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Mobile Phones (Road Deaths)

One of the most watched YouTube clips around the world this summer was a short film called "Cow", which was commissioned by Gwent police and graphically illustrated to young people the dangers of texting while driving. If the Minister has not seen the film, will he do so? Does he agree that we could learn lessons from this hard-hitting, well-targeted campaign?

Asked by

Jessica Morden (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2009

Reference

501 c1269

House

House of Commons

European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Stabilisation and Association Agreement) (Republic of Montenegro) Order 2009

I rise not in any sense to oppose the order but to support it. It gives me great pleasure to see Montenegro reach this point. I have known the country since 1995 and its extremely wily, intelligent, clever and effective leader, Milo Djukanovic, for at least that long. As the...

Member

Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

2 December 2009

Reference

715 c5-7GC

House

House of Lords

LIVESTOCK AND CLIMATE CHANGE

That this House welcomes the report from World Watch called Livestock and climate change: what if the key actors in climate change are cows, pigs and chickens?, which builds on the report published in 2006 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Livestock's Long Shadow, both of which demonstrate...

Primary sponsor

Colin Challen (Labour)

Type

Early day motion

Date

25 November 2009

Reference

229

House

House of Commons

Queen’s Speech

Your Lordships may not be surprised to hear that I wish to make a few remarks about agriculture. I declare my interest as a farmer and member of several food and farming organisations. Those who have spoken about the disaster in Cumberland have spoken well and I support their views....

Member

Lord Plumb (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 November 2009

Reference

715 c304-6

House

House of Lords

Energy and Climate Change and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

I shall be astonished if some of these rehashed announcements and Bills go anywhere in the time left to the Government. In fact, I share the astonishment expressed by the hon. Member for City of Durham (Dr. Blackman-Woods), but it is not astonishment about the cynicism of the Opposition; it...

Member

Lord Swire (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 November 2009

Reference

501 c482-5

House

House of Commons

Energy and Climate Change and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) in what may be quite an important moment—his castigation and denunciation of the Soviet Union probably means that old Labour is now dead, and we should probably take a moment to think about that. However, he made...

Member

Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 November 2009

Reference

501 c473-5

House

House of Commons

Queen’s Speech

My Lords, I am honoured to be a new boy in your Lordships’ House. I begin by thanking noble Lords for their generous and warm welcomes, and I am grateful to the staff of the House for all their help to me in the induction process. The diocese of Lichfield,...

Member

Bishop of Lichfield (Bishops (affiliation))

Type

Maiden speech

Date

24 November 2009

Reference

715 c274-6

House

House of Lords

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence

I must begin with an apology. I was unable to be present for a large part of the debate owing to Select Committee business, which makes me all the more grateful to be recognised. I shall deal with two topics—first, Europe, and secondly, Afghanistan. In respect of the second, I...

Member

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

23 November 2009

Reference

501 c335-8

House

House of Commons

Flooding (Cumbria)

In thanking the Secretary of State for his statement, may I add my thanks to all those who have worked heroically since the early hours of Thursday morning to protect residents, homes and businesses throughout Cumbria? My brother-in-law is a member of Cumbria constabulary, and I have many friends in...

Member

Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

23 November 2009

Reference

501 c255-6

House

House of Commons

By elections since 2005

This note sets out results of by elections since the 2005 General Election.

Type

Commons Briefing paper

Date

17 November 2009

Reference

SN03726

Cattle: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps he plans to take to improve the animal welfare standards of cattle; and if he will make a statement;

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Cooperative Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 November 2009

For answer on

9 November 2009

Answered on

10 November 2009

The welfare of cattle is provided for by way of the general provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007, which has specific schedules relating to cattle and calf welfare. DEFRA also has a welfare code for cattle which provides good husbandry advice, which producers have by law to be familiar with and have access to.Animal Health enforces on-farm welfare legislation and conducts regular programmed inspections of farmed premises to check the welfare of livestock, as well as investigating all complaints and allegations about poor welfare on-farm.DEFRA is currently considering the Farm Animal Welfare Council's Opinion and the European Commission's European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reports on the welfare of dairy cows which have been recently published. The findings of both will feed into the UK's negotiating line for the Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes current discussions on revising its cattle recommendation.DEFRA has a contract with ADAS to run an advisory programme for farmers in England to encourage good animal welfare. Each year ADAS run, on DEFRA's behalf, a series of awareness campaigns for producers to promote good standards of animal welfare and husbandry. This year's cattle campaign will focus on promoting best practice in managing the dairy cow around calving. In previous years, successful campaigns have included lameness and herd mobility scoring, avoiding losses and improving welfare in cattle rearing systems and housing the modern dairy cow.DEFRA's animal welfare research programme also funds research into welfare issues affecting dairy cattle. Recent projects include: alleviation of lameness in dairy heifers; development of a lameness control plan; and investigating the management and welfare of the continuously housed cows.

Subjects

Animal welfare; Cattle

Date

10 November 2009

Reference

499 c189-91W; 298900

House

House of Commons

Cattle: Animal Welfare

(2) what steps he has taken to improve training for those involved in maintaining the welfare of cattle.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Cooperative Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 November 2009

For answer on

9 November 2009

Answered on

10 November 2009

The welfare of cattle is provided for by way of the general provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007, which has specific schedules relating to cattle and calf welfare. DEFRA also has a welfare code for cattle which provides good husbandry advice, which producers have by law to be familiar with and have access to.Animal Health enforces on-farm welfare legislation and conducts regular programmed inspections of farmed premises to check the welfare of livestock, as well as investigating all complaints and allegations about poor welfare on-farm.DEFRA is currently considering the Farm Animal Welfare Council's Opinion and the European Commission's European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reports on the welfare of dairy cows which have been recently published. The findings of both will feed into the UK's negotiating line for the Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes current discussions on revising its cattle recommendation.DEFRA has a contract with ADAS to run an advisory programme for farmers in England to encourage good animal welfare. Each year ADAS run, on DEFRA's behalf, a series of awareness campaigns for producers to promote good standards of animal welfare and husbandry. This year's cattle campaign will focus on promoting best practice in managing the dairy cow around calving. In previous years, successful campaigns have included lameness and herd mobility scoring, avoiding losses and improving welfare in cattle rearing systems and housing the modern dairy cow.DEFRA's animal welfare research programme also funds research into welfare issues affecting dairy cattle. Recent projects include: alleviation of lameness in dairy heifers; development of a lameness control plan; and investigating the management and welfare of the continuously housed cows.

Subjects

Animal welfare; Cattle

Date

10 November 2009

Reference

499 c189-91W; 298901

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

We have to do both, because, although certification is helpful, ultimately we all want proper sustainability from planting through to end use. Therefore, anything that financially encourages such practice is worth having, but ultimately we should get it right from start to finish rather than buy our way out of...

Member

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

5 November 2009

Reference

498 c1073-7

House

House of Commons

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Both the Home Secretary and the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) have missed the point. The hon. Gentleman is at risk, indeed, of becoming the Home Secretary's Mini-Me, because today he again insisted that the only difference between them was that he thought Professor Nutt should have...

Member

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

2 November 2009

Reference

498 c579-80

House

House of Commons

Bovine Tuberculosis

Far too many good dairy cows have been put down in my constituency of Congleton in Cheshire and elsewhere. While I welcome the progress made by the bovine TB eradication group, will the Secretary of State accept that veterinary surgeons who are members of the British Veterinary Association and the British Cattle Veterinary Association believe that he should reassess his criteria for targeting and culling badgers in certain circumstances?

Asked by

Ann Winterton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral question - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2009

Reference

498 c429

House

House of Commons

Farm-gate Milk Prices

The British herd of dairy cows is down by more than a fifth since 1997, and the number of dairy farms has halved since 2000. Will the Minister explain why dairy farmers should believe that this Government remain committed to UK production?

Asked by

Graham Stuart (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2009

Reference

498 c435

House

House of Commons

Dartford River Crossing

My hon. Friend has championed the cause several times, and I appreciate how strongly he feels about it. There are relevant factors for his constituents, including, for example, unavailability of the discount scheme to Bexley residents. I will come to that, as well as to the general issues of delays...

Member

James Brokenshire (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

28 October 2009

Reference

498 c134-7WH

House

House of Commons

Climate Change: Farming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department has commissioned on the effect of farming methods on climate change.

Asked by

Andrew Smith (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 October 2009

For answer on

27 October 2009

Answered on

27 October 2009

DEFRA has commissioned a number of studies, some of which are ongoing, to assess the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from several agricultural commodities throughout their lifecycle. This includes assessment of commodities produced in different farming systems (including organic). The most relevant studies are listed as follows:"Project AC020: A study of the scope for the application of research in animal genomics and breeding to reduce nitrogen and methane emissions from livestock based food chains—published in April 2008.""Project AC020: Developing technologies to improve the fertility of dairy cows—published in January 2008.""Project AC0206: Agriculture and climate change: turning results into practical action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—A review—published in July 2007.""Project AC0207: The translation of existing research outputs into actions that reduce pollution gas emissions from agriculture—due for imminent completion.""Project AC0208: The limits to a sustainable livestock sector in the UK—due for imminent completion.""Project AC0209: Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions—due for completion in March 2010.""Project IS0205: Determining the environmental burdens and resource use in the production of agricultural and horticultural commodities—published in August 2005.""Project IS0222: Developing and delivering environmental Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of agricultural systems—due to be completed in September 2010.""Project AC0210: Economic and environmental impacts of livestock production in the UK—due to be completed in July 2010.""Project AC0214: Roadmaps integrating RTD in developing realistic GHG mitigation options from agriculture up to 2030—due for imminent completion.""Project AC0216: Review of the Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for Agriculture produced for the Committee on Climate Change—due for imminent completion.""Project AC0219: Methane emissions by individual dairy cows under commercial conditions—due to be completed in March 2010""Project AC0310. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation—a Risk Based Approach—due for completion in April 2010.""Project AC0406: The optimisation and impacts of expanding biogas production—due for completion in January 2010.""Project WQ0106: Quantitative Assessment of Scenarios for Managing Trade-Off Between Economics, Environment and Media—completed 2009."

Subjects

Agriculture; Climate change

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

498 c228-9W; 295194

House

House of Commons

Central London Businesses

No one can dispute that the past year has been tough for businesses large and small nationwide. Their future will remain uncertain, as the climate in which they operate continues to be unpredictable, and any signs of sustainable economic recovery are likely to be tentative. One might therefore have hoped...

Member

Mark Field (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

498 c54-9WH

House

House of Commons

City of London

If things are taken to an absurd level, one would have to agree. Clearly, there needs to be some regulation, not least to protect consumers. To return to the history of the City of London, I was joking with my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk earlier that we...

Member

Mark Field (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 October 2009

Reference

497 c116WH

House

House of Commons

Pharmacies

My Lords, all too often in your Lordships' House, I find myself among a group of unqualified enthusiasts. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, has raised one of the most important issues facing us at this moment. Ever the optimist, I have been searching for some years—and now for some weeks—to...

Member

Lord Selsdon (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 October 2009

Reference

713 c83-5

House

House of Lords

Cattle: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of dairy cows which are kept in zero-grazing conditions.

Asked by

Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

16 September 2009

Reference

496 c2226W; 291386

House

House of Commons

Departmental Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Alfaplan Gradenje, (b) Asbestos Removals...

Asked by

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 July 2009

For answer on

8 July 2009

Answered on

14 July 2009

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) only has a static database of all of its contracts in the UK and overseas which was compiled in the latter part of 2008. Work is currently being undertaken to convert this to a real time database. To gather all of the contract information for 2008-09 would involve disproportionate cost so the following response reflects records kept by the two contracts teams in the FCO and FCO Services for 2008-09 which will cover a high proportion of the contracts awarded by the FCO in the UK during the period.

		Monetary value (£)	Comment
Alfaplan Gradenje	Dubrovnik Consulate Fit-Out works	53,202.37	Contract sum
Asbestos Removals Logistics Ltd	Singapore Asbestos Removal	76,614.00	Contract sum
ATG Access Ltd	Athens Perimeter Security Works	435,515	Contract sum
Bymaro	Rabat—Fire and Flood reinstatement	1,205,102	—
Controlled Building Services Ltd	Addis Ababa Office Extension	370,479.00	Contract sum
Gilbert Ash Fit-Out	Ibiza re-model and Fit-Out (Stage 1)	25,928	Contract sum
	Prague Refurbishment of Offices	498,894	Contract sum
	Georgetown Office Modifications	447,568	—
Gleeds (QS)	(See various contracts for Gleeds listed under Gleeds Building Surveying following)	—	—
Gleeds Building Surveying	Tehran—Tender analysis	4,707	Framework Consultants
	Dubai—Gatehouse OS Commission	14,547	Framework Consultants
	Basra—Office Fit-Out	63,000	Framework Consultants
	New Delhi—Strategic Review of Compound	210,502	Framework Consultants
GMW Architects	Tripoli—New Offices	40,250	Framework Consultants
	Jeddah—architectural services	14,445	Framework Consultants
	Tripoli—Architectural services	7,759	Framework Consultants
HOK International	Mexico City—Multidisciplinary services	73,376	Framework Consultants
	Boston—Architectural Duties	168,703	Framework Consultants
Jordan + Bateman	Portimao Consular Fit-Out	254,439.67	Consultant to Sherman Projectos e Servicos
	Architectural Design Services	34,560.00	Framework Consultants
	Baku—New Residence	557,506.00	Framework Consultants
	Dubai—Gatehouse architectural Commission	35,094.00	Framework Consultants
Knight Frank	Americas Property Evaluation	250,000	Contract sum
Mayfair Building Services	Caracas Safety and Rewire Works for Residential Properties	52,399.17	Contract sum
Orostream International Contracts Ltd	Kabul Internal Fit-out works	637,152.39	Contract sum
	Bogota 8th Floor Fit-Out	226,336.00	Contract sum
	Khartoum Replacement of Chillers	135,364.00	Contract sum
	Minsk Relocation of Classified Area	287,050.00	Contract sum
	Port Stanley Office Extension and Fire Precaution Works	188,010.35	Contract sum
	Podgorica New Embassy and Residence	778,000.00	Spend figure
Ove Arup	Kuala Lumpur COW services	18,913	Framework Consultant
	New Delhi—Strategic Review of Compound	13,500	Framework Consultant
	Canberra—Security works	84,116	Framework Consultant
Ridge and Partners	Podgorica New Embassy and Residence	90,000	Spend figure
	NW Europe Asbestos Surveys	77,785	Framework Consultant
	Tripoli—Asbestos Surveys	9,032	Framework Consultant
	Rabat—PM services	29,207	Framework Consultant
	Belgrade—Feasibility Study	25,000	Framework Consultant
	Ottawa Office—Upgrade	211,000	Framework Consultant
	Khartoum—Asbestos surveys	11,977	Framework Consultant
	Basra—Office fit-out	14,622	Framework Consultant
	Belgrade—Facade Repairs	22,752	Framework Consultant
	New Delhi—Asbestos Review	9,960	Framework Consultant
Toffco SDN BHD	Kuala Lumpur Repairs to Residential Block and Staff Club	19,013.04	Contract sum
	Kuala Lumpur Car Park Waterproofing works	83,992.80	Contract sum
	Kuala Lumpur: Replacement of East Perimeter Wall	276,434.00	Contract sum
Windell Ltd	Singapore Blast Enhanced Glazing	570,466.00	Contract sum
Zeal Interiors	Wellington—Office Refurbishment	215,163	—

Subjects

Contracts; Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Date

14 July 2009

Reference

496 c323-6W; 285290

House

House of Commons

Departmental Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Alchemist Partnership Limited, (b) Avail...

Asked by

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 July 2009

For answer on

8 July 2009

Answered on

14 July 2009

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) only has a static database of all of its contracts in the UK and overseas which was compiled in the latter part of 2008. Work is currently being undertaken to convert this to a real time database. To gather all of the contract information for 2008-09 would involve disproportionate cost so the attached response reflects records kept by the two contracts teams in the FCO and FCO Services for 2008-09 which will cover a high proportion of the contracts awarded by the FCO in the UK during the period.

		Monetary Value (£)	Comment
Alchemist Partnership Limited	Tristan da Cunha Sustainable Development Plan	53,200	—
Avail Consulting	Vetting Unit Programme	148,500.00	—
Building Services Group Ltd	Strategy and Business Consultancy Services	share of 4,000,000 framework	Framework awarded to four suppliers, total monetary value of £4m
	Dubai Gatehouse - engineering advice	41,425	Framework Consultant
Cambridge Econometrics	Consultancy Services: Impact of oil prices on global economic recovery	33,845	—
Concerto Consulting	Senior Facilities Management Advisor	174,000	—
Coombs Consulting Ltd	Management Services Internal Consultancy Support to FCOS ESG	70,000.00	—
Corporate Value Associates	Strategy and Business Consultancy Services	See Avail above	Framework awarded to four suppliers, total monetary value of £4m
Haig Consulting Ltd	Estates Related Project Management Services	511,000.00	—
Hanover Aviation Consulting Ltd	Framework Agreement for Air Brokerage Agent		DFID owned Framework. No FCO contract placed by FCO Contracts Team to date
Hay Group Management Ltd	Benchmarking for FCO Pay Grades in Asia-Pacific Region	17,000	—
Intuity Consulting Ltd	Consultancy Services for Programme and Project Mgt Services for PRISM Declassification	252,000	Annual Commitment
Jedi Systems Consulting Ltd	HMRC Support Contract	30,624.00	—
KMG LLP	Strategy and Business Consultancy Services	See Avail above	Framework awarded to four suppliers, total monetary value of £4m
Methods Consulting	Provision of Consultancy Services to FM Project	143,000	—
Minimal Risk Consultancy Ltd	Provision of Intelligence Staff in Afghanistan	387,935	—
Mott MacDonald	Basra: Hollyoaks - Additional Protection	142,082	—
Ove Arup	Kuala Lumpur - COW services	18,913	Framework Consultant
Oxford Policy Management Ltd	Provision of Economic Advice to Governments of up to five British OTs	51,000	—
PA Consulting Group	Strategy and Business Consultancy Services	See Avail above	Framework awarded to four suppliers, total monetary value of £4m
	Provision of Consultancy Services for Knowledge and Information Management Strategy	35,000.00	—
Projected Consulting Ltd	Projected Consulting Ltd	305,760.00	Configuration, Implementation and User Training for FCO Services Prism Software focusing on the Oracle Project Suites and modules and related applications
Purcon Ltd	PCMD Category Manager	47,838.00	—
Ridge and Partners	Podgorica New Embassy and Residence	90,000	Spend figure
RPS Health Safety	Madrid Asbestos Survey	7,000	Contract sum
TPS Consult	Khartoum Asbestos Survey	9,750	Contract sum
	Tbilisi - BREEAM assessment	11,462	Framework Consultant
	Staff Replacements	103,885	Framework Consultant
	Staff Replacements	131,684	Framework Consultant
	Mexico City - Facility review	6,095	Framework Consultant
	Stockholm -PerimeterWall	12,200	Framework Consultant
	Buenos Aries - Perimeter Wall	30,000	Framework Consultant
	Chongqing - Post Quake Survey	14,500	Framework Consultant
	Minsk - Structural Review	6,600	Framework Consultant
	Tripoli-Blast Survey	12,000	Framework Consultant
	Kuala Lumpur - Blast Survey	25,000	Framework Consultant
	Rangoon - Feasibility study	7,800	Framework Consultant
	Tripoli - M and E survey	10,997	Framework Consultant
	Stockholm - blast glazing survey	4,240	Framework Consultant
	Brussels - Structural Survey	6,500	Framework Consultant
	Damascus - Delapidation Report	6,000	Framework Consultant
	Dubai - Gatehouse structural advise	19,200	Framework Consultant
	Pristina - Due diligence report	45,995	Framework Consultant
	Minsk - Structural Review	6,000	Framework Consultant
	Mexico city - Blast advice	16,532	Framework Consultant
	San Jose - Earthquake Report	17,800	Framework Consultant
	Khartoum - Structural Advice	5,713	Framework Consultant
	Boston - BREEAM Assessment	12,230	Framework Consultant
	Basra - Ad-hoc advice	1,000	Framework Consultant
	Tripoli - Survey report	28,540	Framework Consultant
Tribal Consulting	Provision of Strategic Partner to assist in Producing IT Training Strategy	99,000	—
UCT Ltd	Pyramid Software Development and Support IS Services and Management Information Systems	400,000.00	—
Venn Group Ltd	Provision of Security Guarding Procurement Lead	125,000	—

Subjects

Contracts; Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Date

14 July 2009

Reference

496 c320-4W; 285289

House

House of Commons

EC Grants and Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information his Department holds on the subsidies granted by the European Commission to EU member states in each of the last five years; and what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the criteria...

Asked by

Lindsay Hoyle (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 July 2009

For answer on

8 July 2009

Answered on

14 July 2009

The European Commission list direct aids to farmers as presented in Table 1. Producers must comply with a number of criteria in order to qualify, with the most significant being that production is required for receipt of coupled direct aids, but not decoupled aids.

Table 1: EU direct aids for Budget years 2004-08
€million
	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Decoupled direct aids
Single Payment Scheme	28,234	28,119	14,226	0	0
Single Area Payment Scheme	2,974	2,083	1,721	1,449	0
Separate sugar payment	206	167	0	0	0
Separate fruit and vegetables payment	0	0	0	0	0

Other direct aids
Arable Crops	1,781	1,853	7,951	17,158	17,095
Beef	1,641	1,697	2,637	7,730	7,312
Sheep and Goats	314	330	907	1,837	1,471
Dairy	0	0	1,454	1,370	0
POSEI	410	81	81	185	110
Fruit and Vegetables¹	104	202	255	483	595
Sugar	25	17	0	0	0
Rice	168	173	261	427	110
Olive groves	99	119	2,312	2,240	2,302
Tobacco	301	336	811	918	924
Silkworms	1	1	0	0	0
Cotton	248	254	0	0	0
Payments for specific types of farming and quality production	435	420	199	0	0
Other (direct aids)	—	761	958	75	0
Additional amounts of aid	563	434	316	0	0
Ancillary direct aids, small producers, agrimonetary aids, etc.)	0	0	0	4	1
Recoveries	0	0	-39	-21	-12
Total	37,505	37,046	34,051	33,856	29,908
¹ Includes starch potatoes and grain legumes.
Source:
Provisional Draft Budget 2010 and previous budgets, EC.

The UK has argued forcefully for further decoupling of aid payments from production in order to reduce market distortions, and the 2008 Health Check made a step in this direction, decoupling approximately a further €3 billion of direct payments. This increases the level of decoupled support from around 89 per cent. of all direct farm payments to around 96 per cent. The payments currently scheduled for decoupling and the relevant dates are presented in Table 2.

Table 2: Direct aids scheduled to be decoupled
Sector	Current situation	When/how to be phased out
Fruit and vegetables	The EU Processed Fruit and Vegetables Regime was subject to major reform in 2007, with agreement reached on a phased approach to full decoupling:	Tomatoes for processing—1 January 2012
	Tomatoes for processing—member states may allow a maximum four year transitional period provided that the coupled element of the payment does not exceed 50 per cent. of the corresponding component of the national ceiling
	Other processing aids—member states may allow a maximum five year transitional period until at the latest 31 December 2012, provided that after 31 December 2010, the coupled proportion of the payment does not exceed 75 per cent. of the corresponding component of the national ceiling in 2011 and 2012 respectively.	Other processing aids—1 January 2013
Sugar	There are no direct aids in the sugar sector, but there is a transitional fund to help the sugar sector restructure.	The transitional aid is due to end in 2010
	There are also separate sugar payments as part of the Single Payment Scheme.

Tobacco	Progressive reduction in coupled support from 2006 to 2010.	2010

Crops	Member states may retain partial coupled payments in:	Full decoupling from 2010 and integration into Single Payment Scheme (SPS)
	Arable Crops Payments (up to 25 per cent.)
	Durum Wheat Quality Supplement (up to 40 per cent.)
	Hops (up to 25 per cent.)

Olive oil	Aid for olive groves could remain up to 40 per cent. coupled.	Full decoupling in 2010 and integration in SPS

Livestock	Member states may retain coupled payments in:	Slaughter premium for young animals, slaughter premium for adult animals and Special beef premium: Full decoupling from 2012 onwards and integration into SPS. No change in suckler cow and sheep and goatmeat.
	Suckler Cow Premium (up to 100 per cent.)
	Special beef premium (up to 75 per cent.),
	Slaughter Premium (up to 40 per cent. for adults and 100 per cent. for calves)
	Sheep and Goats (up to 50 per cent.).

Flax and Hemp	Option of 25 per cent. partial coupling as arable crops area payment. Short fibre flax to be phased out in 2008-09. Long fibre flax to be increased to €40/tonne in 2009-10.	Decouple long fibre flax processing aid and integrate into SPS from 2012.

Dried Fodder	Retain processing aid (per tonne, uniform for dehydrated and dried fodder)	Decouple processing aid and integrate into SPS in 2012

Starch potato	Aid for starch producers (60 per cent. of pre-2003 level) paid per tonne of starch delivered. A transformation aid is granted to the manufacturers per tonne of potato starch with guaranteed minimum prices within the quota limit. Finally, production refunds for starch are granted when using starch for the production of certain goods.	Decouple aid to growers and integrate into SPS from 2012 at the latest; decouple processing aid and integrate into SPS in 2012

Energy crop premium	Aid of EUR 45 per hectare for energy crops for the production of biofuels and electric and thermal energy produced from biomass	Abolish in 2010

Durum Wheat	Aid of EUR 40 per hectare, granted subject to the use of certain quantities of certified seeds of varieties recognised as being of high quality for the production of semolina or pasta.	Full decoupling and integration into SPS in 2010.

Protein crops	Aid of EUR 55.57 per hectare of protein crops (peas, field beans, lupins).	Decouple and integrate into SPS in 2012 at the latest.

Specific payment for rice	Aid per hectare, the value set according to the yields in the member states concerned	Decouple and integrate into SPS in 2012 at the latest.

Nuts	Aid per hectare granted to farmers producing nuts, with a possibility of granting additional national aid.	Decouple and integrate into SPS in 2012 at the latest.

It is a condition of all direct payments that claimants both keep their land in 'good agricultural and environmental condition' (GAEC), as defined by member states in accordance with a set EU framework, and comply with 18 statutory management requirements (existing EU regulatory environmental, public, animal and plant health and animal welfare requirements).The UK "Vision for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)" is clear that by 2015 to 2020, CAP Pillar 1 should be phased out completely. Instead, payments to farmers should be targeted at delivering public benefits, including environmental benefits, through a re-shaped Pillar 2.

Subjects

Agriculture; Subsidies

Date

14 July 2009

Reference

496 c221-4W; 285572

House

House of Commons

Death of a Member: Lord Kingsland

My Lords, I echo the sentiments of the Leader of the House. Lord Kingsland was one of the hardest-working Members of the Opposition, balancing his life at the Bar with that of being the shadow legal affairs Minister, which allowed him to be involved in almost any aspect of legislation...

Member

Lord Strathclyde (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

13 July 2009

Reference

712 c926-7

House

House of Lords

Finance Bill

This may support the hon. Gentleman's argument. Surely an environmental tax should have the desired effect of changing behaviour. If the intention is simply to raise revenue, the number of passengers and flights should remain the same. It would be interesting to hear from the Government which of those two...

Member

Angus Brendan MacNeil (Scottish National Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

8 July 2009

Reference

495 c1010

House

House of Commons

Parliamentary Standards Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Armstrong, addresses the House with all the wisdom and moderation appropriate for a former Cabinet Secretary. If I do not follow him in that regard, perhaps I may be forgiven. I am grateful to the Leader of the House for inviting me yesterday to...

Member

Lord Jenkin of Roding (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

8 July 2009

Reference

712 c706-8

House

House of Lords

Parliamentary Standards Bill

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. None of us wants to do damage to the sovereignty of Parliament. However, we will not help the reputation of Parliament if we respond to every measure to try to restore credibility and public confidence by simply boasting about the sovereignty of...

Member

Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

1 July 2009

Reference

495 c345-6

House

House of Commons

Parliamentary Standards Bill

I invite the Justice Secretary to listen to my arguments. The Bill further undermines MPs' independent capacity to represent the interests of their constituents in the national interest. As the Justice Secretary said, the House of Commons already sits shorter and shorter hours. Recesses seem to get longer and more...

Member

Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

29 June 2009

Reference

495 c110-2

House

House of Commons

Fallen Stock (Isle of Wight)

The important issue of the safe and legal disposal of fallen stock has concerned farmers in my constituency for at least four years. As the Minister will know, fallen stock—farm animals that have died of natural causes or been humanely shot or euthanised by a vet—must be disposed of safely....

Member

Andrew Turner (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

23 June 2009

Reference

494 c225-8WH

House

House of Commons

Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]

The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point. He serves with me on the Select Committee and came along on our visit to the Essex coast. We saw a number of cases where, for various reasons, the simplistic notion of driving the path around the entire coast will not work....

Member

James Gray (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

23 June 2009

Reference

494 c748-9

House

House of Commons

US Congressional debates on the financial crisis: key players, policy and future regulation

This Research Paper provides a detailed account of the key issues and perspectives raised at these hearings. Like the Treasury Select Committee in the UK, a number of influential US committees concerned with financial issues have convened hearings featuring expert witnesses from the executive branch, the federal regulators and the...

Type

Commons Briefing paper

Date

23 June 2009

Reference

RP09-58

Food, Farming and the Environment

It has become quite normal for some people to believe that Labour Members have no interests in farming or rural issues. That idea was clearly put to bed by my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey). I come from one of the oldest industrial areas in...

Member

David Anderson (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 June 2009

Reference

494 c505-7

House

House of Commons

Food, Farming and the Environment

I remind the House of my interests as registered. Although I obviously accept the apologies that the Secretary of State has given, I am sorry that he could not arrange his affairs so that he could be here, because he has missed a good debate. He has missed some very...

Member

James Paice (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 June 2009

Reference

494 c517-8

House

House of Commons

Food, Farming and the Environment

I am grateful for the opportunity to participate briefly in this extremely important debate. First, may I apologise to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and to other hon. Members for the fact that duties elsewhere in the House have meant that I have missed portions of this debate? As has been...

Member

Stephen Crabb (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 June 2009

Reference

494 c516-7

House

House of Commons

Food, Farming and the Environment

He did, and he was the only one who wrote to tell me so. Perhaps he has a better support system. This country is amazingly blessed in its agricultural land. Despite the depredations in the dairy industry and the varroa mite, this is literally a land of milk and honey....

Member

David Heath (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 June 2009

Reference

494 c500-2

House

House of Commons

Welfare Reform Bill

The noble Baroness, Lady Thomas, mentioned horticulture. Perhaps I may also mention the fact that a lot of people with learning difficulties have an extraordinary affinity with animals. Working with animals expands their view and they become more able to work with humans. We should not lose sight of that....

Member

Countess of Mar (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 June 2009

Reference

711 c303GC

House

House of Lords

European Affairs

I am not defending the BNP; I am trying to explain the nature of the vote. What will happen when people come to us and ask why the Government cannot do more to help industry and all we can reply is, "Aid to industry cannot be allowed in Europe," or...

Member

Austin Mitchell (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

16 June 2009

Reference

494 c250-3

House

House of Commons

Business Rates

The fact that this subject has been chosen by Her Majesty's Opposition for our allotted half day demonstrates how important to our economy we consider the business sector, particularly small businesses and their providing a path out of recession. No Labour Member has mentioned that business rates are a fixed...

Member

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

15 June 2009

Reference

494 c123-5

House

House of Commons

Bovine Tuberculosis

My Lords, would the Minister like to demonstrate joined-up government? While I appreciate that he is dealing with agriculture and the environment, none the less, given the extreme rise in the bacilli of the tuberculosis infection in the children of farmers whose farms are heavily infected with tubercular cows and killings, will he not connect with the Department of Health and try to make a reality of referrals of those children to the department? It is a very serious problem.

Asked by

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Liberal Democrat)

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

11 June 2009

Reference

711 c739

House

House of Lords

Revenue and Customs: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1183W, on HM Revenue and Customs: closures, in which constituency each property planned to be vacated in 2009-10 is located.

Asked by

Bob Spink (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 May 2009

For answer on

1 June 2009

Answered on

11 June 2009

The following table lists those offices where HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) plans to withdraw back office operations in 2009-10 as part of HMRC's regional review programme, the constituency in which each office is located and whether or not it provides inquiry centre services. Where an office housing an inquiry centre closes, the inquiry centre services will be retained at or near the current location so face to face services to HMRC's customers will not be affected.

Town	Building	Inquiry centre	Constituency
Andover	London Street	Yes	North West Hampshire
Ashton-under-Lyne	Oakglade House	Yes	Ashton-under-Lyne
Belfast	Olivetree House	No	Belfast West
Brierley Hill	Capstan House	No	Dudley South
Bristol	Woodlands Court	No	Northavon
Bromley	Northside House	Yes	Bromley and Chislehurst
Burton upon Trent	Crown House	Yes	Burton
Bury	Minden House	Yes	Bury North
Cheadle	Boundary House	No	Cheadle
Chester	Eden House	No	City of Chester
Chesterfield	Dents Chambers	No	Chesterfield
Coatbridge	Muiryhall Street	Yes	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Coleraine	Mill House	No	East Londonderry
Cowes	The Watch House	No	Isle of Wight
Crewe	Crewe House	Yes	Crewe and Nantwich
Derby	St. James House	No	Derby North
Dumbarton	Meadowbank St	Yes	West Dunbartonshire
Edinburgh	Clarendon House	No	Edinburgh North and Leith
Edinburgh	Saughton House	No	Edinburgh South West
Enniskillen	Custom House	No	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Finchley	Gateway House	Yes	Finchley and Golders Green
Glasgow	Blythswood House	No	Glasgow Central
Greenock	Dalrymple Street	Yes	Inverclyde
Hamilton	Barrack Street	Yes	Lanark and Hamilton East
Harlow	Terminus House	No	Harlow
Hastings	Ashdown House	Yes	Hastings and Rye
Haywards Heath	Oaklands	Yes	Mid Sussex
Horsham	Exchange House	No	Horsham
Hove	Martello House	No	Hove
Huntingdon	Chequers Court	Yes	Huntingdon
Inverness	Longman House	No	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Kendal	Kentmere House	No	Westmorland and Lonsdale
Leigh	Boardman House	Yes	Leigh
Liverpool	Norwich House	No	Liverpool, Riverside
Liverpool	Regian House	Yes	Liverpool, Riverside
London	Lyndhurst House, Mill Hill	Yes	Hendon
Lytham St. Anne's	Petros House	Yes	Fylde
Maidstone	Concorde House	No	Maidstone and The Weald
Middlesbrough	Fountain Court	Yes	Middlesbrough
Motherwell	Civic Square	Yes	Motherwell and Wishaw
Newbury	Elizabeth House	Yes	Newbury
Norwich	Rosebery Court	No	Norwich North
Nottingham	Bowman House	No	Nottingham South
Nottingham	Huntingdon Court	No	Nottingham South
Oldham	Phoenix House	Yes	Oldham West and Royton
Paisley	Gilmour House	Yes	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Plymouth	Custom House	No	Plymouth, Sutton
Salford	Anchorage 2	No	Salford
Skipton	Cavendish House	Yes	Skipton and Ripon
Southampton	Queen's Keep	No	Southampton, Itchen
Stockport	Wellesley House	No	Denton and Reddish
Stockton	Dunedin House	No	Stockton South
Sutton	Helena House	Yes	Sutton and Cheam
Swansea	Custom House	No	Swansea East
Swindon	Spring Gardens	No	South Swindon
Taunton	Riverside Chambers	No	Taunton
Truro	Pydar House	No	Truro and St. Austell
Tunbridge Wells	Union House	No	Tunbridge Wells
Walthamstow	Church Hill	Yes	Walthamstow
Wembley	Valiant House	Yes	Brent South
Whitehaven	Blencathra House	Yes	Copeland
Widnes	Kingsway House	Yes	Halton
Worthing	Teville Gate House	Yes	Worthing West

Subjects

Closures; Revenue and Customs

Date

11 June 2009

Reference

493 c980-2W; 277265

House

House of Commons

Public Service Broadcasting (Communications Committee Report)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, not only for bringing the debate to the Chamber but for so clearly stating the case. That was extremely helpful because not all of us have the noble Lord’s experience. I have always had one anxiety. I think that...

Member

Baroness Flather (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

4 June 2009

Reference

711 c386-8

House

House of Lords

Public Service Broadcasting (Communications Committee Report)

My Lords, first, I thank my committee for its exceptional, hard work on the report and, indeed, for its work on all the other inquiries that we have conducted. Secondly, I acknowledge receipt of the Government’s response delivered this lunchtime, which shows Whitehall catching up with the transport concept of...

Member

Lord Fowler (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

4 June 2009

Reference

711 c379-83

House

House of Lords

Light Dues

As the hon. Gentleman said, the UK fishing fleet has to pay those dues. I should like to draw the matter to the attention of the Department for Transport because it is dealing with it. It has allowed panic to set in. The investments held by the general lighthouse fund,...

Member

Andrew Turner (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

2 June 2009

Reference

493 c2-3WH

House

House of Commons

Zero-grazing

The permanent housing of cattle is an emerging farming system in the UK. We are funding a three-year research project with the Scottish Agricultural College to investigate the management and welfare of continuously housed dairy cows. The study will include a comparison of the health of cows in continuously housed systems with those in summer grazing systems.

Answered by

Jane Kennedy (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answer to question

Date

21 May 2009

Reference

492 c1620-1

House

House of Commons

Zero-grazing

I accept the concerns that have been raised, but I am reluctant to pass judgment on farmers who are delivering high standards of animal health and welfare in some intensive farming systems, including those involving continuously housed dairy cows. We need to get the results of the study we are undertaking with our Scottish partners, so that we can understand the impact of the trend on the health of animals. Intuitively, I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but we need some evidence before we perhaps bring about regulatory changes that might impact on an industry already wrestling with difficult challenges.

Answered by

Jane Kennedy (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answer to question

Date

21 May 2009

Reference

492 c1621-2

House

House of Commons

Whitsun Adjournment

Before we break up for the recess, I should like to highlight some of the issues in my constituency, the Isle of Wight. The island suffered a terrible blow last month. The UK's only wind turbine blade manufacturer, Vestas, made the decision to close its plant on the island. That...

Member

Andrew Turner (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

21 May 2009

Reference

492 c1670-1

House

House of Commons

World Food Programme

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Key. I congratulate the Chairman of the Select Committee, the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce), not only on his speech and assessment of the current situation, but on this very comprehensive report. His Committee was very prescient in...

Member

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

21 May 2009

Reference

492 c484-8WH

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, for giving us an opportunity to discuss this subject. I shall make a subjective intervention in the debate. Before I do so, however, I want to congratulate Sir Ranulph Fiennes on getting to the top of Everest at the age of...

Member

Lord Tanlaw (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

21 May 2009

Reference

710 c1449-52

House

House of Lords

Revenue and Customs: Closures

(2) which HM Revenue and Customs offices originally scheduled for closure under the Workforce Change programme are now planned to stay open; and for what reasons in each case.

Asked by

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

30 April 2009

For answer on

6 May 2009

Answered on

18 May 2009

The aim of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Workforce Change regional review programme was to match its accommodation with its future business needs. The following table provides a list of the HMRC offices announced for closure under the regional review programme. Decisions made to close these offices remain unchanged.HMRC has however looked again at the timing of the closures of a number of these offices in the light of budgetary constraints, and has decided that the vacation of some offices will not now take place in 2009-10 as originally planned. This does not affect the strategic decision to close these buildings, which HMRC aims to complete in 2010-11.Where an office housing an inquiry centre closes, the inquiry centre services will be retained at or near the current location so face to face services to HMRC's customers will not be affected.

HMRC offices announced for closure under HMRC's Workforce Change Regional Review process
Town	Building
Aberystwyth	Crown Buildings
Accrington	Castle House
Alfreton	Horsefair House
Alnwick	Bondgate Hall
Altrincham	Roberts House
Andover	London Street
Ashford	Wellesley Road
Ashton-under-Lyne	Oakglade House
Aylesbury	Kingfisher House
Ayr	Russell House
Ballymena	Kilpatrick House
Banbridge	Bridgwater House
Banbury	Crown Building
Bangor	Ty Glyn
Barrow in Furness	Furness House
Basildon	Kelting House
Basildon	Regent House
Bath	Royal Mead
Bedford	Portman House
Belfast	Olivetree House
Belfast	Windsor House
Bideford	North Bank House
Birkenhead	Birchen House
Bishop Auckland	Vinovium House
Blackpool	Mexford House
Boston	Chantry House
Brecon	Government Buildings
Bridgend	Tremains Road
Bridgwater	Westgate House
Bridlington	Crown Building
Brierley Hill	Capstan House
Bristol	The Pithay
Bristol	Woodlands Court
Buckie	Moray House
Burnley	Towneley House
Burton upon Trent	Crown House
Bury	Minden House
Bury St. Edmunds	Triton House
Cannock	Rogers House
Cardiff	Portcullis House
Carmarthen	Ty Myrddin
Cheadle	Boundary House
Cheltenham	Inland Revenue House
Chester	Eden House
Chester	Norroy House
Chesterfield	Dents Chambers
Chichester	6, Southgate
Chippenham	Kilvert House
Chorley	Lingmell House
Clacton-on-Sea	Harlech House
Coatbridge	Muiryhall Street
Colchester	Northgate House
Coleraine	Mill House
Cowes	Watchhouse
Crewe	Crewe House
Darlington	Regent House
Derby	St. James House
Dewsbury	Empire House
Doncaster	St. Peters House
Doncaster	Weston House
Dorchester	Vespasian House
Dumbarton	Meadowbank Street
Dumfries	Brooms Road
Dunfermline	Merchiston House
Dunoon	Auchencraig
Durham	Wycliffe House
East Dereham	Revenue Building
Edinburgh	Argyle House
Edinburgh	Clarendon House
Edinburgh	Saughton House
Edinburgh	Spitfire House
Edinburgh	York Place
Elgin	Phoenix House
Enniskillen	Custom House
Evesham	Lower Leys
Falkirk	Grahame House
Farnham	Woolmead House
Frome	Edwin Sims House
Gainsborough	Crown House
Galashiels	New Reiver House
Glasgow	Blythswood House
Grangemouth	Custom House
Grantham	Crown House
Gravesend	Stephenson House
Grays	Crown Building
Great Yarmouth	Havenbridge House
Greenock	Custom House
Greenock	Dalrymple Street
Grimsby	Heritage House
Halifax	Dean Clough Mill
Halifax	Southgate House
Hamilton	Barrack Street
Harlow	Beaufort House
Harlow	Terminus House
Hastings	Ashdown House
Hatfield	Gracemead House
Haverfordwest	Government Buildings
Hawick	Crown Building
Haywards Heath	Oaklands
Hemel Hempstead	Lord Alexander House
Hereford	Broadway House
Hertford	Sovereign House
Hexham	St. Andrews House
High Wycombe	Thame House
Horsham	Exchange House
Horsham	Tower Court
Hove	Martello House
Huddersfield	Crown House
Huntingdon	Chequers Court
Inverness	Longman House
Keighley	Worth House
Kendal	Eskdale House
Kendal	Kentmere House
Kettering	Cytringan House
Kettering	Montagu Court
King's Lynn	Custom House
Lancaster	Charter House
Launceston	Madford House
Leeds	Century House
Leeds	Jefferson House
Leeds	Pennine House
Leek	Britannia Chambers
Leicester	Attenborough House
Leicester	Enkalon House
Leigh	Boardman House
Lewes	Medwyn House
Lincoln	Ceres House
Liverpool	Graeme House
Liverpool	Norwich House
Liverpool	Regian House
Llanelli	Crown Building
London (Central)	Belgrave Road
London (Central)	Haymarket House
London (Central)	New Kings Beam House
London (Central)	Thomas Paine House
London (Central)	Towergate
London (Central)	Towergate Garage
London (Outer)	3 Brook Street, Kingston upon Thames
London (Outer)	Church Hill, Walthamstow
London (Outer)	Collingwood Business Centre, Tufnell Park
London (Outer)	Gateway House, Finchley
London (Outer)	Helena House, Sutton
London (Outer)	Lyndhurst House, Mill Hill
London (Outer)	Majestic House, Staines
London (Outer)	Northside House, Bromley
London (Outer)	Station House, Colindale
London (Outer)	Valiant House, Wembley
Louth	Revenue Buildings
Ludlow	Riddings Road
Luton	Jansel House
Macclesfield	Craven House
Maidenhead	Bell Tower House
Maidstone	Concorde House
Manchester	Royal Exchange Building
Mansfield	Chaucer House
Margate	Capital House
Melton Mowbray	Crown House
Middlesbrough	Fountain Court
Morpeth	Back Riggs
Motherwell	Civic Square
Newark	Millgate
Newbury	Elizabeth House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Aidan House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Cale Cross House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Eagle Star House
Newcastle upon Tyne	North Star House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Warwick House
Newport	Crown Building
Newport IOW	88-91 St. James Street
Newport IOW	Apex
Newry	Downshire House
Newton Abbot	Sherborne House
Northampton	Beaumont House
Northwich	Dane House
Norwich	Roseberry Court
Nottingham	Bowman House
Nottingham	Huntingdon Court
Nuneaton	Powell House
Oban	Mathieson House
Oldham	Phoenix House
Oswestry	Plas Ffynon
Oxford	Sterling House
Paisley	Gilmour House
Pembroke	Custom House
Penrith	Voreda House
Penzance	Penlowarth
Perth	Water Vennel
Peterborough	Ashurst House
Peterborough	Hereward House
Peterborough	Stuart House
Peterhead	Keith House
Plymouth	Custom House
Plymouth	Westpoint
Pontefract	Micklegate House
Pontypool	Ty'r Felin
Pontypridd	Taff Vale House
Preston	Cop Lane
Prestwick	Liberator House
Reading	Eaton Court
Reading	Eldon Court
Redditch	Threadneedle House
Retford	Kings Park House
Rhyl	Llys Anwyl
Ripon	Athelstan Court
Rochdale	Newgate House
Rothesay	King Street
Rugby	Bennfield House
Salford	Anchorage 2
Salisbury	Alexandra House
Scarborough	Albion House
Scunthorpe	Station House
Shipley	Crown House
Shipley	Hockney House
Shrewsbury	New Mayfield House
Skipton	Cavendish House
Southampton	8 Ogle Road
Southampton	Portcullis House
Southampton	Queen's Keep
Southend	Dencora Court
Southend	Portcullis House
Southport	Dukes House
Spalding	Government Buildings
Spalding	Holland House
St. Albans	Beauver House
St. Annes	Petros House
Stafford	Greyfriars House
Stirling	Spittal Street
Stockport	Wellesley House
Stockton	Dunedin House
Stratford upon Avon	Crown Building
Sudbury	Newton Road
Sunderland	Gilbridge House
Sunderland	Shackleton House
Swansea	Custom House
Swindon	Spring Gardens
Taunton	Riverside Chambers
Tonbridge	Douglas House
Torquay	Tor Hill House
Truro	Pydar House
Tunbridge Wells	Longford House
Tunbridge Wells	Union House
Wakefield	Crown House
Washington	Cheviot House
Washington	Weardale House
Wellingborough	Christchurch House
Wells	Priory Road
Welshpool	Dolanog House
Weston Super Mare	Parkside
Whitehaven	Blencathra House
Wick	Government Buildings
Widnes	Kingsway House
Wigan	Bridgeman House
Winchester	Cromwell House
Witham	Iceni House
Worthing	Teville Gate House
Yeovil	Maltravers House
York	Swinson House

Subjects

Closures; Revenue and Customs

Date

18 May 2009

Reference

492 c1178-83W; 273330

House

House of Commons

Revenue and Customs: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) which HM Revenue and Customs offices are planned to close under the Workforce Change programme;

Asked by

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

30 April 2009

For answer on

6 May 2009

Answered on

18 May 2009

The aim of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Workforce Change regional review programme was to match its accommodation with its future business needs. The following table provides a list of the HMRC offices announced for closure under the regional review programme. Decisions made to close these offices remain unchanged.HMRC has however looked again at the timing of the closures of a number of these offices in the light of budgetary constraints, and has decided that the vacation of some offices will not now take place in 2009-10 as originally planned. This does not affect the strategic decision to close these buildings, which HMRC aims to complete in 2010-11.Where an office housing an inquiry centre closes, the inquiry centre services will be retained at or near the current location so face to face services to HMRC's customers will not be affected.

HMRC offices announced for closure under HMRC's Workforce Change Regional Review process
Town	Building
Aberystwyth	Crown Buildings
Accrington	Castle House
Alfreton	Horsefair House
Alnwick	Bondgate Hall
Altrincham	Roberts House
Andover	London Street
Ashford	Wellesley Road
Ashton-under-Lyne	Oakglade House
Aylesbury	Kingfisher House
Ayr	Russell House
Ballymena	Kilpatrick House
Banbridge	Bridgwater House
Banbury	Crown Building
Bangor	Ty Glyn
Barrow in Furness	Furness House
Basildon	Kelting House
Basildon	Regent House
Bath	Royal Mead
Bedford	Portman House
Belfast	Olivetree House
Belfast	Windsor House
Bideford	North Bank House
Birkenhead	Birchen House
Bishop Auckland	Vinovium House
Blackpool	Mexford House
Boston	Chantry House
Brecon	Government Buildings
Bridgend	Tremains Road
Bridgwater	Westgate House
Bridlington	Crown Building
Brierley Hill	Capstan House
Bristol	The Pithay
Bristol	Woodlands Court
Buckie	Moray House
Burnley	Towneley House
Burton upon Trent	Crown House
Bury	Minden House
Bury St. Edmunds	Triton House
Cannock	Rogers House
Cardiff	Portcullis House
Carmarthen	Ty Myrddin
Cheadle	Boundary House
Cheltenham	Inland Revenue House
Chester	Eden House
Chester	Norroy House
Chesterfield	Dents Chambers
Chichester	6, Southgate
Chippenham	Kilvert House
Chorley	Lingmell House
Clacton-on-Sea	Harlech House
Coatbridge	Muiryhall Street
Colchester	Northgate House
Coleraine	Mill House
Cowes	Watchhouse
Crewe	Crewe House
Darlington	Regent House
Derby	St. James House
Dewsbury	Empire House
Doncaster	St. Peters House
Doncaster	Weston House
Dorchester	Vespasian House
Dumbarton	Meadowbank Street
Dumfries	Brooms Road
Dunfermline	Merchiston House
Dunoon	Auchencraig
Durham	Wycliffe House
East Dereham	Revenue Building
Edinburgh	Argyle House
Edinburgh	Clarendon House
Edinburgh	Saughton House
Edinburgh	Spitfire House
Edinburgh	York Place
Elgin	Phoenix House
Enniskillen	Custom House
Evesham	Lower Leys
Falkirk	Grahame House
Farnham	Woolmead House
Frome	Edwin Sims House
Gainsborough	Crown House
Galashiels	New Reiver House
Glasgow	Blythswood House
Grangemouth	Custom House
Grantham	Crown House
Gravesend	Stephenson House
Grays	Crown Building
Great Yarmouth	Havenbridge House
Greenock	Custom House
Greenock	Dalrymple Street
Grimsby	Heritage House
Halifax	Dean Clough Mill
Halifax	Southgate House
Hamilton	Barrack Street
Harlow	Beaufort House
Harlow	Terminus House
Hastings	Ashdown House
Hatfield	Gracemead House
Haverfordwest	Government Buildings
Hawick	Crown Building
Haywards Heath	Oaklands
Hemel Hempstead	Lord Alexander House
Hereford	Broadway House
Hertford	Sovereign House
Hexham	St. Andrews House
High Wycombe	Thame House
Horsham	Exchange House
Horsham	Tower Court
Hove	Martello House
Huddersfield	Crown House
Huntingdon	Chequers Court
Inverness	Longman House
Keighley	Worth House
Kendal	Eskdale House
Kendal	Kentmere House
Kettering	Cytringan House
Kettering	Montagu Court
King's Lynn	Custom House
Lancaster	Charter House
Launceston	Madford House
Leeds	Century House
Leeds	Jefferson House
Leeds	Pennine House
Leek	Britannia Chambers
Leicester	Attenborough House
Leicester	Enkalon House
Leigh	Boardman House
Lewes	Medwyn House
Lincoln	Ceres House
Liverpool	Graeme House
Liverpool	Norwich House
Liverpool	Regian House
Llanelli	Crown Building
London (Central)	Belgrave Road
London (Central)	Haymarket House
London (Central)	New Kings Beam House
London (Central)	Thomas Paine House
London (Central)	Towergate
London (Central)	Towergate Garage
London (Outer)	3 Brook Street, Kingston upon Thames
London (Outer)	Church Hill, Walthamstow
London (Outer)	Collingwood Business Centre, Tufnell Park
London (Outer)	Gateway House, Finchley
London (Outer)	Helena House, Sutton
London (Outer)	Lyndhurst House, Mill Hill
London (Outer)	Majestic House, Staines
London (Outer)	Northside House, Bromley
London (Outer)	Station House, Colindale
London (Outer)	Valiant House, Wembley
Louth	Revenue Buildings
Ludlow	Riddings Road
Luton	Jansel House
Macclesfield	Craven House
Maidenhead	Bell Tower House
Maidstone	Concorde House
Manchester	Royal Exchange Building
Mansfield	Chaucer House
Margate	Capital House
Melton Mowbray	Crown House
Middlesbrough	Fountain Court
Morpeth	Back Riggs
Motherwell	Civic Square
Newark	Millgate
Newbury	Elizabeth House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Aidan House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Cale Cross House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Eagle Star House
Newcastle upon Tyne	North Star House
Newcastle upon Tyne	Warwick House
Newport	Crown Building
Newport IOW	88-91 St. James Street
Newport IOW	Apex
Newry	Downshire House
Newton Abbot	Sherborne House
Northampton	Beaumont House
Northwich	Dane House
Norwich	Roseberry Court
Nottingham	Bowman House
Nottingham	Huntingdon Court
Nuneaton	Powell House
Oban	Mathieson House
Oldham	Phoenix House
Oswestry	Plas Ffynon
Oxford	Sterling House
Paisley	Gilmour House
Pembroke	Custom House
Penrith	Voreda House
Penzance	Penlowarth
Perth	Water Vennel
Peterborough	Ashurst House
Peterborough	Hereward House
Peterborough	Stuart House
Peterhead	Keith House
Plymouth	Custom House
Plymouth	Westpoint
Pontefract	Micklegate House
Pontypool	Ty'r Felin
Pontypridd	Taff Vale House
Preston	Cop Lane
Prestwick	Liberator House
Reading	Eaton Court
Reading	Eldon Court
Redditch	Threadneedle House
Retford	Kings Park House
Rhyl	Llys Anwyl
Ripon	Athelstan Court
Rochdale	Newgate House
Rothesay	King Street
Rugby	Bennfield House
Salford	Anchorage 2
Salisbury	Alexandra House
Scarborough	Albion House
Scunthorpe	Station House
Shipley	Crown House
Shipley	Hockney House
Shrewsbury	New Mayfield House
Skipton	Cavendish House
Southampton	8 Ogle Road
Southampton	Portcullis House
Southampton	Queen's Keep
Southend	Dencora Court
Southend	Portcullis House
Southport	Dukes House
Spalding	Government Buildings
Spalding	Holland House
St. Albans	Beauver House
St. Annes	Petros House
Stafford	Greyfriars House
Stirling	Spittal Street
Stockport	Wellesley House
Stockton	Dunedin House
Stratford upon Avon	Crown Building
Sudbury	Newton Road
Sunderland	Gilbridge House
Sunderland	Shackleton House
Swansea	Custom House
Swindon	Spring Gardens
Taunton	Riverside Chambers
Tonbridge	Douglas House
Torquay	Tor Hill House
Truro	Pydar House
Tunbridge Wells	Longford House
Tunbridge Wells	Union House
Wakefield	Crown House
Washington	Cheviot House
Washington	Weardale House
Wellingborough	Christchurch House
Wells	Priory Road
Welshpool	Dolanog House
Weston Super Mare	Parkside
Whitehaven	Blencathra House
Wick	Government Buildings
Widnes	Kingsway House
Wigan	Bridgeman House
Winchester	Cromwell House
Witham	Iceni House
Worthing	Teville Gate House
Yeovil	Maltravers House
York	Swinson House

Subjects

Closures; Revenue and Customs

Date

18 May 2009

Reference

492 c1178-83W; 273237

House

House of Commons

Finance Bill

That is absolutely right. Returning to last year's Budget and the Finance Bill that followed, I think that the measures introduced only last year took £2.5 billion out of business. I suspect that the £500 million to which the hon. Gentleman referred made a large contribution to that £2.5 billion...

Member

Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 May 2009

Reference

492 c232-3

House

House of Commons

Building Societies (Insolvency and Special Administration) Order 2009

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for setting out the purposes behind the order and regulations, together with their content. When we passed the Banking Act, we did not envisage that its first use would be for a building society, and we probably did not envisage that it...

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 May 2009

Reference

710 c616-7

House

House of Lords

Armed Forces

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord King, on securing this debate. Listening to today’s debate and reading carefully the Hansard of the debate on defence procurement that was held in the other place about 10 days ago, I acknowledge and appreciate the growing consensus across political parties on...

Member

Lord Lee of Trafford (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

30 April 2009

Reference

710 c370-2

House

House of Lords

Honey Bee Health

I congratulate the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose) on his entertaining and knowledgeable speech. I am disappointed, however, that the BBKA will not get rich from what has been said in the debate so far. Perhaps hon. Members will now make awful puns, so that the association makes a...

Member

Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

29 April 2009

Reference

491 c266-8WH

House

House of Commons

ZERO-GRAZED LIVESTOCK

That this House notes the growing trend towards the zero-grazing of dairy cows, lambs and milk-producing goats; further notes that this process confines animals to sheds for all or most of the year; is concerned that such systems are unduly restrictive and oppressive and that the limited investigations that have...

Primary sponsor

David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Cooperative Party)

Type

Early day motion

Date

28 April 2009

Reference

1370

House

House of Commons

Business Rate Supplements Bill

My Lords, over the past 10 years, we have seen the relationship between local and central government profoundly change. Long gone are the days of diktats to local government from Whitehall, and the past few years have seen a massive reduction of targets for local authorities and a recognition that...

Member

Baroness Andrews (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

22 April 2009

Reference

709 c1502-9

House

House of Lords

Amendment of the law

The Chancellor should be thanking the good people of St. Albans, who pay the most into his coffers but get the least back in terms of being able to deliver front-line services. My area rattles around at the bottom of the league table in what we get back, so we...

Member

Anne Main (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

22 April 2009

Reference

491 c268

House

House of Commons

Investigating the Oceans

I had not noticed that, but it takes me on to another point: the need for co-operation between Governments. As the hon. Gentleman said, part of the rationale in the Government's response was that recent developments in the devolved Administrations—I believe that is how it was gently put—were a barrier...

Member

Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

2 April 2009

Reference

490 c326-7WH

House

House of Commons

Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Bill [Lords]

That is true. However, if we were to be cowed by everyone who took offence at the use of these symbols, the red cross might never have been established as it was, with the immense benefits to all concerned, and we would have ended up with symbols from every nation...

Member

John Hayes (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

1 April 2009

Reference

490 c969-70

House

House of Commons

The Economy

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd); I am delighted that his vocal chords lasted as long as his notes. He made a thoughtful, well-informed and rather sobering speech reminding us that whoever wins the next election will have to take some difficult...

Member

Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

31 March 2009

Reference

490 c867-70

House

House of Commons

Africa

I am sure that President Obama is as relieved as I am to know that he has my hon. Friend's support. Those subsidies should of course just go. Their removal is ultimately in the interests of taxpayers in the rich countries and would enable us both to enjoy products better...

Member

Lord Lilley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

30 March 2009

Reference

490 c708

House

House of Commons

Infant Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons the NHS Healthy Start Scheme includes entitlement to free infant formula; and under what circumstances free infant formula is provided.

Asked by

Lynne Jones (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

26 March 2009

Reference

490 c678W;490 c674W; 266402

House

House of Commons

Livestock Industry (Climate Change)

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr. Benton, for this debate, which is about an issue that has been of long-standing interest to me. Until recently, I was part of the small minority who were aware of it. It was always mentioned in the context of...

Member

Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

25 March 2009

Reference

490 c132-4WH

House

House of Commons

Livestock Industry (Climate Change)

I have already addressed the point about food miles and the fact that local food is better. I recognise that farming makes a contribution towards biodiversity and protecting the environment in the smaller sense of the word in the UK, rather than in the climate change sense. Although dairy products...

Member

Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

25 March 2009

Reference

490 c135-6WH

House

House of Commons

Business Rates and the Recession

I shall make sure that my hon. Friends at the Treasury take that as a Budget representation from my hon. Friend. I am glad he welcomes the change that we shall be making from April this year, which means that there will be a higher threshold and thus no new...

Member

John Healey (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

25 March 2009

Reference

490 c390

House

House of Commons

Business Rates and the Recession

My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Government's amendment, which I shall come to later, makes a passing and broad-brush reference to certain proposals, but I do not think that they are adequate, as I hope I shall explain. His other extremely important point is the significant impact of...

Member

Robert Neill (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

25 March 2009

Reference

490 c375-7

House

House of Commons

Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth

I thank the hon. Gentleman, who makes my case for me, and I agree with him. Suspension from the Commonwealth is an important step, and the Commonwealth is an important organisation. It is hugely respected by its members and those outside it. Such a move would be a stepping stone,...

Member

Joan Ryan (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 March 2009

Reference

490 c35-6WH

House

House of Commons

Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth

Amnesty also says:""There has been no proper accountability for the killings that have happened in the last two years, so there is impunity for the perpetrators."" Such breaches of human rights are not acceptable. Governments must live up to the very highest codes of behaviour, but the Government of Sri...

Member

Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 March 2009

Reference

490 c29-30WH

House

House of Commons

National Lottery: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Heritage Lottery funding was provided to each of the principal seaside towns in England and Wales from the inception of the Heritage Lottery to date, listed in descending order of amount of funding.

Asked by

Chris Ruane (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 March 2009

For answer on

11 March 2009

Answered on

20 March 2009

The Heritage Lottery Fund was founded in 1994. The Heritage Lottery Fund has advised that Heritage Lottery funding as provided to each of the principal seaside towns in England and Wales since that date is as follows.

HLF funding for principal seaside towns in England and Wales since 1994
Town	Total value of project (£)
Barry	1,446,161
Bognor Regis	1,866,292
Bridlington	307,521
Burnham-on-Sea	439,731
Clacton-on-Sea	601,270
Dawlish/Teignmouth	587,368
Deal	355,866
Eastbourne	2,789,531
Exmouth	95,709
Falmouth	22,171,173
Folkestone/Hythe	4,921,621
Great Yarmouth	6,865,010
(Greater) Blackpool	7,933,638
(Greater) Bournemouth	3,774,209
(Greater) Brighton	14,023,150
(Greater) Worthing	2,324,665
Hastings/Bexhill	8,838,763
Ilfracombe	1,537,824
Isle of Wight¹	6,755,735
Llandudno/Colwyn Bay	2,691,304
Lowestoft	5,605,289
Minehead	1,091,431
Morecambe	365,624
Newquay	135,960
Penzance	7,576,752
Porthcawl	103,743
Rhyl/Prestatyn	2,854,951
Scarborough	3,890,353
Sidmouth	1,335,159
Skegness	1,883,154
Southend-on-Sea	1,851,142
Southport	5,917,842
St. Ives	781,309
Swanage	3,395,728
Thanet²	7,492,243
Torbay³	9,783,519
Weston-Super-Mare	2,402,646
Weymouth	2,948,901
Whitby	10,586,503
Whitley Bay	492,117
Whitstable/Herne Bay	4,033,126
Grand total	164,854,032
¹ Includes only the resorts of Cowes, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor
² Includes only the resorts of Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate and Westgate
³ Includes only the resorts of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay

Subjects

Coastal areas; Heritage Lottery Fund

Date

20 March 2009

Reference

489 c1338-9W;489 c1340-1W; 262995

House

House of Commons

House of Lords Bill [HL]

My noble friend referred to Bills and eternity; I could not think of a more apt description of the Marine and Coastal Access Bill. The Government’s position on House of Lords reform has been discussed by a number of noble Lords in this opening debate on the Bill of the...

Member

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

19 March 2009

Reference

709 c422-3

House

House of Lords

Energy Efficiency

My Lords, I always give Conservative Party documents the attention that they undoubtedly deserve. I am surprised to hear that the Government are thought to be cavalier about consultation when my experience is that we consult until the cows come home. We pay careful attention to what the small business sector says to us and we recognise that in the current circumstances it is coming under very great pressure indeed, which is why the Government have taken the action they have. On energy, however, we want to encourage smaller businesses to look at their energy costs. A lot of advice is available. Many energy saving measures cost hardly anything at all for businesses to take up. We will do everything we can to encourage small businesses to take advantage of that advice.

Answered by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour)

Type

Oral answer to question

Date

11 March 2009

Reference

708 c1168

House

House of Lords

Energy Generation (Food Waste)

I am extremely grateful for this opportunity to raise an issue of increasing importance for this country, which touches on many aspects of public policy. Energy from food waste raises issues of energy security, waste management policy, climate change, land use, food security and the environment in which we all...

Member

Philip Dunne (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

4 March 2009

Reference

488 c960

House

House of Commons

Bovine Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) cattle infected by bovine tuberculosis and (b) calves born to cows infected by bovine tuberculosis have been slaughtered in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and how much was paid...

Asked by

Lord Garnier (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

3 March 2009

Reference

488 c1399W; 251282

House

House of Commons

Welsh Affairs

As the hon. Gentleman knows, my main duty is to England and I speak on behalf of my constituents. The Welsh Assembly creates huge difficulties for English border towns. As I said earlier, the Royal Shrewsbury hospital loses £2 million a year as a result of the different mechanism whereby...

Member

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

26 February 2009

Reference

488 c459-60

House

House of Commons

British Agriculture and Food Labelling

I read Farmers Weekly, and this morning when I was reading the editorial comment I saw that Jane King could not tell the difference between what the Conservative party believes in and what the Government believe in. I hope that she will read the speeches made in the debate and...

Member

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

24 February 2009

Reference

488 c248-9

House

House of Commons

Agriculture: Dairy Farms

To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to ensure that all dairy farmers in the United Kingdom allot a minimum of 610 mm of head space to each cow in their herds.

Asked by

Lord Dykes (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

12 February 2009

Reference

1192; 707 c213WA

House

House of Lords

Building Schools for the Future Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools constructed under the Building Schools for the Future programme were planned to open between December 2008 and December 2010; when he expects each such school to open; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

David Laws (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 February 2009

For answer on

5 February 2009

Answered on

10 February 2009

The following tables list the schools which we expect to open in 2009 and 2010 as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme. These dates reflect current plans and may be subject to change.

Planned to open in 2009
Local authority	School
Bristol	Bridge Learning Campus
Bromley	Langley Park
Buckinghamshire	Cressex Community
Cornwall	Penryn College
Darlington	Eastbourne C of E
Durham	Durham Johnston
Essex	Lower Basildon
Gloucestershire	Rednock
Hackney	Mossbourne Community College
Haringey	Highgate Woods School
Islington	Samuel Rhodes SEN
Islington	St. Aloysius College (RC)
Kent	St. George C of E
Kent	Northfleet School for Girls
Kent	King Elthbert
Kent	Dane Court
Kent	Whitstable
Kingston-upon-Thames	Chessington Community College
Knowsley	North Huyton, Christ the King Joint Faith LC4
Knowsley	Halewood LC8
Knowsley	Kirkby Community LC1/LC3
Knowsley	Knowsley Central Community LC6
Knowsley	South Huyton Community LC5
Lambeth	Elm Court SEN
Lambeth	Elm Green
Lancashire	Sir John Thursby
Lancashire	Sir John Thursby SEN
Leeds	Allerton Grange
Leeds	Cardinal Heenan
Leeds	John Smeaton
Leeds	Ralph Thoresby
Leeds	City of Leeds
Leeds	Primrose
Leeds	New Inner West Leeds
Leeds	Temple Moor High
Leicester	Beaumont Leys
Leicester	Fullhurst
Leicester	Judgemeadow
Leicester	Soar Valley
Lewisham	Sedgehill
Lewisham	Catford
Lewisham	Crofton
Lewisham	Forest Hill
Lewisham	Greenvale
Lewisham	New Woodlands
Liverpool	Lower Lee
Manchester	St. Matthews RC
Manchester	North Ridge SEN
Manchester	Our Lady's RC
Manchester	Meade Hill
Manchester	Piper Hill
Manchester	St. Pauls
Manchester	Buglawton Hall
Manchester	Buglawton SEN Residential
Milton Keynes	Sir Frank Markham Academy
Newcastle	Gosforth Central
Newcastle	Gosforth East
Newcastle	Heaton Manor
Newcastle	Sacred Heart
Newcastle	Thomas Bewick
North Somerset	Nailsea Community
North Yorkshire	Richmond
Nottingham	Big Wood
Nottingham	Oakfields Special School Centre of Excellence
Plymouth	Estover Community College
Rutland	Vale of Catmose College
Sheffield	Newfield
Sheffield	Talbot SEN
Sheffield	Silverdale
Sheffield	Ecclesfield
Sheffield	Fir Vale
Sheffield	Tapton
Solihull	Smith's Wood
South Tyneside and Gateshead	Boldon
South Tyneside and Gateshead	Kings Meadow
South Tyneside and Gateshead	Lord Lawson of Beamish
South Tyneside and Gateshead	Jarrow
South Tyneside and Gateshead	Mortimer
St. Helens	Cowley
Sunderland	Castle View Academy
Sunderland	Hylton Red House Academy
Sunderland	Pennywell
Sunderland	Sandhill View
Sunderland	Washington
Tower Hamlets	Wessex
Waltham Forest	Kelmscott
Waltham Forest	Walthamstow Girls
Westminster	Pimlico
Westminster	St. Marleybone CE
Westminster	Westminster City Boys
Wigan	Abraham Guest High

Planned to open in 2010
Local authority	School
Barking and Dagenham	Eastbury
Barnet	East Barnet
Barnsley	Darton High
Barnsley	New (Royston/Edward Sheerien)
Barnsley	The Dearne High
Barnsley	Kirk Balk
Bath and North East Somerset	Writhlington
Bracknell Forest	Garth Hill
Brent	Ark Academy
Bristol	St. Bedes
Bristol	Florence Brown
Bristol	St. Bernadettes
Bristol	Hengrove Academy
Bristol	Colston's Girls' Academy
Cumbria	Richard Rose Central Academy
Derbyshire	Bolsover
Derbyshire	Heritage
Derbyshire	Springwell
Devon	Bideford College
Dorset	Queen Elizabeth's CE VC
Durham	Peterlee (Shotton Hall)
East Sussex	Bexhill High
Hackney	Skinners Academy
Hackney	Stoke Newington
Haringey	Alexandra Park
Haringey	Hornsey School
Haringey	Pupil Support Unit
Haringey	Young Peoples Centre
Haringey	John Loughborough
Haringey	Fortismere School and Blanche Nevile
Haringey	Northumberland Park
Haringey	Gladesmore
Haringey	Heartlands High
Haringey	St. Thomas More
Harrow	Whitmore High
Herefordshire	The Minster College
Isle of Wight	Cowes Learning Centre
Islington	Highbury Grove
Islington	Highbury New Sixth Form
Islington	Holloway School
Kent	Charles Dickens
Kent	Northfleet Technology College
Kent	St. Johns
Kent	Thamesview
Kent	Cornwallis
Kent	New Line Learning Academy
Kent	Ellington High School for Girls
Kent	Herne Bay
Kingston upon Hull	Kelvin Hall
Kingston upon Hull	Sirius Academy
Knowsley	Kirkby RC LC2
Knowsley	Knowsley Central RC LC7
Lambeth	Stockwell Park
Lambeth	Lilian Bayliss
Lancashire	Marsden Heights
Lancashire	Unity
Lancashire	Accrington Academy
Lancashire	Blessed Trinity
Lancashire	Hameldon
Lancashire	Hameldon SEN
Leeds	Crawshaw
Leeds	South Leeds High
Leeds	Priesthorpe
Leeds	Mount St. Marys
Lewisham	Sydenham
Lewisham	New School Ladywell
Lewisham	Northbrook
Lewisham	Hatcham
Lincolnshire	Priory LSST
Liverpool	Alsop
Liverpool	Ernst Cookson
Liverpool	West Derby
Liverpool	Broughton Hall
Liverpool	Cardinal Heenan
Liverpool	Gateacre
Liverpool	Hope
Luton	Barnfield West Academy
Luton	Barnfield South Academy
Manchester	Chorlton
Manchester	Inclusion Centre 1: Manchester
Manchester	Parrs Wood
Manchester	New SEN
Manchester	Health Academy
Manchester	Construction and the Built Environment Academy
Manchester	Creative Media Academy
Manchester	Business Enterprise Academy
Manchester	Financial and Professional Services Academy
Manchester	St. Peters
Manchester	King David High
Middlesbrough	Priory Woods SEN
Middlesbrough	Acklam Grange
Middlesbrough	Beverley SEN
Middlesbrough	Ormesby
Newcastle	Trinity Dene View
Newcastle	Gosforth High
Newcastle	Trinity Oakfield
Newcastle	Gosforth Junior High
Newham	Brampton Manor
Newham	Rokeby
Newham	Sarah Bonnell
Norfolk	The Open Academy
North East Lincolnshire	Havelock Academy
North Lincolnshire	Brumby
North Lincolnshire	Melior
Northamptonshire	Holy Trinity Academy
Nottingham	Hadden Park
Nottingham	Bulwell Academy
Nottingham	Samworth University Academy
Nottinghamshire	The Samworth Church Academy
Oxfordshire	The Oxford Academy
Redbridge	Loxford School of Science and Technology
Richmond-upon-Thames	Teddington
Rochdale	St. Annes Academy
Salford	Harrott Fold
Salford	Buile Hill
Salford	Albion
Salford	Oakwood
Salford	Chatsworth
Salford	Beis Yakov
Sefton	Litherland High
Sheffield	Firth Park
Sheffield	Heritage Park
Sheffield	Holgate Meadows
Sheffield	King Ecgbert
Sheffield	Pupil Referral Unit East Hill KS4
Sheffield	Pupil Referral Unit Spring Lane KS3
Sheffield	Hinde House
Shropshire	William Brookes
South Gloucestershire	Filton High
South Tyneside and Gateshead	St.Wilfrids RC
South Tyneside and Gateshead	St. Josephs RC
Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs High
Southwark	Walworth Academy
Southwark	Spa
Southwark	Charter
Southwark	St. Michael's and All Angels
Southwark	Tuke
Sunderland	Biddick
Sunderland	St. Robert of Newminster RC
Sutton	Stanley Park High
Tameside	KS3 Pupil Referral Unit
Tameside	New Charter Academy
Tameside	Littlemoss High/Droylsden Academy
Tameside	Alder
Torbay	Torbay Community College
Tower Hamlets	Ian Mikardo
Tower Hamlets	George Greens
Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green
Tower Hamlets	St. Pauls Way
Trafford	St. Ambrose College
Waltham Forest	Whitefields
Warrington	Culcheth High
West Berkshire	St. Bartholomew's
West Sussex	Bognor Regis Community College
Westminster	New Pupil Referral Unit
Westminster	College Park
Wiltshire	George Ward
Windsor and Maidenhead	Holyport Manor SEN
Wirral	Woodchurch High
Wokingham	Waingels College
York	Joseph Rowntree

The schools list includes BSF One School Pathfinders, academies and schools receiving ICT funding only as they have recently been rebuilt.

Subjects

Building schools for the future programme

Date

10 February 2009

Reference

487 c1943-8W; 255284

House

House of Commons

Digital Britain

I, too, thank the Secretary of State for advance copies of his statement and the interim ““Digital Britain”” report from his apparently converged Minister. As the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) said, the report makes interesting but disappointing reading. The Secretary of State will be aware that the...

Member

Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

29 January 2009

Reference

487 c467-8

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Madingley, has brought unparalleled knowledge and experience of the energy industry to this question this morning. I, for one, am extremely grateful to him. He is absolutely right: this is, above all else, a political problem at this stage. For better or...

Member

Lord Dixon-Smith (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

29 January 2009

Reference

707 c354-6

House

House of Lords

Heathrow (Third Runway)

It is a privilege to follow two speeches by my senior and southern Hillingdon neighbours. They made great speeches on behalf of their communities. I should like to salute two brave speeches in this debate. The first was that of my hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State for Transport,...

Member

Nick Hurd (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

28 January 2009

Reference

487 c364-7

House

House of Commons

Pre-Budget Report

My Lords, I agree with my noble friend Lady Noakes that it really is pretty absurd that the United Kingdom should have to submit any report of our financial affairs to Brussels. After all, the EU’s own financial management is in a frightful mess, largely uncontrolled, wasteful and even fraudulent....

Member

Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UK Independence Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

27 January 2009

Reference

707 c227-9

House

House of Lords

Agriculture (South-West)

I notice, Mr. Cummings, that you are nodding. You are quite right in suggesting that we must focus entirely on the south-west and not range too widely. However, I merely made those few remarks as background information to what I am about to say with regard to farming in the...

Member

James Gray (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

20 January 2009

Reference

486 c172-3WH

House

House of Commons

Agriculture (South-West)

That was the recommendation of the cross-party Select Committee, which included the hon. Gentleman, who is shaking his head like mad. The Secretary of State ignored its recommendation that a large-scale cull of badgers had a role to play in the south-west, and I regret that. It is as plain...

Member

James Gray (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

20 January 2009

Reference

486 c173-4WH

House

House of Commons

Agriculture and Food: Research Funding

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to respond to this very interesting debate. It is remarkable that such a high-level debate can take place within an hour, even though contributors have had only four minutes to speak. As a result, we have much food for thought—if I can put...

Member

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

20 January 2009

Reference

706 c1633-6

House

House of Lords

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]

That was all very interesting and, I am afraid, confirms in me my view that this is all a shambles. It is not robust and clear at all. I want to find some polite words that I can use in this Committee. The Government are running amok in a field...

Member

Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

19 January 2009

Reference

706 c105-6GC

House

House of Lords

Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship

The hon. Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells) has made a powerful speech, and he will be surprised to learn that I agreed with quite a bit of it. I particularly agreed with his point about the talents of the Iraqi people. My constituency contains a number of Iraqis who came...

Member

Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 January 2009

Reference

486 c255-6

House

House of Commons

Business Rate Supplements Bill

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for setting out his position once again. Having made those points in a general debate on Second Reading, he could have aired them again and had them resolved in Committee. If he had made it clear that that was his party’s intention, we...

Member

Dan Rogerson (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 January 2009

Reference

486 c62-5

House

House of Commons

Business Rate Supplements Bill

Absolutely right. We face a massive additional tax—or potential for it—in the business supplementary rate, which is the subject of the Bill, but it must be judged against the background of the business climate. You are right, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I have argued that enough, but it is important...

Member

Brian Binley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 January 2009

Reference

486 c74-7

House

House of Commons

Business Rate Supplements Bill

I welcome the support of my right hon. Friend, as a ministerial predecessor and as a London MP, because he understands the challenges of trying to put in place such a power and the challenges that then face local authorities, in consultation with local businesses, in deciding whether it may...

Member

John Healey (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 January 2009

Reference

486 c42-3

House

House of Commons

Business Rate Supplements Bill

It was noticeable that the Minister claimed support from business, particularly in London, but pretty much all the bodies representing business have said that the rate is an extra tax, and another cash cow for local government. They are totally opposed to it. How does he equate that with the...

Member

Brian Binley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 January 2009

Reference

486 c43

House

House of Commons

Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

My noble friend is quite right: one could quite easily expand the purposes of this body until it bursts. It must have clear purpose; we must be clear what that is; and the Bill must say so early on. A quango is not the right body to represent the public...

Member

Baroness Carnegy of Lour (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 January 2009

Reference

706 c1038

House

House of Lords

Motor Industry

I share my hon. Friend's concern, and I take his point about the pottery trade. Britain was renowned for its pottery. We tend to forget it, but people should take a good look at what has happened to Stoke-on-Trent. The real danger is that we get into the same situation...

Member

Jim Cunningham (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

17 December 2008

Reference

485 c107-8WH

House

House of Commons

Dartford River Crossing Tolls

I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already, and I would like to make some progress. We have heard about the lack of ring-fenced funding and the fact that the £1.75 million that had been ring-fenced for certain areas is now to be spread across the country. The Government...

Member

James Brokenshire (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

17 December 2008

Reference

485 c127-8WH

House

House of Commons

Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

My Lords, I declare an interest as president of the British Trust for Ornithology and of a wildlife trust and as vice-president of the RSPB and BirdLife International. I was delighted to hear the Minister do the vision thing on the marine environment. It is a whole new country that...

Member

Baroness Young of Old Scone (Non-affiliated)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

15 December 2008

Reference

706 c673-6

House

House of Lords

Queen’s Speech

My Lords, I start by picking up on something that the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, talked about. Much of what he said about children’s homes applies equally to prisons, and given what was said by the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, and by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Ripon...

Member

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

11 December 2008

Reference

706 c547-50

House

House of Lords

Home Affairs and Justice

For what I fear will be the first of many years to come, the Queen's Speech unashamedly focuses first and foremost on economic issues. Long before the nation was firmly awoken from its slumber to the magnitude of our collective debt crisis by the frightening figures contained in the Chancellor's...

Member

Mark Field (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

4 December 2008

Reference

485 c180-4

House

House of Commons

Fire Services (Hertfordshire)

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for coming back to the essential point on the funding allocation. I am sure that she is fully aware that Hertfordshire, being in the east of England, is a net contributor to the Chancellor’s coffers, and that we get so very little back....

Member

Anne Main (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

25 November 2008

Reference

483 c175-6WH

House

House of Commons

Climate Change: Research Funding

My Lords, will the Minister say how the Government intend to harness these emissions, whether they come from cows or anywhere else?

Asked by

Baroness Trumpington (Conservative)

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

24 November 2008

Reference

705 c1287

House

House of Lords

	Number of cattle slaughtered¹	Compensation paid² (£ million)
2007	19,794	15.2
2006	16,007	18.1
2005	23,135	32.1
2004	17,306	23.1
2003	17,551	25.2
2002	18,443	20.8
2001	4,438	4.6
2000	7,190	5.7
1999	5,580	3.2
1998	5,027	3.6
¹ Data regarding the number of cattle slaughtered as test reactors or direct contacts are taken from the Animal Health Database (Vetnet). Data for 2006-07 are provisional and subject to change as more data become available and as a result of data validation and cleansing.
² Compensation includes payments to farmers for 'reactors' and 'direct contact' animals which are compulsorily slaughtered. For 1999 onwards this data has been taken from the DEFRA Oracle Financial System. 1998 data are drawn from the 1998 report of the Chief Veterinary Officer and are not directly comparable to later years.