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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Feb 2018
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"Last week, the Minister asked us to remember the suffragettes chained to the grilles. I ask the Minister today to remember those women chained to the house because of period poverty, those women chained to poor housing because of universal credit, and those women chained to an abusive partner because …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2018
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"I finally received a letter from the Government Equalities Office in regards to an equality impact assessment. If, as the Minister has just stated, the impact assessment was carried out, it would have shown that 86% of the Government cuts would have fallen on women. Why then did the Government …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2018
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"I, too, welcome the additional burden put on the Minister in her new role, and thank the former Minister for her work. On 26 August 2016, the Prime Minister began her PR exercise on the race disparity audit. On 10 October 2017, the Government released the data. This week, as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Nov 2017
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"Yesterday’s Budget proved that austerity is a failed economic project and women have paid the price. Since 2010, 86% of net savings to the Treasury have come from women. Last year, the Treasury refused to send a Minister to the Women and Equalities Committee to answer questions about the impact …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Oct 2017
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"Two days ago, the First Secretary of State made a statement to the House on the race disparity audit. He also told the House, as a white man with privilege, that he knew more about race than me—a black women with lived experiences—and Opposition Members, who are a broad church. …..."
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Written Question
Overseas Trade: Jamaica
Friday 9th September 2016

Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent East)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to develop a trade deal with Jamaica.

Answered by Greg Hands

Until we have left the EU, the UK will remain a member of the EU with all of the rights and obligations that membership entails.

In due course, Britain will be leaving the EU. This offers us an opportunity to forge a new role for ourselves in the world: to negotiate, in time, our own trade agreements, including with developing countries, and to be a positive and powerful force for free trade. The Prime Minister has established the Department for International Trade to promote British trade across the world and ensure the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. The Government is currently reviewing its trade policy. We will engage fully with a broad range of stakeholders, including both governments and business over the coming weeks and months as we prepare for the negotiation with the EU and other international partners.