Chris Heaton-Harris: Between 1st March 2020 and 31st May 2020, the Secretary of State for Transport attended one meeting with DfT CSA. Parliamentary under-Secretary of State Rachel Maclean who has responsibility for Research, Science, Technology and Innovation, attended three meetings with DfT CSA, during the same period. Between the 1st June 2020 and 31st August 2020, the Secretary of State for Transport did not...
Rachel Maclean: ...hoc bilateral engagement to discuss plans to help support early adoption of electric vehicles and remove range anxiety concerns for drivers on long journeys. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Rachel Maclean held a roundtable on 20th July 2021 with motorway service area operators from across England to discuss their participation of Ofgem’s Green Recovery Scheme, under which funding...
Rachel Maclean: The hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves), in the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has rightly raised concerns about the failure of regulation from the Financial Reporting Council and KPMG. Does the Minister agree that the answer to this dilemma is not to nationalise those companies, but to make sure that those bodies do their job for the taxpayer and the public...
Rachel Maclean: ...zero-hours contracts. Does he therefore welcome the work we have done in the Select Committee on Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, chaired by his colleague the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves), looking at the Taylor review and making sure that, where there are zero-hours contracts, they are fair and are a mechanism of choice for a worker rather than being forced on them?
Rachel Maclean: As the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) will know, Dr Golshan said in evidence to the Select Committee: “My current project plan is that we establish a regime that intends to meet UK international obligations when we leave”. That is achievable. She said that there were challenges, but not that they were insurmountable. She added that she intended to “build upon that to...
Rachel Maclean: ...of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans from 2040 to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible. This consultation ends on the 31 July. The Secretary of State and Minister Maclean have regular discussions with the Business Secretary to discuss the many ways in which the Government is working to achieve net zero by 2050.
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Rachel Maclean: In the light of the recent cyber-attack on Parliament and the National Crime Agency’s announcement that, because of under-reporting, the scale of cyber-crime is significantly underestimated, will the Secretary of State outline the specific steps that the Government are taking to tackle this threat?
Rachel Maclean: Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming Ofgem’s proposal to consult on more measures to help microbusinesses?
Rosie Winterton: I call Rachel Maclean to make her maiden speech.
Rachel Maclean: Will the Secretary of State confirm what specific actions he is taking to help trusts, such as the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust that runs the Alex hospital in my constituency of Redditch, which are in special measures? Such trusts face special pressures in recruiting and retaining staff.
Rachel Maclean: Does the Chief Secretary agree that as a result of Labour’s economic mismanagement in 2008 to 2009, average wages—[Interruption.]
Rachel Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to safeguard vulnerable individuals from online radicalisation.
Rachel Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle extremism.
Rachel Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle cyber crime.
Rachel Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.
Rachel Maclean: What steps his Department is taking to help support and deliver an effective departure for the UK from the EU.
Rachel Maclean: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Bercow: I call Lloyd Russell-Moyle. Not here. I wish he were here. I hope the fellow is all right. Anyway, we move on. I call Rachel Maclean.
Rachel Maclean: What measures his Department is taking to encourage cycling and walking.
