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Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations (12 Nov 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent representations she has received on the time taken to arrange medical examinations for benefit claimants; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations (10 Nov 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many medical examinations for benefit claimants have taken place outside the 13 week assessment phase in the last two years.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations (10 Nov 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average waiting time was for a medical examination for claimants of employment support allowance in the latest period for which information is available.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Packaging (3 Nov 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to bring forward proposals for sanctions on companies using excessive packaging on their products; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Packaging (29 Oct 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of categories of products which are presented for sale in unnecessary packaging; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Packaging (28 Oct 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what representations he has received on the formulation of the Courtauld Commitment Mark II; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Aluminium: Recycling (26 Oct 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what representations he has received from the aluminium industry on the use of recycled cans to make motor vehicles.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Recycling (26 Oct 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to introduce quotas on the minimum amount of recycled material to be used in (a) motor vehicle manufacture and (b) manufactured goods; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Transport: Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (12 Oct 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether he has plans to improve road links to the Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (15 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make a decision on the case of Mr. Davit Khutcichvili, Ref. no. K1100834.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (14 Jul 2009) has video

Eric Illsley: I wish to return to the subject of the bingo industry. Will my hon. Friend seek an early meeting with the Bingo Association to clarify the point that she made on Report, when she said that she was still waiting for information from the association about its figures? She also said that the industry had accepted the taxation regime that the Government introduced in the Budget. I am sure that...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I had not had that information, but she has made the point eloquently. I agree with her that it will be the smaller clubs that feel the pinch. Obviously, the bigger companies are more able to stave off losses, but at the end of the day the effect will be felt by the whole of the bingo industry.

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, and I am sure that the situation throughout the industry will lead to similar instances elsewhere. Even though the Government have halted VAT on participation fees, the industry still warns of further closures, and they are continuing. That suggests that the industry is still adversely affected by the changes to the taxation regime: it still...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie). As he points out, we have rehearsed these arguments previously, but he is right to say that the argument is about the closure of amenities for our constituents, the threat to bingo clubs and the facilities that they provide throughout the country, and the consequent job losses when such clubs close. The hon....

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. I am not sure that it is healthy for anybody to sit in front of a computer terminal for any length of time, whatever they are doing. That relates to what I shall say shortly when I compare bingo with other forms of gambling. As opposed to someone sitting in front of a computer terminal at home with a credit card, playing bingo in relative secrecy,...

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: Order. We are not going to turn this into a debate on the Lisbon treaty or its ratification.

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Eric Illsley: The hon. Gentleman has answered his own point of order and has made my point. Of course there are references to the Lisbon treaty. I simply do not want this to turn into a debate completely about the Lisbon treaty. Hon. Members will have to refer to it, but not at the expense of everything else.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East (30 Jun 2009) has video

Eric Illsley: What recent assessment he has made of the political situation in the middle east; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East (30 Jun 2009) has video

Eric Illsley: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and may I offer you my belated congratulations? Will my right hon. Friend maintain a commitment to persuading the Israeli Government to accept the idea of a Palestinian state? Does he accept, however, that if that state is too bound in by conditions and a commitment to retain settlements it will be absolutely unacceptable to the Palestinian authorities and the...

Public Bill Committee: Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]: New Clause 21 (18 Jun 2009)

Eric Illsley: I thank hon. Members for their comments, which I will relate to my co-Chairman. I add my thanks to the Clerk, the Hansard reporters, the attendants and the police for their assistance to me.