Ruth George - Contributions

Ruth George

Labour
Commons, High Peak (2017 - present)

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Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [Lords]

Commons Chamber on 24 April 201824/04/2018

I will not detain the House for long. In a long afternoon of debate on financial guidance and cold calling since the ten-minute rule Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Stirling (Stephen Kerr), we have heard how important it is that so many people rec...

Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [Lords]

Commons Chamber on 24 April 201824/04/2018

Does my hon. Friend agree that a total ban on cold calling, including from claims management companies, would be a much more proportionate response to insurance industry claims of fraud within claims management, and that that should be looked at before a...

Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [Lords]

Commons Chamber on 24 April 201824/04/2018

My hon. Friend makes an excellent argument for banning such cold calls. Does he agree that the banning of cold calling by claims management companies for personal injury claims would be a far more effective method of reducing costs for insurance and pers...

Industrial Strategy

Commons Chamber on 18 April 201818/04/2018

I met many businesses in my constituency last week. Does my hon. Friend share my concern that several of them are already having to move trade to EU countries because they are worried about the cost of a visa system when they cannot guarantee that they w...

Industrial Strategy

Commons Chamber on 18 April 201818/04/2018

The Secretary of State has not mentioned the principal foundation of productivity: the workers of Great Britain. Obviously, investment in those workers is absolutely key to making sure that they see that their own investment in their work and productivit...

Tax: Small Businesses

Commons Chamber on 17 April 201817/04/2018

Is the Minister not concerned that the Office for Budget Responsibility report into welfare trends from January this year estimates that £1.5 billion of support for small businesses will be taken from them through the minimum income floor in universal cr...

Police Funding

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

Does my right hon. Friend not feel it is a sign of the significance that the Government attach to our brave police officers and the victims of crime all over this country that the Home Secretary has not even been present at any point during this importan...

Police Funding

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

My constituency of High Peak is in Derbyshire, where our police support grant has been cut by over 26% in real terms since 2010. For that reason, we have 411 fewer police officers, down from 2,066, which is a cut of over a fifth. The reserves have halved...

Police Funding

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Police Funding

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

The hon. Lady represents a constituency in Derbyshire, as do I. Is she not concerned, as I am, that police in Derbyshire tell me that they are being put in more danger because of the cuts? There are 411 fewer officers, so police officers have to respond...

Police Funding

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

The Minister has rightly praised the bravery of our police forces in their working lives. Does he therefore agree that it is simply not fair to leave them overstretched, as is happening in my large rural constituency of High Peak, where the police have t...

Engagements

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. To conclude my question, I was asking about families earning just £145 a week not receiving school dinners for their children while Members of this House, earning 10 times that sum, are subject to subsidised catering from...

Engagements

Commons Chamber on 28 March 201828/03/2018

Q6. I asked my constituents what they would like me to ask. They overwhelmingly said how can the Prime Minister justify that from next week families in poverty, earning just £145 a week, are expected to find £10 per week for each of their children to ea...

Job Vacancy Trends

Commons Chamber on 26 March 201826/03/2018

Ministers have repeatedly said this afternoon that the best way out of poverty is through work and education, so why have they introduced the limit on free school meals under universal credit, which is a work disincentive and will prevent more than 1 mi...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 20 March 201820/03/2018

T2. Head- teachers in my constituency tell me that they are asked by the child and adolescent mental health services to prove that children have tried to commit suicide before CAMHS is prepared to accept a referral. The Minister has just admitted that l...

Draft Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018

General Committees on 20 March 201820/03/2018

Local authorities are already under enormous pressure enforcing the existing regulations. In my area of High Peak, we have not seen a single prosecution for raptor death in the last year and raptors have been reduced from 15 pairs down to one. This is go...

Draft Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018

General Committees on 20 March 201820/03/2018

Regarding the resourcing of local authorities, obviously they have to provide the personnel to start with. To monitor the licensing and enforcement, they have to provide up-front training. If they are doing the enforcement side of it, that does not pay a...

Draft Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018

General Committees on 20 March 201820/03/2018

The Minister is outlining an excellent procedure for the star rating and the licensing of online, as well as other, sales, but that will require considerable enforcement and monitoring by local authorities. What resources are being given to local authori...

Draft Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018

General Committees on 20 March 201820/03/2018

On that point, can the Minister confirm whether unlicensed breeders, specifically those falling below the threshold for licensing, will still be able to sell puppies to pet shops and dealers if they are under eight weeks of age?

Universal Credit

Commons Chamber on 13 March 201813/03/2018

Absolutely. I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. In a Westminster Hall debate a few weeks ago, Conservative Members said it was because of the cost of the pupil premium that they did not want free school meals extended, and that we could therefor...

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