Windrush

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Monday 23rd April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Ah, a choice between two distinguished chess players who are related. I call Maria Eagle.

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

It is clear that the Home Secretary has used the phrase, “compliant environment”, more frequently than she has used the phrase, “hostile environment”, but whether it is compliance or hostility, does she accept that that policy has led to this debacle? She mentioned people who came after 1973 but before 1988. Will it still be her policy that those people have to produce four original pieces of evidence for every year they have been here to get the status that is theirs by right?

Women’s Suffrage Centenary

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Tuesday 6th February 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I am pleased to see that the constituent of the hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant), the six-year-old Grace Tucker, has very sensibly promoted herself from the third row to the front row. That, I think, will be widely welcomed.

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

Just over 20 years ago when I was first elected to this place, I was only the 209th woman ever to be elected to the House of Commons. We have 208 women in this Parliament, so that is an advance, but we do not have 325. We have more to do. In that regard, will the Home Secretary commend the efforts of our trade unions, which spend their time enabling women to organise, improve their confidence and take part in public life, in a way that makes them much more likely to go on to seek to represent others in their communities in our councils and in this place?

Vauxhall (Redundancies)

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Monday 16th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Ah! A sisterly contest. I call Maria Eagle.

[Maria Eagle]

Thank you, Mr Speaker; it is not helpful to call it a contest.

The Minister keeps saying that she wants frictionless access to the single market, but most of her colleagues in Government, in particular many in the Cabinet, are talking up the idea of leaving with no deal and walking out of the single market and the customs union. Given that the Ellesmere Port plant is weakened by going to a single shift and by losing skilled workers, as is inevitable, does she not understand that the general uncertainty caused by the lack of progress in the Brexit negotiations puts the plant at even greater risk in future of being fully and totally closed?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Thursday 14th September 2017 Commons Chamber

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

1. What steps she is taking to protect the interests of cultural industries after the UK exits the EU.

[Mr Speaker]

I call the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

[The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Karen Bradley)]

I think I may have upset you, Mr Speaker, by correcting you on Tuesday. The Government want to ensure the best deal for Britain on leaving the European Union and to provide as much certainty as we can. I have held a series of roundtable discussions within the cultural and creative sectors on the impacts and opportunities affecting them as a result of the UK’s exit from the EU. My Department remains committed to working closely with the cultural and creative sectors to ensure that their needs and views are understood.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Thursday 6th July 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

With considerable skill and charm, I am quite certain about that. I thank the Minister for what she has said.

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

Given the Minister’s view about this, will she take up the issue of tribunal fees, which a previous Government, of which she was a one-time member, increased significantly? Does she not accept that charging a huge fee to take a case to tribunal is one of the biggest reasons why women who have been discriminated against cannot enforce their rights?

Grenfell Tower

Debate between Maria Eagle and John Bercow

Thursday 22nd June 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I do not want there to be an outbreak of sibling rivalry, so I must now call Maria Eagle.

[Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) (Lab)]

The Prime Minister confirmed in her statement that testing arrangements have discovered combustible cladding on some tower blocks in other parts of the country. Given that people living in those tower blocks are perhaps going to fear more than others the consequences of that discovery, what steps can the Prime Minister take to ensure that the landlords and the local authorities where these tower blocks are located can deal swiftly with the consequences of this discovery?