Debates between Jesse Norman and Maria Miller during the 2010-2015 Parliament

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Debate between Jesse Norman and Maria Miller
Monday 10th January 2011

(14 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Maria Miller Portrait Maria Miller
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I join the hon. Gentleman in applauding the work of the York Disabled Workers Cooperative. It is important that we consider new ways of ensuring that organisations can help disabled people to have sustained employment, whether through social enterprises, Remploy’s enterprise services or factories.

Jesse Norman Portrait Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire) (Con)
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Special Metals Wiggin is a large and important employer in Hereford city, but it has several hundred pensioners who have not had an increase in their company pension since 1995 and who have therefore suffered a more than 50% loss in the value of their pensions. Will the Minister examine the matter, and is he prepared to meet pensioners’ representatives to discuss it in more detail?