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Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Strategic Investment Fund (10 Nov 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what progress has been made with the competition for a national composites centre as part of the Strategic Investment Fund programme; how invitations to compete for the centre were issued; which organisations have submitted bids; how much of the Fund's resources will be allocated to the centre; and if he will make a...

Business of the House (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Luff: On the subject of cast-iron guarantees, may I remind the Leader of the House of one that the Government have given on many occasions to hold a debate on the pre-Budget report? May I push her for an early indication on that—it will be a particularly important pre-Budget report—and for a commitment on such a debate, please?

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Luff: It would not.

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Luff: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to specify the minimum distances permissible between onshore wind turbines of certain dimensions and the nearest habitation; and for connected purposes. When Oscar Wilde wrote that "Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative", he obviously had not anticipated the controversy that onshore wind farms would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Higher Education (3 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Luff: There is a great deal to welcome in the statement and also some things on which we need to encourage the Government to go further. I am particularly pleased to read in the report about the inadequate information, advice and guidance at school to which the Minister referred. The Government's recent response to the report of the then Select Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and...

Written Answers — Defence: Aircraft Carriers (2 Nov 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his most recent plans are for the procurement and future use of the new aircraft carrier; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Quantum Technology Partnership (29 Oct 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what progress has been made on the proposed Quantum Technology Partnership in South Worcestershire; what involvement (a) his Department and (b) the regional development agency have had with the project; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Home Department: Independent Safeguarding Authority: Members (22 Oct 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether hon. Members will be required to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority before visiting (a) schools and (b) youth groups in their constituencies or elsewhere under the provisions of the Vetting and Barring Scheme; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Treasury: Vat (22 Oct 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 25 November 2008, Official Report, columns 46-47WS, on value added tax, whether he still plans to raise the rate of value added tax to 17.5 per cent. on 1 January 2010.

Nato: Royal Mail (20 Oct 2009)

Peter Luff: Does not the Minister see that the uncertain note that the Government have sounded about the future of the Postal Services Bill must have contributed to the decision of the Communication Workers Union to threaten industrial action? Can he therefore clarify the future of that Bill, which is still languishing under remaining orders on the Order Paper? That would also have the benefit of...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Circuses: Licensing (20 Oct 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what progress his Department has made in the development of a new licensing system for travelling circuses; and if he will make a statement.

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

Peter Luff: You were a Blairite once!

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

Peter Luff: I am now very glad that I came to this debate. Hearing the speech by the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) has certainly taken me back a few years, that is for sure. How reassuring it was to hear an old voice reasserting itself in the Chamber. I have one simple question to ask him: who has been in power for the past 12 and a half years? Some elements of his...

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

Peter Luff: With pleasure, but by the way, the reason why I did not intervene when the right hon. Gentleman asked his question about hedge funds was that I cannot name a single hedge fund. It was a pass, not a negative.

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

Peter Luff: I will happily send the right hon. Gentleman some of the excellent speeches by my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, who calls for better and more effective regulation of the banking system all the time. Indeed, to jump ahead in my remarks, it was the incompetent reordering of the financial services system by the right hon. Gentleman's Government that contributed to the mess...