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Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education (12 Nov 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: What steps his Department is taking to ensure fair access to higher education for all.

Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education (12 Nov 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: I thank the Minister for that answer. Increasing additional student numbers is incredibly important to constituencies such as mine in Milton Keynes where there is a relatively low participation rate in higher education. Can the Minister give me any good news about the expansion of the new university centre in Milton Keynes and perhaps about having additional student numbers for those who are...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Origin Marking: Israel (12 Nov 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 568W, on origin marking: Israel, for what reasons the proposals on labelling of goods originating from Israeli settlements have not been published for public consultation; and when he expects the proposals to be published.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: Last Friday, the Youth Parliament met to debate in this Chamber, and the MYP for Milton Keynes, Sean Barnes, spoke strongly in favour of votes at 16, helping to persuade the Youth Parliament to make the issue its top campaigning priority. Will the Prime Minister respond to that clearly expressed demand by the democratically elected Youth Parliament and make sure that his Government implement...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: When my right hon. Friend is monitoring the effectiveness of the Prevent programme, will he give his urgent attention to the need to push more resources into prisons, which are clearly a place where many young men are converted to violent ideologies? Will he also consider the criticism currently made of Prevent that it is spread far too widely in being aimed at an entire community with a...

Written Answers — Transport: Railways: Standards (22 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what information his Department holds on recent levels of performance of rail services operated by (a) Virgin Trains and (b) London Midland between Milton Keynes and Euston.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Unemployment: Young People (22 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps she plans to take to assist under-25 year olds who have been unemployed for over 12 months.

Nato: Topical Questions (20 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: Does the Foreign Secretary agree that the appropriate response of the Israeli Government to the Arab peace offer would have been an unequivocal commitment to an immediate settlement freeze, as all the settlements are illegal under international law. What can be done to ensure that they do this now?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Middle East: Armed Conflict (19 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government plan to take in response to the findings of the UN inquiry by Judge Goldstone into human rights abuses during the Gaza conflict.

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: Like my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer), I, too, was the leader of a local authority—although a much smaller one—when the right hon. Gentleman was a Minister. I feel moved to welcome his Pauline conversion to local democracy, which is all the more unexpected for not being expressed in the directions that he gave as a Minister, of which I was on...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: I rise to speak in favour of new clause 9, which was tabled by me and a number of other members of the Communities and Local Government Committee. I say in parenthesis that I also support the various ideas around for allowing Select Committees to put forward amendments in a more direct way than has been possible on this occasion. The new clause arises from one of the recommendations in the...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: The hon. Gentleman may not have noticed that the Committee was not asking for a national strategy. It was asking for local authorities to be given a duty to draw up their own local strategies in consultation with their local populations. The best councils are already doing that, but not all councils are. That is why we suggested that every council should have a duty to draw up its own...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Phyllis Starkey: As I have said, I am in two minds about that argument. The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Committee has just published a report on the balance of power between central and local government, where we argued strongly for local government to be given considerably more powers. I am in two minds because of the evidence that we received from individuals and organisations. Although...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Minimum Wage: Apprentices (13 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment she has made of the merits of applying the national minimum wage to apprentices.

Written Answers — Home Department: Immobilisation of Vehicles (12 Oct 2009)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department plans to announce its policy conclusions following the end of the vehicle immobilisation consultation.