Results 1-20 of 185 for speaker:Christine Russell

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

Christine Russell: What duties in relation to apprenticeships will be placed on house builders and developers as part of the housing pledge.

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

Christine Russell: I recently visited the further education college in my constituency. It is getting a new campus, and it will train the new generation of construction workers. While I was there looking at the new building, however, I was lobbied by some of the mature students. They asked whether there would be any jobs for them, and whether there would be any homes for them. In west Cheshire, 13,000 people...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Pro Bono Work (15 Oct 2009) has video

Christine Russell: What recent progress she has made in encouraging lawyers to undertake pro bono work (a) in England and (b) abroad.

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Pro Bono Work (15 Oct 2009) has video

Christine Russell: Can I tell the Solicitor-General about some pro bono heroes in my constituency? I do not know whether she is aware of this, but the College of Law at Chester runs an excellent pro bono scheme, whereby members of the public receive free legal advice from postgraduate students—under the full supervision of fully qualified staff, I hasten to add. Does she agree that that is a very good...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Retirement Pensions: Females (20 Jul 2009)

Christine Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the number of women who would become eligible to receive a full state pension if the reduction in the number of qualifying years required for those reaching the state pension age at or after 6 April 2010 were applied to all women in receipt of a state pension in 2010-11; and what estimate she has made of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Social Housing (2 Jun 2009) has video

Christine Russell: What plans the Homes and Communities Agency has to increase the supply of social housing; and if she will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Social Housing (2 Jun 2009) has video

Christine Russell: I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. In my constituency, there are 26 applicants for every social housing vacancy. The Homes and Communities Agency has made a good start in giving £12 million to the Chester and district housing trust to build 350 homes, but 3,500 homes are needed. What more can she and the agency do to put pressure on the banks and building societies to make...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (18 May 2009) has video

Christine Russell: Most people find the presence of CCTV in their neighbourhoods reassuring, and most police officers find them very helpful in assisting the detection of crime and the reduction of antisocial behaviour. However, there is also a strong view out there that they can result in a real invasion of an individual's personal liberty. Has the Department commissioned, or will it consider commissioning, a...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Christine Russell: We have heard some excellent contributions tonight from Members on both sides of the House. Time is not on my side, so I shall concentrate on one issue—the complete lack of progress in many African countries towards achieving the fifth millennium development goal on maternal health. Across the world, on average one woman a minute dies in childbirth. The total of that awful statistic is...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Christine Russell: That sounds like a splendid idea, and I will certainly point the Secretary of State for Health in that direction. My second suggestion would offer a very good way for us to transfer skills and knowledge to the developing world. My final point is that the UN can and certainly should do more to co-ordinate international efforts. There is far too much fragmentation among the UN agencies, and...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Gaza (11 Feb 2009) has video

Christine Russell: What support the Government are providing to non-governmental organisations and charities that are delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Gaza (11 Feb 2009) has video

Christine Russell: I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply; the news that our Government are responding positively in helping the agencies to rebuild the shattered lives of people in Gaza is certainly welcome. Many of my constituents have donated very generously to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal. At a meeting last week, my constituents asked me what assurance we could give our aid agencies and NGOs...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (29 Jan 2009)

Christine Russell: I am pleased to be called to speak in this important annual debate. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry), the chairman of the group, I regret the fact that attendance is pretty sparse. I consider it a tremendous honour and privilege to have been elected as vice-chair of the British group of the IPU. I do not want to sound too self-congratulatory, but I certainly...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (19 Jan 2009) has video

Christine Russell: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (19 Jan 2009) has video

Christine Russell: My right hon. Friend has just mentioned the amazing success of Liverpool as European capital of culture, and he will be aware of the significant contribution that the designation of world heritage site status in 2004 made to the economic regeneration of Liverpool. Will my right hon. Friend or his ministerial colleague give me an assurance that in the ongoing review there will be no change of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (16 Dec 2008) has video

Christine Russell: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will be aware that more than 90 million working days are lost in Britain every year through mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and depression. Many employers do not quite know what to do about mental health problems, so may I invite him to look at the innovative work being developed by the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation...

Written Answers — Health: GP-led Health Centres (16 Dec 2008)

Christine Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the first new GP-led health centre to open; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Nov 2008) has video

Christine Russell: What steps does my right hon. Friend intend to take to keep construction workers at work building affordable homes to buy and rent in parts of the country where there is a great scarcity of social housing?