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Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (23 Nov 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the biomass to be deployed in his Department's renewable energy strategy will be compliant with the Searchinger factor.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Departmental Information and Communications Technology (12 Nov 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which IT systems have been in development for use within her Department in the last three years; what the cost was of each such system; which such systems have been (a) implemented, (b) not implemented and (c) implemented and subsequently terminated.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Air Pollution (28 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, columns 697-8W, on air pollution, if he will indicate the increased morbidity and mortality levels assumed behind each of the six monetised social health costs in 2020 listed in the table.

Written Answers — Transport: Railways: East Midlands (28 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what plans he has to improve the East Midlands peak time train service between Manchester and (a) Merseyside and (b) South Yorkshire.

Written Answers — Transport: First TransPennine Express: Standards (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what plans he has to improve the TransPennine peak time train service between Manchester and (a) Sheffield, (b) Stockport, (c) Stalybridge, (d) West Yorkshire, (e) Salford, (f) Bolton and (g) Warrington.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department holds on the emissions profile of the biofuel B30K.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department holds on (a) the likely geographical sources of the cooking oil to be recycled and (b) the proportion of palm oil that will be used to recycle into the biofuel B30K.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what evidence his Department has on the boiler efficiencies of oil-fired systems using the biofuel B30K which underpin the carbon output rating attributed to it in table 12 of the draft SAP 2009.

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: I am extremely grateful to the Minister for that response—indeed, that is what the Minister for Housing told me—but the advice I am getting from officers in Manchester city council is that such an extension is not possible without changes in primary legislation. Will my hon. Friend expand a little on the basis on which the time period could be extended? Again, I thank him for the...

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: Private landlords have been a feature of big cities for as long as big cities have existed in this country and other countries. People such as Peter Rachman are part of the vocabulary and folk memory of urban working-class communities. Virtually all working-class people from the inner cities have tales to tell of bad landlords and of what has happened to their families. However, what happened...

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. When I started trying to persuade the Government to regulate private landlords, although I did not use quite those words, the then Housing Minister wrote to me to say that the Government were not prepared to regulate private housing, because that would damage the private rented sector in London and the south-east and lead to homelessness. I found...

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: My hon. Friend's observation is accurate, but the annoying thing is that although the real destruction and cost, which are difficult to quantify, are inflicted on people, that happens at a cost to the taxpayer, which must be wrong. When the 2004 Act came into force the Government did not publish the statutory guidelines, so Manchester, which was one of the first authorities to try to...

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Graham Stringer: The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, and the burden of most of what I am saying will be the time that the process takes: setting up and implementing selective licensing schemes, finding private landlords—whether they are good, bad or indifferent—getting them registered and monitoring the schemes. It is a complicated proposal. There are 10,708 properties in the area in my...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 2 — Parish polls (13 Oct 2009) has video

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Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 2 — Parish polls (13 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stringer: I wish to speak to new clauses 10 and 11. As we discussed in the previous debate, the Bill is in a very real sense a lost opportunity to deal with the relationship between local, regional and central Government and to allow local government to deal with many of the problems that it faces. It surprises me, given that the Bill deals with petitions and consultations, some of which I believe are...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stringer: I always listen carefully to my right hon. Friend's argument, but that is the nonsense of it, is it not? The natural extension of what she is saying is that local authorities would not be able to use exactly the same money to help exactly the same businesses and exactly the same people. That is not the case. Local authorities could use that money at least as effectively.

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stringer: That is precisely the point, is it not? The title of the Bill is a misnomer. It is yet another Bill that should be entitled "Interfering with local government", rather than having its title suggest that it is about local democracy. The hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy) was right to ask what the difference is between leaving the determination of a policy on toilets to...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stringer: The right hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly valid and excellent point. Long ago, almost every large private company gave up trying to control everything from the centre, because such an approach is inefficient and ineffective. My second point—let me move on to new clause 15 —concerns my right hon. Friend the Minister's answer to my question about why non-elected people on RDAs...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 19 — Mutual insurance (13 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stringer: I may have had this discussion with my right hon. Friend and others before, but will she tell the House why non-elected people should have power over elected people?