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Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Tom Levitt: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments about the urgent need to resolve the political situation posed by the settlements, but will he tell us if there is any hope at all of an end to the blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is still at crisis point? The lifting of that blockade is urgently needed.

Flooding (Cumbria) (23 Nov 2009)

Tom Levitt: Clearly it is not feasible to design bridges and other structures to withstand a once-in-one-thousand-year event. However, could the Secretary of State please tell us how the frequency and risk of such events are calculated, when they were last calculated and whether a recalculation, with consequent changes to the design of structures such as bridges, is likely to happen?

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Manufacturing Industries: Minerals (10 Nov 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the contribution to the economy of the UK lime manufacturing industry.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Renewable Energy: Fuel Oil (9 Nov 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his Department's policy is on the use of recovered fuel oil as a substitute for the use of fossil fuels.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Renewable Energy: Fuel Oil (9 Nov 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of plants compliant with the Waste Incineration Directive can accept recycled fuel oil as a fuel.

Written Answers — Home Department: Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (28 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of reducing from 16 to 14 the age at which section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 applies.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Property Development (28 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of approved planning developments which have not proceeded pending resolution of applications to register land as a town or village green in the last five years.

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: I may not be the obvious Member of the House to speak about marine environments or coastal access, because we have neither coast nor marine environments in my constituency. However, High Peak is the philosophical home of the right to roam: we had the Kinder trespass in 1932 and the first open-access land designated under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, and we have more open-access...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Clause 291 — The coastal access duty (26 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: As my hon. Friend knows, my constituency has no coastal path but does contain a huge number of well-established mountain-climbing areas. All the risks are thoroughly understood and agreed on by landowners and climbers, and there is no reason why the same arrangements should not apply to coastal paths.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Clause 291 — The coastal access duty (26 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: My High Peak constituency has more open access land as defined under the CROW Act than any other constituency in England, and I am not aware of there having been even one case of liability. People have been relieved that the liability provisions of the CROW Act have worked, and there is no reason to believe that they will not work in this Bill too in a way that reassures landowners, users of...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: My right hon. Friend is right that the Conservative parliamentary party has been absolutely consistent in its support for suicidal economic policies, but is she aware that in local government some Conservative councils are taking up offers under the future jobs fund? Why does she think that some are seeing its benefits, but others, such as High Peak borough council, are still insisting on not...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: My right hon. Friend will agree that it is absolutely crucial that employment is maintained at as high a level as possible during the recession and that jobs are created. Is he as surprised as I am that the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) did not mention in 45 minutes anything to do with job creation? Is that perhaps because, if we read the Conservatives' work...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: I would like to give the right hon. and learned Gentleman the opportunity to talk about creating jobs, as I think that must be an important part of any approach to dealing with the recession. He is a very reasonable man, and I am sure he acknowledges that the future jobs fund is in place to create sustainable, long-term jobs with Government help. I am sure that he will also acknowledge that...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: Mrs. Dean, you will not be surprised to hear that my remarks will complement and reinforce the message of my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber). As the MP for a constituency bordering Derbyshire, I am sure that you look with envy—as does my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne), whose constituency also borders it—at the high quality...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: To that particularly long intervention, let me give a particularly short answer—yes. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. At last week's Bookstart event, a lady told me about the books that she had received—the ones that people are given when their child is nine months old. When the family subsequently went on holiday, they took a bag of books with them, and the parents would read...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Minister and to other hon. Members because I am unable to stay for the whole debate: I have to meet two employees from the Hadfield Sure Start children's centre in my constituency who are attending, as my guests, an event for community heroes at No. 10 Downing street this evening. I am pleased that she mentioned Jobcentre Plus, because the Hadfield Sure...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Carbon Monoxide (15 Oct 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he expects to announce the outcome of his review of part J of the Building Regulations in respect of the provision of carbon monoxide detectors.

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: The hon. Gentleman began his remarks by saying that he accepted that smoking should be an adult pastime. Does he accept that banning cigarette machines may push consumers from that unsupervised sale towards a supervised sale in small shops, and that therefore the only people who would be deprived of the chance of buying them would be the under-age children who should not be buying them in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Libya (12 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Levitt: Given that this was a decision by a Scottish Minister on compassionate grounds, I wonder whether my right hon. Friend has seen any assessment of the evidence that the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) mentioned a moment ago—particularly that on the medical grounds—or whether, in a few months' time, we might discover that compassionate release is as effective a cure for...