Results 1-20 of 285 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Mary Creagh

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

Mary Creagh: I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright), from the bottom of my heart on the changes that he has announced to the building regulation part G in order to reduce bathwater scalds in the home. I pay tribute to him on behalf of the Children's Fire and Burn Trust, the Child Accident Prevention Trust and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 Jun 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: What contribution the Government are making to the MONUC peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 Jun 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. The all-party group on the great lakes region and genocide prevention recently met Alan Doss, the new head of MONUC forces in the DRC. One of the issues that he raised with us was the need for US and UK security services to share intelligence with MONUC better if we are to track down the dissident groups operating in the east of the country. It is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Topical Questions (1 Jun 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I welcome the announcement this week that the MOD is to review the role of women in the armed forces. If we are to discharge our duties under UN Security Council resolution 1325, which specifically looks at the role of girls and women in armed conflict and the consequences of what happens to them, it is vital that we increase women's participation in our armed forces. Experiences in Kosovo...

Business of the House (21 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: On 30 May 1929, women under the age of 30 were able to vote in a general election for the first time. May I ask my right hon. and learned Friend and all honourable colleagues who will be involved in the debates on the reform of the House to reflect on the fact that, 80 years after that event, despite making up more than half the population, women still account for only a little over a fifth...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (21 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: Hon. Members will remember the tragic death of Archie-Lee Hirst, who was savaged to death by his family rottweiler over the Christmas holidays in 2007-08. Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at the private Member's Bill promoted by our hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms Smith) with the support of the Communication Workers Union and the Royal Society for the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Cohabitation Bill (21 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: If she will make an estimate of the potential effect on the Law Officers' Department's budgets of implementing the proposals of the Cohabitation Bill.

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Cohabitation Bill (21 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I thank my hon. and learned Friend for that reply. I am delighted to hear that the proposal will not have any impact on her Department's budget, but may I ask her to emphasise to our right hon. and hon. Friends in the Ministry of Justice that the Cohabitation Bill, which is being supported by Lord Lester in the other place and by me, has as its aim and intention a fairer distribution of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Social Enterprises (20 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: What recent assessment he has made of the potential for social enterprises to deliver a greater range of public services in the next five years; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Social Enterprises (20 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Will he join me in congratulating Emma Wilson, the dynamic chief executive of Local Care Direct, which has 14 health centres across west Yorkshire and is opening a 15th centre in my constituency of Wakefield on 1 June? May I invite the Minister to come and see the fantastic work that Emma is doing in our area and look at how we can roll it out...

Commission for the Compact: New Clause 22 — Penalty for contravening notice relating to encrypted information (19 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: During a Joint Committee on Human Rights visit, the hon. Gentleman and I spent an evening that I will always remember on the Via Cristoforo Colombo in Rome; we were looking at the trafficked women there. If women have been trafficked into a country, does he agree that they are even less likely to understand the laws of the land and will be even more fearful of entering into any contact with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Crime (Public Transport) (18 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: What steps she is taking to reduce levels of crime at bus and railway stations.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Crime (Public Transport) (18 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Last October, a 21-year-old woman was assaulted, robbed and raped at Kirkgate train station by a Romanian national, Ali Majlat, who has been given an indeterminate sentence and will serve a minimum of five years. What reassurance can my hon. Friend give my constituents that this evil man will be deported as soon as he leaves prison, with no leave to...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I thank my hon. Friend for his kind comments. Of course, as public speakers we all learn from the master of the Chamber—the hon. Member for Buckingham, who made such an eloquent speech. On reading to babies, I am beginning to feel that I have failed completely in my duties as a mother in not having read to either of my children while they were in the womb. I hope that we can reassure...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: The issue is not only to do with how dummies or soothers can impact on the language development of a child. If anyone sees a four-year-old sitting in a pushchair with a dummy in their mouth, it is obvious that they should not have it, but parents might need more guidance in respect of younger children who are about to cry, perhaps, or are very hungry or tired, and who need or want their dummy...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting case. He has demonstrated that some children are less equal than others and, even within the subset of the less equal children, there are inequalities. Rich parents can afford private psychologists' statements, but paying £1,000 for such a statement is certainly out of the reach of the majority of my constituents. Does he agree that we need to...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: What is the source of the statistic that 83 per cent. of the children who have gone to private schools in the past 12 years have had special educational needs? Where did that information come from—from the private schools or the parents? Who collected that information?

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: May I say what a pleasure it is to speak after the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) on this incredibly important subject? If I may, I will take the House on the journey from childhood to adulthood of children with special educational needs, and say why I think the Bill is so incredibly important. While listening to the hon. Gentleman present his Bill, I was interested to hear things...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I agree that we are dealing with a massive hidden problem. It is, in fact, the problem of maternal shame. We all want to do the best we can for our children. We all love our children. The possibility that something we did during pregnancy may have damaged our beautiful child, either at birth or at a later stage, is not something that most mothers—and fathers—I know would willingly...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: I agree. Such conditions need to be spotted early. In the centre that I visited, a fully trained teacher was working with children aged under one. One might ask what on earth a trained teacher was doing in a room full of babies. The answer is "Here is someone who has worked in a school, someone who has observed child development and is an expert on it." That teacher tells parents that they...