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Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers (12 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 648W, on departmental ministerial policy advisers, how many specialist staff are employed by his Department on a fixed-term contract to provide policy advice; and what the (a) title and (b) policy...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change: Costs (11 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the evidential basis was for the Prime Minister's statement at the Major Economics Forum on 19 October 2009, that the economic cost of failure to avoid the current effects of climate change could lead to an economic cost greater than the losses caused by two world wars and the Great Depression; and what estimate he has made of the global financial...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (10 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the effects of the use of biomass boilers installed to meet Renewable Energy Strategy targets on (a) air quality, (b) levels of particulate emissions and (c) levels of (i) morbidity and (ii) mortality.

Business of the House (5 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: Will the Government find time soon to debate the proposals that I am publishing today on behalf of the all-party group on extraordinary rendition, to try to get a clampdown on extraordinary rendition and give the public confidence that Britain will no longer be used, either directly or indirectly, for that practice?

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (5 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to his Department's advertisement for a job vacancy published in August 2009, for a policy adviser to the Secretary of State on Faith and Community, and pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 655W, on Tony Clements, how many...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 42 — Employment etc of a former Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: Will the definition of working for the Crown be the same as the definition that will be used for determining who is a civil servant under the civil service clauses of the Bill?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 37 — The Comptroller and Auditor General (4 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: Does the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee agree that, taking all things into account, we now have a structure that deals to some degree with the loneliness problem, and creates a relationship between the board chairman and the CAG that will enable the morale of the NAO to be not only sustained but strengthened? Does he also agree that the work of the Public Accounts Commission, and...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] (3 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: When the Minister says that non-civil servants will not be covered, does she understand that there is an element of circularity in her definitions?

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] (3 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the courts will use Pepper v. Hart? They will look at what has been said here, and they will find what I think was the only clear definition, which is that anybody who has signed the civil service code is a member of the civil service. That seems to suggest that anybody who decides they want to sign it can then call themselves a civil servant.

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] (3 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Tyrie: I am grateful for that ruling, because some of my remarks will range more widely than those that we have heard hitherto. I agree with everything that I have just heard, in a typically thoughtful and interesting speech from the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead). When Lord Falconer described the Bill in his evidence to the Joint Committee not as a constitutional reform or...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

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Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Tony Clements (3 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 656W, on Tony Clements, whether Mr. Clements was appointed to the post as Policy Adviser through a process of open competition; whether the job vacancy filled by Mr. Clements was advertised on the public part of the Civil Service...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Biofuels: Air Pollution (2 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of levels of emissions of (a) fine PM2.5 particulates and (b) PM10 particulates from biomass boilers once the biomass targets in the Renewable Energy Strategy are met.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Pensioners (2 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) male pensioners with national insurance contributions of between 30 and 43 years were born before 6 April 1945 and (b) female pensioners with national insurance contributions of between 30 and 39 years were born before 6 April 1950.

Written Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Fuel Oil (2 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the estimated financial value of tax to be collected on the use of recovered fuel oil from the lime manufacturing industry is in the UK over the next three years; (2) how much tax has been collected on the use of recovered fuel oil from (a) the lime industry, (b) the electrical industry and (c) the steel industry since the implementation...

Written Answers — Transport: Biofuels (28 Oct 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to paragraph 4.150 of the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009, what assessment he has made of (a) increases in commodity prices and (b) effects on food security consequent upon using food crops for fuel.

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

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to paragraph 170 of the impact assessment for the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009, by how much he expects (a) food and (b) biomass prices to rise as a consequence of implementation of the strategy.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (26 Oct 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the job vacancies for three departmental advisers on faith and community issues, advertised by his Department in August 2009, for what reasons the vacancies (a) are for 12-month fixed-term contracts and (b) were not advertised through the Civil Service Recruitment Gateway or departmental website.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: South Downs National Park (22 Oct 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much (a) has been spent and (b) is planned to be spent on (i) consultation, (ii) organisational set-up, (iii) project management, (iv) communications, (v) planning, (vi) wages, (vii) pensions, (viii) office running and (ix) other costs of the South Downs National Park in the next 12 months.