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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Brady: Why should my constituents pay more tax so that the Prime Minister's can have their council tax frozen?

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Libya (12 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Brady: May I, too, emphasise the strength of feeling among many friends and family of the Lockerbie victims about the fact that there should be a full inquiry, especially as they believe that the dropping by Megrahi of an appeal may deprive them of any opportunity of really finding the truth and achieving the closure that they want?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Equitable Life (21 Jul 2009)

Graham Brady: Given the very long delay, what consideration has been given to the possibility of interim emergency payments in compassionate cases?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Reforming Financial Markets (8 Jul 2009)

Graham Brady: The remuneration package agreed for Mr. Stephen Hester at RBS is weighted towards the long term and has clawback provisions in the bonus. Is the Chancellor happy that that is an acceptable package, which reflects the kind of long-term measures for remuneration that he said should be put in place, or does he believe that that specific example would lead to different capital requirements?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: 21st Century Schools (30 Jun 2009) has video

Graham Brady: The Education Secretary says that he is going to step in to demand improvement where schools are failing or coasting. Is it not also time that he recognised that where schools are succeeding or improving he should get out and he should intervene less, and that such schools will thrive when they are left to their own devices?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Bradford & Bingley (Bonds) (9 Jun 2009) has video

Graham Brady: Does the Minister accept that it is essential that United Kingdom Financial Investments should be seen to have genuine operational independence? Will the Government therefore take early action to put that body on a proper statutory footing?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (12 May 2009) has video

Graham Brady: In the interests of value for money in the NHS, may I ask Ministers to look into the prescription of what are known as "specials" by GPs? A local pharmacist has written to me giving an example of a product consisting of 50 g of Betnovate cream, which costs £2.86, and 450 g of E45, costing £5.39; the total cost of the mixed cream was £347.88. Clearly, there is money being wasted...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Either I expressed myself badly or the hon. Gentleman was not listening to my remarks. I made it clear that I agree with the constituent items of legislation that are being consolidated. My concern is that consolidating them will put them into a competing hierarchy of equalities, which may lead to perverse outcomes.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry), who is a sincere man who has achieved much in this area. I pay tribute to him for that. However, at one or two points in his remarks, he fell into the great paradox of this issue in that some of the most fervent advocates of equality exhibit a degree of intolerance of the views of others. He and the hon. Member for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Absolutely. I am grateful to the Solicitor-General for that clarification. My concern is that, in the example that I gave earlier to the Minister, if a business chose to avoid employing people from an ethnic minority, for example, and its work force were therefore 100 per cent. white, it might be that employer's preference to retain a 100 per cent. white work force. We are giving that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: I am happy to take a further intervention if the Solicitor-General thinks that I have got the wrong end of the stick. As far as I can see from the Bill, if an employer chooses to say that women are under-represented in his work force, he may choose to employ the woman, rather than the man from an ethnic minority.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: I think that the Solicitor-General is mistaken. Clearly, the provision could be used in that way, given that it is also possible to discriminate in favour of women to rebalance the work force on gender grounds. That would be entirely possible, and she seems to have a misplaced confidence that that could never happen. Either she must believe that no employer would ever want to discriminate...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: I will give way, because I am keen that we move towards a better understanding of a complicated Bill.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: I am grateful to the Solicitor-General for that, but I do not think that it detracts from my fundamental point that the Bill provides the tool for discrimination if one wished to use it in that way. Those are the problems, and the big philosophical change, which I assume that the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown was alluding to, is the move towards positive discrimination, which is a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Is the hon. Lady seriously making the worrying suggestion that if more women were on the boards of the large banks they would make decisions not in the commercial interests of the banks, but on other grounds?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Will the hon. Lady give way again?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Under the terms of the Bill, will it be possible for an employer to choose to employ a white woman rather than an equally well qualified black man?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: indicated dissent.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: The Secretary of State will know that many elderly people in private residential homes are struggling to pay their fees. Why are those living in such homes not able to receive the winter fuel allowance, when they could if they were living in their own homes and paying for fuel and lighting?