Results 181–200 of 600 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Sandra Osborne

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Human Rights (28 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: What assessment he has made of the likely progress on human rights issues at (a) the next meeting of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and (b) the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Human Rights (28 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: I thank the Minister for that response. What action are the Government taking to call on the Government of Sri Lanka to bring to justice those who are responsible for human rights abuses—particularly the many acts of violence against women—within a reasonable time scale?

Media Regulation (28 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: Order. Could we have short interventions, please?

Media Regulation (28 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: Minister?

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: West Lothian Question ( 7 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: Whether the commission to consider the West Lothian question will take evidence from Members of the (a) Scottish Parliament and (b) National Assembly for Wales.

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: West Lothian Question ( 7 Feb 2012)

Sandra Osborne: I thank the Minister for that answer. I am sure he will be aware that constitutional change in one area can affect other areas. How might any changes suggested by his West Lothian commission affect reform of the House of Lords?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Topical Questions (17 Jan 2012)

Sandra Osborne: In line with the recent report by the UN rapporteur on torture, will the Minister condemn the practice by Israel of holding children in solitary confinement, and will he make representations for the release of the 106 children who remain detained within the Israeli military prison system?

Children’s Access to Parents (13 Dec 2011)

Sandra Osborne: Order. Not all hon. Members have given notice that they want to speak. I am sure that they will want the Minister to have adequate time to respond.

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half Day] — Public Sector Pensions ( 8 Dec 2011)

Sandra Osborne: The Minister talks about public sector reform, so why is the 3% rise going straight to the Treasury? That has nothing to do with the sustainability of public sector pensions.

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: Does the Minister agree that a far more effective way of solving the youth unemployment problem would be a £2 billion tax on bank bonuses, which would fund 100,000 jobs for young people?

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: My hon. Friend is answering some of the questions of the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr Reid), who seemed to think that the Labour party had no alternative proposals to put forward. I am pleased to hear my hon. Friend telling the House about what we would do if we had the opportunity.

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: I was about to talk about people who are living in fuel poverty who are spending a disproportionate level of already inadequate income on basic energy bills. Almost 1 million households, more than one in three Scots, now struggle to heat their homes. However, the SNP has cut the budget to help tackle fuel poverty by almost a third, down from £70.9 million in 2010-11 to £48 million in...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: I think that they flatter to deceive. Measures have been cut, including what I have just described. As I say, it is not just from me, it is from a very eminent professional who is an expert in the field. At the end of the day the Scottish Government will decide how to implement the budget in Scotland. Not surprisingly, poverty means lower levels of mental wellbeing, shorter lifespans and more...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: I would very much welcome any measures that are taken in Scotland on youth unemployment, but it does not help when the SNP Government choke off opportunity by cutting funding for the country’s colleges. I attended the graduation ceremony at Ayr college the other week and I was very impressed by the students’ achievements, but the level of cuts that the college was facing—10% this year...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: These issues affect the whole community, which is why in many ways high unemployment is a false economy. It would be far better invested in the communities. Professor Steve Fothergill, who co-authored the report, said: “The large numbers that will be pushed off incapacity benefits over the next two to three years are entirely the result of changes in benefit rules. The reduction does not...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: I do not have the figures to hand, but I actually referred to a number of policy initiatives that could be taken and were taken by the last Labour Government. I could go back into my speech and read out Labour’s five point plan for jobs, but I am aware that other Members would like to speak and I was genuinely trying to curtail my remarks. I will let the hon. Member know about it later. I...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: I am grateful for having been able to secure this debate on poverty in Scotland on 30 November, St. Andrew’s day, which is also the day of industrial action in support of public sector workers and their pensions. Nothing could be more relevant to the working people of Scotland today than highlighting the threat of the growing poverty in our nation and the attack on workers’ rights by...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: Absolutely. I will come to that point later. These trends follow dramatic increases in poverty between 1979 and the mid-1990s. Perhaps, like me, the Minister remembers those years and can offer a view on what caused that to happen and on whether we are heading back in that direction, thanks to his Government’s policy. That is exactly the direction in which the Government are taking...

Scotland (Poverty) — [Mr John Robertson in the Chair] (30 Nov 2011)

Sandra Osborne: My point is that the cuts have not been made in a fair and even manner, as the Government promised. I will develop that point later. It is all too evident that the impact will fall disproportionately on vulnerable groups and on those who deliver the services on which those groups depend. Those are not just my views; there has been widespread condemnation from campaigning groups and...


<< < 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.