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Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Stop-and-Search Powers (8 Feb 2010)

Michael Fabricant: What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of stop-and-search powers under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Stop-and-Search Powers (8 Feb 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: The Minister keeps referring to Lord Carlile, who has himself said that "section 44 is being used far too often on a random basis without any reasoning behind its use". Both the Aberystwyth and Lichfield camera clubs have told me that people taking innocent photographs have been stopped in London. It is not good enough; when will it change?

Bill Presented: Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) (No.2) Bill (5 Feb 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: I have been listening with great interest to the Minister and the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore). Have any of the responses that have been made to the Minister come from medical sources? Can he confirm-this is my main point-that the cause of pleural plaques is always exposure to asbestos or can there, in some cases, be other causes?

Bill Presented: Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) (No.2) Bill (5 Feb 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: I am grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time. I have no doubt that there is a strong argument for compensation per se for pleural plaques. He has already pointed out, quite rightly, that the source of the exposure to the asbestos has to be identified. I wanted to have it explained to the House that there can also be no doubt that the symptoms and the existence of pleural plaques...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Labelling (4 Feb 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: When he last met representatives of the food retail industry to discuss country of origin food labelling; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Labelling (4 Feb 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: That is good news, partly. Has the Minister also met the Consumers Association? He will know that it recently conducted a survey showing that 80 per cent. of people want to know the origin of meat and poultry and 77 per cent. that of fruit. It is incredible and surprising to me that that is not mandatory on labelling. Will he push for that in the European Council?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Business Rate Revaluation (26 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: I am here today, Mr. Speaker.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Garden Development (26 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: What representations he has received from local authorities on the outcome of his Department's review of garden and infill development; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Garden Development (26 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: Does the Minister accept that many local councils feel that planning policy statement 3 is just not working when it comes to garden grabbing? Is he aware that councils such as Lichfield find that the city is changing shape simply by virtue of the fact that lovely open areas and big gardens are being redeveloped? What changes can he make to PPS3 to stop this unhelpful practice?

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Fires and Fire Safety (21 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: The hon. Gentleman will be aware that for specialised properties, bodies such as the National Farmers Union have created their own insurance companies. Have the Church Commissioners given any thought, given the nature of churches, to the idea that there should perhaps be a central insurance company to insure more effectively against the risk of fire?

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Severe Weather (Staffing) (21 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: What estimate the House of Commons Commission has made of the number of hours spent by staff covering for colleagues unable to get to work owing to the recent period of severe weather; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Severe Weather (Staffing) (21 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: The hon. Gentleman has stolen my thunder, because I was going to ask him if he would join me, and indeed the whole House, in praising the valuable work undertaken at a very difficult time by members of staff who came in, in very bad weather, worked quite late on occasions to replace those who were unable to come in, and enabled a functioning democratic process, such as that in our House of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (20 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: The 200-year-old dam in my constituency, which is an earthworks dam containing the Chasewater reservoir, has started to leak. A recent engineers report stated that if it collapses, scores of lives will be lost and there will be a lasting effect on the west midlands. The small district of Lichfield does not have the funds to make the urgent repairs. Will the Prime Minister please use his best...

Health and Safety (Company Director Liability): Clause 24 — Treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification (19 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. The right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) may have inadvertently misled the House earlier, and I am sure that he would wish to retract that. As the word "referendum" means "things to be referred", according to the "Oxford English Dictionary", it is indeed a gerundive and therefore the plural should be "referenda". "Referendums" is acceptable in modern...

Health and Safety (Company Director Liability): Clause 24 — Treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification (19 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: Referenda.

Health and Safety (Company Director Liability): Clause 24 — Treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification (19 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: It is a gerundive.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: UK and Iran (19 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: What his most recent assessment is of the state of relations between the UK and Iran.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: UK and Iran (19 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: Last month the Iranians successfully test fired a new long-range missile capable of hitting targets in Israel and United States bases in the middle east. That, combined with their nuclear programme, is a very frightening nexus, indeed. Are we not sleepwalking towards a major war in the middle east? What steps can the Government take to avoid that?

Bill Presented — Pedicabs Bill: Crime and Security Bill (18 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: The hon. Gentleman points out that his constituency is 100 miles from north to south and from east to west. However, is it not worth emphasising that his constituency is so hilly, with such difficult terrain, that the time it takes to get across it would be equivalent to that for a constituency in England that was 200 miles from east to west, and 200 miles from north to south?

Bill Presented — Pedicabs Bill: Crime and Security Bill (18 Jan 2010) has video

Michael Fabricant: I am listening to the hon. Lady with considerable interest, and particularly with regard to the websites that she just mentioned. I fully understand that it may be difficult to prove that people are smoking cannabis or handling real guns, but has she investigated, or does she know whether the police have investigated, any way in which they might just close down the website and, therefore,...