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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: As a former Science Minister myself, I am well aware that scientific advice can be politically inconvenient, but will the Prime Minister reassure the scientific community that when disagreements happen, he will engage in rational debate rather than shoot the messenger?

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Charities (Regulatory Burden) (28 Oct 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: What steps the Government are taking to reduce the regulatory burden on charities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Charities (Regulatory Burden) (28 Oct 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: Does the Minister understand that in my constituency, charities are worried about the detailed applications for gift aid, which she has just discussed, the ending of the ring-fencing of Supporting People and particularly the vagueness of the extension of Criminal Records Bureau checks, especially for volunteers dealing with children. The problem is not that the regulations are wrong, it is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Ian Taylor: As my son is serving in Operation Panther's Claw, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on that. However, I say on a personal basis that I profoundly hope that the Prime Minister's assurances are right. On environmental issues, can the Prime Minister tell us what the global warming has been in the past 10 years? Can he say whether the real impact that we have to look at is that it is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Ian Taylor: By how much?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Middle East (24 Jun 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: Part of the problem in Gaza is the rivalry between Fatah and Hezbollah. Does the Minister have any engagement in the discussions to try to keep the peace, and has Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu given any assurances in respect of Gaza in his comments about a two-state solution?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Secure Accommodation (16 Jun 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: How many places there are in secure accommodation for young people in the criminal justice system.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Secure Accommodation (16 Jun 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: I thank the Minister for that answer. The young offender programme led by National Grid has done an extremely good job, with young offenders grouped together. One of the problems in my constituency, however, is that the offender substance abuse programme, for people with drug problems, does not segregate on an age basis, so young offenders who have mild drug abuse problems are put with older...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] (9 Jun 2009)

Ian Taylor: The Minister is talking about the notional precept. I want it on the record that the actual increase in precept levied by Surrey police authority for 2009-10 is 4.89 per cent. That is below the 5 per cent. threshold.

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] (9 Jun 2009)

Ian Taylor: I am very concerned about something that I think the Minister just said. For the record, again, the general reserves of Surrey police are £5.6 million, which is less than the 3 per cent. in Audit Commission guidance, so raiding that would cause even more concern in any external audit of Surrey police. Surely, the Minister is not advocating that, is he?

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] (9 Jun 2009)

Ian Taylor: That is exactly the point. Why are the Government intervening when the Surrey council tax payer is providing half the funding for Surrey police, Surrey taxpayers are contributing massively to the central Exchequer and the force will have to be reduced by a further 24 officers to pay for the diktat that the Government are imposing centrally?

Council Tax Capping (Surrey) (9 Jun 2009)

Ian Taylor: It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Fraser, and a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford). He initiated the debate but, as has already been pointed out, all Surrey MPs are very much alongside him. It takes quite a lot to pull all the Surrey MPs together on one issue, but today we are debating that issue, which is county-wide. The...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Topical Questions (1 Jun 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: My son is one of the officers fighting alongside brave men in Afghanistan at the moment. One issue that all our soldiers face concerns the porous border with Pakistan. What is the Ministry of Defence doing to assist the Government of Pakistan and their army to try to establish further control through what seem, so far, to be successful activities in the Swat valley?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Lisbon Treaty (19 May 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: Does the Minister understand that, although we are waiting on the Irish, Czech and Polish Presidents as far as the Lisbon treaty is concerned, and we can continue to wait, the key issue is that is that Europe needs to be more organised, not less, in our uncertain world? It needs more cohesive action on foreign affairs, the environment and energy. It needs to work much more closely together...

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: The Kelly committee may come to the conclusion that the hon. Gentleman has just outlined, but the matter is being imposed in isolation. Those Members, including me, as I fully declare, who have never been in London, and whose constituencies are in Surrey—the old border of my constituency went down to Guildford—have suddenly been lumped in, without any consultation about the impact...

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way?

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Ian Taylor: Mr. Speaker, is it in order that the Leader of the House goes through an explanation without giving way to somebody who is personally affected by the measures? An explanation between us might well clarify the situation.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

Ian Taylor: I, first, declare my entry in the Register of Members' Interests—in case anyone thinks that my interests benefit from this Budget. Our level of debt before the recession was so high that, now, we are less able than we would otherwise wish to react to the problems that we face. The current Prime Minister must regret the profligacy of the former Chancellor—the sadness, of course,...