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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money her Department paid to companies owned by Frank Hester in each of the last four years.

Asked by
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 May 2024
Reference
18871
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of her Department's contracts with companies owned by Frank Hester.

Asked by
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 May 2024
Reference
18870
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contracts (a) the NHS and (b) her Department has with companies owned by Frank Hester.

Asked by
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 May 2024
Reference
18869
House
House of Commons

Last week, the Prime Minister rightly called Conservative party donor Frank Hester’s comments about my right hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) racist. It has since emerged that Mr Hester has made comments that a group of Indian members of staff should

“Climb on the roof, like on the roof of the train”

and made reference to “Asian corner”. Does the Prime Minister agree with me that those comments are racist— yes or no?

Asked by
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 cc931-1028
House
House of Commons

I addressed this last week, and the Minister for Women and Equalities addressed it just half an hour ago.

Answered by
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 c933
House
House of Commons

Will the Minister clarify when the right moment is to move on from a Tory donor calling for an MP to be shot in the context of hating all black women? Is it when there is an apology for rudeness? Is it when £5 million more has arrived in Tory coffers? Is it when she tires of explaining racism to her party? Or is it when the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) says that justice has been done?

Asked by
Chi Onwurah (Labour)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Topical questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 c923
House
House of Commons

I am not going to take any lectures whatsoever from Labour Members. This is a good time to remind the House that it is only the Labour party that has been sanctioned for institutional racism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It continues to disappoint its members. Where is the Forde report? Why is the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) complaining that nothing has been done about racism in the Labour party? We will take no lectures from them.

Answered by
Kemi Badenoch (Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 c923
House
House of Commons

Last week, the Minister for Women and Equalities rightly called the comments of Conservative party donor Frank Hester about the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) “racist.” It has since emerged that Mr Hester has said that a group of Indian members of staff should

“climb on the roof, like on the roof of the train”

and has made reference to “Asian corner.” Does the Minister agree that those comments are racist—yes or no?

Asked by
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 c922
House
House of Commons

I understand why the Labour party insists on bringing this issue up over and over again, but Mr Hester has apologised for his comments, we have welcomed his apology, and we are drawing a line under it. We are focused on what matters to the people of this country. I had letters last week from people telling me that we were wasting time focusing on issues that were not relevant to them. We need to focus on what matters to the British people.

Answered by
Kemi Badenoch (Conservative)
Answering body
Women and Equalities
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2024
Reference
747 c922
House
House of Commons

Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister invited himself into everyone’s living room at 6 o’clock on a Friday evening. No one asked him to give that speech; he chose to do it. He chose to anoint himself as the great healer and pose as some kind of unifier, but when the man bankrolling his election says that the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington should be shot, he suddenly finds himself tongue-tied, shrinking in sophistry, hoping he can deflect for long enough that we will all go away. What does the Prime Minister think it was about the hundreds of millions of pounds of NHS contracts given to Frank Hester by his Government that first attracted him to giving £10 million to the Tory party in the first place?

Asked by
Keir Starmer (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2024
Reference
747 c292
House
House of Commons

Mr Speaker, I am absolutely not going to take any lectures from somebody who chose to represent the antisemitic terrorist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, who chose to serve a Leader of the Opposition who let antisemitism run rife in this Labour party. Those are his actions, those are his values, and that is how he should be judged.

Answered by
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
13 March 2024
Reference
747 c292
House
House of Commons

Q5

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Marsha De Cordova (Battersea) (Lab):

The Prime Minister stood outside Downing Street and said that he wanted to root out hate and extremism, yet shamefully it took him more than 24 hours to finally say that the remarks by the Tories’ biggest donor that looking at the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) makes you

“want to hate all black women”

were indeed racist. In November, the Prime Minister accepted a non-cash donation to the tune of £15,000 from Frank Hester for the use of his helicopter, so will he reimburse him—yes or no?

Asked by
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2024
Reference
747 c297
House
House of Commons

No, Mr Speaker. I am pleased that the gentleman is supporting a party that represents one of the most diverse Governments in this country’s history, led by this country’s first British Asian Prime Minister.

Answered by
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
13 March 2024
Reference
747 c297
House
House of Commons

That this House expresses its shock regarding the alleged comments made by Frank Hester reported by The Guardian about the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington and all Black women; believes these alleged comments to be both racist and violent in nature; notes that Mr Hester is a...

Primary sponsor
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
11 March 2024
Reference
495
House
House of Commons