Results 1-20 of 609 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Susan Kramer

Sri Lanka (IDP Camps) — [Dr. William McCrea in the Chair] (28 Oct 2009)

Susan Kramer: I thank the right hon. Lady very much for outlining these circumstances. Will she comment on the fact that the Sri Lankan Government frequently use the argument about land mines and use the need for demining as their reason for not releasing people from the camps? Surely that is an area where the international community could ensure that there was no question but that demining capacity was...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: In condemning the third runway and expansion at Heathrow, my hon. Friend anticipated my point, but does he agree that it is imperative that we hear from the Conservatives some condemnation of the "Boris island" estuary airport, which would be a climate change and environmental disaster on an even worse scale?

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I shall also try to be brief, because the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) said so much of what I wish to say, but said it a great deal better than I could ever have said it. I first wish to congratulate EMAG. I am incredibly conscious of the many members of the action group and their appointed leadership who took the difficult decision to put themselves at risk and raise the...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I very much agree with the hon. Lady's comments. I also say to the Exchequer Secretary that we saw today a repeat of some of that attitude when the ombudsman's timetable for delivering compensation to injured Equitable Life policyholders was questioned.

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I can only agree with the hon. Gentleman. On the ombudsman's timetable, the Government's response to the ombudsman's recommendations, published in January 2009, states: "The Ombudsman has said that the scheme"— the compensation scheme— "should be established within six months of any decision being taken to set it up"— the ombudsman would have assumed that that meant summer...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Everything that we do has the potential to create a precedent. I and, I suspect, many other hon. Members would like the ombudsman's role to be accepted and strengthened, rather than weakened dramatically. I want quickly to raise a second issue. What, for most of my constituents, goes to the heart of the matter is the issue of "disproportionate...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: The hon. Gentleman speaks with great common sense and reflects the voices in the letters and representations that I have received.

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I am glad that the judicial review has been raised, and I agree with my hon. Friend. I do not want to repeat the comments about the judicial review made by my distinguished neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable), in his opening speech, because he summed up most of the situation extremely effectively. However, I want to point to one issue raised on the Floor: the...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: I think the Minister is going to receive another letter from the ombudsman for again misrepresenting what she said in her report about a process that she recommended could be completed within two years as a mechanism for compensation. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the term "disproportionate", as he describes it, applies simply to the different impacts on different classes of...

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

Susan Kramer: Will the Secretary of State please give an assurance that where an academy is in process, but that process has not been completed—I am thinking of Sheen school in my constituency—funding will remain committed to it and will not be removed under any deficit-cutting programme?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Equitable Life (21 Jul 2009)

Susan Kramer: (Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the parliamentary ombudsman's follow-up report on Equitable Life and to clarify the work of Sir John Chadwick on a payment scheme.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Equitable Life (21 Jul 2009)

Susan Kramer: The Minister will be very aware that Equitable Life policyholders have been quite dismayed, having heard the ombudsman's judgment that the injustice will not be remedied whatever the outcome of the work yet to be done by Sir John Chadwick—referring to the injustice due to maladministration. Will the right hon. Gentleman review the remit given to Sir John Chadwick? The Minister will also...

Olympics: Swine Flu Update (20 Jul 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: May I raise again the issue of constituents travelling overseas? Can the Secretary of State assure me that they will be able to contact the national pandemic hotline even if they are overseas, and that there will be some facility to direct them to where they should go, as language and other barriers might mean that they cannot access treatment when they need it?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Reforming Financial Markets (8 Jul 2009)

Susan Kramer: The Chancellor made no mention of the credit rating agencies, but they are the canaries of risk in the system and they got it spectacularly wrong in the previous crisis. Is he looking at providing any guidance or a framework for credit rating agencies and, in particular, at tackling the potential conflict that exists because the entities that are assessed pay the agencies' fees?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Overseas Students (Visas) (6 Jul 2009)

Susan Kramer: The Minister will be aware that because of the system, a significant number of foreign students, particularly from countries such as the United States, have thrown in the towel in their attempts to come and join courses at UK universities. A number of public universities in the UK will be in financial difficulty because their students will not be turning up from overseas in September, and the...

Archer Inquiry (1 Jul 2009)

Susan Kramer: I thank the Minister. I apologise for not being here for all of the debate; I mistimed the vote. As she is so committed to full disclosure, can the issue be debated on the Floor of the House? There are many lessons to be learned, and many people to be convinced that the matter is being dealt with openly and fully.

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: Will the Minister indicate whether she proposes to accept the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Northavon (Steve Webb)?

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

Susan Kramer: Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way?

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

Susan Kramer: The right hon. and learned Lady entirely anticipates my view. Will she explain why the accountability gap cannot be filled by using the existing bodies, rather than creating yet another Committee, as too many cooks are the best way to ensure that real accountability fails?

Business of the House (25 Jun 2009) has video

Susan Kramer: The House will be aware that foreign students who have applied to study at UK universities are now withdrawing those applications in droves because they cannot negotiate the new and impossible visa application system. As a consequence, universities will be in financial distress because of the loss of fees that they had been expecting from foreign students. Will the Leader of the House find an...