"7. What recent progress he has made in bringing forward legislative proposals to set official development assistance at 0.7% of gross national product...." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"Q9. Will the Prime Minister explain why a 65-year-old constituent of mine, who cannot get a council home, has to pay £100 of her £570 a month rent because of his housing benefit reforms? Why is this Prime Minister so much tougher on the vulnerable than he is on the …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"5. By what means he proposes to determine the level of funding his Department will allocate to UN Women. The Department for International Development recently reviewed the value for money of British taxpayers’ funding to all multilateral agencies through the multilateral aid review. We will apply the same broad criteria …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"One of the key priority areas for UN Women will be political empowerment of women. What plans does the Secretary of State’s Department have for backing up this work in Governments and legislatures around the world?..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"In the light of some of the earlier discussion about domestic violence, does my right hon. Friend agree about the importance of using law and enforcement in trafficking, as we have done in domestic violence? That provides clarity about what is right and wrong. When I was first involved in …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"As one of those who made the pitch to the Backbench Business Committee for this debate, I am grateful to the Committee for agreeing to hold it in the Chamber. The fact that there was some resistance to the proposal reminds us that we have to be ever-vigilant and ever …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. Women have obviously proved that they can organise things and be very effective.
The party organisation in my city recently held a training event for people it wanted to encourage to stand as council candidates. Those who came, both men and …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
Those responses demonstrate that even after all we have won, there is still a need to put in the extra effort to encourage women, give them confidence and bring them forward. It is important that we make every effort to work across the Chamber on many of these …..." Sheila Gilmore - View Speech
"I am certainly not going to suggest that the CSA, in its long history, has been so wonderful. Indeed, the initial legislation for it was an example of not taking account of the views and opinions of people who know about an issue.