MP organises meeting with Health Minister about Bootham Park
Rachael Maskell MP for York Central is meeting the Health Minister Steve Barclay MP in…
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Topical Questions
Health and Social Care
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
In York, it has taken 46 weeks for children and young people to commence the diagnosis process for autism—and demand and the number of referrals is going up. It takes a further 12 months,...
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Planning Applications: Economic Opportunities and Housing Need
Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
When a proposed economic development does not provide for sufficient good-quality jobs for our city, when proposed housing fails to address current and future need and when proposed car use only...
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Planning Applications: Economic Opportunities and Housing Need
Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
What steps he is taking to ensure that planning applications (a) maximise economic opportunities and (b) tackle local housing needs.
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Topical Questions
Oral Answers to Questions - Transport
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
The Secretary of State may think that that answer gets him off the hook, but when road transport accounts for 69% of transport emissions, and air pollution claims 50,000 lives prematurely, he...
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Topical Questions
Oral Answers to Questions - Transport
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
With transport emissions accounting for 29% of all toxic emissions released in the UK, and at a time when Labour has declared that climate change is an existential threat to our nation and...
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Jewish Community: Contribution to the UK - [Sir David Amess in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I send my best wishes for a speedy recovery to my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford West (Naz Shah), who was due to...
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High Streets and Town Centres in 2030 - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
I will be brief. Will the Minister commit to going back and scoping out the possibility of a turnover tax?
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High Streets and Town Centres in 2030 - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
Will the Minister give way?
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High Streets and Town Centres in 2030 - [Graham Stringer in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I, too, welcome the Select Committee’s report. I thought it was outstanding, particularly in the light of the challenges that...
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Topical Questions
Women and Equalities
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
Despite York being a human rights city, the gender pay gap has increased by a staggering 225% since 2010, with women predominantly in low-paid, part-time and insecure work. How will the Minister...
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Free TV Licences: over-75S
Commons debates
The Secretary of State shifts the blame on to the BBC, shifts the pain on to 3,300 of my constituents, and stands there in shame for breaking this promise to the British people. He is in...
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Topical Questions
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
Only a fifth of York Central development is earmarked for economic development, which will seriously curtail the opportunities for business growth, inward investment and good jobs for York....
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Cystic Fibrosis Drugs: Orkambi - [Mr Adrian Bailey in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. Leading up to this debate, I spoke to constituents, one of whom described the mental strain of knowing that a drug was available but...
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Engagements
Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
The US President said yesterday that the NHS would be on the table in any trade negotiation, and the Prime Minister did not intervene to stop him. The Lib Dems and Tories voted through the Health...
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Electoral Registration: Non-UK EU Citizens
Oral Answers to Questions - Cabinet Office
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
Many of my constituents were denied a vote in the EU elections. Following yesterday’s urgent question, it is clear that the Government failed to implement the recommendations of the 2014...
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Electoral Registration: Non-UK EU Citizens
Oral Answers to Questions - Cabinet Office
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
What estimate he has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens living in the UK who were unable to register to vote in the European parliamentary elections.
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EU Parliament Elections: Denial of Votes
Commons debates
The Minister knows that the Government were tearing themselves apart on whether or not to participate in these EU elections until 7 May, but what steps did his Department take to talk to other...
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Topical Questions
Oral Answers to Questions - Justice
Rachael Maskell made a speech in the House of Commons
In addition to reviewing the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as raised by the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), will the Minister look at families who host international students and who...
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Education Funding
Westminster Hall debates
I appreciate that the Minister praises the hard work of the teachers in supporting children’s learning in that school; however, it is the 23% that I am most concerned about. That we have...
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Education Funding
Westminster Hall debates
The spring statement came and went, and I am still here making the plea for the worst-funded schools in the country, which are in York. We cannot go on like this; we have had many debates about...
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