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Tributes paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on becoming Britain's longest serving monarch.
Tributes paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on becoming Britain's longest serving monarch.
Lead member
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
Answering member
Baroness Harman
Department
Prime Minister
Type
Tributes
Subjects
Anniversaries; Elizabeth II, Queen
Date
9 September 2015
Reference
599 cc387-393
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Tributes paid to Rt Hon Charles Kennedy following his death on 1 June 2015.
Tributes paid to Rt Hon Charles Kennedy following his death on 1 June 2015.
Lead member
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
Answering member
Baroness Harman
Type
Tributes
Subjects
Death; Kennedy, Charles
Date
3 June 2015
Reference
596 cc589-610
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Lead member
Nick Clegg
Answering member
Baroness Harman
Department
Deputy Prime Minister
Type
Tributes
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Death; Former members; Benn, Tony
Date
20 March 2014
Reference
577 cc912-938
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Budget debate (fourth day). Motion on amendment of the law agreed on division (326 to 243). Motion on high income child benefit charge agreed on division (318 to 244). Motion on air passenger duty agreed on division (323 to 13). Motion on future taxation: rates of income tax) agreed on division (319 to 22). Motions to approve ways and means resolutions. Resolved. Other resolutions agreed on question.
Budget debate (fourth day). Motion on amendment of the law agreed on division (326 to 243). Motion on high income child benefit charge agreed on division (318 to 244). Motion on air passenger duty agreed on division (323 to 13). Motion on future taxation: rates of income tax) agreed on...
Lead member
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Answering member
Baroness Harman
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Type
Budget debates
Subjects
Capital investment; Budgets; Culture; Broadband; ICT; Innovation; Intellectual property; Welfare tax credits; State retirement pensions; Research; Tax rates and bands; Cuts; Budget March 2012; High income child benefit tax charge
Date
26 March 2012
Reference
542 c1186-271
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House of Commons chamber
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House of Commons
To ask the Leader of the House (1) if she will bring forward proposals to require a Minister of the Crown to present to the House any bill supported in a petition signed by one million or more people eligible to vote;
To ask the Leader of the House (1) if she will bring forward proposals to require a Minister of the Crown to present to the House any bill supported in a petition signed by one million or more people eligible to vote;
Asked by
Grant Shapps
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Leader of the House of Commons
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 March 2010
For answer on
25 March 2010
Answered on
30 March 2010
On 22 February, the House approved recommendations from the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons (HC 1117, Session 2008-09) for greater public involvement in the legislative process (Recommendation 42) and for the establishment of a system of petitions requiring debate (Recommendation 43). Further work on the implementation of these recommendations will be required in the next Parliament.I also refer the hon. Gentleman to the written answer given by the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey), representing the House of Commons Commission, on 8 February 2010, Official Report, columns 651-52W, which describes some of the work already being undertaken by the House authorities in these areas.
Subjects
House of Commons; Reform
Date
30 March 2010
Reference
508 c859W; 324544
House
House of Commons
(2) if she will bring forward proposals to require a debate to be held in the House on the subject matter of a petition signed by 100,000 or more people eligible to vote.
(2) if she will bring forward proposals to require a debate to be held in the House on the subject matter of a petition signed by 100,000 or more people eligible to vote.
Asked by
Grant Shapps
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Leader of the House of Commons
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 March 2010
For answer on
25 March 2010
Answered on
30 March 2010
On 22 February, the House approved recommendations from the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons (HC 1117, Session 2008-09) for greater public involvement in the legislative process (Recommendation 42) and for the establishment of a system of petitions requiring debate (Recommendation 43). Further work on the implementation of these recommendations will be required in the next Parliament.I also refer the hon. Gentleman to the written answer given by the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey), representing the House of Commons Commission, on 8 February 2010, Official Report, columns 651-52W, which describes some of the work already being undertaken by the House authorities in these areas.
Subjects
House of Commons; Reform; e-petitions
Date
30 March 2010
Reference
508 c859W; 324545
House
House of Commons
Adjournment debate on Government and the legislature.
Adjournment debate on Government and the legislature.
Lead member
Chris Mullin
Answering member
Baroness Harman
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Type
Adjournment debates
Subjects
Finance; Public appointments; Political parties; Parliamentary scrutiny; Politics and government; Ministers; Select committees
Date
25 March 2010
Reference
508 c482-8
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Asked by
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Minister for Women and Equalities
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 March 2010
For answer on
18 March 2010
Answered on
18 March 2010
I refer the hon. Members to the answer I gave earlier today.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c995W; 322785
House
House of Commons
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Asked by
Stephen Hammond
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Minister for Women and Equalities
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 March 2010
For answer on
18 March 2010
Answered on
18 March 2010
I refer the hon. Members to the answer I gave earlier today.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c995W; 322784
House
House of Commons
The commission is making sure that it plays its part in enforcing existing legislation, and works with us to help to shape future legislation. It is also making sure that it looks at all the places where inequality exists, works with all the organisations—business, trade unions and voluntary organisations—and helps individuals. I know that the hon. Lady shares my concern that where there is inequality, it needs to be tackled. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an important part of the process for making that happen.
The commission is making sure that it plays its part in enforcing existing legislation, and works with us to help to shape future legislation. It is also making sure that it looks at all the places where inequality exists, works with all the organisations—business, trade unions and voluntary organisations—and helps individuals. I know that the hon. Lady shares my concern that where there is inequality, it needs to be tackled. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an important part of the process for making that happen.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Featherstone
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
This is an apposite moment to come into this debate, because my charge is that the EHRC is not doing the work that it should be doing. Does the Minister agree that it should spend less time pontificating on what organisations should and should not do, and far more time using its powers and legal challenges to hold businesses and public bodies to account, and on enforcing the legislation that already exists, which it is not doing to any great degree?
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c968
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
As I have said, there are proper frameworks for arranging for non-departmental public bodies to spend money, which they do independently. They are not Government Departments and are subject to a framework, and to scrutiny and accountability. Obviously, we want to make sure that they spend all that money wisely, but individual payments are the responsibility of accounting officers and the chief executive, not my responsibility as Minister for Women and Equality—although obviously, we are concerned to ensure that every pound of public money is properly spent, and that the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is an important organisation, does its job properly.
As I have said, there are proper frameworks for arranging for non-departmental public bodies to spend money, which they do independently. They are not Government Departments and are subject to a framework, and to scrutiny and accountability. Obviously, we want to make sure that they spend all that money wisely, but individual payments are the responsibility of accounting officers and the chief executive, not my responsibility as Minister for Women and Equality—although obviously, we are concerned to ensure that every pound of public money is properly spent, and that the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is an important organisation, does its job properly.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Richard Ottaway
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
Following on from the earlier point, is the Minister aware that the transition team, comprising 83 people employed over an 18-month period, received on average £100,000 each? Does she think that that was good value for money?
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c967
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Where there have been concerns they have been pointed out, and the commission has taken steps to address them. That is part of the process of transparency: where public money is being spent, there is scrutiny to make sure that it is being spent in the right way, in order to meet the important public policy objective of pursuing equality. That is what is happening.
Where there have been concerns they have been pointed out, and the commission has taken steps to address them. That is part of the process of transparency: where public money is being spent, there is scrutiny to make sure that it is being spent in the right way, in order to meet the important public policy objective of pursuing equality. That is what is happening.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Philip Hollobone
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
That framework and accountability mechanism seems to have broken down, because in July 2009 the commission itself found that it was employing some 574 full-time equivalent staff when it was authorised to employ only 525. Is not that another shocking waste of public money?
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c967
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman, and the House, will know that there is a system for monitoring the finances of non-departmental public bodies. They are subject to the scrutiny of accounting officers, and there is a framework to ensure that public money is properly spent and everything is kept in order. We are concerned for two reasons. First, we want to ensure that every pound of public money that comes from taxpayers is properly spent, wherever in the public sector it is spent. We are also concerned to ensure that the Equality and Human Rights Commission works well, because we—unlike his good self, no doubt, and many Opposition Members, unfortunately—are concerned about equality.
The hon. Gentleman, and the House, will know that there is a system for monitoring the finances of non-departmental public bodies. They are subject to the scrutiny of accounting officers, and there is a framework to ensure that public money is properly spent and everything is kept in order. We are concerned for two reasons. First, we want to ensure that every pound of public money that comes from taxpayers is properly spent, wherever in the public sector it is spent. We are also concerned to ensure that the Equality and Human Rights Commission works well, because we—unlike his good self, no doubt, and many Opposition Members, unfortunately—are concerned about equality.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Robert Goodwill
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
The Committee revealed that several staff members of the legacy commissions left through an early exit scheme, and were subsequently rehired by the new commission at a cost of £338,708. Does the Minister agree that that represents a shocking waste of taxpayers' hard-earned money?
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966-7
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
As I said to the Joint Committee on Human Rights when it called me in to give evidence, the chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission had left her post. Especially because the Equality Bill was going through the House of Commons and the House of Lords, I felt that we needed continuity of leadership, and therefore that it was right to reappoint the chair and vice-chair. Obviously, we were then going to need to find new commissioners and a new chief executive, but we did not want a wholesale change of personnel in this important organisation at a critical time.
Hon. Members should look at the substance of the work that has been done by the commission. They should look at the important inquiry into sex discrimination in the financial sector; the important legal challenge to the apartheid constitution of the British National party; the work on the unfairness to agency workers in the meat packing industry; and the important evidence the commission gave on the question of the default retirement age. The question is this: are hon. Members—I exclude the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris), who asked the question, from this, because I accept his good faith—interested in discrimination against people on the ground of age, discrimination against agency workers, and discrimination against women in the financial services sector? Members from the official Opposition are having a go at the commission as a proxy for the fact that they do not like the onward march of equality.
As I said to the Joint Committee on Human Rights when it called me in to give evidence, the chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission had left her post. Especially because the Equality Bill was going through the House of Commons and the House of Lords, I felt that we needed continuity of leadership, and therefore that it was right to reappoint the chair and vice-chair. Obviously, we were then going to need to find new commissioners and a new chief executive, but we did not want a wholesale change of personnel in this important organisation at a critical time.
Hon. Members should look at the substance of the work that has been done by the commission. They should look at the important inquiry into sex discrimination in the financial sector; the important legal challenge to the apartheid constitution of the British National party; the work on the unfairness to agency workers in the meat packing industry; and the important evidence the commission gave on the question of the default retirement age. The question is this: are hon. Members—I exclude the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris), who asked the question, from this, because I accept his good faith—interested in discrimination against people on the ground of age, discrimination against agency workers, and discrimination against women in the financial services sector? Members from the official Opposition are having a go at the commission as a proxy for the fact that they do not like the onward march of equality.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Evan Harris
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
The Joint Committee on Human Rights, of which I am a member, also reported on the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It asked the Minister why she reappointed the chairman of that body without putting the appointment out to open competition. How is that transparent and accountable?
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c967-8
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Robert Goodwill
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Richard Ottaway
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Asked by
Philip Hollobone
(Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Asked by
Philip Hollobone
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 March 2010
For answer on
18 March 2010
Answered on
18 March 2010
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966; 322779
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Asked by
Robert Goodwill
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 March 2010
For answer on
18 March 2010
Answered on
18 March 2010
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966; 322776
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
What recent representations she has received on the recommendations in the Fifteenth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, HC 124.
Asked by
Richard Ottaway
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 March 2010
For answer on
18 March 2010
Answered on
18 March 2010
Since the report was published on 4 March I have not received any representations about its recommendations. The Government's response to the report will be set out in due course, in the way that the Government respond to reports by the Public Accounts Committee, which is through a Treasury minute.
Subjects
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Date
18 March 2010
Reference
507 c966; 322777
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons