Results 1-20 of 390 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Paul Truswell

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

Paul Truswell: Can my right hon. Friend give an assurance that the NPSs before us today have been fully assessed for their carbon impact, so that they transmit a clear message to the IPC about the need to meet national climate change targets and priorities?

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

Paul Truswell: Is my right hon. Friend aware that Leeds university is planning to shed 700 staff? What impact does he fear that that might have on its ability to meet the objectives that he has so lucidly and eloquently outlined in his statement?

Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [ Lords]: Antisocial Behaviour (2 Nov 2009) has video

Paul Truswell: Does my right hon. Friend accept that some of the families about which he is talking are inflicting huge damage on their communities through other criminal activity, as well as antisocial behaviour? They are often pursued by the police through the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Does he understand the concern of some forces, such as West Yorkshire, that an inadequate proportion of the money...

Pudsey (Transport) (28 Oct 2009)

Paul Truswell: It is a pleasure to serve for the first time under your watchful eye, Dr. McCrea. It is in the nature of Westminster Hall debates that Members take on the role of parliamentary Oliver Twists in pleading with Minsters, "Please Sir—or Madam on some occasions—can I have some more?" I regret that I do not intend to depart from that noble tradition, but I appreciate how tall an order...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Planning: National Policy Statements (20 May 2009)

Paul Truswell: I do not intend to detain the House for too long, because my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) admirably enumerated all the reasons why the House should support the amendment in his name and the names of colleagues such as me. Throughout discussion of the Planning Bill—or the Planning Act 2008, as it is now—I said that my starting point was to apply...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Planning: National Policy Statements (20 May 2009)

Paul Truswell: I do not think that there has been any suggestion in today's debate that the role of the Select Committee is not crucial. The point is that the Select Committee, like a Public Bill Committee, should scrutinise an NPS in detail and then bring it to the House for a substantive vote, in much the same way as we do with Bills. My hon. Friend should rest assured—I hope she agrees—that...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Planning: National Policy Statements (20 May 2009)

Paul Truswell: Will my hon. Friend explain how she feels the amendment tabled by our hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) and others would lead to any undue delay? I am slightly perplexed by that suggestion; perhaps I have misconstrued what she is saying.

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Planning: National Policy Statements (20 May 2009)

Paul Truswell: This process will obviously be kick-started by a significant number and range of national policy statements. Are the Minister and Select Committee Chairs confident that they have the logistical capacity to be able to deal with that initial major amount of work?

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Planning: National Policy Statements (20 May 2009)

Paul Truswell: A few minutes ago, my hon. Friend said that the relevant Minister would review the draft national policy statement in the light of public consultation and the views of the Select Committee. If I recall things correctly, he used the words "resolutions of this House." Could he be a bit more specific about what he might mean by that? Within what parameters will we be working, in terms of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill (21 Apr 2009) has video

Paul Truswell: Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the main motivation for the negotiations between officers from Leeds and himself is to remove his obstructions and the tactics that he employs?

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

Paul Truswell: I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing a debate on such a crucial issue. Besides the invaluable service that he is performing on behalf of his constituents who are directly affected by the catastrophic events at Stafford hospital, does he also appreciate that patients around the country want reassurance that what happened there will not and cannot be repeated anywhere else?

[John Bercow in the Chair] — National Dementia Strategy (1 Apr 2009)

Paul Truswell: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing a debate on such a crucial issue. Is it not also vital that, at the moment and in the future, we adopt a much more robust inspection regime to ensure that staffing levels are adequate to meet the needs now of people living with dementia, that in due course staff are properly trained and that issues such as the abuse of anti-psychotic drugs can be...

Building Colleges for the Future (25 Mar 2009)

Paul Truswell: I join everyone in congratulating the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) on raising this important issue. To the litany of concerns, may I add Leeds, where the LSC encouraged colleges to merge? Three colleges opted in, on the explicit understanding that major capital resources would be made available to meet the infrastructure requirements. In fact, two colleges that did not join that...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Paul Truswell: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Paul Truswell: The hon. Gentleman is constructing an admirable alibi to justify his party's complicity in the decision to go to war with Iraq. If he was not involved in that, then clearly my comments do not apply to him. Some 140 Labour Members voted against going to war with Iraq, as did virtually the whole Liberal Democrat party and a number of other parties. However, only six members of the Conservative...

Community Sports Clubs (18 Mar 2009)

Paul Truswell: Is not the other crucial point that my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms Smith) is making that there is little point in the Government's teeming money in through whatever mechanism we are talking about if it is then ladled out from clubs through utility and licence costs, and the various other continuing cost outlets that my hon. Friend wants to close?

Pensioners (4 Mar 2009)

Paul Truswell: With all due respect, does the hon. Gentleman understand why some of the hand-wringing points that he is making at the moment are profoundly nauseating to Labour politicians such as myself? Forgive me, Mr. Jones; I do not like to resort to anecdote, but my parents' experience was one of the motivating factors that drove me reluctantly into this murky world that we call politics. They worked...