Mr Roy Hughes

Former MP for Newport East

Recent appearances

  • Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Manufacturing Skills 17 Mar 1997

    Is not the true answer to the question that little has been done to raise manufacturing skills in Wales? Is that not the reason why the average wage in Wales is the lowest in the United Kingdom, with some workers getting as little as £1.61 an hour? Is not the low pay unit report a fitting epitaph for this Government? On 1 May, the people of Wales and of Great Britain as a whole will say that...
  • Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security: Child Care 25 Feb 1997

    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what assessment his Department has made of the availability of child care for lone parents. [15745]
  • Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security: Child Care 25 Feb 1997

    Will the Minister tell us at last why lone parents in Britain are the most dependent on benefits, and the least likely to work, in the whole of Europe? Is he not concerned about the fact that that is costing the taxpayer more than £10 billion a year, and that the figure is rising? Is there not an urgent need for a national child care strategy?

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Profile

Former MP for Newport East

Entered the House of Commons on 31 March 1966 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 8 April 1997 — General election

Also represented Newport (Monmouthshire/Gwent)

Future MPs in this constituency

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