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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord McKenzie of Luton.


Remploy

Lords statement on the modernisation of Remploy.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
696 c1341-51 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2007-0183
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1349-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her contribution. I agree and acknowledge, as I think we all d...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 696 c1349 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for repeating the Statement. When I was at the TUC in September th...
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Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1348-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure there will be opportunities for us to discuss and report back, but if there is n...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 696 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord mentioned monitoring. In his letter to Mr Kenny, the Secretary of State sai...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are talking about opportunities with other employers, not in the supported factories. T...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1347-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lords, Lord Skelmersdale and Lord Oakeshott, for their contr...
Lord Skelmersdale | 696 c1348 (Link to this contribution) Not quite, my Lords. It is clear that if there are fewer factories and the number of disabled people...
Lord Skelmersdale | 696 c1344-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for repeating the Statement on the future of Remploy, which,...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 696 c1346-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. It will mean that more Remploy factories...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1341-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my ri...
Lord Low of Dalston | 696 c1350 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, most people who are familiar with Remploy would accept that modernisation was inevitable, ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1350 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his comments. I think we agree across the Chamber that the refo...
Lord Naseby | 696 c1350 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister has been asked twice—once by his own Back-Benchers and once by the Liberal sp...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1350-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry; I did not wish to appear frivolous in my response. Let me comment on two thing...
Baroness Uddin | 696 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome the Statement on Remploy repeated on behalf of the Secretary of State. I a...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 696 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend. This is ambitious, and I agree that no ambition should be too hig...
Subjects
Disability Closures Employment Public sector Procurement Modernisation Factories Remploy
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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