Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Hayes and John Bercow

Thursday 23rd March 2017 Commons Chamber

[Helen Hayes]

Domestic violence refuges are unique within the supported housing sector because many who need them have to flee a long distance to be safe. By relying solely on local authorities to commission refuge services, the Government are failing to maintain a strategic approach. We are now seeing patchy provision with, for example, the recent closure of the last remaining refuge in Cumbria. Is the Minister monitoring the number of specialist refuge services and specialist providers that have closed since 2010? If not, how can he be assured—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am extremely grateful but we have got the thrust of it. We really do need to be briefer. That was far too long.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Hayes and John Bercow

Monday 30th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Julie Cooper. Not here.

[Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) (Lab)]

T9. The recent report of the Select Committee on Defence on UK military operations in Syria and Iraq recommended that the Government “provide the necessary detail on what is being targeted”in those countries, and“put this information, as far as possible, into the public domain”.Is the Secretary of State prepared to make that commitment today?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Hayes and John Bercow

Tuesday 7th June 2016 Commons Chamber

[Helen Hayes]

The Chancellor has claimed that the Government

“put the next generation first.”—[Official Report, 16 March 2016; Vol. 607, c. 951.]

However, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s “Is Britain Fairer?” report, which was published last year, found that younger people in the UK faced the worst economic prospects for generations. Young people in my constituency are bearing a disproportionate burden of the Government’s cuts. The abolition of the education maintenance allowance has made it harder for 16 and 17-year-olds to pursue educational opportunities; university tuition fees have trebled and are set to rise again; changes to the schools funding formula will see—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. All we need is a question with a question mark at the end of it in one sentence.

[Helen Hayes]

Oh!

[Mr Speaker]

Sorry, but that is the way it is.

[Helen Hayes]

Sorry, Mr Speaker. My question is, when will the Chancellor offer a fair deal to our young people, and stop closing off opportunities and driving them into debt?