Results 1-20 of 513 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Brian H Donohoe

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Oil and Gas Fields (14 Oct 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: Can my right hon. Friend give any idea of the stage that the new licensing has reached? At one time there was drilling in the Clyde estuary. Is there any update on that? It would bring a number of jobs to the Ayrshire area. Will my right hon. Friend take the opportunity of congratulating all agencies in Ayrshire—

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Automotive Industry (17 Jun 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, for all your kindness during the years in which you have been in the Chair. I may have to declare an interest, as I have a car that is more than 10 years old, and the Donohoe household is looking for a new one. May I ask my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to give me some indication of the number of applications made under the scrappage scheme?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Jun 2009)

Brian H Donohoe: As my right hon. Friend may know, I have in my constituency three of the five biggest energy users, and they are very concerned about increasing energy costs. What steps are my right hon. Friend's Government taking to protect them against excessive profits, which has happened before in respect of the energy companies?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: I thank the Secretary of State for giving way on a point on which the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) would not give way. I want to ask my right hon. Friend a simple question. Does he honestly believe that, if the motion were successful and there were to be a general election in the coming weeks, the question of Members' expenses would go away? Would it not stay with us for the...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: rose—

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: rose—

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Economic Downturn (6 May 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: My right hon. Friend will remember the meeting he attended in Prestwick, where a number of industrialists were very concerned about banks and the problems associated with banks. He will know that he is coming back to Ayrshire for a further meeting. He should be aware that a number of the industrialists are now concerned about the Scottish Executive's lack of activity in providing them with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Reserves (Review) (28 Apr 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: May I first put on record my appreciation of the work done by the two Territorial Army units in my constituency? Will my right hon. Friend explain exactly how these new and additional resources will be made available to them? Like my right hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Des Browne), may I too make a bid, in this case for the super-garrison to be in Central Ayrshire?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Small Businesses (18 Mar 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: My right hon. Friend will remember coming to a meeting with small businesses in Ayrshire at which the problems associated with the banks being able to make loans and the extra charges now being imposed were raised. With the Government owning 67 per cent. or thereabouts of some of the banks, surely the Government should be putting more pressure on those same institutions to lend the money and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Defence Policy (4 Feb 2009) has video

Brian H Donohoe: I speak as someone who gained from an apprenticeship in a shipyard in the west of Scotland. On shipbuilding, orders are being placed on the Clyde as a consequence of our having a United Kingdom, and that is resulting in more apprenticeships on the Clyde. Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is a good thing?

Equitable Life (27 Jan 2009)

Brian H Donohoe: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. I have had the opportunity in the past to partake in such debates. The hon. Gentleman has just mentioned the Government's not giving a commitment to Sir John. However, I understood that they had given such a commitment. Indeed, Equitable Life states just that, noting, "the commitment by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to relay this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Dec 2008) has video

Brian H Donohoe: If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 17 December.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Dec 2008) has video

Brian H Donohoe: I thank my right hon. and learned Friend, and may I associate myself with those condolences? At a time when the price of a barrel of oil has sunk like a stone, why are the energy companies charging the price that that they are for fuel? Surely it is time for more to be done by the Government and those associated with us to bring down the price. Will my right hon. and learned Friend assure me...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Energy (10 Dec 2008) has video

Brian H Donohoe: When he meets the energy companies, will my right hon. Friend raise the fact that although the prices of commodities in the market place have dropped like a stone in the past few months, that has not been passed on to consumers? What is he doing in that respect?

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Brian H Donohoe: I had no intention of speaking this morning, but I want to put on record some of the elements of this case that have been brought to my attention both by the ombudsman herself and by the Treasury. First, however, I congratulate the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) on obtaining this important debate. Of course, in discussing the matter, we must also reflect on what else is...

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Brian H Donohoe: I have every sympathy with the people affected. Constituents have been to see me and, of course, I have great sympathy with their cases. However, I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that there is, or should be, a calculated risk on the part of any individual who invests their money—particularly, in relation to certain cases that have come to my attention where members have invested on...

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Brian H Donohoe: I say what I say. As far as I am concerned, it is a case of justice being seen to be done and that has to be addressed by the Government themselves. I have one more point for the Minister. I have a letter from the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley (Kitty Ussher), who was at the time a Treasury Minister. In the letter, she states that the...

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Brian H Donohoe: I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing the debate. She has not yet mentioned letters from the ombudsman and the Treasury. I have every sympathy with those who have been affected. The ombudsman stated in her letter: "I have suggested that this scheme to remedy relative losses suffered by those who have complained to me, and those in a similar position to those complainants, should be...

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Brian H Donohoe: The ombudsman went on: "Once established, the scheme should take no more than two years to complete its work." Surely that should be the centre of our considerations.

Orders of the Day: Clause 51 — Nuclear decommissioning: regulations and guidance (18 Nov 2008) has video

Brian H Donohoe: Will the Minister give way, before he finishes talking about Ofgem?