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Rio+20 Summit

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) in this important debate. Right at the outset, let me put on record my congratulations to the British Government on ensuring that issues that are important to this nation, including our agriculture, are on the...

Member

Ian Jnr Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

28 February 2012

Reference

541 c233-5

House

House of Commons

Consumers: Low-Cost Flight Information

My Lords, I am sure that it is not only in your Lordships' House but outside it that many will be gratified by the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, securing this debate to draw attention to the problems of what are described in the Question as low-cost airlines but are probably...

Member

Lord Alderdice (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

27 February 2012

Reference

735 c1116-9

House

House of Lords

EUC Report: Agriculture

My Lords, there are some out there who would raise their eyebrows at the idea of a report about innovation in agriculture. Far too many people, in both business and politics, consider agriculture to be an antiquated, backward industry with no place in the 21st century economy, to which the...

Member

Lord Bilimoria (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 February 2012

Reference

735 c38-42GC

House

House of Lords

Protection of Freedoms Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, asked that I should take particular note of what the noble Lord, Lord Bichard, said in moving his amendment. I can give him, the House and the noble Lord, Lord Bichard, an assurance that I will do that. Our time goes back a...

Member

Lord Henley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 February 2012

Reference

735 c113-4

House

House of Lords

Local Government Finance Bill

There are, actually, several hundred second homes in Bradford. If authorities cannot generate funding from the new-found freedoms, the other answer is for them to find it somewhere else in their budget. They have this wonderful freedom to find other areas where they can balance the books. The problem is...

Member

David Ward (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

31 January 2012

Reference

539 c743-4

House

House of Commons

Port of Southampton

Many islanders from my constituency take great pride in being physically separate from the mainland UK, but most recognise the value of its proximity. An acknowledgement of that fact is that so many of my constituents, especially in the north of the island, rely on the mainland for work and...

Member

Andrew Turner (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 January 2012

Reference

538 c271-2WH

House

House of Commons

Local Government Finance Bill

It is a pleasure to serve on this Committee of the whole House under your chairmanship, Mr. Robertson, and that of your colleague, Mr. Amess. Amendment 46 is a probing amendment in an important group of amendments that the Committee will discuss. I have a number of questions for the...

Member

John Healey (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

18 January 2012

Reference

538 c802-4

House

House of Commons

Future of Town Centres and High Streets

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for that guidance. I will try to keep my remarks brief and to keep interventions to a minimum. Starting new enterprise is crucial on our high streets, particularly with many of our chain stores retrenching. We need to reinvigorate our independent shopkeepers. Street markets and indoor...

Member

Marcus Jones (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

17 January 2012

Reference

538 c626-7

House

House of Commons

Future of Town Centres and High Streets

I cannot speak for Romsey, but in Chester, that is exactly what we have done. That approach was identified by the Conservatives when we took over the council in 2007, and resulted in the creation of Chester City Management, a body of local stakeholders, independent of the local authority, whose...

Member

Stephen Mosley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

17 January 2012

Reference

538 c647

House

House of Commons

General matters

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell), and I pay tribute to his remarks. I shall stay in the middle east, but stick with the theme that my right hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) introduced some moments ago of the Arab...

Member

Tony Lloyd (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

20 December 2011

Reference

537 c1292-4

House

House of Commons

Apprenticeships

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Individuals in small and micro-businesses usually work very hard and do not have much time to look through such information, and they certainly do not have anyone else to deal with that side of the administration. I am sure that the Minister will...

Member

Neil Parish (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

19 December 2011

Reference

537 c1149-50

House

House of Commons

Dairy Farming: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she has received interim findings of the research which her Department commissioned the Scottish Agricultural College to undertake on the management and welfare of continuously housed dairy cows; when she plans to publish the results of that...

Asked by

Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2011

Reference

86185; 537 c787-8W

House

House of Commons

Unemployment

I shall take no interventions, given the need for brevity. I share the concerns of my hon. Friend the Member for North East Hertfordshire (Oliver Heald) that Labour Members seem to have collective amnesia about exactly how much they frittered away during the prosperous times for this nation and that...

Member

Anne Main (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 December 2011

Reference

537 c867

House

House of Commons

Zoos (Regional Economic Development)

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell) for giving us an opportunity to talk about places and things that we are passionate about: economic activity in our areas, tourism, and, in my particular case, the subject of learning outside the classroom, which has been mentioned by...

Member

Simon Hart (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 December 2011

Reference

537 c287-9WH

House

House of Commons

Bovine TB

Statement Today I am setting out the next stage in the bovine tuberculosis eradication programme for England. Bovine TB continues to be a major problem in England. In 2010, nearly 25,000 cattle were slaughtered in England and the cost to the taxpayer is set to top £1 billion over the...

Member

Caroline Spelman (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 December 2011

Reference

537 c795-7

House

House of Commons

Protection of Freedoms Bill

My Lords, as regards consultation, we consult till the cows come home in this department and every other department, and I am distinctly happy about the amount of consultation that has taken place on this issue. We will move on now from feed-in tariffs and solar panels and get on...

Member

Lord Henley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

13 December 2011

Reference

733 c287-91GC

House

House of Lords

The Economy

Last year the Chancellor boasted, with barely contained glee, that it would be necessary to make cuts deeper and faster than any Chancellor in history in order to clear the deficit in four years. In the process, we were told that the private sector would be freed, that the economy...

Member

Chi Onwurah (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 December 2011

Reference

537 c264-7

House

House of Commons

Agriculture: Animal Feed

My Lords, I should like to start by thanking noble Lords for joining me in this debate. There are many competing events this evening and I am most grateful to your Lordships for your interest in this subject. Nine thousand years ago, humans domesticated pigs and chickens in order to...

Member

Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

6 December 2011

Reference

733 c697-700

House

House of Lords

Health and Social Care Bill

My Lords, I support what the Government are doing here, though with some reluctance, for reasons that will not surprise the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. I am reluctant for two reasons that lie at the heart of a fluoridation policy: the scientific evidence for it and the medical ethics. It...

Member

Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

5 December 2011

Reference

733 c565-7

House

House of Lords

Eurozone Crisis

Apologies for that. One effect of this, although there were others, is that the traditional constraints in financial services largely disappeared. Banks increased their leveraging and invented a bewildering range of new products, most of which in hindsight appear to have been more dangerous than beneficial, described as ““socially useless””...

Member

Lord Monks (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

1 December 2011

Reference

733 c88-90GC

House

House of Lords