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John Hayes: Traditional craft skills provide jobs and sustain businesses. They also emphasise our shared history: everything from wheelwrights to weavers, and from corsetry to carpentry. It was therefore very good news that, after a long campaign by the all-party parliamentary group for craft, which I chair, the Government announced that our country will now join the UNESCO convention for the...
Andrew Griffith: ...at the time. This is part of our shared UK history, and there are even earlier examples of self-help co-operative organisations lifting communities above their common challenges. The Fenwick Weavers’ Society was the result of a collective decision by a group of weavers in Fenwick, Ayrshire, to form a society. The group’s 1761 foundation charter sits in the National Library of Scotland....
Lord Cormack: ...debate to mark the 50th anniversary of the coming of the Ugandan Asians. They too have enriched our society. Of course, if one goes further back one thinks of Canterbury, of Spitalfields, of the weavers and the Huguenots, who numbered among them the greatest silversmiths of the 18th century, such as Paul de Lamerie and Courtauld—those are names to conjure with. We have to be very mindful...
Lord Carrington of Fulham: ...we are seeing in neighbourhoods. That needs to be resolved, but I suggest that one of the really big issues is design. Most of us in this House are old enough to remember that great folk group the Weavers, and when Pete Seeger sang about ticky-tacky “Little Boxes” being built. So much of the modern housing that goes up—even if it is expensive, let alone the cheap modern housing—is...
Rachael Hamilton: ...that we all share. Scotland has about 11,000 export businesses, which are successful across the world. My constituency in the Borders plays host to many of those businesses—from our world-famous weavers, based in Hawick and Selkirk, which supply textiles for fashion houses in Milan and New York, to fantastic cattle farmers who supply beef and dairy for supermarkets just over the border...
Mabon ap Gwynfor: ...recently. Ten years ago, it sold for £1.25 per kilogram, but two years ago, that price fell to 15p. It's good to see the price increasing again. There are a number of steps to take before the weavers can get hold of the wool, from the shearing to the separation—there are more than 10 different grades of wool on every farm, for example—and then it has to be cleaned. Wool is a very...
Liz Saville-Roberts: ...of the profits of slavery contributing to local economies—from the well-known triangular trade of copper, slaves and sugar, to what was known as Welsh plains: coarse wool made by small-scale weavers in Maldwyn and Meirionnydd, whose goods were sold to plantation owners to clothe slaves in the 18th century. These stories all need to be told, and I am proud that the Welsh school...
Kevin Foster: The Skilled Worker route already contains several eligible occupations from this sector, such as weavers, upholsterers, tailors and dressmakers subject to salary and language requirements being met. An occupation at RQF3 or above does not need to be on the Shortage Occupation List to qualify for recruitment under the Skilled Worker Route. In their last call for evidence the independent...
Councillor Golds: In all honesty, no, because we had the by-election in Weavers ward on 12 August. There were two incidents of mobbing in one polling station. I was interested that Gillian Beasley mentioned the steps they take in Peterborough to deal with mobbing. In Tower Hamlets it can reach dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people. I refer you all to a report by an organisation called...
Tom Randall: ...2014, Kabir Ahmed was found to have used a false address to register a vote, but no further action was taken. Having had no action taken against him, he was elected as the Aspire candidate in the Weavers ward by-election in Tower Hamlets last month. There are people who are getting away with it, and people will continue to get away with it if no action is taken. I support the Bill but...
Kirsty Williams: ...Tydfil and the contribution the Irish community made to our Valleys communities, our Asian community made to our NHS and our ability to deliver an NHS. Some of that is uncomfortable—for the weavers of mid Wales, the weavers of mid Wales who made their money on the basis of weaving cloth that clothed the slaves on the slave ships. It's not something that is comfortable to talk about. The...
Willie Coffey: ...be remiss of me not to remind the chamber about the origins of the co-operative movement, as the first recorded example was in the wonderful village of Fenwick in Ayrshire in 1761. The Fenwick Weavers Society is considered to be the earliest known co-operative in the world for which there are full details and records. Its foundation charter was dated 14 March 1761 and established a society...
Richard Leonard: ...firm with the trade union movement—a Labour Party that is proud of its past, but which is building for a future. We want Scotland—the home of Robert Owen and the birthplace of the Fenwick weavers—to be the co-operative wellspring of democratic ownership and to become the Mondragon Corporation of the north. A report by the New Economics Foundation, entitled “Co-operatives...
David Linden: ..., stimulated the rapid growth of Baillieston. It soon acquired the typical character of a mining village, although some weaving survived until the end of the century, and we still have the last weavers’ cottage on Baillieston Main Street, which I am glad to see has been done up. A continuous programme of pit sinking drew in workers from across Scotland and beyond, and the population grew...
Matt Warman: ...are sweeping away centuries-old techniques, placing whole professions at the risk of extinction. The year is 1841, and a royal commission is publishing its report on the condition of handloom weavers. Back then, 100,000 handloom weavers had lost their jobs in just 10 years thanks, in part, to the new power loom. The remaining 300,000 were living in increasingly appalling conditions....
Lord Jones of Cheltenham: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to intervene in the dispute over parking charges for NHS staff at Weavers Croft Mental Health Unit in Stroud.
John Lamont: ...the leader of the House join me in congratulating Elaine Monro and Selkirk’s Cancer Research UK committee for launching the Cancer Research UK tartan scarf, which is being produced by Lochcarron Weavers in Selkirk? Elaine and some of her colleagues are in the Gallery today showing off the wonderful scarf. Will the Leader of the House consider arranging for a debate on how the Government...
Richard Leonard: ...business rather than redistributed to absentee shareholders, with the result that jobs have been retained during the current economic slump. I say this: in Scotland, which was home to the Fenwick weavers, and where Robert Owen wrote “A New View of Society” and established New Lanark, why should we not set ourselves the ideal—the goal—of becoming the Mondragon of the north? Let us...
Neil Bibby: ...on Paisley’s 2021 bid. Paisley is a proud town with a proud past. A small market town, it was transformed by the industrial revolution and it became a world-leading producer of textiles. The weavers and thread mills, and the world-renowned Paisley pattern shaped our history, economy, culture and heritage. It is part of the town’s social tapestry. Anyone who visits Paisley will see that...
Paul Sweeney: ...part of Glasgow, Danny Boyle’s epic opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic games immediately springs to mind. What was once an area of sylvan beauty and rural charm, a landscape of farms and weavers’ cottages, was rapidly swept away as the first harbingers of the industrial age emerged—the first canals and, later, the first railways in Scotland which, traversed the district. By...