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Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (12 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: I have just come from a meeting with a group of former employees of a company called Dot2Dot, which ran a shuttle service between Heathrow and the local hotels. The company was sold by National Express Group and it has been passed through a series of owners. Its employees are not being paid their redundancy and holiday pay, or getting their legal entitlements. Will the Minister agree to meet...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: The statement will be very warmly welcomed in East Berkshire college, which is one of those colleges that have so improved in recent years. As a result, I hope that it might forgive me, because it looks as though business will prevent me from attending its award ceremony. I particularly recognise the proposal for advanced apprenticeships in the biopharmaceutical industry. The Minister will...

Olympics: FOI Request (Immigration) (9 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Would the Minister agree with me that one of the real sources of poor administration in the immigration system are these delays that the policy which was the subject of the freedom of information request was designed to address? I have a pile of letters with me that my researchers expected me to sign, three of which inform my constituents that they should not expect a decision before 2010 in...

Olympics: Sex Industry (9 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Whether she has commissioned any research on the effect of increased visitor numbers for the London 2012 Olympics on demand for the sex industry; and if she will make a statement.

Olympics: Sex Industry (9 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: The Minister will be aware that last week the House of Lords concurred with this House that if a man seeks to pay for sex with a woman who is trafficked or bullied into prostituting herself, he is thereby committing an offence. Will my right hon. Friend convene a meeting with the Mayor of London and others involved in the Olympics to consider how they can publicise that new offence in advance...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Small Businesses (3 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: While credit conditions are improving, a number of small companies are still suffering because they cannot obtain credit. This week I visited Saint Engineering in Slough, a precision engineering company which, although it has even provided components used for a Mars landing, had to operate for 26 days without a bank account because of the unhelpful attitude of bank managers to small...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (3 Nov 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Today's changes in the housing benefit and council tax benefit rules will put into the hands of families with children whose child benefit is being disregarded about £20 a week per family. What else can the Department do to help to tackle child poverty in advance of the pre-Budget report?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Slough borough council is one of the authorities that over the past five years has built more than 1,160 affordable homes, yet it has not bid, although it would like to do so, for the funds available for house building. That is because it is small, because it is not a building authority and because it is already using the land that is appropriate. Can the Minister find ways to help small...

Nato: Transfer of Prisoners (20 Oct 2009)

Fiona Mactaggart: We do not yet know whether these transfers contributed to a prisoner killing himself, but would the Lord Chancellor agree to report to this House, following the report of the prisons ombudsman and the coroner's report, on whether that was the case in this instance and on the number of prisoners up and down the country who are killing themselves while they are in our prisons?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (13 Oct 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Monitor produced early this year a damning report on the governance of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in my constituency. This week, at last, the chairman of the trust resigned. What can the Department do to ensure that when there is a failure of governance, the past poor actions by the board and by executive officers are not taken out on staff, who may face...

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

Fiona Mactaggart: Does the Minister agree that to achieve a high standard of learning children need to have a place to be educated? Will he tell me what he is going to do about the fact that some 100 children of primary age in my constituency do not currently have a place in a primary school?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Care and Support (Reform) (14 Jul 2009)

Fiona Mactaggart: On Friday I spoke to an elder constituent who was contemplating suicide as her savings ran out. This morning I received a thank-you card from her which read: "I now feel there is light at the end of the tunnel. When I start getting anxious again I shall remember your words 'Eat your house.'" The good thing about today's statement is that it gives older people a better option than eating their...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (14 Jul 2009)

Fiona Mactaggart: Can the Chancellor confirm that there will be extra resources for constituencies such as mine, where the number of children seeking primary school places exceeds the number of places available?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Local Authority Leaseholders (7 Jul 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. [ Interruption. ] I am impressed at being called after invisibly standing up to catch your eye, although I was standing up to catch your eye earlier. My urgent question is this. The Government have announced extra investment in public housing. Will they ensure that they invest in those local authorities that are ready to dig, such as Slough, where tenants will get...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour (6 Jul 2009)

Fiona Mactaggart: A form of antisocial behaviour that can affect a whole community is kerb crawling and prostitution. The residents of Chalvey in my constituency have taken to standing on the streets themselves to collect the car registration numbers of kerb crawlers. What comfort can the Minister give them that we will be more effective in tackling this kind of antisocial behaviour?

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

Fiona Mactaggart: Will my hon. Friend highlight the consequences in later life of the child misery to which he referred? Children who are miserable in care often end up being victims of sexual exploitation when they leave care. They frequently fail to get any qualifications, and they remain unemployed and turn to drug addiction not because it is inherited but, overwhelmingly, because they have been unhappy and...

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

Fiona Mactaggart: Will my hon. Friend give way?

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

Fiona Mactaggart: Will my hon. Friend give way?

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

Fiona Mactaggart: My hon. Friend is quite right to mention the important role that social workers play in backing up foster parents. A point that was made strongly to the Committee concerned a child's need for a good relationship with their social worker, which could help if they had an unsatisfactory relationship with their foster parents. In my constituency, the children's social workers who deal with child...

Women and Equality: Gender Pay Gap (25 Jun 2009) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: But is my hon. and learned Friend aware that the largest pay gap in Britain is in the financial services sector, where full-time women are paid 55 per cent. less than full-time men, and part-timers 39 per cent. less? As we own many of the banks responsible for that poor pay, what can the Government do?