Results 1-20 of 377 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Helen Southworth

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Food Labelling (Nutrition and Health) (4 Nov 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require simple, uniform nutritional labelling on the front of packaged foods; and for connected purposes. A very broad coalition of support for action is forming, following the extensive research commissioned by the Food Standards Agency and published earlier this year, which found that consumers were confused by the various different...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Copenhagen Summit (21 Oct 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: What steps the Government are taking to ensure equitable treatment of developing countries in negotiations which are taking place before the Copenhagen climate change summit.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Copenhagen Summit (21 Oct 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: The world's poorest countries are already being hurt by the leading edge of climate change, and people are calling out for help. Will my right hon. Friend be absolutely resolute in making sure that their voice is heard at Copenhagen and we get urgent action on their behalf?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 May 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: Every year more than 100,000 children go missing in this country. Thankfully, most of them are found safe, but some of them are not. Over the next few days, events will be held all around the country to mark international missing children's day. Will the Prime Minister meet me and members of the leading children's charities to find out not only what is being done to protect those children,...

Business of the House (7 May 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: Members of this House are extremely concerned about this week's shocking report on children who have gone missing from what should have been a place of safety. Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time for us to have a thorough debate, in order to make sure that we are protecting children who go missing and are exploited—and, indeed, that we are doing everything possible to ensure...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Prisons and Probation (27 Apr 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: My right hon. Friend is well aware that my constituents want the Omega site in Warrington to develop as a high-quality business park containing quality offices, new technology manufacturing and associated hotels and retail premises. Will he assure us that his statement today that the Department is not seeking to locate a prison on the Omega site will hold for now and for the future?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Young People Leaving Care (Accommodation) (18 Mar 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for minimum standards in respect of accommodation for young people leaving care; to impose a duty on local authorities to ensure that such standards are met; and for connected purposes. This Government have made massive progress in bringing in legislation to protect children and they have given a special focus to...

Business of the House: Digital Britain (29 Jan 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: I thank my right hon. Friend for the statement, with the economic benefits that those developments will bring to my constituents in the north-west region, considering our strengths in the creative industries, and the opportunities that will come to us with Media City at Salford. I draw his attention to the universal service commitment. He is aware of Alderman Bolton school in my constituency,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Jan 2009) has video

Helen Southworth: In the current global economic instability, will the Prime Minister intervene rapidly to ensure that women workers who fear job losses get help to keep their jobs, learn new skills and keep the family income coming in?

Child Prostitution (20 Jan 2009)

Helen Southworth: I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate and on giving hon. Members another chance to discuss this important issue. Does he agree that children without family support are particularly vulnerable to predatory adults? Does he also agree that those in the care of children's services are often targeted by predators who think that they can be exploited because their families are not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Pitt Report (17 Dec 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: First, may I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement? It will give a lot of hope to those of my constituents who have had some very nasty experiences with flooding over the past few years. We have been working extremely hard to try to tackle the flooding that has taken place in my constituency, particularly in Great Sankey and Penketh, which has caused horrible experiences, sometimes for...

Business of the House: Safeguarding Children (20 Nov 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: As part of the extensive range of actions that my right hon. Friend is rightly taking in this awful case, will he consider the issue of safe places for children and make sure that every local authority has emergency accommodation available? In that way, a child who needs one can definitely be taken to a place of safety—at a foster carer's, if one is available, or elsewhere.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Nov 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: Friday is world diabetes day, and next week schoolchildren with diabetes will come to Parliament to seek our support. Will the Prime Minister ensure that they get every bit of help that they need at school to manage their diabetes effectively so that they can take up every opportunity that education offers?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Food Labelling (Nutrition and Health) (4 Nov 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require simple, uniform nutritional labelling on the front of packaged foods; and for connected purposes. In our busy lives, even with the huge improvements to the labelling of packaged food since I first tabled a food labelling Bill four years ago, we often shop in a hurry. We do not have time to stop and study labels in detail, or we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (28 Oct 2008)

Helen Southworth: Will my right hon. Friend confirm that no decision has yet been made on the site of a titan prison in the north-west? Will he take note that the Omega site in Warrington is one of regional economic significance and intended to create a business park, building up to 24,000 high-technology jobs, and is completely unsuitable to be a titan prison site?

Orders of the Day: New Schedule 1 — 'Transitory modifications of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act (8 Oct 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: I would like to say once again how effective the Bill is, how effective the process has been and how positive future outcomes should be for young people in care and those leaving care. I would not be speaking in this debate if I were not prepared to say that I want to make sure we get those outcomes. We have been around for a little while now, and we know that sometimes, despite our best...

Orders of the Day: New Schedule 1 — 'Transitory modifications of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act (8 Oct 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: The Bill that my hon. Friend describes is radical and revolutionary for children in care, and we all truly appreciate what has been done to achieve it. Will she assure us that young people who are leaving care and in transition will get the same consideration in regulations and in practice improvements over the next months and years?

Orders of the Day: New Clause 19 — Support for accommodated children (8 Oct 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: My hon. Friend referred to a visit to be made to relevant children by their personal adviser. Will that person be a qualified social worker?

Orders of the Day: New Clause 19 — Support for accommodated children (8 Oct 2008) has video

Helen Southworth: My hon. Friend made a very welcome statement about accommodation and the duty on local authorities to make other arrangements to ensure they have suitable and sufficient accommodation. Will she confirm that she will work on a national standards set for that accommodation so that local authorities can indeed ensure that other accommodation is suitable and adequate?