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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: As a member of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, I am proud to hear what the Minister said about the support that he is giving to industry in ensuring that it has apprentices for the future. A lot of what he said is for the long term. Leyland Trucks—in Leyland, as one would expect from the name—will benefit through its hybrid truck from the grants and support that can...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: First, the problem is that people who are bringing in the drugs are visitors and that we are not effective in punishing those who are carrying the drugs. In fact, if they refuse the search we let them go rather than dealing with the importation of drugs into prisons. Secondly—this point is very important for my right hon. Friend—the reduction in prison officer numbers and the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Product Placement (9 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: Product placement is the way forward. Who knows? We may have something above the Speaker's Chair. This is a welcome move and goes a small way to ensuring that there is programme making within the great Granada region. However, will the Secretary of State do even more—he has touched on this—to make sure that regional news and current affairs programmes will continue to be made...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: My hon. Friend says that we have many good things in Lancashire, particularly Lancashire cheese. If he will come up to Chorley and visit Pat's cheese stall on Chorley market and Mr. Brown the butcher, he will realise the quality of local produce.

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: The Minister says that this is about ensuring fair competition. I think that competition failed in respect of the price that was being paid to farmers for milk. As one supermarket altered it, another followed, so the price went up for the consumer while the price being paid to the farmer went down. That acted against not only the farmer but the person shopping in supermarkets.

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing this debate to take place. It is an important debate; it is a debate about the power of a supermarket and the future of farming in the United Kingdom. I am sure that the importance of the subject is agreed by nearly all parties in the House, and we should certainly be able to ensure a fair debate. I hope that we can get the points across. The Minister is...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I could not agree more. My hon. Friend is right. The aim must be sustainable farming and reducing food miles. If we are serious about climate change and the future of farming, we must follow that local policy and ensure that farmers have a local market. Let us stop the food miles. Let us make sure that sustainable farming is here to stay in the UK, and more importantly, let us ensure security...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: Of course. My hon. Friend is right. Although I would not stand up for the French farmers, they are to be envied for the way that they support each other. Carrefour, one of the biggest supermarkets in the world, ensures that its chain carries locally produced regional produce.

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: The Member for Heywood and Middleton, my good friend, is absolutely spot on. The issue is about challenging supermarkets and ensuring that we have quality produce on the shelves; and, yes, may we continue to do that. Research has shown that consumers want to buy local produce. They want to ensure that there is local business and a local economy, and that is still true in the current economic...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I could not disagree more. That is absolutely correct. If we are going to use—

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. There are no two ways about it: the issue is about the word "local", and ensuring that it means local and guarantees sustainability in that community. It is about ensuring that local farmers and producers are protected and have a market on their doorstep, and about pricking the conscience of supermarkets. That is what all my hon. Friends who are...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: Absolutely. That is what the issue is about: paying a farm-gate price to ensure that farmers exist in the long term, and do not keel over in the short term. That is why the ombudsman, as recommended by the Competition Commission, will be responsible for investigating complaints that are levied at grocery retailers under the recently drawn up grocery supply code of practice. The ombudsman will...

Supermarkets and Regional Farming (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. The issue is the fact that the main, big supermarkets have not signed up. If they were to do so, a lot of the problems would stop. That is why it is important that we ensure that they get it right. Another example from Chorley that would make significant headway in achieving a local sourcing policy would be to tackle the expanding supermarkets before...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Territorial Army (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the common-sense decision to reverse the cut. Can we now look to the future, and will he use his good offices to rebuild the trust between the TA and Land Forces, and ensure that we never see any future cuts of that sort?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Topical Questions (2 Nov 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: Would my hon. Friend the Veterans Minister like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Royal British Legion on the 2009 poppy appeal and the benefits that we receive from it?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: We must dismiss that last point. Members from both sides of the House came together. Rightly, Back Benchers went to see the Prime Minister and put on a lot of pressure. The House working together is what changed the decision, and we should acknowledge that instead of engaging in this cheap political points scoring.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: It is pleasing that we are having this debate, which will allow us to express our views, and our commitment to and support for the Territorial Army. There is an issue here, and a lot of hon. Members on both sides of the House believe in the TA and want this money reinstated. There is a minority who want to make political gain from this, but the TA is not a political football and it ought not...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: This commitment to the armed forces, and the expenditure, have continued to increase, and I want to see that continue, to ensure that these proposals do not return once we get into the next financial year. The challenge that we are now leaving with the Ministers and the Treasury is to ensure that that does not happen. This was also a problem in the 1990s, and people might say that they did...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I totally agree: promotion is wanting and it should be given. I wholly agree, and the higher up the ranking we can go, the better it will be. Not so long ago, it only went up to brigadier; at least we have now achieved a general—only for the second time, I believe, so we should of course go up to a two-star officer. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct about that. We can all score...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Lindsay Hoyle: I am in danger of always congratulating the Minister: I must do so once again now. I welcome the news of that meeting, and hope that he will secure the right decision for the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. I sometimes turn up to join the medical squadron at Chorley, which, backing up the 5 GS Medical Regiment, has played its part in Afghanistan. This year it has been deployed in Germany. We have...