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

Crispin Blunt: That is why the cuts to Army cadet training are so appalling, too. Those cuts need to be restored at the same time as this problem is addressed.

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

Crispin Blunt: Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the role of special advisers? They are meant to spot these things coming, and there has been a 100 per cent. increase in their number in the Department since 1997. I wonder whether the taxpayer is getting value for money.

Fabio Alves-Nunes (27 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: I am very grateful to have the opportunity tonight to raise the case of my constituent Fabio Alves-Nunes who died, avoidably, aged five. By unhappy coincidence, I also attended earlier today the funeral of my constituent, Lance Corporal James Hill of the Coldstream Guards, who was killed in Afghanistan aged 23. It is sad to reflect that the bereaved families live only about 100 yards apart....

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

Crispin Blunt: In 2007, the Government announced an increase of more than £100 million on Prevent and another £240 million on counter-terrorism policing, among an overall counter-terrorist, security and intelligence expenditure of £3.5 billion, which has rapidly increased. What are the Government doing to review the effectiveness of all that expenditure, as well as the Prevent programmes,...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: I want to record my interest as a former Equitable Life policyholder in relation to my pension as a special adviser. The Chief Secretary is treating all the policyholders with the most enormous contempt if he says that he will not put the responsibility on to them to assess the compensation for claims that they may put in. To say that he is going to set up a system that will assess 2 million...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 21 October.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: Reigate is proud to be home to 579 bomb disposal squadron of the Territorial Army. Last Wednesday, when the Prime Minister was making his statement on Afghanistan, it was being told that it could not train until 1 April next year, and its TA centre is under threat of closure. What effect does he think those measures will have on the recruitment and retention of those vital volunteer specialists?

Nato: Arab Peace Initiative (20 Oct 2009)

Crispin Blunt: Will the Minister assure the House that the Foreign Office will encourage all Arab Governments of the continuing relevance and importance of the Arab peace initiative, and to back it not only with hard diplomacy, but with soft diplomacy aimed at the Israeli population?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Defence Acquisition (Independent Review) (19 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: On the Secretary of State's answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for North-East Hampshire (Mr. Arbuthnot), the Chairman of the Select Committee on Defence, and on the Secretary of State's point when he said that "we will work to adjust our equipment programme to bring it into balance with future requirements and the likely availability of resources," I must say that that is a great step...

Sittings of the House (14 Jul 2009)

Crispin Blunt: rose—

Sittings of the House (14 Jul 2009)

Crispin Blunt: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The sedentary intervention for which you reprimanded me was based on my experience in a Standing Committee when the Government were defeated on a programme motion. They came back after some discussions with a motion that was extremely similar to the original one. I confess that as the Whip on that Committee, I was not fast enough on my feet to object to the...

Bill Presented: Clause 50 — Common Travel Area (14 Jul 2009)

Crispin Blunt: I had planned to gild the lily of my arguments in Committee, which were sadly rejected— [ Interruption. ]

Bill Presented: Clause 50 — Common Travel Area (14 Jul 2009)

Crispin Blunt: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, I had planned to gild the lily of the arguments that I made in Committee, which were sadly rejected by the Government. Given the lateness of the hour and the amount of time left for this debate, it would probably be inappropriate to restate things. I am afraid that right hon. and hon. Members who want to see the arguments in detail will have...

Bill Presented: Clause 55 — Trafficking people for exploitation (14 Jul 2009)

Crispin Blunt: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Amendment 14 tabled by the Liberal Democrats, which was debated in Committee and signed by us and has just been agreed to, requires amendments 46 and 47 in order for the legislation to hang together.

Women and Equality: National Security Strategy (25 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on updates to the national security strategy, including policy on cybersecurity.

Women and Equality: National Security Strategy (25 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: The Minister owes you, Mr. Speaker, and the House an apology for the public handling of this strategy. As we speak, the Prime Minister is at Detica, a cybersecurity company. Why is he not here making an oral statement? There is no more important responsibility of Government than national security, and, for a key development in the critical area of cybersecurity to be trailed as it has,...

Points of Order (24 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is really further to your statement, and particularly the first point in it. It was remarkable to read in The Independent today that "Britain is to appoint its first national cyber security chief to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage, Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow. The Prime Minister's move comes amid...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: European Council (23 Jun 2009)

Crispin Blunt: Who make the better allies for Britain—veterans of the Polish Solidarity movement, or veterans of Poland's authoritarian communist Government?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Influenza Pandemic (23 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: Ten days ago, a letter from a retired immunologist, Dr. Eva Kasp, was published in The Times. It said: "I totally disagree with the current practice of closing schools to slow down transmission. The symptoms of the disease are relatively mild and recovery quick... I believe that exposing the population at this time of year will benefit them by giving them the opportunity to acquire immunity...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Iraq (15 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: May I remind the Prime Minister that he has yet to answer the question about evidence on oath? In listening to the Prime Minister's presentation of Operation Charge of the Knights, one could be forgiven for believing that we had something to do with its preparation and planning, when the truth of the matter is that it took place in a British area of responsibility without notice to us, and it...