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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?

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...

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?

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?

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

Tony Baldry: The Minister acknowledges that those health and care needs will involve funding, but will he clarify whether that funding will be allocated specifically to primary care trusts and ring-fenced, or whether it will go directly to the Thalidomide Trust? I hope that he will not take it amiss if hon. Members would like to understand exactly where the money will come from and where it will go to.

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

Tony Baldry: The Minister today could take the line that these matters were resolved in the 1970s when a settlement was agreed between Distillers and those who had suffered as a consequence of thalidomide. In the 1970s, it was much more difficult to bring proceedings against a Government Department because of the complexities of Crown immunity. However, the law relating to Crown immunity has dramatically...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: Given that these cuts have been reversed, is not the most damaging thing about all this its effect on the TA, as my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Ann Winterton) said? Those of us who served in the TA thought that we were part of one Army—that our training was as good as that of any regular officer or soldier standing alongside us, and we often did the same job that people are...

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Death Penalty (Global Abolition) (28 Oct 2009)

Tony Baldry: I endorse everything that the previous two hon. Members have said, and I will not seek to repeat it, as they said it extremely well. I wanted to take part in this debate for two reasons. First, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) and my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) recently asked me to take on the task of chairing the Conservative Party...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Work Visas (26 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: How can any of us have any confidence that the UK Border Agency is fit for purpose? I had at my constituency surgery on Friday someone who lives in my constituency and who has been waiting for nine years for the UK Border Agency and its predecessors simply to process his first application for consideration as a refugee. Am I the only person in the House who has completely lost the will to...

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: I am rather bemused by this debate. It needs to be understood that the subjects for topical debates on Thursdays are chosen by the Leader of the House—that is, by the Government. On Monday, my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) and I spoke in a full-day debate on employment and industry. Tragically, by halfway through that debate there were only three Labour...

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: It was only a passing reference because I have had only a sentence on that subject. However, on securing the recovery, there are many businesses in my constituency that will not have a recovery if they cannot get their goods and invoices out through the post. Reading yesterday's Hansard, I found it rather curious that the Prime Minister said about the postal dispute that he would "urge...

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention because it shows the Labour party's two desperate alibis. When Labour Members get desperate, they say, "Well, you know, it was even worse when there was a Conservative Government," which is a bit like saying to the Liberals, "Things were desperate when Campbell-Bannerman was Prime Minister." That approach just does not wash after 12 years in...

Business of the House (22 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: May we have a topical debate on global food security? If the current harvests in the horn of Africa and east Africa fail, what is a crisis now will become a catastrophe in 2010. It would be sensible to have a debate to consider how the international community can ensure that the World Food Programme and other agencies have the contingency to prepare for what could well be an extremely...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (22 Oct 2009) has video

Tony Baldry: May an old boy ask, given the performance of Ministers today, why on earth we have a Department for Transport? Ministers clearly have no influence over rail operators' timetables. They do not know the number of speed cameras there are about. It is clear that the Highways Agency looks after the roads and that rail operators look after the railways. What on earth is the ministerial team doing?...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Tony Baldry: My mother's name is Oina Paterson. As one would guess from that, she is a Scot. My grandfather served with the Highland Light Infantry and my great-grandfather was a Gordon Highlander. I find the speeches of hon. Members such as the hon. Member for Glasgow, East (John Mason) so desperately depressing because Scotland is a much greater nation than is articulated by the nationalists in the...