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Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Defence Spending (Commitments) (29 March 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: When my right hon. Friend speaks of defence procurement, is he bearing in mind our defence industrial strategy? Can he promise the House that, as far as possible, we will always secure supply in this country in order to maintain our skills base and the sovereignty that we require?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Dangerous Dogs (25 March 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: I wish to follow the comments by the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) about the Staffordshire bull terrier. Anyone who owns a Staffordshire bull terrier knows what lovely, warm animals they are, but they were demonised in our national media through ignorance and a misunderstanding of what a dangerous dog is. The very title "dangerous dog" is misleading in the campaign to control...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Dogs (Crime) (22 March 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: My hon. Friend will realise that dog owners such as myself get very upset when we hear the term "dangerous dogs". It is not the dog that is the problem but the ownership and control of the dog. When are we going to start tackling this in the correct manner in this country by considering it a privilege to own a dog rather than thinking that there is an automatic right for irresponsible people...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High Speed Rail (18 March 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: My constituents will be affected by this track. They have just had to go through the four-tracking of the west coast line. That caused disruption with no benefit to the people in my part of the world. What can the Minister say to two of my constituents who have now found out via the media that their property will be knocked down as it is on the permanent way for the building of this new line,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (15 March 2010)

Brian Jenkins: Rubbish.

Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]: Defence (1 March 2010)

Brian Jenkins: Did the hon. Gentleman take the opportunity, when he was doing his research, to see where the money from the sale of those homes went to? Did it go into the MOD budget, or did it merely go back to the Treasury?

Energy and Climate Change: Project Discovery (25 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: My hon. Friend will recognise that Ofgem faces difficult problems. We, as the former owners of the generating facilities and energy companies, have suffered badly in that we were ripped off. We did not realise that the payment was only a down payment, and we have been ripped off every year by these companies ever since. When will my hon. Friend ask our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Swine Influenza Vaccines (23 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: Does my right hon. Friend agree with many in this House that "You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't," and that we must always err on the side of the safety-first approach of making sure we have sufficient vaccine, if we can possibly procure it, for our citizens to keep them safe?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (22 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: My right hon. Friend will realise that the one big difficulty that former farmers who became Taliban fighters would have is that if they were to go back over to the side of the Afghan Government, they would want assurances that the Afghan forces will guarantee their safety and that of their family, and that the Taliban will not return and take retribution. Does he understand that that is the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (10 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: I congratulate my right hon. Friend, the Under-Secretary of State for Defence, my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones)-the veterans Minister-and Lord Boyce on the work that they have done. I think that we should all congratulate them and support their work wholeheartedly. May I raise the issue of late-onset conditions and, in particular, cases of mental illness? I know about...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: My right hon. Friend is only too aware that we have, regrettably, too many war widows, to whom this country owes a great deal. Will he promise, in any Administration that he runs, to stop any suggestion to make those people relatively worse off, via the tax system, because they are not married?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Fiscal Support (Families) (2 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: What fiscal measures he plans to introduce to support families in the next 12 months.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Fiscal Support (Families) (2 February 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. May I pass on to the Government the thanks of many of my constituents for the working families tax credit-as it says on the tin, "working families". He knows that one of the major problems that a family can face is unemployment. What more can he do to reduce the fear and possibility of families facing that hardship?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (12 January 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: Given the very harsh winter that we are suffering at present, I have no doubt that my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State will recall the annual winter crises that we used to have more than a decade ago. People-mainly elderly people-were lying on trolleys in our hospitals for days before they died, after which their bodies were stuffed in refrigerated vans outside. What can he...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Children, Schools and Families Bill (11 January 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley), who made a well-presented contribution to the debate. Many of the speeches this evening have been well thought out and well presented. It is such a large subject that we might easily get distracted, but I hope that I do not become too distracted, as I took large sections out of my speech when the time limit went from 15...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Children, Schools and Families Bill (11 January 2010) has video

Brian Jenkins: Does my hon. Friend realise that one of the biggest factors among parents is low expectations, bridled with the celebrity culture in our society, which allows young people to think that they can get on in life by becoming a celebrity rather than by determined hard work?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Smarter Government (7 December 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I am very pleased that my right hon. Friend has decided to keep standards at the top of his agenda and to axe many of the targets and inspectorates that maintain those standards, but can he elaborate on how he expects consumers of monopoly suppliers who know no other standards to raise those standards? What role does he see for professional external scrutinisers in maintaining or raising...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Academic Standards (Primary Schools) (30 November 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: While improvements in academic standards are, of course, always welcome, like the rest of us my hon. Friend realises that catchment area plays a crucial role in respect of what young people can achieve. When are we going to start putting more emphasis on the added value that schools bring to young people?

Business, Innovation and Skills: Free Trade Agreement (Colombia) (12 November 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on a mandate for the European Commission to negotiate a free trade agreement with Colombia.

Business, Innovation and Skills: Free Trade Agreement (Colombia) (12 November 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I thank my hon. Friend for that answer, but will he recognise that this House has a strong and proud tradition of supporting free trade union movements, especially when it is called Solidarity? Will he impress upon his European Union counterparts that we cannot enter into a free trade agreement with any country that does not allow free trade union movements?