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Business, Innovation and Skills: First Capital Connect (12 Nov 2009)

James Clappison: The Minister says that he is going to monitor the situation. As another regular user of this line, may I assure him that he will not have to monitor it for very long to see the misery that it is causing to my constituents in Radlett, Borehamwood, Elstree and Potters Bar, who pay substantial amounts of money and feel that their interests have been completely overlooked by both the company and...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: Yes, I shall certainly give way. The right hon. Lady has experience of these matters.

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: The right hon. Lady has made her point, but may I draw her attention to Lords amendment 2? It says: "Nothing in this section shall cause any financial sanction to be imposed in the case of a single parent with a child under five years of age." That amendment was moved by my noble Friend Lord Freud, and it could not be more explicit. The right hon. Lady knows that we have been consistent...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: I think I was a little kinder than the hon. Lady in what I said about the value of affirmative resolutions. As a parliamentarian, I always welcome the affirmative procedure and argue in favour of it when considering Bills, but one needs a tinge of realism when discussing the subject. I am always in favour of parliamentary debates, but following the hon. Lady's point I would say that even when...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: rose—

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: I think that we have been consistent about this matter. The Minister seems somewhat uncomfortable talking about sanctions affecting very young children, but I do want to ask him a question. There is not much between us otherwise, but why is it so important to have financial sanctions that can be imposed on parents with children as young as three and four? If the sanctions became available...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (10 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: May I begin by welcoming the Minister to the proceedings on this Bill? He has obviously spent some time studying the provisions, and he will know from previous debates that we on this side of the House have expressed broad support for the Bill and its objectives. We support many of the measures in the Bill—as we should, indeed, since we suggested many of them before the Government took...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Vacancies (10 Nov 2009)

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of vacancies were advertised in job centres in each of the last six months for which figures are available.

Olympics: FOI Request (Immigration) (9 Nov 2009) has video

James Clappison: Does not this information reveal a culture of risk-taking and laxity in government? Is there not a danger of this culture continuing when, as the Home Affairs Select Committee learned last week, the points-based system overrides the discretion of individual immigration officers even when they entertain the gravest of doubts about people seeking to enter the United Kingdom. May we have an...

Written Answers — Treasury: EU Budget (3 Nov 2009)

James Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he expects the net UK contribution to the EU budget to be in (a) 2009 and (b) 2013.

Business of the House (29 Oct 2009) has video

James Clappison: Is the Leader of the House aware that it emerged yesterday in evidence to the European Scrutiny Committee that the rules and procedures of the proposed European presidency are being fashioned in secrecy, and that the European Council proposes to adopt them straight away without the opportunity for scrutiny or debate in this House? Might we have some debate at least about the proposed new...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour Orders (26 Oct 2009) has video

James Clappison: Approximately what proportion of the ASBOs that the Minister has just told us about were breached?

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

James Clappison: Given his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), is the Minister for Borders and Immigration making the case that the United Kingdom population will not reach 70 million?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Jobseeker's Allowance (19 Oct 2009) has video

James Clappison: Will it not have been depressing for a newly unemployed person to have heard the Secretary of State's response in today's exchanges? Her first response to the unemployment crisis is to reach for the history books and rewrite the statistics from the 1990s. May I take the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform back to the question that his colleague failed to answer about the young person's...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — North Sea Oil and Gas Industry (13 Oct 2009)

James Clappison: I congratulate the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Doran) on securing the debate. He made the important point that this subject is not debated often enough; it is good that he has given us an opportunity to debate it. As he rightly says, it is of great importance to the safety of those who work in the industry, which employs hundreds of thousands of people in hundreds of installations,...

Written Answers — Home Department: British Nationality: Assessments (12 Oct 2009)

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of people (a) applying for citizenship and (b) applying for settlement passed the Knowledge of Life Test in each quarter since its inception.