Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Green and Gordon Henderson

Monday 21st November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Damian Green]

The IFS’s projections are for the IFS to explain, but I can give the hon. Gentleman the facts: the proportion of people living in relative poverty is near its lowest level for more than 30 years; and, since 2010, 300,000 fewer people, 100,000 fewer working-age adults, and 100,000 fewer children are in poverty. The whole House should welcome those figures.

[Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Con)]

T7. What are the Government doing to ensure that there is a whole-system approach to viewing work as a health outcome?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Green and Gordon Henderson

Monday 25th March 2013 Commons Chamber

[Damian Green]

I would have hoped that the shadow police Minister would have welcomed the fact that Metropolitan police crime figures are down by 3% in the past year, showing that the effective co-operation between the Home Office at national level and the Mayor’s office at London level is making London’s streets safer than ever before.

[Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Con)]

3. What steps she is taking to record the employment status of foreign nationals who reside in the UK; and if she will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Green and Gordon Henderson

Monday 15th October 2012 Commons Chamber

[Damian Green]

I am happy to report to the right hon. Gentleman that all Conservative candidates are being encouraged to sign a clean campaigning pledge to avoid the kind of cheap slurs in which he has just indulged. I hope the Labour candidate in Hampshire signs the pledge, and that the right hon. Gentleman is acting in a freelance way, and not being subcontracted to run a dirty campaign.

[Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Con)]

T9. More than 50% of the inmates of Swaleside prison in my constituency are foreign nationals. What assurances can my hon. Friend give that the Government will ensure that all those prisoners will be repatriated to their home countries on their release?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Green and Gordon Henderson

Monday 6th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Damian Green]

I completely agree with the hon. Lady about the importance of the effectiveness of combating human trafficking. Indeed, she was on the Front Bench when I revealed that early next year, as part of the new national crime strategy, we will produce a new anti-trafficking strategy precisely so that all the forces of law and order can be more effective in combating that disgraceful and evil crime.

[Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Con)]

It has today been brought to my attention that all e-mails sent using the parliamentary system are redirected through computer networks in a foreign country. Will my right hon. Friend undertake a review of that arrangement to see whether there are implications for national security?