Results 1-20 of 574 for in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates' speaker:Andrea Leadsom
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Benefits (Immigration) (20 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: What steps he plans to take to restrict access to benefits for new migrants from other EU member states.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Benefits (Immigration) (20 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: Does my hon. Friend agree that it may be a good idea in the longer term to consider a more contributions-based system of benefits for all? One of the biggest problems for many people is although they may have worked and paid into the system for many years, if they are out of work for a period they receive little more than someone who turned up only last week.
- Economic Growth (15 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: We have already had a credit downgrade from one of the agencies, and the agency made it clear that that was a result of the problems that our economy has had in recovering. Is the right hon. Gentleman not concerned that if we were to abandon our plans, there could be a further downgrade? If we simply did as he suggests and opened the floodgates to more debt and borrowing, we would put our...
- Economic Growth (15 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: rose—
- Economic Growth (15 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for letting me have another go. I put it to him that he really does not understand the point about the credit rating agency in this context. The whole point about confidence in the British economy is that people need confidence in Britain’s ability to get out of the economic mess that his Government left us in. This is not about the absolute...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I want to make it clear that this legislation has nothing to do with UKIP; it has everything to do with fairness for the people of this country who pay their taxes day in and day out and who do not see why someone who has never contributed should come here and use our services. What does the right hon. Gentleman have to say to that?
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: It was a great Queen’s Speech. It was succinct and focused, and I hope that my speech follows suit. It is fantastic that we get the opportunity, during the debates on the Queen’s Speech, to have a free-ranging discussion. I want to cover four specific proposals in Her Majesty’s speech, the first of which is High Speed 2. My views on HS2 are clearly on the record, so I will...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that comment, because it highlights precisely my point. She is subliminally implying that this generates racism, and that has been the problem with the debate for the past decade. Particularly under her Government, anybody who wanted to talk about the problems of uncontrolled immigration was somehow racist. I have just said that immigration has been of huge...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I completely agree that the vast bulk of people who come to this country come here to work, but equally the hon. Lady must agree that more than 40,000 EU immigrants are claiming child benefit here for children who do not live in this country. If she wants to write that cheque herself, she can then claim that it is a trivial sum, but to my constituents, who are writing those cheques—they...
- Home Affairs (9 May 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: Does the right hon. Lady accept that it is utterly astonishing that she is not apologising to the British people for creating such an enormous amount of heartache and grief for them? Rather than encouraging my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary in her attempts to put right the failings of the right hon. Lady’s Government, she is standing there and criticising. Should she not be...
- [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] — Backbench business — Immigration (Bulgaria and Romania) (22 April 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: Does the right hon. Gentleman not recall whether, since other countries had transitional controls in place, it was considered that Britain should perhaps do the same? Was there a thought process that he went through?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Curriculum (22 April 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: My right hon. Friend will be aware that his former Schools Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr Gibb), looked into the rating of sex and relationship education in schools, particularly primary schools. At the moment this is an area that is completely unregulated and I know that the Government have been trying to make some moves to get the British Board...
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I was delighted that recently the Financial Secretary announced a consultation into a new independent payments regulator. Does my right hon. Friend agree that if we are to solve the problem of the lack of bank lending to SMEs, we need a raft of new challenger banks? The best way to achieve that would be full account number portability, which would encourage new entrants into the market.
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that inequality in income has dropped significantly since May 2010?
- Provisional Collection of Taxes: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (20 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: rose—
- Provisional Collection of Taxes: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (20 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Does he accept that the ratings agency said that if we did not stick to our fiscal deficit plans, it would downgrade us still further, so the reduction in the triple A rating is an incentive to do more to cut our deficit, not less?
- Provisional Collection of Taxes: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (20 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: rose—
- Provisional Collection of Taxes: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (20 March 2013)
Andrea Leadsom: Does my hon. Friend agree that that simplification makes it much easier for the Chancellor to generate tax and ensure that people pay it so that we do not get the fiddling about at the margins that saw in the past under the previous Government’s policies?