Results 1-20 of 380 for speaker:Yasmin Qureshi
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I congratulate the right hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow) on securing the debate and thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting it. I also pay tribute to all hon. Members who have spoken today and in the previous debate. They have covered many aspects of mental health, many types of mental health illnesses and many groups of people affected by them. When many normal...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I congratulate my hon. Friend on being brave and speaking about his situation—as I congratulate the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) on speaking about his—and on highlighting the issue. There is a stigma attached to it, and we should discuss it more. My hon. Friend said that the lady who approached him said that she was able to recover after she was given support. Does he...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. Recent World Health Organisation figures predict that by 2030, depression will be the leading cause of diseases around the world, physical and mental. People can lose years of their life, as mental illness undermines their physical health too. Would the right hon. Gentleman agree, therefore, that mental health must be at the top...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I am not alone in being disappointed with the Queen’s Speech as it failed to deal with any of the real issues and challenges facing our country, such as 1 million young unemployed, the rise in the cost of living, especially for those on low wages, no investment in the growth of our economy, and no real reform of the banking system. The Chancellor said that his austerity measures would...
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: (25 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Further to that point of order, Mr Amess—[Hon. Members: “You weren’t even here.”]
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: (25 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: If hon. Members give me the chance to speak, they will find out what I intend to say. My point of order is the same one that my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East raised, which is that I was not here either.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Retirement Pensions (25 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people will not get a full pension as a result of any increase in the qualifying period from 30 to 35 years. [Official Report, 15 May 2013, Vol. 563, c. 5MC.]
- Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Sports: Schools (25 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the effect of the removal of specific requirements for outdoor space in schools on her plans to create a sporting habit for life; and if she will make a statement.
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: The hon. Gentleman states that this is a progressive pay policy. In the past 30 years, have a Conservative Government ever passed any legislation that has helped the working person, whether in terms of payment, work and conditions, or equality? Conservative Governments have never, ever advocated and voted for the rights of the working person.
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Is it not right that over the past 15 or 20 years, the Conservative party has always taken away working people’s rights and benefits when in government?
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: May I just confirm that, as a former barrister, I neither belong to a union, nor am I financed by a union? I am concerned about the working conditions and pay of working people. I will ask the hon. Gentleman the same question I asked the Secretary of State earlier: if after the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board we find that workers’ wages, accommodation and so on deteriorate,...
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Will the Secretary of State promise that if the wages and terms and conditions of agricultural workers start to decline after the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board, he will reinstate the board?
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
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- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
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- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Does my hon. Friend agree that this is another pernicious, shoddy little policy by the Government, who are ideologically driven to cut the wages of ordinary working people?
- [John Robertson in the Chair] — Shaker Aamer (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Has anybody from the Foreign Office actually visited Guantanamo Bay and seen for themselves the condition of Shaker Aamer? If they saw him, there would be independent evidence to say that he was fine and that he was being treated properly, and we would not worry so much. If it is being said he is being treated well, has any effort been made to go to see him? If not, has permission been refused?
- [John Robertson in the Chair] — Shaker Aamer (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I appreciate that because Mr Aamer is not a British national he cannot technically or legally speaking be given consular assistance, but bearing in mind the fact that the British Government are making representations on his behalf for him to be released back here it would not be that difficult for someone independently to go and speak to him, and then come back and say, “He’s...
- [John Robertson in the Chair] — Shaker Aamer (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: I understand that the Minister cannot tell us the details of the discussions that have been happening, but when he next has a chance to discuss the matter, can he raise something with the US authorities? Mr Aamer’s lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, has said that he has access to classified material from MI6, which he cannot share—a bit like the Minister— even with his client....
- [John Robertson in the Chair] — Shaker Aamer (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: Does my hon. Friend also accept that, apart from sleep deprivation and everything else, Mr Aamer’s head was banged against the wall quite a few times when all these things were happening?
- [John Robertson in the Chair] — Shaker Aamer (24 April 2013)
Yasmin Qureshi: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Battersea (Jane Ellison) on securing this debate. Shaker Aamer is not one of my constituents, but his case has been followed by many people over the years, as has what is happening in Guantanamo Bay. I will try not to repeat points already made by the hon. Lady, but I will deal with some other...