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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: UK Low Carbon Transition Plan (15 Jul 2009)

John Maples: In developing these policies, what account has the Secretary of State taken of two recent but rather unexpected pieces of scientific evidence? One is the Hadley Centre's series of global temperatures, which is one of the four series used by the IPCC, and which shows cooling since 1998. More recently, the American series developed by NASA, which uses measurements from satellites in space and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Jul 2009) has video

John Maples: If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 15 July.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Jul 2009) has video

John Maples: In 2006, we sent 3,000 troops into Afghanistan as part of a reconstruction mission. Now, our objectives are to defeat terrorism and to make Afghanistan a stable and effective state. Many of my constituents are not convinced that we have a credible strategy for achieving those objectives. Will the Prime Minister look again at those objectives in the context of what is achievable, so that I can...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Elderly People (Long-term Care) (8 Jul 2009) has video

John Maples: The seven soldiers killed in Afghanistan, whose names the right hon. and learned Lady gave us at the start of Prime Minister's Question Time, bring to exactly 170 the tragic total of those killed in Afghanistan since 2006. Many people in my constituency are starting to doubt the wisdom of this war and I wonder whether she could remind the House of precisely what our military objective in...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer: Research (2 Jul 2009)

John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department allocated to research into (a) cancer and (b) ovarian cancer in the last five years.

Air Quality (Aircraft) (1 Jul 2009)

John Maples: Has the Minister moved on from the toxicity study? If so, will he tell us when it is expected to report? People are anxious to know. They are grateful that the study is taking place, but they want to know when they will receive the answers.

Air Quality (Aircraft) (1 Jul 2009)

John Maples: My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) has laid out most of the case that, had I been in his position, I would have laid out. I am grateful to him for instituting this debate. I wish to add a couple of points. I got involved with this subject two or three years ago because a constituent of mine, John Hoyte, one of the founders of the Aerotoxic Association, came to see...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control: Finance (29 Jun 2009)

John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to publish the results of the first round of bids for funding under his Department's property-level protection grant schemes.

Royal Assent: G20 Summit (2 Apr 2009) has video

John Maples: I hope that I am not reading too much into the Chancellor's desire to remove the stigma of going to the International Monetary Fund. If he has been checking the IMF's phone number, perhaps he should let us know. The Chancellor said that the communiqué dealt with bank regulation. May I make a suggestion to him? I think that what is needed is not heavier or lighter or more expensive...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

John Maples: The right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) had a good go at bankers, who are a pretty easy target, but there is nothing new in the behaviour of banks creating financial crises, which is why they need regulating. I think it was Warren Buffett who observed of this crisis that banks have spent the past 10 years inventing a whole load of new ways of losing money, which was...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

John Maples: Yes, although other things were going on, too. Monetary policy was too loose during that period, and the problems were pretty obvious from monetary statistics, without analysing the banks' balance sheets. Adair Turner has basically got his prescription right. I disagree with him about only one thing, which is the Glass-Steagall Act and the splitting of the casino from the utility—of the...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

John Maples: Does not the Chancellor think that all the things he is doing, and wants to do, would be much easier to do if the Government had run a responsible fiscal policy over the past six years, and had run surpluses in the good years?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Spring European Council (23 Mar 2009) has video

John Maples: Did the Prime Minister have a chance to discuss with his colleagues at the Council the five European Union directives that are in the pipeline, all of which could impose considerable costs on employers? I am sure he agrees that at a time of high and rising unemployment, the last thing that we ought to be doing is imposing additional costs on employers, whether they are in the public or the...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Written Questions: Government Responses (4 Mar 2009)

John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to reply to Question 257080, on the proposed Middle Quinton eco-town, tabled on 10 February 2009.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns: Middle Quinton (2 Mar 2009)

John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will publish the PricewaterhouseCoopers interim financial viability study of the proposed Middle Quinton eco-town.

Olympics: Financial Markets (19 Jan 2009) has video

John Maples: The situation is obviously vastly worse than the Chancellor or anyone else thought a few months ago. In the pre-Budget report less than two months ago, his forecast was based on the economy recovering in the second half of this year, and the maximum fall in gross domestic product being 1 per cent. On that basis, he forecast a Government borrowing requirement of 8 per cent. of GDP. Surely,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Gaza (12 Jan 2009) has video

John Maples: Would the Foreign Secretary not agree that those who so vigorously criticise Israel would carry greater credibility if they had made similar criticisms over the years of the suicide bombings and rocket attacks deliberately aimed at civilians in Israel? I completely agree with him that we need to see a two-state solution, but may I urge him to recognise that if we are to achieve such a...

Written Answers — Defence: Military Bases: Long Marston (18 Dec 2008)

John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Engineer Depot at Long Marston has been used for dumping, burying or otherwise disposing of (a) asbestos and (b) other hazardous materials.

Business of the House: Government Information (Unauthorised Release) (4 Dec 2008) has video

John Maples: Prior to 1989, the Government could have used the Official Secrets Act in this case. The Home Secretary is sitting next to one of the world experts on the Official Secrets Act, who will be able to remind her that in 1989, almost exactly 20 years ago to this day, the then Conservative Government amended the Official Secrets Act to restrict the application of the criminal law to a very narrow...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Local Government Finance Settlement (26 Nov 2008) has video

John Maples: The VAT reduction of 2.5 per cent. is worth about £200 a year for somebody on £20,000 a year. A 5 per cent. increase in council tax will absorb about a third of that, so I urge the Minister to use the capping powers that he threatened to use, and to do so in a draconian way, hopefully keeping council tax increases below 3 per cent., rather than below 5 per cent. He specifically...