Results 1-20 of 371 for speaker:Gwyn Prosser

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Capital Projects (3 Nov 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: What recent assessment he has made of the effects on the economy of his Department's policy of bringing forward spending on capital projects.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Capital Projects (3 Nov 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: Advancing building programmes is also good news for us in our constituencies, but what can we do to encourage hospital trusts that do not have access to capital funds and that rely on their surpluses to advance their programmes and create jobs and construction programmes earlier?

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

Gwyn Prosser: We all appreciate the need for pay restraint, especially among the higher paid, but does my right hon. Friend appreciate the demoralising effect it has when we tell low-paid public sector workers that their pay is to be frozen and their jobs threatened? In particular, does he appreciate the impact on hard-working border control officers based in Dover and Calais?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: Sir Jeffrey Sterling famously said that the Labour Government did more for the British merchant navy in their first 18 months than the Tories did in 18 years. Given the news that Maersk Line is starting to ship out of the British register and lay off British seafarers, will the Prime Minister tell us when Ministers will act on the employment and training package put forward in 2007 by the...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Cycling (21 Jul 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission with reference to the answer of 5 November 2008, Official Report, column 475W, on cycling, when he expects to announce the decision on the implementation of a cycle to work scheme for staff of the House; and if he will make a statement.

Business of the House (16 Jul 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: This year, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Labour's minimum wage, but non-UK seafarers sailing on British ships and going to British ports are still exempt from the Act. Now that the new Shipping Minister is considering that loophole, and others, what can the Leader of the House do to help amend the Act and bring some fairness into the system?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (6 Jul 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: The Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing told the House this afternoon that the Department is putting another £15 million into further clamping down on illegal immigration between Calais and Dover. On what is the money being spent? What is being done to encourage the French to deal appropriately with the encampments in Calais?

Business of the House (25 Jun 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: When can we have a debate on the free passage of passengers and freight vessels across the channel into Dover? Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the French unions are attempting to disrupt the passage of British flagged, British crewed ships, ridiculously describing them as operating under flags of convenience?

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 39 (11 Jun 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: Before we adjourned, we were talking about what I described as the intrinsic unfairness of using legislation and rule changes retrospectively, particularly when it affects individuals’ real lives. We were discussing the text on the back of work cards and whether it gave people, no matter what category they came under, reasonable expectation—not expectation of a natural, God-given...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 39 (11 Jun 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: I share the discomfort of the hon. Member for Ashford, in that we are attempting to respond to measures that we have no real knowledge about. I also share many of the views of the hon. Member for Rochdale and his bemusement at the sudden change in the Conservative party’s attitude to these matters. Back in 1999, shortly after I came into this place, we had our first immigration and...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 39 (11 Jun 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants (18 May 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: We would have far fewer illegal immigrants to remove if we were even more effective in reducing the flow of illegals from northern France to Dover. What progress has the Minister made in setting up a secure holding centre in Calais? What benefits will flow from that?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Animals: Exports (14 May 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many live (a) calves, (b) adult cattle and (c) lambs and sheep were exported to each country of destination for (i) slaughter and (ii) further fattening in 2008.

Business of the House (26 Mar 2009) has video

Gwyn Prosser: Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time for a debate on the financial ineptitudes of shire county councils such as Kent, which invested £50 million of taxpayers' money in the failing Icelandic banks? Does she agree with the Audit Commission's findings published today, which label Kent county council's actions as neglect?

[Mr. Martin Caton in the Chair] — HMRC (Office Closures) (11 Mar 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: My hon. Friend carefully paints a very accurate picture of the difficulties that PCS workers and others face during the programme. Is it not true, however, that even before the formal proposals are introduced, offices such as Centurion house in Dover, from where business streams are being transferred to other areas, face closure by default, and that its employees face, as my hon. Friend says,...

[Mr. Martin Caton in the Chair] — HMRC (Office Closures) (11 Mar 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: On savings, my hon. Friend will be aware that the location of some offices is dictated by their geography and they cannot relocate, but even in those cases there are moves being made to privatise certain elements. For instance, in Priory court in Dover, which is a highly sensitive high-security centre, the Department wants to get rid of the highly regarded security systems and put in private...

Retrospective Business Rates (28 Jan 2009)

Gwyn Prosser: Does my hon. Friend agree that if we had followed the example of Scotland and gone through a proper consultation period prior to these radical changes, they would not have taken place? If any consultation had listened to the evidence that my hon. Friend and others have given in the debate, there is no way that the changes would have gone ahead. The situation rings out as being unjust and unfair.