Results 1-20 of 407 for speaker:Colin Burgon

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Royal Mail: Pay (9 Nov 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what criteria were applied to the award of a bonus to the Chief Executive of Royal Mail in 2008.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Royal Mail: Pay (9 Nov 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the average bonus paid to Royal Mail staff at the lowest grade was in 2008.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: South America (5 Nov 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what dates Ministers from his Department met representatives of the Government of (a) Brazil, (b) Argentina, (c) Venezuela, (d) Ecuador, (e) Chile, (f) Cuba, (g) Bolivia and (h) Paraguay in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009.

Written Answers — Defence: South America: Foreign Relations (5 Nov 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what dates Ministers from his Department met representatives of the Government of (a) Brazil, (b) Argentina, (c) Venezuela, (d) Ecuador, (e) Chile, (f) Cuba, (g) Bolivia, (h) Paraguay and (i) Colombia to discuss defence relations in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009.

Nato: Royal Mail (20 Oct 2009)

Colin Burgon: The Minister, in his disappointingly one-sided statement, talked about the need for productive industrial relations. How can there possibly be productive industrial relations with a management who sabotaged the fourth phase of the agreement and who he knows, in his heart of hearts, have no commitment to keeping the service in the public sector and want to privatise it so that they can put...

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Colin Burgon: I understand that the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) is currently visiting a couple of countries in Latin America. Will my hon. Friend the Deputy Leader of the House use her powers to direct him to visit Honduras to lecture the military junta on the bad steps that they have taken?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Colin Burgon: Neville Chamberlain once talked about "a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing." That could apply to the subject that I want to raise today—the recent military coup in Honduras. People probably do not know much about Honduras, but the journal Business Week tells us: "Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Two-thirds of its 7.8...

European Court of Justice Judgments (21 Jul 2009)

Colin Burgon: I am conscious of the time, and I do not want to go over ground that has already been covered. I asked the Minister several specific questions to which, given the time, he obviously will not be able to respond verbally. Could I have his assurance that he will come back to me with written replies to the questions that I put to him?

European Court of Justice Judgments (21 Jul 2009)

Colin Burgon: It is good to see you in the Chair, Mr. Martlew, and to see that the Minister is present. I would like to use our last day before the recess to discuss an issue I have raised in the past: the free movement of labour and the impact of that policy on working people in this country as enshrined in the EU, which, as we all know, is dominated by neo-liberal ideas. More specifically, I want to look...

Written Answers — Home Department: British Citizenship (15 Jul 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many non-UK born people have been given British citizenship in each of the last three years; and from which countries such people originated.

Forensic Science Service (30 Jun 2009)

Colin Burgon: Will my hon. Friend confirm, and does this not betray where the Government are heading, that the notes to candidates state that the creation of a GovCo "is intended as a precursor to evolution into a private sector entity"? Do they say that, or not?

Forensic Science Service (30 Jun 2009)

Colin Burgon: Like my hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle), I declare a constituency interest. There is a Forensic Science Service laboratory in Wetherby in my constituency. My hon. Friend has covered the ground well. He is right to say that MPs have been treated shabbily. However, the work force has been treated in an even more shabby manner. The trade unions have been frozen out of many of the...

Forensic Science Service (30 Jun 2009)

Colin Burgon: They received £107 million for an investment of just £540,000. They made £200 for every £1 invested. The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) was mentioned earlier. He has said that "senior public servants managing QinetiQ behaved dishonourably. They sold the idea to the MOD of privatising the business without explaining...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Peru: Ethnic Groups (19 Jun 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on recent incidents of violence in Peru which resulted in the deaths of 54 people from indigenous groups during an operation by the national police in that country.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Peru: Ethnic Groups (19 Jun 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the government of Peru on the establishment of an independent investigation into the recent deaths of indigenous people during incidents of violence in Peru.

Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment): Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [ Lords] (2 Jun 2009) has video

Colin Burgon: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the free movement of labour is effectively another term for an incomes policy, which dramatically affects only unskilled and semi-skilled people in this country?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Topical Questions (19 May 2009) has video

Colin Burgon: Our foreign policy towards Cuba is that Ministers will not visit Cuba. The Minister will be aware that this month the Canadians sent their Foreign Minister, thus meaning that the Heads of State or Ministers of 16 countries have visited Cuba. Would the Minister be willing to meet a group of us who think that our current policy is wrong for the Cuban people and wrong for Britain, too?

Written Answers — Treasury: Banks: Tax Avoidance (30 Mar 2009)

Colin Burgon: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many of the financial institutions and their subsidiary companies which are (a) wholly and (b) partly in public ownership have reported tax avoidance schemes to HM Revenue and Customs in each of the last three years; how many schemes each such institution has reported; what discussions he has had on the matter with (i) UK Financial Investments and...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009)

Colin Burgon: I agree with the final comments of the hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth)— [Interruption.] I refer to his comments on the need to rebuild Britain's manufacturing base. I had better clarify that, because I am after a job in the future. I want to avoid what I consider to be pretty senseless tit for tat. I want to avoid aiming for the easy target presented by the individual bankers...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009)

Colin Burgon: No, I will crack on, if my hon. Friend does not mind. The roots of the current crisis lie in the 1980s and 1990s, but their effect is only now hitting home. We all remember, from reading learned newspapers, smart talk of "post-Fordism", of how we were moving into a post-industrial age, and how the provision of services was the way forward and the production of things something from the past....