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Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

John Prescott: May I congratulate the Secretary of State on his statement? It arises from the planning delay over important national energy requirements. I should like to ask him specifically about wind turbine power. As he is aware, we are doing well on offshore investment, but not so well in onshore investment, where a great deal more will have to be done. It appears that recently 75 per cent. of...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Prescott: I have listened to many of these debates and had the privilege of being involved in the Kyoto negotiations in 1997, when Britain played the leading part in concluding the Kyoto agreement. It is quite wrong for the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) to be talking as if we have no direction and no delivery. I think he knows as much about this Government's delivery as he does...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Prescott: Again, the hon. Gentleman shows his ignorance. Let me tell him this: presumably, there was some leadership to achieve the targets and bring things together. Only four countries in Europe actually achieved the Kyoto target, so we must have been all right on delivery. We were the first to want to talk about carbon trading, which Europe then took over from us. We were the first ones to bring in...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Prescott: I do wish the hon. Gentleman would go and talk to his Tory council and see what is actually happening. I have 44 examples of wind farm applications all over the country that have been turned down. They were recommended by the planning officers, but they were rejected by Tory councillors. On appeal, 70 per cent. of those applications, which were rejected by the elected authorities, are imposed...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Prescott: The real issue is achieving agreement at Copenhagen—

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Prescott: No, because other hon. Members wish to speak. I do not think that the European deal, which is based on emissions and which I call plan A, will work. There are 187 countries, not the 40-odd that were at Kyoto. We need consensus, and we need to recognise that 80 per cent. of the world lives in poverty. We are the 20 per cent. who poisoned the world. The emissions argument in the European deal...

Prayers (15 May 2009) has video

John Prescott: Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—this is the first time in 40 years, so it is quite a moment for me. As I know from having worked there, the practice in the Council of Europe is that if a person does not turn up for their Bill, the speech that they were going to give is delivered to the official report so that it can be printed.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Flooding (England) (9 Jul 2007)

John Prescott: As a Back Bencher, I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. I echo the praise of the people of Hull for the emergency services, the voluntary services and the local authority workers—they all worked tremendously hard. The floods damaged more than 5,000 houses in Hull, closed many schools—4,000 children were looking for a school—and caused great damage. Tragically, a man...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Consultants (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) on 23 October 2006, Official Report, column 1626W.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Home Working (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: Staff in my Office are seconded from the Department for Communities and Local Government, and I therefore refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela E. Smith) on 21 June 2007, Official Report, column 2099W.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Joint Ministerial Committee (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: I last attended a meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee on Europe (JMC(E)) in July 2005.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Manpower (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: As stated in the departmental Annual Report, copies of which are available in the Library of the House, my Office employed 19.8 full-time equivalent staff. Of these, 40 per cent. were female and 60 per cent. were male. Where the information requested results in figures of less than five this is not released in order to protect the privacy of individuals.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Sick Leave (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 14 May 2007, Official Report, column 536W.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: West Indies (27 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: This Government publish an annual list of Cabinet Ministers' travel overseas costing over £500, along with the total cost of all ministerial travel. Information for 2007-08 will be published as soon as it is ready at the end of the financial year. All travel is in accordance with the Ministerial Code and Travel by Ministers.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departmental Coordination (25 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: I refer the hon. Member to my Department's annual report, copies of which are available in the Library for the reference of Members.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Official Gifts (25 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: The Government publish an annual list of gifts received by Ministers valued at more than £140. Information relating to 2007-08 will be published as soon as it is available at the end of the financial year.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Foreign Relations (21 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: My Department has not agreed any memorandums of understanding with foreign Governments.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Departments: Official Residences (21 Jun 2007)

John Prescott: I refer the right hon. Lady to the answer given to her by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 14 June 2007, Official Report , column 1263W, and to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) by the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster, North (Edward Miliband) on 25 July 2006, Official Report, column 1637W.