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Remploy

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

468 c447-63 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2007-0183
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hain | 468 c457 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and I pay tribute to the work that he has done throughout the country an...

Adam Price | 468 c457 (Link to this contribution) As the other Member in this House who represents Brynamman, I am extremely disappointed with the Sec...

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Lord Hain | 468 c456 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman said, and also for the work of Joyce Watson, the local Wel...

Roger Berry | 468 c456 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for disabled people...

Lord Hain | 468 c456 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been a fantastic champion of disabled people in her constituency and I pay tribut...

Roger Williams | 468 c456 (Link to this contribution) I was pleased to hear mention of Brynamman and Ystradgynlais in the statement made by the Secretary ...

Lord Hain | 468 c455 (Link to this contribution) Our objective is to continue to work with young adults with stress or other forms of perhaps more se...

Linda Gilroy | 468 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) This will be a very sad day in Plymouth, which has one of the factories listed for closure, where 35...

Lord Hain | 468 c455 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. She has made strong representations to me and to my right hon. Friend t...

Lord Bellingham | 468 c455 (Link to this contribution) I am especially concerned about young adults with learning difficulties. Does the Secretary of State...

Dennis Skinner | 468 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware, as I am sure he is, that anybody who visits a Remploy factory is dr...

Lord Hain | 468 c454 (Link to this contribution) I very much appreciate and echo my hon. Friend's passionate support for Remploy workers. I first met...

Philip Davies | 468 c454 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State did not make clear the basis on which it was decided to save some factories f...

Lord Hain | 468 c454 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the case that the hon. Gentleman makes on behalf of the Bradford site, as I do the case...

Sian C James | 468 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned factories several times in his statement. He will be aware that I hav...

Lord Hain | 468 c447-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a statement on the modernisation of Remploy. Since Remploy was founded in 1945, it ha...

Lord Grayling | 468 c449-51 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of the statement. Today's an...

Lord Hain | 468 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree that Remploy's challenge now is to keep its promises; the challenge for Ministers and the wh...

Danny Alexander | 468 c452 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am grateful to the Secretary of State for advance notice of his statement, which will mean t...

Lord Hain | 468 c453 (Link to this contribution) Let me express my gratitude for the hon. Gentleman's support for the primary objective of putting mo...

Nia Griffith | 468 c457 (Link to this contribution) I should like to express my disappointment at my right hon. Friend's response to the hon. Members fo...

Lord Hain | 468 c457 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that the two factories are viable, because they would not be candidates for closure ...

Julia Goldsworthy | 468 c458 (Link to this contribution) We agree with the principle that as many people as possible need to be encouraged into mainstream wo...

Lord Hain | 468 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have to disappoint my hon. Friend. To tell it absolutely straight, I have constit...

Lord Hain | 468 c458 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can confirm that those important points are built into our plan, and they were reinforced in ...

Tom Clarke | 468 c458 (Link to this contribution) May I say to my right hon. Friend that many of us appreciate that he has had a most difficult job in...

Lord Hain | 468 c458 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's support and for what he said; the situation has been very d...

John Barrett | 468 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) The Remploy factory on the west side of Edinburgh at South Gyle is not down for closure. Will the Se...

Lord Hain | 468 c459 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes some good points, to which we are extremely sensitive. He will have noted t...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 468 c459 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State say what decision he has made on the Remploy factory in the Wirral? Will...

Lord Hain | 468 c463 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that is right, but I shall obviously look into the figures that my hon. Friend c...

Michael Clapham | 468 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the endeavours of the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary of State for Work and ...

Lord Hain | 468 c460 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome what my hon. Friend has said, and the work that he has put in to get new work fo...

Frank Doran | 468 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) May I first congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on his statement? It was an ext...

Lord Hain | 468 c460 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's points. Treforest is on the list for closure and will remain so. I am ...

Chris Bryant | 468 c460 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear that the Treforest site is now off the list for immediate closure. Will the Secret...

Lord Hain | 468 c459 (Link to this contribution) The conditions that Remploy workers who are unable to continue to work for the company will enjoy ar...

Clive Efford | 468 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) The reason that my right hon. Friend has not heard from me or my hon. Friend the Member for Erith an...

Lord Hain | 468 c462 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the work that my hon. Friend, local councillors and others that he named have done, whi...

Ian Lucas | 468 c462 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the decision to keep the Wrexham factory—the only such factory in...

Lord Hain | 468 c462 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course, if it is feasible for transfers to take place, they will. I applaud my hon. Friend f...

Lord Hain | 468 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said and for his constructive suggestion. I agree that it has...

Jim Sheridan | 468 c462 (Link to this contribution) It would be churlish not to accept that there has been significant progress under the stewardship of...

Denis Murphy | 468 c461 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for listening to the powerful arguments put forward by the work force a...

Lord Hain | 468 c461 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that, much as I would like to, I cannot give my hon. Friend the assurance he seeks. He c...

Clive Betts | 468 c461 (Link to this contribution) In Sheffield, we have an excellent modern Remploy factory that has not been threatened with closure,...

Lord Hain | 468 c461 (Link to this contribution) I agree with everything that my hon. Friend has said. To visit a factory such as his—many others are...

Subjects

Disability Closures Employment Public sector Procurement Modernisation Factories Remploy

Contains statistics

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