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Port Business Rates (17 March 2010)

Shona McIsaac: That would be quick.

Port Business Rates (17 March 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate, which I think is the second that we have had in Westminster Hall on this subject. Given what he has just revealed about what Scotline's liability should have been, does he think that there is a case for investigating the Valuation Office Agency?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Working Neighbourhoods Fund (9 March 2010)

Shona McIsaac: North East Lincolnshire council was allocated more than £13 million of working neighbourhood funding. However, to date, it has used just £1.5 million of that. Will my right hon. Friend tell me what checks are made on councils to see that they are actually using the money for the purpose for which it is intended? I fear that some of my constituents could have lost out because the...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Working Neighbourhoods Fund (9 March 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the working neighbourhoods fund which has been allocated to local authorities.

Written Answers — Home Department: Cleethorpes (5 March 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Cleethorpes constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 1997.

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 39 (23 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I have already taken that advice on board, Mr. Cook, which is why I have moved from where I was sitting this morning. I will now be able to catch your eye whenever I wish this afternoon. I have sympathy with some of the new clauses about wheel-clampers. During the evidence sittings, it became apparent to me that we do not really need wheel-clamping firms. Whatever the Minister says about...

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 39 (23 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I appreciate that clarification. It is, therefore, correct that the firms rely on ignorance of the law by issuing things that look, to all intents and purposes, like a penalty charge notice. They have the same lay-out and use the same typefaces, and they threaten to take one to court, even though they cannot do so. I am worried that the unintended consequence of what we are doing for the...

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 39 (23 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: Thank you for calling me to speak in this debate, Mr. Cook. I shall try to be brief. I tried to catch your eye earlier, but the Under-Secretary stood up and blocked me.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Cleethorpes (22 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Cleethorpes constituency, the effects on that constituency of her Department's policies since 1997.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Cleethorpes (10 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Cleethorpes constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 1997.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Cleethorpes (10 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Cleethorpes constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 1997.

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 31 (9 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: When leafleting.

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 31 (9 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: Literature.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Cleethorpes (8 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Cleethorpes constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 1997.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Pension Credit: Yorkshire and the Humber (5 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people resident in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area are in receipt of pension credit; and what the average award was for such people in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Winter Fuel Payments: Yorkshire and the Humber (5 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners aged over (a) 80 and (b) 60 years have received winter fuel payments in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (iii) North Lincolnshire local authority area in each year since 2007-08.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Lincolnshire (5 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many residents in each electoral ward in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area attended university in each year since 1997.

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 14 (4 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I am pleased that the Opposition amendments have not been accepted. I fear that had they been accepted, fewer criminals  would be brought to justice. There is a flipside to the argument. We have been focusing on people being apprehended for crimes, but DNA and a robust DNA database can also clear people of crimes. It gives an additional tool for the police and authorities to eliminate...

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 14 (4 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I think I understand where the hon. Gentleman is coming from. However, a couple of years ago, I spent a large part of the summer recess on jury service and the cases I had to decide upon were serious sexual offences. There were two separate and serious cases—both harrowing—in which the accused were found not guilty, but as I know the Scottish legal system, I hazard a guess—

Public Bill Committee: Crime and Security Bill: Clause 14 (4 February 2010)

Shona McIsaac: I totally accept that, Mr. Cook. However, in mitigation, I was prompted to mention Scotland because the Opposition seem to rely on the Scottish system so much to justify their amendments. A robust DNA database is about justice for the victims of serious crimes. Having been a member of a jury hearing the gruesome details of such crimes, I am pleased that we have a DNA database and that the DNA...