Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2020
Holocaust Memorial Day
"The hon. Gentleman is making a very powerful statement and I congratulate him on it. Today is the day when the issue of the Rohingya Muslims and whether there is a genocide is being considered by the International Court of Justice. It is sobering thought that that judgment is happening …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Jan 2020
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 1 Report
"I am grateful to the Minister for giving way so early in his speech. He refers to the statement he made yesterday. I welcome the decision in that statement to consult on ensuring that building regulations are relevant to buildings of a lower height, but he talked about that being …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Jan 2020
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 1 Report
"I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way again. As he will remember, one of the issues that arose from the fire in Barking was the fact that none of the leaseholders had household insurance, so when they lost all the contents of their homes or …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Jun 2019
Grenfell: Government Response
"Mr Speaker, I am sorry I could not join your Speaker’s reception today, because I was with those of my constituents in Barking—on Barking riverside—who are the survivors and victims of the terrible fire that took place yesterday. I hope you will give me a little leeway in what I …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Antisemitism in Modern Society
"I rise to speak feeling a mixture of anger and anguish: anger at the shocking increase in antisemitic incidents in our country, and anger at the abject failure of the Labour leadership to root out the cancer of antisemitism within our party; anguish because of the stuff of antisemitism, whether …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions
"This Budget reflects traditional Tory values that will deepen poverty and inequality and do nothing for struggling families. I will provide three examples: the Government chose to put more money into mending potholes than they granted to our cash-starved schools; they chose to prioritise the motorist over a sustainable future …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Anti-Semitism
"I was born in Egypt in the last year of the second world war as Jews were being exterminated in Hitler’s gas chambers. I grew up thinking that we would never forget, yet more than 70 years later here we are debating the issue. Anti-Semitism exists across Europe and across …..."Baroness Hodge of Barking - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 15th September 2016
Asked by:
Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Consultancy spend for the Department over the past three years is listed in the attached spreadsheet.
Written Question
Thursday 8th September 2016
Asked by:
Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a list of all secondees to his Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.
Answered by Marcus Jones
My department has not had any secondees in the last three financial years from any of the named companies requested.
However, my department has had a total of seven secondees from other consulting firms. Five of the seven roles were to help advise on specific housing and property issues, including three roles on the Private Rented Sector Taskforce. One other secondee is working in my Implementation Unit implementing reviews on housing and planning, and one secondee was working as a Crown Premises Fire Inspector. Only three of the seven secondees are still working in DCLG.
Written Question
Monday 6th July 2015
Asked by:
Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by his Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
Answered by Mark Francois
- Shadow Minister (Defence)
Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, Government Departments are required to publicise successful appointments.