Brings together MPs and peers to discuss and campaign for increasing the number of women in parliament in all parties and, to support women in parliament and those standing for public office.
1. Proxy voting: review of pilot arrangements
11/03/2020 - Inquiry: Proxy voting: review of pilot arrangements - Procedure Committee
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Found: CAG was established in 2018, 100 years since some women gained the right to vote, to eradicate the barriers
2. PM speech at reception for Women MPs of the World conference: 7 November 2018
07/11/2018 - Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street (Number 10)
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Found:
PM speech at reception for Women MPs of the World conference: 7 November 2018 - GOV
3. Women in the Lords: Viscountess Rhondda Peerage Case
28/11/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Purvis and Russell Taylor | 28 November 2018 Women in the Lords: Viscountess Rhondda Peerage Case
4. Evolution and changing composition of departmental select committees
24/06/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: members 3. Women on select committees 4. 1979 Parliament 5. 1983 Parliament 6. 1987 Parliament 7. 1992 Parliament
5. UK National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2018 to 2022: report to Parliament (December 2018)
19/12/2018 - Stabilisation Unit (SU)
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Found: Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2018 to 2022: report to Parliament (December 2018) -
1. International Women’s Day
07/03/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: important—and I am proud to be the first ever Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, which was made permanent - Speech Link
2: exams today, and 68% of women accepted as law undergraduates this year were women. That bodes very well - Speech Link
2. Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill
22/02/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: period. Women who aspire to, and hold, high office will no longer be disadvantaged against other women in - Speech Link
3. Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill
11/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: language, and the Government will still use the word “women” in all documents, as is our policy. The issue is - Speech Link
2: If we are to encourage women from all backgrounds to become Members of Parliament and, indeed, Ministers - Speech Link
4. Parliament as a Workplace
13/06/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: That this House has considered making Parliament a more modern, family friendly and accessible - Speech Link
2: That this House has considered making Parliament a more modern, family friendly and accessible - Speech Link
5. Equal Franchise Act 1928
05/07/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: (Equal Franchise) Act 1928. For the first time ever, women were afforded equal rights to men in formal political - Speech Link
6. Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
15/06/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: we had no choice but to remake them and give Parliament an additional 28 days to consider them. I am - Speech Link
7. Decriminalisation of Abortion
23/07/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: 1967 are properly applied until, and unless, Parliament chooses further to amend that law. The hon. Lady - Speech Link
2: imprisonment. That includes women who obtain pills online, and they might be women in abusive, coercive or - Speech Link
8. International Women’s Day
05/03/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: speaks to the vision that I have as Minister for Women and Equalities. I believe in the dignity and autonomy - Speech Link
9. Women’s Suffrage Centenary
06/02/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: look up—to look up and remember that before 1834, women could only watch proceedings in this House through - Speech Link
2: deliberate: it was there to stop the MPs from seeing the women because it was thought that they might distract - Speech Link
10. Role of Women in Public Life
05/02/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: role of women in public life and the progress made in increasing their representation in Parliament 100 years - Speech Link
2: year 1918 was a turning point and, 100 years on, women and men gather to celebrate and commemorate. It - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Mrs Maria Miller MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 5749.
Email: maria.miller.mp@parliament.uk
Secretariat:
Fawcett Society acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/