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Business, Innovation and Skills: Free Trade Agreement (Colombia) (12 Nov 2009)

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 Nov 2009)

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?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: My right hon. Friend will be aware of the recent discovery in Staffordshire of the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Will he give his backing to a plan to create in the region a Saxon tourist trail and support the Tamworth Herald campaign to bring this gold to be displayed in the ancient Saxon capital of the kingdom of Mercia—the town of Tamworth?

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I welcome, as anyone does, the warm words spoken by my hon. Friend, but he must realise that when we set these organisations up they grow like Topsy; they start impinging and pushing the rules. Will he ensure that it is implicit in the Bill that that will not happen and that we will not create a large sledgehammer to crack a small nut?

Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: What recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on reaching an international agreement on climate change; and if he will make a statement.

Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: In recognising the excellent lobbying of this Government by environmental campaigners in this country, will he use his offices to urge those campaigners to contact their sister groups around Europe and the rest of the world in order to put pressure on their leaders, so that they take climate change seriously at the Copenhagen summit and, like our Prime Minister, promise to step up to the...

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

Brian Jenkins: Does my hon. Friend have plans to reduce elements in the procurement programme to match the number of personnel to oversee that programme and the resources to implement it?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Light Pollution (29 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I recognise that the Minister might be the wrong person to ask, given that this matter is no longer his responsibility, but has any model or trial ever been produced with regard to highway or local authority lighting on which we can call?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Nimrod Review (28 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I welcome my right hon. Friend's attitude with regard to the statement. There was humility, and he said, "Sorry, we admit we got it wrong and we are going to put it right." I await with interest the Government's response to the report. He said that Nimrod issues were missed over the years, but will he change that to "ignored" over a number of years?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour Orders (26 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: My right hon. Friend will realise that enforcement is vital to antisocial behaviour orders, so will he ask our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary whether he would consider writing to every chief constable and asking that every uniformed officer in their forces spend at least two hours performing high-profile policing duties in the community?

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Will the Minister please look at the critical mass of skilled engineers now available to us and working in the manufacturing industries to see whether we can regenerate ourselves? However, will he please use Government time and Government money to look at that scheme and perhaps invest in that idea?

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Mention has been made of apprenticeships. Does the hon. Gentleman fear, as I do, that the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, and now this recession, might well have pushed a critical mass of employees in manufacturing—and in engineering, in particular—down to a level at which we are no longer able to regenerate and reskill ourselves? Does he agree that it will take direct...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Defence Acquisition (Independent Review) (19 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: I welcome the report, as do many Members. However, having served on the Public Accounts Committee for four years, I remember the projects that were running then and the legacy of overruns in costs and delivery times. Where do we find someone brave or foolish enough to say no to the defence chiefs?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Jobseeker's Allowance (19 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: My right hon. Friend realises that unemployment is a tragedy for those unemployed, but will he give us the percentage of those unemployed and those in employment over the past few years? If he does not have the figures now, will he send me a copy and put one in the Library?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (19 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Will my hon. Friend consider linking the cold weather payment to the price of fuel, so that no future Government can let it wither on the vine?

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: In the course of the defence review we shall take a lot of evidence about the demands on our forces, but will my right hon. Friend put as much emphasis on supply in the configuration of the armed forces to ensure that the outcome is that we have armed forces fit for the 21st century rather than the 19th?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Young Offenders (21 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Will my hon. Friend tell the House how many reoffenders lack educational qualifications? What are we doing to improve their chances of gaining such qualifications?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Mental Health (13 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: My hon. Friend is aware that it often takes ex-service personnel up to 13 years to present themselves for treatment under a mental health programme. What can we do to take away the attitude, which is not unusual among the military in this country, that presenting themselves for some form of mental health treatment is in some way a disgrace? Every single military serviceman who needs our help...

Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (9 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Will my hon. Friend assure us all that his Department is alive to the fact that, when energy prices went up, domestic prices followed very rapidly, but when energy prices fell, domestic prices did not fall as rapidly? What is his Department doing to track those companies and ensure that they do not rip off their customers?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Common Agricultural Policy (2 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Jenkins: Will my hon. Friend please assure the House that when he sees his European colleagues, he will get them to recognise that security of food supply requires a premium? That is not merely a handout for farmers; it is to allow farmers to work towards supplying us with our food. We should never slash and burn it, or run away from supporting our farmers in this country, as the Conservative party would.