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Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Agency Workers Directive (12 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: What plans he has for implementation of the EU agency workers directive; and if he will make a statement.

Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Agency Workers Directive (12 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: Will my right hon. Friend tell the House whether he has received any representations from those who would seek to ensure that the directive does not apply to the United Kingdom? Did they make those representations to him because they want to attack vulnerable workers, or is it, for them, merely another promise on Europe to be broken?

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: The Minister is making roughly the speech that I had expected. That is a compliment, not an insult. Negative security assurances can be treaty-based. Nuclear-free areas of the world already exist. On the middle east, there is sense in saying to Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran that the world recognises their particular security needs. That should be done not just by Britain, but...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: And to Iran.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: I strongly agree with this part of the hon. Gentleman's speech. Does he accept that a country considering gaining access to civil nuclear energy would want absolute guarantees that it would not face massive commercial disadvantage as a result of internationalisation or the possibility that, for reasons outside the ambit of the NPT, people could try to use the process as a way of interrupting...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: I would not normally intrude into such a speech, but the hon. Gentleman may have missed paying tribute to someone else—as, indeed, I did. One country that sometimes gets obscured in the process is China. Its premier, Hu Jintao, has stated that China also supports the international community in developing long-term plans, including the conclusion of a convention on the complete...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: I am delighted to introduce a debate which I believe is timely in its scope. Perhaps I could begin by making the rather outlandish claim that mankind has probably come up with only two ways in which to destroy the capacity for human life on this planet: one is through climate change, which I hope will be dealt with in Copenhagen; and the other, of course, is weapons of mass destruction...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: The hon. Gentleman leads me in two different directions. The first is to confirm that I was not going to mention his article in Red Pepper. May I return to his second point later, because I want to make one further point about President Obama? President Obama announced that in March next year there will be a nuclear summit in which he will bring together the main actors for several important...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: I am inevitably sympathetic to the point that my hon. Friend makes. She is right about the crippling cost of these weapons systems in both India and Pakistan. However, it is worth making two other points. The logic of India's having the bomb was, at least in part, because China had a nuclear weapons system and the logic of Pakistan's nuclear system was entirely determined by the logic of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Violent Behaviour (Court Cases) (10 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: What information his Department holds on the length of time between a charge being brought and the start of a trial in cases involving violent behaviour.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Violent Behaviour (Court Cases) (10 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: Does my hon. Friend agree that, even when things go well, the time between assault and trial can be one of great anxiety for the victim? It could also be one of great danger if there are threats of further violence. In that context, what can she do to impress on everyone—the prosecution services, the police, the courts and defence lawyers—that any delays are intolerable when...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (10 Nov 2009) has video

Tony Lloyd: On the same theme, will my right hon. Friend's review of police cautions establish the legitimacy of these cautions, because they are a useful part of the criminal justice armoury? Will he also make it clear that the outrageous cases, such as the barmaid who was glassed and raped, can never properly be subject to police caution?

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Nov 2009) has video

Tony Lloyd: Will the Government reject the siren appeals of the climate change deniers of the Opposition and those who challenge the Act on CO2 ads, and confirm that it will be their policy, as a responsible Government, to get across the message that individuals have to be responsible for turning back the days of climate change, and that only by shocking ads will we get that across to the British public?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: MPs' Expenses and Allowances (4 Nov 2009) has video

Tony Lloyd: My right hon. and learned Friend should know that the majority of people throughout the country would endorse her remarks, as well as those of the Kelly report, about family members of MPs, whose work and dedication has been very much in the interests of the taxpayer and our constituents. In that context, does she recognise that those employees have rights too? Will she ensure that their...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Banking Reform (3 Nov 2009) has video

Tony Lloyd: The country will be grateful that we have a Chancellor who puts the national interest ahead of tomorrow's press release. Companies involved in high science and high technology are finding it difficult to obtain money from the current banking system. Will the Chancellor look into whether we need either banks devoted to that or special instruments within the banking system to guarantee access...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Mayors (2 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on consultations on the establishment of procedures for the direct election of mayors.