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                           <description><![CDATA[Ian recorded the following video for the 2008 Fire and Rescue Conference in Liverpool. The conference wished to mark Ian's contribution to fire safety as the conference celebrated the 20th anniversary of regulations designed to make foam furniture safe. The Furniture &amp; Fire Safety Regulations 1988 have had a dramatic effect: 14,000 lives saved 100,000 injuries prevented millions of smoke alarms installed in homes across the country the safest foam furniture in Europe Unfortunately Ian was unable to attend in person and therefore recorded this video which was played to the conference. Ian led the campaign to end the use...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Speech to Scottish Labour Party Conference 2004]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Speech by the Rt Hon Ian McCartney MP Chair of the Labour Party Scottish Labour Party Conference Inverness 28th February 2004 It&rsquo;s time to take stock Time for reflection and perspective 1. Where did we come from? 2. Where are we now? 3. Where do we need to go? Where did we come from? &ndash; Tory record More than 100,000 Scots earned less than &pound;3 per hour &ndash; tens of thousands earned between &pound;1 and &pound;1.50 Tory Britain spent more paying just the interest on govt borrowing than they spent on schools and hospitals Unemployment was endemic among young Scots...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[National Minimum Wage Debate 11th June 2008 - Hansard]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Mr Ian McCartney:  It is not often that former Ministers are present in debates such as this, not to defend themselves, but to think aloud about where we should take things. My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Michael Connarty) said that he would give the minimum wage two out of three; I would give it three out of three. That is not because I was the Minister responsible for it or because I am totally loyal to the Government, which I am on two counts&mdash;one historical and one factual&mdash;but because, 10 years ago, a debate...]]></description>
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                           <description><![CDATA[Making sure workers are paid fairly - no excuses not to pay up When families are struggling with rising fuel, energy and food prices it is more important than ever to have the National Minimum Wage.  Everyone should earn a fair wage for a fair day's work - there is no excuse not to pay up. And there were two welcome bits of news this week that will be a boost to workers in Makerfield. The Government has said that it wants to change the current minimum wage rules on tipping so that in the future, tips will be...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Greater Manchester Transport Infrastructure Fund (TIF)]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Westminster Hall Debate on the Greater Manchester Transport Infrastructure Fund (TIF) following the June 2008 statement by RT Hon Ruth Kelly MP.  Mr. Ian McCartney (Makerfield) (Lab):   "May I say to my colleagues that for a quarter of a century I have represented the most westerly and south-westerly part of the Greater Manchester conurbation? Over the past quarter of a century, through the general taxation and local authority taxation systems and the annual precepts to the Greater Manchester Transport Authority, my constituents have subsidised and paid for large measures of investment infrastructure in the city of Manchester....]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[After Obama's Victory - Time to get the Middle East Peace Process back on track]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The following article was written for the 'Jewish Vanguard' - The Journal of the Jewish Labour Movement.   On Tuesday 4 November 2008, the Jewish community in the United States delivered one of the largest historical endorsements of a Democrat nominee in a US presidential election since 1916.   This year&rsquo;s election comes at a time when progressives in the United States, Europe and Israel wish to see a boost to the Middle East process before a further deterioration in both political and security issues adds to the deep rifts between Palestinian factions in both Gaza and the...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[The Diana Princess of Wales Award for Young People]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Ian visited St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School to present Kathryn Capner with the Diana Princess of Wales Award for Young People.
 Ian's speech is detailed below;
 "I am delighted to have been asked to join you again today to present the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Young People to a very special pupil.
 You may know that the Diana Princess of Wales Award for Young People was set up by the government in 1999 in memory of the late Princess. It was created to recognise and celebrate the inspirational qualities, courage and compassion of young people.
 Princess...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[On 30 January Ian made a speech condemning the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Read more here...]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I want to make a brief contribution, because it is important to reinforce the message that has come from both sides of the Committee, and from the Conservative spokesman and my colleague the Minister. Those of us who do not live in Northern Ireland but have an interest in it—some of us still have family there—feel that it is important that from today onwards there is a sign that the decommissioning process is coming to an end. That process has been critical—a silver thread that ran through every phase of the reconstruction of political, social and environmental life in Northern...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[Ian recently spoke on the subject of Pleural Plaques, find out what he said here...]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Speech in Westminster Hall, 23 January 2008, in a debate on Pleural Plaques
 Like my colleagues, I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) and congratulate him—if that is the appropriate word in such a debate—on his work on this and other issues.

 My hon. Friend and I come from a similar area, and as teenagers and young men, we saw family after family suffer the consequences of having done what they were asked to do by working hard for their country and their company. Subsequently, because of latent industrial diseases, the trade union...]]></description>
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