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Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Social Care Green Paper (11 Nov 2009)

Ann Clwyd: What discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the implications of the social care Green Paper for people in Wales.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Social Care Green Paper (11 Nov 2009)

Ann Clwyd: As my hon. Friend knows, 17 per cent. of people in my constituency are on incapacity benefit—one of the highest percentages of disabled people in the UK. Many people are concerned that the proposed changes will threaten their allowances. Will he assure them that they will not be worse off under the proposals?

Business of the House: Social Care Green Paper (29 Oct 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Although I realise that the impact of this Green Paper mainly applies to England, parts of it also apply to Wales, particularly in respect of the benefits system. My constituency contains one of the highest percentages of disabled people in the country, and I have received an enormous number of letters from people who are particularly concerned about the withdrawal of disability living...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] — UK Relations with Russia (14 Oct 2009)

Ann Clwyd: Mr. Streeter, it is a pleasure to see you here. This is the first time that I have spoken under your chairmanship. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) on securing this debate on an important subject, and I am glad that it is taking place so soon after the recess. I also congratulate the Minister for Europe, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Digital Radio Switchover (20 Jul 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Is it not a fact that the BBC would have more money to improve coverage and content if it spent less public money on excessive salaries and excessive expenses?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Ann Clwyd: Can I ask my right hon. Friend to expand on one sentence in his statement? He said, "On Burma, we reiterated our support to do all that we can to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi." What does that mean, what can we do, and what will we do?

Energy and Climate Change: Newspapers (Surveillance Methods) (9 Jul 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Given Mr. Coulson's dubious reputation, none of us on this side of the House can feel comfortable while he is around to wander the corridors here. While he is under suspicion, can we not at least take his pass away from him?

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

Ann Clwyd: I welcome the White Paper, particularly the points made by my right hon. Friend about changing the financial culture of banks. It sounds, therefore, as though he might like to incorporate in future legislation an excellent Bill restricting the pensions of board members of banks that are wholly or partly owned by the taxpayer. Will he consider the matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Topical Questions (30 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: What discussions has my right hon. Friend had with his US counterparts on the BBC's allegations of prisoner abuse at Bagram air base? Is it not a fact that two British prisoners have either been held there in the past or are being held there now? Will my right hon. Friend take some action on that important issue?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Afghanistan (24 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: As my right hon. Friend knows, abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad caused untold damage to the coalition at the time. Now, allegations have been made by the BBC about the abuse of detainees at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Will he tell me what action he proposes to take?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to condemn the appalling racist attacks on Romanian families in Belfast?

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Iraq (15 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: As one who supported the Iraq war, I did so on human rights grounds. I saw no secret material and had no private briefing, but I had a 30-year involvement with the Iraqi opposition. I personally would want assurances from the inquiry as to why, prior to the war, this country failed to indict leading members of the Iraqi regime when we had the legal evidence to enable us to do so.

Bill Presented: Carers (11 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: My constituency has a very high percentage of disabled people, because of past industrial disease, and a very high percentage of elderly people. Many carers are being short-changed by an outdated benefits system, which simply does not recognise the enormous contribution that carers make to looking after people who need them to stay at home and give up their jobs in order to assist them. What...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Unadopted Roads (Former Coalfield Areas) (14 May 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Given the demands on local authorities to prioritise, has the Department made any estimate of: first, the number of unadopted roads, and secondly, how much it would cost to make them adoptable? I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel) that they are a great problem in coalmining communities such as mine in Cynon Valley, where, right now, we are...

Bankers' Pensions (Limits) (10 Mar 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the pensions of board members of banks that are wholly or partly in public ownership to be limited in certain circumstances; and for connected purposes. My Bill is born of public anger; there is hardly a household in the land in which anger has not been expressed, and outrage has not been felt, over the greed,...

Business of the House: Binyam Mohamed (5 Feb 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: The judges argued yesterday that it was "difficult to conceive that a democratically elected and accountable government could possibly have any rational objection" to placing on record "a summary of what its own officials reported as to how a detainee was treated by them". The Foreign Secretary has said that he has spoken to Hillary Clinton, but is he prepared to ask President Obama...

Legal Services Commission (Cardiff) (21 Jan 2009)

Ann Clwyd: rose—

Legal Services Commission (Cardiff) (21 Jan 2009)

Ann Clwyd: I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. She makes an important point that the decision affects the whole of south Wales. It will certainly affect some of my constituents, who have written to me about it. Many of those staff are long-serving and have built up a considerable amount of knowledge and experience that will be lost to Wales if those jobs go. I am sure that she will...

Olympics: Gaza (19 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: My right hon. Friend knows that the people of Gaza made Hamas their elected choice in what were described as free and fair elections. The Israelis have locked up 45 Hamas MPs, and some Fatah MPs as well. What can my right hon. Friend do to secure the release of the properly elected representatives, either to stand trial or to be let go?

Olympics: Financial Markets (19 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: May I give my right hon. Friend an example of how the banks are treating people who should be some of their more valued customers? A constituent of mine who runs the last medium heavy engineering company in the south Wales valleys was told by Barclays bank just before Christmas that it would be cancelling a temporary overdraft facility, rejecting an application for a Government-guaranteed...