Results 1-20 of 1,326 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Justine Greening

Climate Change: Regional Select Committee (London) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I wish to raise some objections to this motion. The House first considered the matter back in June, and at the time there was a wide-ranging debate involving Members from all parties. Many MPs expressed concerns about the creation of the London Regional Select Committee and the impact that it might have on London's devolved settlement, which is of course so very important to Londoners. Many...

Climate Change: Regional Select Committee (London) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Justine Greening: The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. However, surely that is the role of the London Assembly. He seems to have forgotten its existence, yet it was his Government who brought in the devolution settlement. If there are concerns about the accountability of the London Mayor, we should be strengthening the ability of the London Assembly to hold him to account. Instead, the Government...

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

Justine Greening: Last week the Financial Services Authority fined GMAC-RFC for its unfair treatment of 46,000 mortgage customers. The fine was £61 per customer. Is that enough?

Business of the House (29 Oct 2009) has video

Justine Greening: My constituent, Mary McKie, is about to be repossessed next week, even though the Treating Customers Fairly regime should apply to her. Her mortgage debt has been sold to a company that is totally outside the Financial Services Authority's remit—Webb Resolutions—and even though her mortgage is a third of her property's value, she is not being given a chance to sell her home and...

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

Justine Greening: The Minister says she is concerned about the impact on small companies, but a report from Westminster city council today includes a survey showing that one in three businesses facing large rates rises believe that they will go bust as a result of them—with a devastating effect on jobs and communities. Nationally, there are 700,000 companies, most of them small ones, facing rates rises;...

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

Justine Greening: May we have a debate on the effectiveness of Jobcentre Plus in helping people to get back into work? In 2002, my London borough of Wandsworth had five jobcentres; now we have just one. Local people are concerned about the resource ability of Jobcentre Plus to give them meaningful help to find employment again. May we have a topical debate on that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Business Rates Revaluation (7 Jul 2009) has video

Justine Greening: This year business rate tax rises were so unaffordable that Ministers have had to introduce an emergency rates deferral scheme. Next year's revaluation could see thousands more struggling businesses hit again, just because of their location. If, in 2005, 700,000 properties saw their rateable values rise by 20 per cent. or more, how many businesses need to lose out in the 2010 revaluation...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Justine Greening: The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and I would like to take this opportunity to put on record my support for the Bill. The more we can kick-start these technologies, the better they are likely to develop and the less they will cost, which will make them more affordable to a broader cross-section of the population. Today we can perhaps start a snowball effect that gradually...

[Mr. Speaker in the Chair] (3 Jul 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I beg to move, That the House sit in private. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 163). The House proceeded to a Division.

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Repossession and Mortgage Arrears (30 Jun 2009)

Justine Greening: May I take the Minister back to his earlier comments? He will be aware that the "treating customers fairly" initiative, which was supposed to become mandatory in December, has been embedded in the ARROW core supervisory assessment. That is all well and good, but the by-product is that we did not discover in December whether lenders had complied with the initiative. Will he give us an update?...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Repossession and Mortgage Arrears (30 Jun 2009)

Justine Greening: I am grateful to the Minister for giving us those figures at long last. Does he have a figure to show the split for local authorities? I presume that the data are being collated by local authorities. I know that many Members would be interested to know how many of their constituents were at the various stages of the process. Would the Minister place that information in the Library?

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Repossession and Mortgage Arrears (30 Jun 2009)

Justine Greening: I congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) on securing this debate on an incredibly important topic. As I am sure he is aware, the Opposition have recently held two debates on housing to raise similar issues on the Floor of the House, because we too feel that we need to put a stake in the ground to ensure that the Ministers who are taking decisions think about the problems...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting case. He says that economic policy in London is fairly and squarely a matter for the House, so he must be unaware of the huge amount of work being done under the Mayor's auspices in city hall to determine what can be done to help Londoners and London's economy to navigate their way through the recession. His suggestion sounds like an absolute...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but I think that he is forgetting to whom he is accountable. If we asked any owner of a small shop whether they would prefer money to be spent on a Regional Committee that reports on the recession in London, but duplicates all the work of the Mayor and the GLA, or spent on directly supporting shops, they would probably go for the latter. He talks about this...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: The motion returns us to a subject—the establishment of Regional Select Committees—that the House has debated at some length already. My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) is no longer in his place, but we heard his concerns about how these proposals are being rolled out. I do not want to reprise the earlier debate about establishing Regional Select Committees...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I suppose that I have two responses to that. First, Back Benchers can hold Ministers to account: as an Opposition Back Bencher, I think that I can hold Ministers to account on London issues such as Heathrow as well as anyone. Secondly, although the hon. Lady is right that we need more accountability, why can we not get that through having London questions? Why spend several hundred thousand...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I thoroughly agree with my hon. Friend.

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Justine Greening: Approximately 60-plus MPs will not be able to be part of any London Regional Select Committee because it will have only nine members. A London MP who does not belong to that Regional Select Committee will not have the same opportunities as would be provided by a London Question Time. If the objective is to scrutinise policy as it affects London, that is already fulfilled by existing Select...