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Jo Swinson

Former Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire ( 5 May 2005 – 6 Nov 2019)


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Budget Statement - Motion to Take Note (16 Mar 2023)

Baroness Brinton: ...year-olds too; the Conservatives disagreed. Let us be clear that, despite the Government claiming today the entire credit for the current system, the push inside the coalition for this was from Jo Swinson MP and we always said that it needed to be expanded. Our 2019 manifesto set this out and was derided at the time by the current Government. There are holes in yesterday’s announcement...

Childcare and Early Years ( 8 Mar 2023)

Munira Wilson: ...issue, and it is important that we have men as allies in this debate. We heard from the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire about various women, including herself—I also think about Jo Swinson when she was in government—who led the way on many of these issues. It is great that women did that, but men need to champion it too. As we heard, men’s role as fathers is just as...

Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] ( 6 Sep 2022)

Ian Murray: ...after that rather difficult and strange intervention. In the time that I was the shadow Minister responsible for employment law, I sat across from the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, who was a predecessor, successor and then predecessor again to the Scottish National party in East Dunbartonshire. She was the Minister at the time and took that Bill through the House of...

Giving Every Baby the Best Start in Life ( 9 Nov 2021)

Andrea Leadsom: ...campaigners for the earliest years, as has the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss). The former Member for Birkenhead, Lord Field, and the former Member for East Dunbartonshire, Jo Swinson, have been great allies, as have all those Members who supported the all-party group conception to age two: first 1,001 days, and Ministers on the inter-ministerial group on early years...

Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill ( 6 Jul 2021)

Andrew Bowie: ...that line? Indeed, we could still be in that awful holding pattern of wanting to go to the country but failing to get the two-thirds majority required under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, had Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrats not come graciously to the aid of the country and the Government. For her and their sacrifice, we and indeed the entire country will remain eternally grateful....

Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill - Second Reading: Amendment to the Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Baroness Brinton: ...other forms of parental allowance and leave for future discussion. One hopes that it is never needed but it is vital to have it in place to cover such awful circumstances. My former colleagues, Jo Swinson and Jenny Willott, both had their first babies while they were Ministers. No arrangements were made for them. They had to cover for each other without maternity pay at exactly the time...

Ministerial and other Maternal Allowances Bill: Clause 1 - Payment of maternity allowance: Ministerial office (11 Feb 2021)

Patrick Grady: ...maternity leave, and Fiona McLeod, an outstanding Minister, was appointed to cover for her. The hon. Lady is talking about the difficulties that Members have in this place. Her former leader, Jo Swinson, was very negatively impacted, because not only was there no proxy voting at that point, but her pairing was shamefully broken, either accidentally or on purpose. That shows the amount of...

Scottish Parliament: Tied Pubs (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 (26 Nov 2020)

Willie Rennie: ...the sector for many years and it was through his hard work and diligence that the landscape of the pub sector in England and Wales changed. That was backed up by my colleagues Vince Cable and Jo Swinson in government, who introduced the pubs code and the adjudicator. That governed the relationship between the large pub-owning companies and their tied tenants in England and Wales. That has...

Horizon Settlement: Future Governance of Post Office Ltd (19 Mar 2020)

Kevan Jones: ...the Minister can shed some light on what this organisation actually is. Then we come to the role of Ministers. I have already mentioned the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton, but Jo Swinson, Claire Perry and the Minister’s immediate predecessor the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Kelly Tolhurst) were all involved. They all completely believed what they were being told by...

Well-being - Motion to Take Note (12 Mar 2020)

Baroness Brinton: ...session of T’ai Chi. I look forward to the day when I can do it again. My noble friend Lady Burt outlined her introduction to mindfulness in Parliament seven years ago, which was encouraged by Jo Swinson, who was then an MP. Many people have talked about mindfulness today. It is understood and followed by many people across the country. The noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, talked about Bhutan...

3. Legislative Consent Motion on the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (21 Jan 2020)

Delyth Jewell: ...themselves that the way to beat Boris Johnson was to give him exactly what he wanted—a general election; an election they thought they could win when all the evidence suggested that Corbyn, Swinson and the circumstances gave them no chance. Well, we are where we are. They were proven wrong. Boris Johnson secured the majority he wanted and it is now inevitable that we will leave the EU in...

Health and Social Care (16 Jan 2020)

Amy Callaghan: .... Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned there about ignoring the will of the people of East Dunbartonshire, let alone the people of Scotland. As per tradition, I pay tribute to my predecessor, Jo Swinson, both as the former MP for East Dunbartonshire and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats. In her time as the MP for East Dunbartonshire, Jo achieved a great deal in encouraging...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill - Second Reading (13 Jan 2020)

Lord Radice: ...the Opposition have made things worse. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, a general election was not required until 2022, and despite polls indicating a large Tory majority, Mr Corbyn and Ms Swinson, in a mixture of what I believe was short-sightedness and hubris—I was surprised not to hear this from the Liberal Benches—fell into Mr Johnson’s elephant trap and voted for the...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (2nd Day) (Continued) ( 7 Jan 2020)

Lord Anderson of Swansea: ...taking the lead in this respect, I recall that these amendments were forced on a reluctant Government by an all-party coalition led by Andrew Mitchell, Conservative, Margaret Hodge, Labour, and Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat. Brexit will lead to major changes. Generations of our diplomats have become accustomed instinctively to co-ordinating policy with our EU partners. When we become, at...

Scottish Parliament: Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 (18 Dec 2019)

Alex Cole-Hamilton: ...harm. Every year, almost 3 million girls and young women are subject to acts of brutality and mutilation in the name of culture and tradition. I pay tribute to my colleague and former leader, Jo Swinson, who strove throughout her parliamentary career towards the empowerment of women. During the week of the United Nations international day of zero tolerance for FGM this year, Jo revealed...

Message to attend the Lords Commissioners: Election of Speaker (17 Dec 2019)

Edward Davey: ...with 70 MPs—a fact that I know, Sir, you will take account of. You will appreciate, Mr Speaker-Elect, that the past few days have been difficult for my colleagues and I, having seen our friend Jo Swinson lose her seat. Jo consistently said during the election that there is an issue even bigger than Brexit—namely, the climate emergency. On these Benches, we will be seeking your help as...

Scottish Parliament: Nuclear Weapons (21 Nov 2019)

Jenny Gilruth: I will ask the First Minister the same question that Jo Swinson answered so disgracefully this week. Would she ever be prepared to use nuclear weapons?

Scottish Parliament: Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Technologies (13 Nov 2019)

Alex Cole-Hamilton: ...the absence of proper legislative frameworks, leaves people entirely vulnerable. Left unchecked, every great liberating change will bring terrible risks and problems too. As my federal leader, Jo Swinson, put it: “New technologies can help us make better decisions, or they could embody the worst of human thinking. Artificial intelligence”, by its nature, “learns from us”. One...

Election of Speaker ( 4 Nov 2019)

Jo Swinson: I thank the Father of the House for the way in which he conducted this election. Congratulations from the Liberal Democrat Benches on your new role, Mr Speaker-Elect. You have been clear that you want to be a strong champion for Back Benchers in this place, and have always conducted yourself with good humour and taken great care of Members in this place. The focus that you placed on the...

Common Fisheries Policy and Animals (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to Approve ( 4 Nov 2019)

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock: ...it? How will it be affected by whether the proposals put forward by the various parties go ahead—if the Conservative Party were to win the election, if the Labour Party were to win, or if, as Ms Swinson keeps telling us, the Liberal Democrats were to win and we were to have an immediate revocation of Article 50? What would be the effect on these and the other, similar regulations?


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