Results 1-20 of 25 for hunting speaker:Anne McGuire

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Accidents: Farms (17 Jan 2008)

Anne McGuire: ...reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) in 2006-07 by duty holders in the agriculture and hunting industry; including farms. This also includes accidents to workers, the self-employed and members of the public from work activities in the agriculture and hunting sectors. The total...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Benefits ( Disabled People) (2 Jul 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...for his question, and I want colleagues to know that I discern a split in the Conservative ranks on the matter. The shadow Minister for Disabled People, the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), said that there were 1,200 questions over 352 pages, which sits at odds with the statistics that we have just heard. We in the Government know that we must simplify benefit application...

Remploy Factory Closures (13 Jun 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...the matter extensively elsewhere. There ought to be discussions about local solutions. The hon. Lady, my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East and the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) highlighted opportunities to consider local situations where sheltered workshops and factories, local authority factories and sheltered workshops run by voluntary organisations could come...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Carers (11 Jun 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...since then. At the heart of that strategy was the recognition that carers also deserve care and support. That did not previously exist. I thank the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), who led for the Opposition, for acknowledging some of the Government's achievements. Tangible policy changes have occurred. We introduced the carer's grant to support councils to provide breaks and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Carer's Credit (4 Jun 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...to be a carer's wage, and that has rarely been challenged in this House. We want to look at the wider issues relating to support for carers and, as the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) allowed me to point out, we are working with carers organisations to look across the issues, not just at the benefits system. I reiterate that even carers who receive the full carer's allowance...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning (5 Mar 2007)

Anne McGuire: The Government did not provide direct funding towards the costs of carbon monoxide (CO) awareness week, which was organised by gas safety charities. However, Lord Hunt, the then Minister responsible for health and safety, participated in the associated conference on 5 December at the House of Lords. He and the HSE's Chief Executive both made supportive press statements. The Secretary of...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Driving at Work (25 Jan 2007)

Anne McGuire: I will answer these two questions together. The former Minister for health and safety, Lord Hunt, and the Minister of State, Department for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) discussed safe driving whilst at work in November 2005 and 2006. Officials of the Health and Safety Executive and the Department for Transport are also in regular contact about measures...

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Disabled Children (23 Jan 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...'s commitment to further improving services for disabled children through the disability strand of the Children and Young People Policy Review.". I thank the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) for his opening comments. We have had an opportunity to get to know each other over the past year or so, especially during the progress of the Welfare Reform Bill, and I certainly do not...

Orders of the Day: Clause 29 — Local housing allowance (9 Jan 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...believe that the clarity of the rule is important. In many respects, we have moved away from the principles behind a single room rent to practicalities. The hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) made that point. Let me be clear: the changes that we are making to the current housing benefit rules will make a difference to the way in which the single room calculations are made and to...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Disabled People: Access to Work (5 Dec 2006)

Anne McGuire: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) on 8 November 2006, Official Report, column 1612W.

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 27 (2 Nov 2006)

Anne McGuire: ...the subject in his amendment. I respect the admirable intentions behind it. As he indicated, to a certain extent it follows on from comments made by the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). I reassure the Committee that we already have powers to make different provisions for different classes of people under section 175 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. We can also...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 27 (2 Nov 2006)

Anne McGuire: ...and who will be exempt from the new allowance: local authority and many housing association tenants, as we have confirmed already; tenants in supported accommodation, which might reassure the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt); and customers entitled to the severe disability premium. Furthermore, certain care leavers under the age of 22 will also be exempt. As most people come...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (26 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: I wish to make it clear to the Committee that, when I talk about disabled people, I am not talking about one category of disabled people. When I refer to those who are in receipt of employment and support allowance, I am not talking about only one category. Of course, I mean people who are in receipt of the support element. I have spent my life working with disabled people and those who have...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (26 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: I thought that the hon. Gentleman was about to come some way towards meeting me on that point. I remind the Committee that, when we introduced pathways to work, his party voted against every single penny of investment that we wanted to put in to support those who are most severely disabled as well as those who are closer to the labour market. I am sorry that I have had to inject a little bit...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (26 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: ...is the correct amount with which to roll out the pathways projects. Opposition Members seem to get tied down in the unit cost. We are not into unit cost. The hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) smirks, so I shall explain why we are not into unit cost. As I said in an earlier debate, I operated employment programmes under a unit cost, which could be £13 a head, for example....

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (26 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: .... That is one reason why the amendments are unacceptable—although I appreciate that they are probing amendments. I particularly want to reassure the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) that hidden disabilities will be one aspect of the training for the relevant health professionals. I hope that the whole Committee will accept our commitment: the training currently prescribed...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (24 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: I am delighted to be under your chairmanship, Mr. Amess. By way of introduction, let me say that I was fascinated by the previous debate on clause 9 and by some of the comments that were made, not least because, under the previous Conservative Government, I used to manage employment schemes for the most disadvantaged of people. The debate was an interesting exchange of views, because money...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 10 (24 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: I shall give way in a moment. Back then, people such as myself in the voluntary sector had no room for negotiation over unit costs, even over those people who were furthest from the labour market and most disadvantaged. I do not want to reopen the debate, but I thought it an interesting observation by way of introduction. Mr. Huntrose—

Matthew Marsden (10 May 2006)

Anne McGuire: .... Water is highly attractive to children and even the shallowest of ponds can be lethal to the very young. Each and every one of those deaths is a terrible family tragedy. My noble Friend Lord Hunt wrote to my hon. Friend last year about the case. Matthew's drowning on holiday with his family at a caravan park was investigated first by the police, then by Gwynedd county council under...

Disabled People (4 May 2006)

Anne McGuire: ..., they are matters specifically for other Departments. I shall ensure that ministerial colleagues' attention is drawn to those matters. I congratulate the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) on his first speech from the Dispatch Box. We will give him the card that specifies the difference between incapacity benefit and disability living allowance so that he is well aware of it....