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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"East Sutton Park Prison in my constituency does a fantastic job in helping women offenders prepare for life after prison, and I look forward to welcoming my hon. Friend to the prison in the new year. What are he and the Government doing to help women across the country prepare …..."
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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Staff
Tuesday 20th December 2016

Asked by: Helen Whately (Conservative - Faversham and Mid Kent)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures her Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.

Answered by Phillip Lee

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Wellbeing Strategy, launched in November 2015, sets out MoJ’s commitment to supporting the mental and physical wellbeing of all our staff.

Employees can find additional information and signposting to the support available on internal Wellbeing pages on the MoJ intranet, and can seek advice and peer support from the MoJ Disability Staff Networks. In addition our independent Employee Assistance Provision provides confidential counselling sessions for employees, 24 hour telephone support, coaching for managers, mediation and group counselling.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jun 2016
Women and the Vote

"Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the work of Baroness Jenkin, whom many of us who have recently joined this place have to thank for the enormous amount of support she has given women candidates in trying to become MPs?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 15 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Third sitting)

"Q 168 Will the panel please discuss the mechanisms by which children move out of poverty? I am particularly interested in the connection between work and children moving out of poverty, with reference to the recent Department for Work and Pensions report that showed a strong connection between families moving …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 15 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Third sitting)

"Q 169 I have a few follow-up questions. That was very helpful. You described multiple factors and particularly focused on the value of work in helping children out of poverty. Well-paid work and the national living wage are connected to this. Samantha talked about the importance of supporting families’ efforts …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 15 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Third sitting)

"Q 171 I am hearing a lot of you referring to the income measure, but what are the panel’s thoughts on the way that a relative income measure means that reported child poverty falls during a period of recession, when median income falls, and rises in a period of economic …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 69 Mental health is a particular issue of interest or concern to me. In my constituency, I recently visited the local Mind and I saw really effective delivery of parts of the Work programme by it. I joined in a session and spoke to one client who told me …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 70 Do you think that it would be possible for those successful models that you are describing—as I said, I saw something that seemed to be succeeding—to be extended?

Sophie Corlett: I absolutely believe it would be possible to extend that model, but it is a very different model …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 71 Although that is not what I had seen from—..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 72 We have been talking about the trade off in that these are successful programmes but they cost money. I am interested in your view. When you have a choice, do you keep paying somebody a slightly higher benefit or use some of that money instead to enable them …..."
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