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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

I shall certainly follow your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Bill is about controlling immigration, and I am trying to find reasons for doing it. If we cannot find them, we cannot have a Bill, so I am sure that you would agree that we need to do so. I...

Member

Lord Lilley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

5 July 2005

Reference

436 c244-5

House

House of Commons

G8 Meeting

It has been some time since I caught your eye, Mr. Speaker, so I am extremely grateful to the mystery hand that guides the lottery that chooses the subject for the Adjournment debate. To be successful on this subject the night before the G8 convenes in Gleneagles is exceedingly good...

Member

George Galloway (Respect Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

5 July 2005

Reference

436 c276-8

House

House of Commons

Road Safety Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I said that the amendment would include pedestrians, cyclists, equestrians or disabled persons; in other words, any road user. I imagine that it includes anyone riding any other kind of animal, or perhaps driving a herd of cows or sheep—basically, anything that is...

Member

Lord Berkeley (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

4 July 2005

Reference

673 c518

House

House of Lords

State pension: proposals for reform

State pension: proposals for reform. By Louise Butcher. SN/BT/3196.

Type

Commons Briefing paper

Date

4 July 2005

Reference

SN03196

European Union

My Lords, I preface my answer by saying that we already make substantial contributions to the accession states. I made the point that we are the second largest net contributor to the budget—aside from the rebate. The common agricultural policy and a number of the other financial institutions which deal...

Member

Lord Triesman (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

30 June 2005

Reference

673 c344-5

House

House of Lords

Flood Defences

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much is budgeted for expenditure on flood defences in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the next five years; and to which projects funding will be allocated.

Asked by

David Davis (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 June 2005

For answer on

22 June 2005

Answered on

29 June 2005

DEFRA funds most of the Environment Agency's flood management activities in England and provides grant aid on a project by project basis to the other operating authorities (local authorities and internal drainage boards) to support their investment in improvement projects to manage flood and coastal erosion risk. Defra does not build defences, nor direct the authorities on which specific projects to undertake.I understand from the Environment Agency that their budget for expenditure on flood risk management in East Riding of Yorkshire over the next five years is approximately £41 million (at September 2004 prices). This is made up as follows:

Activity/Project	Forecast expenditure (£000)
Ongoing capital investment
Tickton refurbishment	300
Number Estuary Coastal Authorities Group SMP Review	80
Number Monitoring 2	570
Number Estuary Shoreline Management Plan 3	260
Number Land Purchase	3,760
East Clough-Brough Haven	3,130
Little Humber-Thorngumbald	240
Reedness Slips at Reedness	1,200
Goole Slips-River Ouse (Hook Road)	850
Saltmarshe Embankment 2	400
Bank House Slips/Saltmarshe	800
Airmyn and Rawcliffe	2,000
Burstwick Drain	630
Total	14,220

Capital projects resulting from number strategy
Paull Village	3,300
BAe to East Clough	2,900
Old Goole	500
Swinefleet	5,800
Erosion Control (Stoning)	2,100
Monitoring and maintenance	1,100
Further studies	1,700
Contingency for urgent work	2,100
Total	19,500

Asset improvements	1,090
Routine maintenance	2,800
COW expenditure	1,135
Support costs	2,325

Grand total	41,070

For local authorities and internal drainage boards, the forward programme is not budgeted at regional level. DEFRA does however hold forecasts of expenditure of individual approved flood risk management improvement projects covering the period from April 2005 to March 2008. These forecasts total approximately £1 million and are made up as follows:

Authority	Project name	Forecast expenditure (£000)
Cowick IDB	Cowick IDB First Five Year Strategy	94
Goole and Airmyn IDB	Hook Clough Pumping Station	150
Goole and Airmyn IDB	Downs Ground Pumping Station	235
Goole and Airmyn IDB	Downs Ground Pumping Station Refurbishment	300
Market Weighton IDB	Oxmardyke Pumping Station	70
Market Weighton IDB	Foss Dyke and Tributaries	2
Rawcliffe IDB	Rawcliffe First Five Year Strategy	187
Total		1,038

In addition to this list of approved projects for local authorities and internal drainage boards, there are also a number of planned improvement projects that meet the current priority score thresholds but which have not yet been approved for grant aid by the Department.

Subjects

Flood control; Floods; East Riding

Date

29 June 2005

Reference

435 c1535-6W; 6547

House

House of Commons

Engagements

Does the Prime Minister recall that, last year, we had a celebration to mark the centenary of the entente cordiale? Last week, the President of France said that my right hon. Friend was "pathetic" and "tragic" and demanded a gesture of solidarity from him, Will my right hon. Friend explain to President Chirac that what is pathetic and tragic is the fact that 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day while each European cow gets $2.5 a day in subsidy? Will he tell the President that the only gesture of solidarity worth making is one that does something about that?

Asked by

Tony Wright (Labour)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Prime Minister's question - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

22 June 2005

Reference

435 c790

House

House of Commons

European Council, 16–17 June

My Lords, without raising expectations of what will happen under the UK presidency, does not my noble friend think that issues need to be resolved urgently in relation to the budgetary priorities, given that the WTO will reconvene in Hong Kong in December? At that point, the European position on...

Member

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

20 June 2005

Reference

672 c1453

House

House of Lords

European Affairs

What we want to do immediately is to get fundamental reform of the common agricultural policy back on the agenda. I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman and many other hon. Members on both sides of the House have farmers in their constituencies. Although Blackburn may appear to be an...

Member

Jack Straw (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

15 June 2005

Reference

435 c281-2

House

House of Commons

MG Rover

: I follow that—but logically, does it not tell people that perhaps, even at that late hour when everything looked impossible, the Government and the other parties involved still wanted to see whether there was another last chance? It seems as if somebody was determined to sort the problem out...

Member

Jim Cunningham (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 June 2005

Reference

435 c41WH

House

House of Commons

Soya Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to introduce milk tokens for soya milk.

Asked by

Anne Milton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

14 June 2005

Reference

3104; 435 c309W;435 c312-3W

House

House of Commons

National Lottery Bill

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I consider the amendment to be both reasoned and reasonable. We are not playing party politics. Our aim is to protect the good work of a body that has had a lasting impact in communities throughout the country. It has restored historic buildings...

Member

Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 June 2005

Reference

435 c175

House

House of Commons

BSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the incidence of cases of BSE in cows born after the imposition of the reinforced feed ban.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Cooperative Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

13 June 2005

Reference

3640; 435 c33-4W

House

House of Commons

Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, the Government have an honourable record on road safety, which goes back to the days of Barbara Castle, who introduced the breathalyser, and pedestrian crossings. I think that the breathalyser did not get much support from the Prime Minister at the time, but nevertheless she got it through....

Member

Lord Tanlaw (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

8 June 2005

Reference

672 c909-12

House

House of Lords

EU: Future Financing (EUC Report)

My Lords, I rise with some trepidation as a Euro-realist thorn among this bouquet of Europhile roses to put a slightly different view on the report. When I bumped into the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, before the debate I promised him that my speech would be almost entirely gloat free,...

Member

Lord Willoughby de Broke (Conservative Independent)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 June 2005

Reference

672 c703-5

House

House of Lords

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

This is an important Bill for the English and Welsh countryside, as has been made clear by the quality of today’s debate and by the fact that eight of my hon. Friends elected to make their maiden speeches. That is a clear demonstration of the genuine Conservative empathy with the...

Member

James Paice (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 June 2005

Reference

434 c1085-7

House

House of Commons

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

I am grateful to have caught your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, to make my maiden speech in today’s debate. First, I offer my congratulations to other Members who have made their maiden speeches today. I have certainly learned more today about this great country of ours than I ever did...

Member

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative)

Type

Maiden speech

Date

6 June 2005

Reference

434 c1070-3

House

House of Commons

Dairy Cattle

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether cull dairy cows destined for the beef market after the end of the over-30-months scheme will be subject to dual inspection by milk and meat inspectors.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Cooperative Party)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Notes

Transferred question 19/05/2005

Date

25 May 2005

Reference

149; 434 c103W;434 c107W

House

House of Commons

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech

My Lords, I have enjoyed the parts of the debate I have heard. I was particularly pleased by the speech from our Front Bench of my noble friend Lady Scott. Like everyone else, I wish the Minister well and hope that he does his best to remember that agriculture is...

Member

Lord Mackie of Benshie (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 May 2005

Reference

672 c434-5

House

House of Lords

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Palmer. I can tell him that the hours worked on farms certainly served me in good stead in the other place, where sometimes 80 hours was achieved. It continues to be good training even in this place,...

Member

Lord Livsey of Talgarth (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 May 2005

Reference

672 c439-42

House

House of Lords