Results 1–20 of 53 for london speaker:Kate Green

Avanti West Coast Contract Renewal (25 Oct 2022)

Kate Green: It currently costs £369.40 for a standard open return between Manchester and London. That would be excessive at the best of times. When the company is completely incapable of running a reliable service, it is downright unacceptable. The Minister has said repeatedly that there are already signs of improvement. That is not the experience of Avanti passengers. Can he describe exactly what signs...

Great British Railways (24 Oct 2022)

Kate Green: I declare a very personal interest in this matter, Mr Speaker. In the past three days, I have tried to make four journeys between Manchester, Edinburgh and London. Two were more than half an hour late, three were cancelled and one was then uncancelled when the driver of the preceding cancelled train turned up after all and was able to drive my train. However, I say to the Minister, because he...

Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]: New Clause 12 - Office for Students: publication and protection from defamation (21 Feb 2022)

Kate Green: ...of the area that they cover. With significant skills gaps in the north, and The Times reporting the other day that it will take 17 years for the north-west to catch up with the skills levels of London, it is really important that we have sensible, strategic planning and the involvement of combined authorities and the adult education budget to achieve effective skills planning that can...

Government’s Education Catch-up and Mental Health Recovery Programmes ( 3 Feb 2022)

Kate Green: ...has the potential to contribute to children and young people’s education recovery, provided it is properly led and designed; provided lessons are learned from previous initiatives, such as the London challenge and the opportunity areas; provided the right targets and success measures are put in place; provided it is adequately resourced; and provided the professional expertise of...

Debate on the Address: A Brighter Future for the Next Generation (13 May 2021)

Kate Green: ...to deliver a world-class education and achieve world-class standards for our young people, but let me remind the hon. Gentleman of the progress that we made under Labour between 1997 and 2010. In London, for example, we massively narrowed the gap in attainment. Will he acknowledge that what we are seeing now, under his party’s Government, is the attainment gap once again widening? Our...

Public Bill Committee: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Annual review: Higher education (18 Jun 2020)

Kate Green: ...2020-21 will face additional barriers to entry as a result of the covid crisis and that they will all be treated as they are currently. As we heard last week in evidence from Richard Burge of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, post-study work opportunities play an important role in attracting international students, so the two-year post-study work visa is welcome, but...

Written Answers — Home Office: Trespass (18 Mar 2020)

Kate Green: ...of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her Department's plans on the criminalisation of trespass of the judgment in Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Bromley v Persons Unknown and Others [2020] EWCA Civ 12.

Written Answers — Home Office: Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence (16 Jan 2020)

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the British Retail Consortium on the findings of City, University of London's report entitled It’s not part of the job: Violence and verbal abuse towards shop workers, published in September 2019.

Public Bill Committee: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: EEA Nationals and the TOEIC test ( 5 Mar 2019)

Kate Green: ...all suffer mental health problems. The student who never took a test, but nevertheless had his visa cancelled on the grounds that he cheated, had completed an MBA course at the University of West London, subject to having to pass two resits. When the Home Office refused his visa renewal on TOEIC grounds, the university withdrew him. He had paid more than £10,000 in fees for the course...

Public Bill Committee: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Repeal of the main retained EU law relating to free movement etc (26 Feb 2019)

Kate Green: ...’s remarks about public opinion on freedom of movement. A couple of years ago I had the pleasure to participate in a citizens’ assembly organised by the Constitution Unit of University College London. One of the questions that the participants were asked to address was what kind of immigration arrangements they wanted with the European Union after Brexit. This was a deliberative...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Jordan: London Initiative 2019 (13 Feb 2019)

Kate Green: What her priorities are for the London initiative 2019 on opportunities for growth and development in Jordan.

Written Answers — Department for International Development: Jordan: Refugees (30 Jan 2019)

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether time has been allocated on the agenda of the 2019 London Initiative on 28 February 2019 to highlight barriers to economic participation for refugees living in Jordan.

Written Answers — Department for International Development: Jordan: Refugees (30 Jan 2019)

Kate Green: ...State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that barriers to economic participation for refugees are included as part of discussion during the upcoming 2019 London Initiative on 28 February 2019.

Written Answers — Department for International Development: Jordan: Economic Growth (30 Jan 2019)

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether representatives of Jordanian civil society have been invited to attend the 2019 London initiative on opportunities for growth in Jordan.

Backbench Business - Windrush: 70TH Anniversarybackbench Business (14 Jun 2018)

Kate Green: I congratulate my hon. Friend on the speech she is making. She notes the contribution made by the Windrush generation in her constituency and in London, but I am sure she will also want to recognise their contribution right across the country, including by the families who moved to my city of Manchester.

School Funding: Social Care (25 Apr 2018)

Kate Green: ...fairness and fairness between my constituents in the north of England, where house prices are relatively lower and all someone’s assets will be used up paying for care, and those in London and the south-east with much more valuable properties, who may be left with more assets after they pay for their care. Finally, I say to the hon. Member for Redditch (Rachel Maclean), who sadly is not...

Money Laundering (19 Mar 2018)

Kate Green: Foreign nationals still come to the London financial markets to raise funds and then repatriate them to organisations that may be the subject of western sanctions. What action are the Government taking to prevent that?

Migration Policy and the Economy — [Stewart Hosie in the Chair] (29 Nov 2017)

Kate Green: ...funding, as well as to all the businesses and organisations that provided evidence. We had evidence from 19 organisations and we held oral evidence sessions with businesses and representatives in London and Manchester covering the retail, hospitality, manufacturing and social care sectors, all of which employ a high proportion of EU and European economic area nationals. The first thing we...

Uk Plans for Leaving the EU ( 9 Oct 2017)

Kate Green: ...she wants a unique trading relationship with the EU after Brexit, so she will be pleased to know that the citizens’ assembly convened last month by the constitution unit at University College London reached the same conclusion. However, the members of the assembly also said that if a bespoke deal was not possible, the next best thing would be for us to remain in the customs union and...

Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration ( 5 Jul 2017)

Kate Green: ...from it are never forgotten? Tragically, extremism and hate are still everywhere around us today, as we have been so painfully reminded by the return of terror to the streets of Manchester and London in recent weeks. We are trying once again to make sense of the hatred and intolerance that give rise to such extremist violence, which is all too often followed by reprisals and, for example,...


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