Debates between Caroline Dinenage and Caroline Flint during the 2015-2017 Parliament

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Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Caroline Flint
Thursday 23rd March 2017

(7 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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I am delighted to join my hon. Friend in congratulating his constituent, Katie Goodwill, on her fantastic achievement. Role models are so important—that is why more than 40% of our STEM ambassadors are women. They are helping to inspire the next generation, just as I am sure his constituent Katie will.

Caroline Flint Portrait Caroline Flint (Don Valley) (Lab)
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It is important to encourage women and girls into non-traditional careers, but will the hon. Lady ask the Ministers responsible for expanding apprenticeships why there are no targets for increasing the number of girls on apprenticeships in traditionally male areas? There has been a lost opportunity to challenge that.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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I certainly will have conversations with my colleague in the Department for Education, but the right hon. Lady must remember that there are no such things as girls’ jobs and boys’ jobs, and we have to get that message across from the earliest stages of kids’ engagement with the education system. That is why we have chosen to focus on increasing the take-up of STEM subjects, which lead to the more technical apprenticeships and jobs.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Caroline Flint
Tuesday 3rd November 2015

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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As I have said, we are already spending more than £1.6 billion a year on legal aid, and ours is still one of the most generous systems in the world. We have committed ourselves to a review of the reforms within three to five years of their implementation, and we have acted swiftly to address issues as they have come to light. For example, we have invested an extra £2 million in assistance for litigants in person.

Caroline Flint Portrait Caroline Flint (Don Valley) (Lab)
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16. If he will review the criteria used to determine whether prisoners with a history of violence are placed in open resettlement establishments.