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Topical debate and Backbench debate on Thursday, 8 March 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Fiona Mactaggart. The answering member was Baroness Featherstone.

International Women's Day

Unallotted backbench debate (part one). Agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
541 c1044-69 
Session
2010-12
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 541 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Greetings to all Members of the House on international women's day. This is such a popular debate th...
Speaker | 541 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have to start the wind-ups shortly. I am keen to ensure that everybody gets in, and I hope...
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Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 541 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I simply want to ask my hon. Friend to pay tribute to the work of the UN Women agency, whose incepti...
Baroness Featherstone | 541 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for reminding me to pay tribute to UN Women. Our country is one of the bigges...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) This has been a powerful debate, and many diverse points have been raised, ranging from sport to Afg...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 541 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?
Baroness Featherstone | 541 c1067 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. Those mentors will help new business start-ups, and there will be help for women in...
Kate Green | 541 c1064-5 (Link to this contribution) I start by echoing the remark made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) ...
Tom Brake | 541 c1065 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady realise that the issue of women in prison has not been raised in the debate? It i...
Mary MacLeod | 541 c1061-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Jane Ellison), who has done an inc...
Andrea Leadsom | 541 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be the last Back-Bench speaker in this debate. Today is a day for celebrating wom...
Yvette Cooper | 541 c1066 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady confirm that there will be two separate offences, and that the first offence will...
Baroness Featherstone | 541 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) This measure will be effective. It was welcomed by women and women's groups across the board at No. ...
Kate Green | 541 c1065 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure all hon. Members do, I greatly admire the work of the noble Baroness Corston on women i...
Valerie Vaz | 541 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd). Her two constituents w...
Amber Rudd | 541 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that the main reason why women do not make real progress is child care. We often debate on t...
Helen Grant | 541 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course we should. I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. In consequence of the authorities' rel...
Mary Glindon | 541 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) On this day of celebration across the world, I would like to speak about an organisation known to us...
Helen Grant | 541 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I will not. We need to deal with cultural expectations of duty and honour and work with...
Claire O'Neill | 541 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that when we consider a group of women in their 20s who are childless gra...
Amber Rudd | 541 c1050 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Tyneside (Mrs Glindon). I share her enthusiasm ...
Eilidh Whiteford | 541 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that gender segregation in the workplace is one of the major reasons why wo...
Amber Rudd | 541 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Some people say that we do not need an international women's day or quotas and so on because they se...
Helen Goodman | 541 c1060 (Link to this contribution) What a pleasure it is to see you, Madam Deputy Speaker, in the Chair during this international women...
Jane Ellison | 541 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) I do rather worry that today has been a missed opportunity to strike a more bipartisan note. I mysel...
Margot James | 541 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) It was. It was absolutely marvellous, and it gave me the opportunity to work directly with those wom...
Claire O'Neill | 541 c1056-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as always, presciently anticipates what I was coming to. May I put on the record, th...
Margot James | 541 c1056 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is vital that the Department for International Development and all...
Claire O'Neill | 541 c1055-6 (Link to this contribution) It is nice to welcome some members of the brotherhood into the House. I hope that they do not get to...
Seema Malhotra | 541 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) Today is the 101st international women's day, and I am pleased to join hon. Members in speaking up f...
Margot James | 541 c1059 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), whose inte...
Baroness Keeley | 541 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I speak for women on this side of the House when I say that we support the sentiments...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. In order to make more time for other speakers, I cut the bit of my speech that I had wri...
Andrea Leadsom | 541 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I will be very quick. Does the hon. Lady welcome the Government's determination to open more rape cr...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I will, but the hon. Lady must understand that by intervening, she is reducing the time for other sp...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I want to give everyone the opportunity to get in. Although I am happy to take interventions, I thin...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) I have explained why I am resisting. I want to give more people a chance to make the contribution th...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I have just explained why I am not giving way. We are told that the proposed universal benefit will...
Harriett Baldwin | 541 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. I am a bit disappointed that this is becoming a political rant...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of International Women's Day." Each year, ...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I am old enough to remember the invention of child benefit. It ended a child tax allowance system th...
Speaker | 541 c1048 (Link to this contribution) Order. Would the hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant) like to sit down? I think it is...
Charlie Elphicke | 541 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. There are many loving relationships, and there has been a rev...
Helen Grant | 541 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Since the introduction of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, there have been 257 force...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1047 (Link to this contribution) There are other ways to tackle the deficit than to target women and children. I do not think it righ...
Helen Grant | 541 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I will take a very quick intervention.
Helen Grant | 541 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady welcome Clare's law?
Claire O'Neill | 541 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that one of the least inspiring things that we could do would be to leave a...
Jo Swinson | 541 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz). I always find these deb...
Fiona Mactaggart | 541 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) I do, and I welcome the efforts of my right hon. Friend the Member for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Ble...
Baroness Featherstone | 541 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) May I say first that the Home Secretary is very sorry not to be here to celebrate international wome...
Subjects
Child benefit Development aid Women Housing benefit Equality Families Domestic abuse Gender Discrimination Forced marriage Poverty Welfare tax credits Reform Rural areas Stalking International Women's Day Forced marriage protection orders
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