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Olympics: Swine Flu Update (20 Jul 2009) has video

Glenda Jackson: I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I am sure he agrees, however, that concern has grown over the definition of pregnant women and the under-fives as vulnerable groups. That is certainly the case in my constituency. Can he reassure my constituents that that vulnerability does not mean that they are more likely than not to contract swine flu? It is certain that in the case of...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: I agree with what the Minister says, but equally that stereotyping goes on long beyond the point of being a young girl, into being a young woman. We have all had experience of ringing public companies and our first contact with that company, whatsoever it is, is usually a young woman on the telephone. If that young woman is asked a question that is outside her tick-box paper in front of her,...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: I do not agree that society was not set up in a discriminatory way: it most certainly was. It has moved on, but we have not gone all the way yet. Will the Minister raise the idea with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport that it could, for example, begin to encourage the people who make television programmes, or those who publish magazines that target young and teenage girls, to set up...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: I appreciate that the evidence is not yet in, but on the precise point about the learning and skills councils and what they discover, it is important that what they discover to be positive should be handed down as quickly as possible to the sharp end of job centres, for example. It is easy for people in such schemes to discover things, but when, as my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: Just point at them.

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: I congratulate and thank the Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform for enabling my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber) and her colleagues to produce this interesting report. In the main, I agree with practically everything that has been said, although I must admit that I have my doubts about role models, because I am of a generation raised almost...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: Well you might, but I do not think that we are.

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: Oh we are! [Interruption.] I was not saying "allowed" in a political sense. I meant that I did not wish to make even more panic-stricken all those people who seem to be selling their shares. Okay? The Government were quick off the mark to say that additional money will be made available for retraining people who lose their jobs. We should regard that—touching on another part of the...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: I am very interested in the engineering issue. A few years ago, there was an event in the House of Commons organised by a federation of companies, particularly marked towards engineering and water. The representatives were bewailing the fact that insufficient numbers of young women were applying to become engineers. I said, "Why have you not approached them on the level that they would be of...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: The points that my hon. Friend raises on the management of work forces are interesting. However, the reason why I support the idea of flexible working for the entire work force is that, anecdotally, I have learned that problems arise because some fellow workers resent the fact that some of their colleagues have a right to flexible working. Their argument is always, "Why am I not allowed that?...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Glenda Jackson: You are not a million miles from one of them now.

Orders of the Day: Clause 14 — Conditions of licences for treatment (20 May 2008) has video

Glenda Jackson: rose—

Orders of the Day: Clause 14 — Conditions of licences for treatment (20 May 2008) has video

Glenda Jackson: I hope that the central message that the hon. Gentleman wishes to send to the country will be picked up by all those fathers who are being pursued by the Child Support Agency; they are clearly failing to be fathers to their children. Is that the message that he hopes will be sent?

Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]: Post Office Closures (19 Mar 2008) has video

Glenda Jackson: I should like to reassure my right hon. Friend that I have no intention whatever of voting for the Conservative amendment, which comes from a party that when in government had absolutely no compunction about closing post offices, schools, hospitals, mines and heavy industry. However, there is real concern in my constituency about the proposal to close three highly efficient and consistently...

Theatre Funding (28 Mar 2007)

Glenda Jackson: May I say what a pleasure it is to serve for the first time under your chairmanship, Mr. Caton? It is traditional in the House to offer thanks for the opportunity to introduce such a debate. In one sense I am thankful, but in another, I have an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. It seems to me that I, in concert with many others, have been making the case for a secure subsidy to British...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq (12 Dec 2006)

Glenda Jackson: Did I understand my right hon. Friend correctly? Does he regard the Iraq Study Group as having absolutely no recommendations that could apply to the areas of British responsibility in Iraq? If the President of the United States accepts those recommendations in total, does that mean that the British Government will oppose that change in the strategy in Iraq? Is it not infinitely easier for a...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Glenda Jackson: It gives me no pleasure at all to agree in some part with the contribution of the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir Malcolm Rifkind). When my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary gave, as she always does, a most telling performance at the Dispatch Box—she is always in command of the House and her subject—the list of the areas in which there is a...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Glenda Jackson: It may be the free will of the people that they should live in a state that is ruled by Shi'a law, yet they are not in that state, or it may be the free will of the people that they should live in a state ruled by another form of religious law, but they are not in that state. Kurdistan is virtually independent and out of the picture already. We are considering the remaining two...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 — The National Identity Register (13 Feb 2006)

Glenda Jackson: Will my hon. Friend set out how the Government are approaching the commissioning of the enormous contract for a database that must be pushing at the envelope of IT knowledge? The Government's track record in commissioning computer-based technology is disastrous—as was that of the previous Government—so how are they approaching it differently to ensure that we do not experience, as...

Business of the House (7 Jul 2005)

Glenda Jackson: When will the House be afforded the opportunity in Government time to debate the continuing insurgency in Iraq? Bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, to which my right hon. Friend referred, may indeed be very close, but there is a clear difference of opinion within the US Executive, with one Secretary of State saying that the insurgency is in its death throes,...