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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oil: Pollution (12 Nov 2009)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what estimate he has made of the average cost of clearing up an oil spill in England in the last 12 month period for which the information is available; (2) what estimate he has made of the cost of the damage, including damage to the environment, caused by oil spills in England in the last 12 month period for which...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oil: Pollution (12 Nov 2009)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what estimate he has made of the proportion of oil spills at (a) residential and (b) commercial properties that are not officially recorded by his Department; (2) how many oil spills at (a) residential and (b) commercial premises were recorded by his Department in each of the English regions in the last five...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Building Regulations (12 Nov 2009)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for what reasons the cost-benefit impact assessment of funding for overground oil tanks contained in Proposals for amending the approved document J (combustion appliances and fuel storage systems) of the Buildings Regulations omitted (a) the potential wider costs to the environment and the potential health implications of...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Building Regulations (11 Nov 2009)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many inspections of domestic oil tanks were undertaken to determine whether they had been installed in conformity with the building regulations in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available; and how many notices were issued to correct inappropriate installations.

Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [ Lords]: Antisocial Behaviour (2 Nov 2009) has video

John Horam: Will the right hon. Gentleman include housing associations in his list of those to be involved? Often it is a three-way relationship between the local council, the police and housing associations. They are as important as the other two, and it will be helpful if they are included in the action that is to be taken.

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

John Horam: The hon. Gentleman is discussing a very interesting point about procurement, and I take his point, but is he aware that one of the recent problems with MOD procurement has been the so-called smart procurement system that was introduced about eight years ago? It has, perhaps unintentionally, had the effect of penalising small suppliers and small companies in the defence field. It causes great...

Written Answers — Home Department: Emergency Services: Standards (21 Jul 2009)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the name is of each Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 whose emergency procedures the Department has checked since January 2008; what the nature of the checks made was; and if he will make a statement.

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

John Horam: I, too, had the privilege of visiting Helmand province recently, and I strongly echo what the hon. Member for City of Durham (Dr. Blackman-Woods) has just said about the professionalism, commitment and bravery—and, indeed, hope—of the troops there. The fact is that there is greater hope in the country at the moment. First, there has been the US surge—the extra American...

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

John Horam: The hon. Gentleman is right to make the point that we should begin to lower expectations about the eventual outcome. Our former ambassador, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, made the point that we could not expect a western-style democracy suddenly to spring out of the soil in Afghanistan and that something much less than that might be all that was necessary for an exit strategy.

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Global Security (Iran) (9 Jul 2009)

John Horam: The hon. Gentleman is making an important point and a very good speech. I would also like to hear what the Minister has to say about the matter he has just raised, because we need a more unified approach in Europe than we appear to have so far. I have noticed that the Germans and Italians are not quite as strong in their condemnation as the French, to whom we should give credit. If we are to...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Schedule 5 (25 Jun 2009)

John Horam: My experience is that the statistics for MRSA and C. difficile are very late. The current situation is usually nine months previous, which is one reason that we need to react quickly. I have constantly found that when looking at the situation, one is talking about figures that came out nine months ago. That really is unsatisfactory and I understand that there are reasons for it; it is not...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Schedule 5 (25 Jun 2009)

John Horam: I understand where the Minister is coming from on amendment 70. He seeks to mirror the original legislation because otherwise the process might become burdensome and difficult. He has already simplified the procedure for hearing complaints by cutting out one of the processes and we are now down to two, so the burdensome argument does not really apply. I also wonder whether this is an issue...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (23 Jun 2009)

John Horam: Further to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury on health inequalities, the Minister will be aware that  there are considerable differences. Even in an affluent borough such as Bromley, there are areas where health is much worse than the average for the country, never mind for Bromley. This may reflect my ignorance, but what is the size of this pilot project? Does it...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (23 Jun 2009)

John Horam: How many people will be involved in one particular pilot? What is the normal number that you would expect?

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 15 (23 Jun 2009)

John Horam: To what extent do the arrangements give the Minister powers that he does not already have? For example, he might be aware that, in my constituency, the Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust had accumulated debt of £100 million as well as an operating debt. As a consequence, there was a turnaround directive and an independent accountant examined the figures from the previous four or five years to...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 8 (18 Jun 2009)

John Horam: I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury mentioned local involvement networks, which are in danger of being downplayed or overlooked in the context of quality care—even though I fully accept and support what the Government are trying to do. None the less, there is a danger that the local element, which is represented by the local involvement network, is somehow...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 8 (18 Jun 2009)

John Horam: So, it will be up to the trust in question to decide which member of staff is responsible for collecting and monitoring that information and presenting it to the board. I agree that the board is ultimately responsible, but there must be someone inside the organisation, below the board, who collates all the  information and presents it to the board, just as a finance director collects all...