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Monday
12th January
- Attended the launch of the Women’s Budget
Group
- Attended a meeting to
discuss the future of the Social Fund
Vote on the Business Rate Supplements
Bill
Tuesday 13th January
- Meeting with Rita Donaghy, Chair of the Inquiry into
Construction Safety
- Led a delegation to James Purnell arranged by UNITE seeking
justice for Turner & Newell employees suffering from
Asbestosis
- Attended the launch of the Labour Friends of Palestine
Vote on the Saving Gateway Accounts
Bill
Wednesday 14th January
- Chaired the meeting of the Work and Pensions Select Committee
with the Secretary of State
and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to talk
about the DWP’s response to the economic downturn and the
implications for welfare reform
- One-to-one meeting with the Secretary of State
- Attended meeting with workers in the Aviation Sector
organised by UNITE to discuss their ‘Backing Heathrow, Backing
Britain’ campaign
- Attended debate in Westminster Hall on Tax Credits,
Childcare Tax Credits and working parents, led by Karen Buck MP
- Met representatives of the Equality and Human Rights
Commission to
discuss the Equality Bill
Monday
19th January
- Meeting with One Parent
Families/Gingerbread
- Meeting with Arthritis
Care
- Chaired the meeting of the
Work and Pensions Select Committee on the Equality Bill with
representations from the Commission for Equality and Human Rights,
Discrimination Law Association and Disability Charities Consortium;
Age Concern England, Carers UK and National AIDS Trust
- Attended event organised by Progress, “All stick and no
carrots: has Labour got it right on Welfare Reform?”
- Meeting with representative of UCATT
- Attended new year reception organised by Which?
Vote on Policing
and Crime Bill
Tuesday 20th January &
Wednesday 20th January
Visit to Brussels with the Work and Pensions Select Committee to
meet a wide range of people in the European Parliament/European
Commission to gather evidence for our Equalities Enquiry
Monday
26th January
- Meeting with EDS
- Chaired the meeting of the Work and Pensions Select
Committee on the DWP’s Inquiry into the underlying causes of
construction fatalities
Vote on the Coroners and Justice
Bill
Tuesday 27th January
- Attended the Health and Safety Executive’s workshop on their
Strategy
Consultation
- Took part in the
debate on the second reading of the Welfare Reform
Bill (plus
intervention)
Vote on the
Welfare Reform Bill
Wednesday 28th January
- Chaired the meeting of the Work and Pensions Select
Committee where we discussed our future programme
- Met James Purnell to discuss the £60 bonus to pensioners
- Attended a meeting on Bridlington Hospital
- Attended a reception on the issue of Financial education and
students’ financial management
- Attended a reception on the bus industry organised by the
Public Transport Consortium
Vote on an Opposition motion on the
government’s proposals for Heathrow
Thursday 29th January
- Attended the
launch of Leonard
Cheshire’s Suitability project
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January 2009 Westminster Diary
