Results 1–20 of 54 for london speaker:Rachel Reeves

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth (19 Oct 2022)

Rachel Reeves: ...the highest tax burden in 70 years in this low-growth, high-tax economy? Labour’s principle is clear: if you make Britain your home, you should pay your taxes here. Research carried out at the London School of Economics and Warwick University has shown that the UK’s non-dom system costs us £3.2 billion a year. Look at the tax break for private equity managers, which was cooked up in...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Civil Servants: Location (13 Apr 2021)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2021 to Question, what the specific boundaries are of central London where 22,000 civil servants will be relocated from; and which specific regions those civil servants will be relocated to.

Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill (11 Feb 2021)

Rachel Reeves: ...MP for Lanark, she found it very hard to combine long periods away from her family with her work in this place, and eventually made the difficult decision to relocate her family from Scotland to London. The first woman MP to have a baby while serving as a Member of Parliament was the former MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, Baroness Hayman, who had her first baby in 1976. However, just 10 days...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Civil Servants: Location (20 Oct 2020)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that relocation of civil servants outside of London helps to facilitate regional representation in decision-making.

Covid-19 (11 May 2020)

Rachel Reeves: ...are told to avoid public transport if possible, but for millions of people in the UK, it is not possible to get to work any other way but by public transport. We have already seen bus drivers in London lose their lives to covid-19. People need to know that they can go to work without endangering themselves, or indeed others. If we are to balance concern for the economy with concern for...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Recruitment (13 Feb 2020)

Rachel Reeves: ...Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people were recruited by her Department in the last 12 months; what proportion of those appointments were made outside of London; and where outside of London those appointments were made.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Recruitment (13 Feb 2020)

Rachel Reeves: ...Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of people recruited by her Department’s Partner Organisations were appointed to positions outside of London in the last 12 months; and what the locations were of those appointments.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff (13 Feb 2020)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of her Department’s policy roles are based outside of London.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Recruitment (13 Feb 2020)

Rachel Reeves: ...of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress her Department has made (a) on the Beyond Whitehall programme and (b) in providing more policy professional roles outside London, in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff (13 Feb 2020)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people her Department employs (a) in London and (b) outside of London.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Living Wage ( 5 Sep 2019)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff working in her Department for Aramark and ISS are paid below the London Living Wage.

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Living Wage (22 Jul 2019)

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many workers employed by his Department are paid less than the Living Wage Foundation London living wage.

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (17 May 2018)

Rachel Reeves: ...jobs and this expertise for our country, and avoid the duplication of work. Given the mutual benefits of the UK working with the EMA, and the challenges for the organisation in relocating from London to its new home in Amsterdam, our Committee has recommended that the Government seek a continued presence for some EMA staff and facilities in the UK, as well as a continued relationship after...

Sainsbury and Asda Merger (30 Apr 2018)

Rachel Reeves: ...conversations with Asda and Sainsbury’s, people working at the Asda head office will be incredibly concerned about their future. The industrial strategy is about rebalancing the economy away from London and the south-east. What assurances can he give that the merger will not rebalance the economy away from Yorkshire and towards London?

Amendment of the Law ( 8 Mar 2017)

Rachel Reeves: ...people in our country. That money should instead be spent on expanding free childcare for families, particularly those on the lowest incomes. Almost half of this inheritance tax giveaway will go to London and the south-east; in fact, 96 of the top 100 constituencies that will benefit are in London and the south-east. But what about our constituencies in the north of England, Scotland,...

Tributes to Jo Cox (20 Jun 2016)

Rachel Reeves: ...: we first met at a Labour student conference about 18 years ago, and it was through Brendan that I first met Jo. I remember Jo and Brendan coming round for dinner at my and my husband’s house in London and our visiting them on their boat—first in Ladbroke Grove and later in Wapping. I remember worrying that I had drunk too much wine early in the evening, until I realised that it...

Finance (No. 2) Bill (11 Apr 2016)

Rachel Reeves: ...tax, due to be phased in from next year. The Treasury’s own leaked analysis confirms that the policy will “most likely benefit high income and wealthier households” concentrated in London and the south-east of England. It also states that “there are not strong economic arguments” for the cut, which will “push up house prices and possibly rents” and “make it more difficult...

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: National Minimum Wage (15 Oct 2014)

Rachel Reeves: ...Houses of Parliament to get the living wage paid to them. We heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) about people in work in poverty, and particular problems both in London—not just in inner-city London, but growing into the suburbs—and faced by black and minority ethnic communities, especially the Bangladeshi community, as well as the growing problem of...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking: National Minimum Wage (15 Jan 2014)

Rachel Reeves: ...We have a Government who opposed the national minimum wage when it was introduced and who are not enforcing the legislation properly today. Thanks to an investigation by the independent Centre for London, we know that as many as 300,000 workers are being paid less than the minimum wage. We have reports of workers having the costs of uniforms, accommodation, transport or training illegally...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking: National Minimum Wage (15 Jan 2014)

Rachel Reeves: ...Members have to offer? As my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra) has indicated, the hon. Members for Christchurch (Mr Chope), for Wellingborough (Mr Bone), for Cities of London and Westminster (Mark Field), for Windsor (Adam Afriyie), for Clacton (Mr Carswell) and for Bury North (Mr Nuttall) sponsored a Bill that would have enabled employees to agree with their...


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