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Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (12 Nov 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reasons his Department has reduced the rate of return achievable through feed-in tariffs for photovoltaic power generation; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Home Department: Shotgun Passes (12 Nov 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British visitor's (a) firearms and (b) shotgun passes were issued in (i) England and Wales and (ii) Scotland in each of the last 10 years; and how many prosecutions for breach of conditions of issue of each type of pass were brought in each of those years.

Petition — Equitable Life (Daventry) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Tim Boswell: I have the honour to present a petition on behalf of residents of the constituency of Daventry in respect of the parliamentary ombudsman's report on Equitable Life. The petitioners state that they are, represent or support members, former members or personal representatives of deceased members of Equitable Life Assurance Society. I should declare to the House that a member of my family is a...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Overseas Students (28 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many private colleges of further education have been denied registration for the purpose of student visas since the introduction of the points-based scheme.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Human Trafficking (27 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further steps his Department has taken against human trafficking since the entry into force in the UK of the Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking in Human Beings in April 2009.

Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances: Fuel Oil (22 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will consider introducing tax exemption for mineralogical processes which use recovered fuel oil; (2) what the difference is in the tax treatment on the use of recovered fuel oil in the (a) steel, (b) electricity and (c) lime manufacturing industries; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Pet Travel Scheme (21 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will conduct a risk assessment of the extent to which the importation of dogs infected with echinococcus multilocularis might be increased if the requirement for treatment with Praziquantel under the Pet Travel Scheme were relaxed.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: European Schools: Finance (21 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost to the public purse was of payments to European Schools in respect of (a) teachers' salaries and (b) other support in the last year for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Justice: Land: Registration (20 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what consideration he has given to the expansion of the programme of compulsory land registration; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: European Schools (19 Oct 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he is taking to encourage the development and modernisation of the network of European schools in respect of their (a) governance, (b) finance and (c) pedagogy, with reference both to (i) actions within the UK and (ii) by seeking international agreement.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Civil Service: Languages (20 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what information the Cabinet Office collates on the competences of domestic civil servants in modern foreign languages; and what steps she is taking to improve such competence levels.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Students: Finance (13 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many full-time students in receipt of student awards will experience a reduction in disposable income from the combined effects of the freeze in the level of awards and the annual uplift in tuition charges in the next academic year; and what his estimate is of the maximum amount of this reduction.

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 20 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: I would not have risen to my feet, but saying a word on behalf of the Back Benchers collectively might be appropriate, Mr. Benton, not least because for various reasons I probably have had more to say than most of them—not for the first time—and for that I apologise to the Committee. I want to record that everything that has been said from the Front Benches has been entirely...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: While not having finally taken my tanks off the lawn yet, will the Minister at least—having dangled before us the prospect of a full revelatory account of all the concerns she has about the purpose of the new clause—indicate that that concern about the human dignity, described by her as a somewhat vacuous concept, is perhaps the greatest of her objections to it? I am trying to get...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: I mentioned a number of things about the international aspects, compliance with international conventions and, possibly, developing jurisprudence. Does the Minister see any merit for at least being able to accommodate those things where they go beyond the immediate statute of the Equality Bill? How are we going to cope with them in future?

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: On a point of order, Lady Winterton. Before we consider this specific new clause, I spoke earlier of my intention to press new clause 22 to a Division. I am not entirely convinced by the Solicitor-General’s deployment of her arguments, although she did it very clearly. I remain something of a sceptic, but at a somewhat higher level. There will be other opportunities in the consideration...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: I am grateful to the Solicitor-General for reminding the Committee of those interesting and authoritative strictures. However, have there been any cases in practice where, whether in a fit of inadvertence or otherwise, we have strayed into accepting a purpose clause? Has such a clause ever done any judicial harm or created difficulty in practice?

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: To follow on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean, I sense how the Solicitor-General’s argument is going. Will she accept that, if nothing else, it is important that she gives some thought—I suspect that she will do so anyway—to  the training and comparative studies of judges in this area? There is no doubt that we have a commonality of...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: May I say, as it were, tripartitely, that I again have considerable sympathy with the comments made by our hon. Friend the Member for Henley? In relation to the judicial process, perhaps I should admit to the Committee—he might be interested to know—that in my brief and very inglorious time as a member of a tribunal, as a lay empanelled flanker to the legal chairman, I always tried...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: New Clause 11 (7 Jul 2009)

Tim Boswell: I need to reflect on that, and I shall do so in the light of the Solicitor-General’s recommendation. At the moment, I would be in favour of accepting it. We must remember that, mercifully, another place will look at this legislation, and we want to get it right. Given the genesis on mental capacity and the interest in another place in the idea of a purposes or principles clause, I hope...