Ruth Cadbury has been the Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth since 2015.
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Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)
Commons debates
This Budget gives my constituents and people up and down the country much-needed breathing space and fresh hope for our long-term future. It tackles the big issues facing our country, from the...
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Topical Questions
Transport
Ruth Cadbury made a speech in the House of Commons
First, may I associate myself with the condolences expressed by the Transport Secretary and others about the terrible tragedy in Spain yesterday? There are many bottlenecks on the national rail...
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Students: Loans
Department for Education
Ruth Cadbury received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her department has any plans to A.) cancel B.) pause the accumulation of interest on student loan debts when an individual is unable to work...
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Equitable Life Policyholders: Compensation
Backbench Business
Ruth Cadbury made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate
I respect the shadow Minister’s views, but adequate powers and adequate resources go together. Too often since I have been in this place I have heard again and again that regulators would...
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Equitable Life Policyholders: Compensation
Backbench Business
Ruth Cadbury made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North East (Fabian Hamilton) for securing this debate. For 17 years, he has...
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Highways (Financing) Bill
Commons debates
I absolutely believe that it will exacerbate the issue, because the lower Thames crossing will significantly increase vehicle throughput, particularly of trucks and lorries, on what is already a...
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Highways (Financing) Bill
Commons debates
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope), given his deep experience and interesting perspective on bringing in tolls for all our motorways. That may be...
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Highways (Financing) Bill
Commons debates
I appreciate the hon. Member’s response, but as this Bill makes clear, the funding through the RAB model of the lower Thames crossing and other schemes is not only for construction, but for...
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Highways (Financing) Bill
Commons debates
It is been interesting to listen to the former Minister, who has had a distinguished career. I cannot speak about the former funding of the Dartford crossing, but does he not recognise that under...
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Highways (Financing) Bill
Commons debates
Such schemes are hardly new: in London, we have had the congestion charge for many years now—[Interruption.] We have it elsewhere, too; drivers in and around our major cities are used to a...
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Public Sector: Procurement
Cabinet Office
Ruth Cadbury received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she is taking to ensure that that public contracts are not awarded to companies that engage in blacklisting workers who are members of trade...
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Students: Loans
Department for Education
Ruth Cadbury received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer given to written question UIN 111113, when does her department plan to publish an equalities impact assessment on the freeze to...
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Air Traffic Control: Standards
Department for Transport
Ruth Cadbury received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the recommendations from the 2024 Civil Aviation Authority report into the 2023 National Air Traffic Service failure have been a)...
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Commons debates
I will not. The many people who have shared their experiences of facing death soon have told us that they want to die on their own terms. We also know, through various credible polls, that the...
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Commons debates
I supported this legislation first in 2015 and will do so again as it goes through its processes. I am truly grateful for all the work that so many hon. Members here and in the other House have...
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Airports: Vetting
Cabinet Office
Ruth Cadbury received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many outstanding applications were there for security clearances for individuals working at airports in England as of A.) August 2024 B.) August...
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Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [Lords]
Commons debates
I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. We have railway behaviour notices, so I wonder whether the Government could work with airlines, airports and the trade unions to consider a similar...
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Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [Lords]
Commons debates
If anything, the Elizabeth line has been a victim of its own success—that is why it was right to fight for Crossrail all those years ago. I will come back to the link between what airports...
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Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [Lords]
Commons debates
Absolutely. For almost 40 years, I have dealt with Heathrow’s lack of interest in transport. My hon. Friend is to the north of Heathrow, and I know full well what he is saying. In fact, one...
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Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [Lords]
Commons debates
I think I am right in saying that people also have to walk quite some way to get the bus to the airport. Talk about a lack of joined-up thinking in our public transport—and in this instance...
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