Results 1-20 of 450 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Ann Coffey

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Listed Buildings (9 Nov 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: What recent representations he has received on the level of Government spending on listed buildings; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Listed Buildings (9 Nov 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. The current system of listing buildings can hold up development and lead to additional costs. In the case of Stockport college, in my constituency, that meant that a capital grant from the Learning and Skills Council for phase 2 development was almost entirely spent on improving two listed buildings with no educational benefit to any young person....

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (9 Nov 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: My right hon. Friend will be aware of the strong interest of north-west publishers, including the publishers of the Manchester Evening News and the Stockport Express, in becoming the English pilot for regional news. Can he give me any further information as to the time scale for making that decision?

Business of the House (29 Oct 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Portcullis House has a G rating for energy use, the worst rating that any building can have. May I urge my right hon. and learned Friend to enlist the advice of Green2Go, a company in my constituency that has developed a biofuel based on waste cooking oil, on how the energy rating of Portcullis House can be improved?

Local and Regional Newspapers (15 Jul 2009)

Ann Coffey: I congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) on securing this interesting debate. He is right to say that local newspapers face a grave crisis. Seventy newspapers have closed in the past year and analysts have warned that up to half the UK's local and regional newspapers may be shut within the next five years. The recent "Digital Britain" report pointed out that "there's an...

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend about maintaining the highest possible standards in care, particularly in children's homes. Did his Committee look at how we can improve standards of care in children's homes, perhaps by looking at Ofsted's inspection process and considering ways of improving it?

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: rose—

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Does my hon. Friend agree that a similar problem exists in residential care? Stockport is a net importer of children from outside the area—the figure is the third highest in the country—and the cost of such placements is astronomical. The homes advertise for children with difficulties or problems such as antisocial behaviour. Do you think that there is a problem with ensuring that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (Young People) (23 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: What plans he has to reduce the number of young people taking up smoking.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (Young People) (23 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: I thank the Minister for that reply. Although the number of young people in Stockport who smoke has significantly decreased, there are still twice as many young smokers in those areas where people have a lower life expectancy than in those areas where people have a higher life expectancy. I recently met health workers and Brinnington residents who are piloting a Lose the Fags scheme, where...

Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (11 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: I am very pleased that this year 55 per cent. more young people in Stockport are going to university than in 1997. The new university centre, in which Stockport college of further education has expressed an interest, will encourage even more young people to do higher degrees. However, Stockport college is still in negotiations with the Learning and Skills Council about its capital programme....

Business of the House (4 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: The Education Service in the House of Commons offers subsidised travel to schools wishing to visit Parliament. This is very popular with schools in Stockport, but the service is heavily oversubscribed, with the subsidy being allocated almost immediately on the day when applications open. Will my right hon. and learned Friend look into this to see whether more subsidy could be made available,...

Nimrod Project (20 May 2009)

Ann Coffey: When the Minister makes his considerations, will he also take into account the importance of keeping highly skilled engineering jobs in the north-west, because that will attract further investment and give vitality to the region?

Legislative Reform: Local and Regional News (19 Mar 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: I want to use the debate to highlight my concern at the decision by the Guardian Media Group to announce 150 job losses at the Manchester Evening News and its 22 weekly newspapers, including the extremely successful Stockport Express, which serves my constituency. The weekly newspapers will continue to exist but their offices will be closed and the papers will all be written and designed at...

Business of the House: Lord Laming's Progress Report (12 Mar 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Abacus, in my constituency, is one of the first health-led Sure Start centres, and its success in involving local parents lies in that focus on health. One of the problems encountered by social workers trying to monitor the well-being of children living with parents who have multiple problems, including drug and alcohol addiction, is the difficulty of persuading those parents to co-operate...

Bill Presented — Northern Ireland Bill: Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill (23 Feb 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Abacus, in my constituency, was one of the first Sure Start centres. Part of its success has been the inclusion of parents in its advisory body. I welcome the establishment of children's centres on a statutory basis, but will my right hon. Friend ensure that their governance arrangements include parents in the wider community so that services are developed in a way that meets the local...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Policing Policies (9 Feb 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Greater Manchester police have made a commitment in their policing pledge to respond within 24 hours to non-urgent calls. That will be very good news for local people. However, can my hon. Friend ensure that CDRPs widely advertise their policing pledges so that local people can hold local police accountable for those pledges?

Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]: Skills and Further Education (3 Feb 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: rose—

Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]: Skills and Further Education (3 Feb 2009) has video

Ann Coffey: Does my right hon. Friend agree that part of the problem has been that the Learning and Skills Council announced the deferral of a small number of projects for three months, alarming every college principal with a capital project? Aquinas and Stockport colleges in my constituency have capital projects worth over £60 million, which is a big investment in Stockport and in further...

Debate on the Address: Health and Education (11 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Coffey: One of the failures identified in Haringey was the insufficient challenge by the local safeguarding children board to its members and front-line staff. Often the chairs of these boards are also the chairs of children's services. Has the Secretary of State given any further consideration to the conflicts of interest that arise in that situation, and to having independent chairs?