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Bill Presented: Leeds City Council Bill (By Order ) (3 Jun 2009) has video

John Heppell: I shall be brief, as I recognise that the subject has been debated for almost a year. For anyone to pretend now that we have not heard all the arguments and that we need to produce details is nonsense. I do not need to produce any evidence of what is happening in Nottingham in order to make a decision. Unlike the hon. Members for Shipley (Philip Davies) and for Christchurch (Mr. Chope), I...

Bill Presented: Leeds City Council Bill (By Order ) (3 Jun 2009) has video

John Heppell: No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman has had a year to ask us to give way. I know that you would rule me out of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I started talking about amendments that were not on the Order Paper, so I shall discuss the Bill as it exists. However, I do not see a need to compromise with the hon. Member for Christchurch or the hon. Member for Shipley and go against the wishes of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill (21 Apr 2009)

John Heppell: I shall be very brief. The hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) referred to the fact that the sponsors are not speaking for these Bills. May I make the point, so that it is on the record, that all the Nottingham MPs are here tonight to vote for the Nottingham City Council Bill and the other Bills covered by the motion? We have not spoken because the hon. Gentleman's machinations have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (24 Mar 2009) has video

John Heppell: Last week, I attended a celebration of the Ear Foundation, which is a charity that was set up to fund the first cochlear implant procedure in the city of Nottingham. Now that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has decided that it is a good idea for profoundly deaf children to have implants for both ears, can the Secretary of State tell me what he is doing to ensure that...

Written Answers — Health: Bilateral Cochlear Implant (24 Mar 2009)

John Heppell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his plans are for the future provision of simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant to those who require it.

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Spending (23 Mar 2009)

John Heppell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effect of restricting to 1 per cent. the real terms growth of her Department's spending for 2009-10.

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Hooper Report (19 Mar 2009) has video

John Heppell: The Government seem to have accepted the Hooper review in total. The official Opposition have accepted, and are supporting, the sale of some shares. Are they also supporting other measures in the review, including regulation—

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Topical Questions (19 Mar 2009) has video

John Heppell: Only yesterday, the Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs warned that the recession should not be used as a reason to exploit vulnerable workers. Many of us welcomed that warning, but can he tell us what his Government are doing in practical terms to ensure that that does not happen?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Workplace Parking Levy (Nottingham) (10 Mar 2009) has video

John Heppell: Does the Minister agree that, during a period of economic downturn, it is even more important that we reduce the congestion that costs business £160 million a year? We are asking the people of Nottingham and not the Government to make a decision about the workplace parking levy. Ninety four per cent. of people there have said that they have complete satisfaction with the tram system, and...

Workplace Parking Levy (Nottingham) (23 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to debate an issue that causes great concern to the people of Nottingham. If I had been reading the local and national newspapers, I would have assumed that the workplace parking levy was some dreadful tax being forced on businesses, that it was not supported by anyone in Nottingham, whether business or the local community, and that it was badly thought...

Workplace Parking Levy (Nottingham) (23 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question, but that does not surprise me at all. In some respects, others should not be interested in the issue because it is something for the people of Nottingham; it is not for the regional CBI, or the regional or national chambers of commerce. People in Derby, Leicester, Manchester and across the country can forget about the scheme; if it does not...

Workplace Parking Levy (Nottingham) (23 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: I would not say that. I am always in favour of as much consultation as possible, and there has been plenty. When people are asked, "Do you want an extra tax?", anyone who will have to pay it will say no. It has been claimed that businesses do not want the scheme because so many of them have said no. If it was an unqualified question, the answer would be 100 per cent. no, but some people have...

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Royal Mail (11 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: It is a pleasure to take part in this debate, especially facing my neighbour—I almost said my hon. Friend— the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), whose contributions I always value and whose judgment I sometimes doubt. I know he was one of the first people to predict the present economic crisis. The difficulty was that he predicted it in 1997, 1998, 2000...

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Royal Mail (11 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: My hon. Friend the Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter) asked the then shadow Business Secretary: "If I am to be tempted to vote for the motion, will he give an undertaking on behalf of his party to put £1.7 billion of investment into the network so that it can be sustained in a good old socialist fashion up to 2011?" The then shadow Business Secretary said: "I will not do...

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Royal Mail (11 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: I suspect that that will not be the case. Just this week, the Mayor of London, who used to be the hon. Member for Henley, was pronouncing about public sector pensions and how it was not our job to protect them. I understand the argument that the Tory party would make. It would ask why public sector pensions should be protected when people with private pensions, who are going broke, are not,...

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Royal Mail (11 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Royal Mail (11 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way on that point?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (3 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 came into force only in November. Although I acknowledge that it is still early days, has the Secretary of State made any assessment of its effectiveness and progress?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Occupational Pensions (2 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: What recent steps his Department has taken to protect employees' occupational pensions.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Occupational Pensions (2 Feb 2009) has video

John Heppell: I thank the Minister for that answer. With the CBI and the TUC telling both employers and employees that now is not the time to withdraw or withhold pension contributions, what can the Government do to strengthen that message and get it across to people that pensions are now safer and a better long-term investment than they have ever been in the past?