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Thu 4th Jul 2013

Remploy

Debate between Philip Davies and Anne McGuire
Thursday 4th July 2013

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anne McGuire Portrait Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling) (Lab)
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I thank the Minister for her statement, and for giving us advance warning of it just after 9 o’clock this morning. If there were a league table for the way in which Departments advise us of ministerial statements, hers would certainly be ahead of the Ministry of Defence.

Given the great interest in Remploy, will the Minister tell us what efforts were made to inform Members with a Remploy factory in their constituency that their factory was due to close? I understand that a letter went out at 11.40 this morning, just one minute before she stood up to make her statement—

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
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What did you do when you closed Remploy factories—