reid: There was no suggestion that Maria Miller opposed the idea. She was simply asking when the first bricks might be laid. The Minister sounded rattled by her Government's failure to deliver on a... (9 May 2007)
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  • rosemary james: If the government prioritises english language teaching, as indeed it should, but then is overruled by local priorities of a different nature, what is the point of discussing this matter at... (27 March 2007)
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  • Ian Moss: I think it would be possible to form an example rule /guidance such as: No land should be developed with an additional abode or abodes, where it stands on a plot of more than half an acre and... (13 December 2006)
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  • craig stevens: As constituents that are experiencing this brave new world of housing growth. It is as well to remind members the genuine concerns of the communities that these development's are affecting. It is... (11 December 2006)
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  • Neale Upstone: What a wonderful truism: "we need 200,000 more homes" Why is that? Could it be because Gordon Brown is still hasn't got that perpetual growth is impossible? Could it be that the government... (22 June 2006)
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  • Mike Carver: My concern is that these 'trained' home inspectors might largely come from the estate agency business thus ensuring that the additonal income from HIP still ends up in the wrong hands. (7 June 2006)
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  • Francis Irving: mySociety's website is http://www.mysociety.org (17 September 2005)
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  • Heather Knott: How does Yvette Cooper arrive at the figure of the cost of the average Chelmsford house being £200,000? I hotly dispute this figure. (9 June 2005)
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