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She graduated from the with a degree in physiotherapy in 1994.
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Rachael Maskell
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Rachael Maskell has been a care-worker and physiotherapist, working in the National Health Service for 20 years. Maskell has also been a trade-union official Maskell used her maiden speech to plead for a new mental health hospital in York to replace the ageing Bootham Park.
Speaking of the vision of "late member for Ebbw Vale" Aneurin Bevan, she said that "the growing social and financial inequalities manifest themselves in health inequality, and access to vital services is delayed and even denied as a direct result of the £3 billion structural reorganisation that the previous Government introduced."
On Wednesday 8 July, Rachael Maskell was one of four Labour MPs elected to the Health Select Committee.
Maskell voted against the Welfare Bill in the House of Commons on 20 July 2015. Maskell made a statement saying "I have a duty to protect our vulnerable people.
I could not stand by and let the most vicious Tory attacks on some of the poorest in our city go unchallenged."
In September 2015, during the European refugee crisis, Maskell called on the United Kingdom to open its doors to refugees. She said "we can all have a bit more compassion.
If it was the other way round and we were in that desperate situation, we would expect somebody to show compassion to us." Speaking as 20,000 refugees arrived in Munich in one weekend, and as the German Government gets ready to receive 800,000 refugees in 2015.
Maskell said that the United Kingdom Government must do more. Maskell spoke in the Trade-Union Bill 2nd Reading debate on 14 September 2015. Rachael Maskell is a Labour frontbench as part of the Shadow Defence Team, initially working under Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle.
Maskell is a keen cyclist and rode the trip to Labour Conference 2015 in Brighton from Parliament in aid of British Heart Foundation.
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56th United Kingdom Parliament]
She is the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the constituency of York Central after retaining the seat for her party at the 2015 general election. She referred the house to her Register of Interests as a member of Unite the Union declared "I am a proud trade-unionist" - she subsequently voted against the Bill.
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