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- Business, Innovation and Skills: High-Speed Broadband (12 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: What steps he plans to take to provide support for development of high-speed broadband networks.
- Business, Innovation and Skills: High-Speed Broadband (12 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: Other countries are laying fibre-optic cable to thousands of homes, so why have UK operators barely started to think about doing so? BT, protected by its monopoly over the local loop, appears to be making minimal investment. If we are to get a universal 2 megabit broadband connection by 2012, are the Government not going to have to raise their game in a serious way?
- Written Answers — Health: Nutrition: Carers (12 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) information and (b) guidance his Department produces to carers on supporting the nutritional needs of those for whom they care.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Appeals (12 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals there are in the UK who have appealed to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal against a request to grant them refugee status whose appeal has failed and who are still within the jurisdiction.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: Crompton Technology in Banbury is a high-tech, low carbon and value-added business. It needs to recruit more than 200 modern technicians just to fulfil its existing business plan. It recently advertised for just 10 people. Notwithstanding receiving 130 responses, it could not fill any of the places because the applicants did not have the right level of skills. Will the Minister spare me just...
- Written Answers — Home Department: Offenders: Deportation (11 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals in the UK who at the time of being sentenced to a term of imprisonment were ordered at the end of that term to be deported and who have completed their term of imprisonment and have yet to leave the UK.
- Written Answers — Health: Thalidomide (11 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people identified as disabled by thalidomide are resident in each (a) primary care trust area and (b) local authority area.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Criminal Trial Acquittals (Costs) (10 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: What his policy is on whether defendants who are acquitted in criminal trials should receive costs.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Criminal Trial Acquittals (Costs) (10 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: Following that answer, can the Minister assure me that in criminal cases the principle will remain that costs will follow the event, and that if people are found not guilty in criminal cases they will usually be awarded their costs from central funds?
- Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (10 Nov 2009)
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many files relating to applications for refugee status the UK Border Agency has lost.
- Energy and Climate Change: Energy Pricing (5 Nov 2009) has video
Tony Baldry: What recent discussions he has had with the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets on the simplification of energy tariffs.
- Energy and Climate Change: Energy Pricing (5 Nov 2009) has video
Tony Baldry: Competition is inherently good, but when one has so many tariffs, they simply obfuscate rather than clarify, and it is difficult in such circumstances for the consumer to compare like with like. Does the Minister think that there should be greater simplification of energy tariffs?