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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: UK Credit Rating (2 Feb 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: What recent discussions he has had with credit rating agencies on the UK's AAA rating.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: UK Credit Rating (2 Feb 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: The Chancellor will be aware that the Governor of the Bank of England urged him to publish a credible deficit reduction plan or risk losing Britain's triple A rating. The CBI has said: "Current plans to halve the deficit over four years are too little, too late. The UK's AAA credit rating must be put beyond doubt." Is it not high time that the Chancellor produced a credible deficit reduction...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Council Tax Rebanding (26 Jan 2010)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent representations his Department has received on council tax rebanding; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Electoral Commission Committee: General Election Counts (21 Jan 2010)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission what information the Electoral Commission holds on the number of election counts that are not planned to commence on the evening of polling day in the general election.

Olympics: London 2012 (Multi-Media Coverage) (18 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: What representations she has received on the provision of multi-media coverage of the London 2012 Olympics; and if she will make a statement. [Official Report, 2 February 2010, Vol. 505, c. 1-2MC.]

Olympics: London 2012 (Multi-Media Coverage) (18 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: We all expect the games to be the most watched ever, but the introduction of multi-media coverage presents a huge logistical and technological challenge, particularly as it comes just after digital switchover. To what extent will an analogue signal still be available to those who want it?

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Energy Security (13 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: I declare an interest as an adviser to the South Hook LNG terminal, which has featured in this debate today. It is a hugely significant development, and it comes as no surprise that it was opened by Her Majesty the Queen and his excellency the Emir of Qatar earlier this year. We have to put this debate into context. We are going through the worst winter in decades, and in the past few days,...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Energy Security (13 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: The Secretary of State just said that the UK is currently experiencing the lowest gas prices in Europe. I am sure that he does not want to play politics with that claim, but I suspect that he is talking about wholesale gas prices. When does he expect those prices to be passed on to consumers?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Purley Hospital (12 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: When he expects redevelopment of Purley hospital to take place.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Purley Hospital (12 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: I would have thought that the Minister would include a degree of humility and an apology in his answer. It is eight years since his predecessor stood at that Dispatch Box promising a new hospital in Purley. We are in desperate need of services in the south of our borough, so will he please give orders straight away to get on with this development and do so in such a way as to ensure that if...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (7 Jan 2010) has video

Richard Ottaway: Will the Government stand by their pledge last year and include micro-combined heat and power in the forthcoming statutory instrument on feed-in tariffs?

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Voting Rights: Public Companies (15 Dec 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he plans to review the operation of company law in respect of the sale and purchase of shares for the purposes of restricting voting rights in respect of public companies.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Workplace Pension Saving (7 Dec 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: What steps she plans to take to encourage uptake of workplace pension saving.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Workplace Pension Saving (7 Dec 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: The Minister will be well aware of Conservative criticism of the Government's appalling record on pensions and the savings culture, but she may not be aware of the comments of the chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds, who said the other day: ""The Government can no longer sit on its hands. It must take bold and positive action to help support employer-sponsored...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (7 Dec 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Does the Secretary of State agree with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that poverty, unemployment and repossessions started to rise as early as 2004?

Business of the House (3 Dec 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: The Leader of the House will be aware that sections of the media are covering the issue of libel tourism, which is something that Ministers will have to judge on its merits. [ Interruption. ] Yes, Libel tourism. However, has she noticed that the issue of no win, no fee methods of compensation for lawyers involved in such cases has been added to the wish list? Does she agree that we are...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the written ministerial statement of 13 October 2009, Official Report, columns 20-21WS, on asylum, on what grounds he decided that the Asylum Screening Unit in Croydon should be the only location at which initial asylum applications may be made; what assessment he has made of the likely effects on Croydon of that...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Young People (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the oral answer of 26 October 2009, Official Report, column 13, on asylum applications, what change there has been to the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in Croydon in the last 12 months according to records held by his Department.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: What recent steps his Department has taken to prevent drug misuse in prisons.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Clearly, the Secretary of State will have to agree that whatever initiatives he has introduced are not working. Any reasonable person would ask how these drugs are getting in in the first place. Will he now instigate a review of how drugs are getting into prisons, and will he consider making searches of visitors and prison staff mandatory?