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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Oct 2017
European Council

"I welcome the Prime Minister’s positive approach, and the news that we are within touching distance of a deal, because that is in everyone’s best interests. However, in preparing for all eventualities, would the Prime Minister be willing to reinstate the seasonal agricultural workers scheme? Businesses in my constituency are …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Mar 2017
Article 50

"I welcome the Prime Minister’s clear commitment to a positive, constructive and respectful approach to the negotiations that lie ahead. May I press her further on behalf of the fishing community in my constituency and around the United Kingdom? She will know that in the past these people have been …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q9. I am not alone in hearing from families long-settled here in Britain who are deeply worried that they could be separated after we leave the European Union. I know the Prime Minister will not want that to happen. Will she reassure all our constituents today that those who were …..."
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Written Question
Life Expectancy
Monday 23rd January 2017

Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the change to the life expectancy of (a) men and (b) women at age (i) 75 and (ii) 85 in each of the last five years.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Written Question
Mortality Rates
Monday 23rd January 2017

Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in death rates for people aged 75 and over in each of the last five years; and what steps his Department has taken to investigate the reasons for any change in such death rates.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q12. One of my constituents has just had to move to residential care because no carers could be found to support her in her own home. She is at the sharp end of a crisis in social care that is as much about inadequate funding as it is about a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Feb 2016
EU Referendum: Civil Service Guidance

"Will the Minister set out what the harm would be in allowing full transparency of these data? Surely there would be much greater harm if at the end of the referendum we were left with people feeling that it had been an unfair process...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Feb 2016
UK-EU Renegotiation

"The Prime Minister has set out the many things that remain to be reformed, but if this grudging and threadbare deal is the best the EU is prepared to concede, what serious hope is there of meaningful renegotiation if or when we are tied in long term under a referendum?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2015
ISIL in Syria

"I have the greatest respect for all colleagues in all parties who have spoken so eloquently against military action in Syria. The right hon. Member for Gordon (Alex Salmond) spoke passionately about the risks of being drawn into a vicious civil war. That is why I voted against taking action …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2015
ISIL in Syria

"I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, because I think that it goes to the heart of the matter—and the heart of the matter, I would say to her, is that people are already suffering and being tortured throughout these territories. I would say to her that the action …..."
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