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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009)

Joan Walley: Given the reference in the statement to the skills accounts and the fact that students will be encouraged to shop around for colleges and courses, does my right hon. Friend agree that my constituents could be disadvantaged if we cannot find a way of retrieving the capital spend for the Stoke on Trent further education college? Will he work with me to try and find a solution so that we have...

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

Joan Walley: What is there in place to ensure that there will be full environmental impact assessments in order that there can be a level playing field for deciding whether to invest in nuclear or renewables? I have concerns about investment in nuclear.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Joan Walley: My right hon. Friend's attendance at Copenhagen is important, but on the economic agenda and the way in which we need to get through the recession at the moment, will he give the House an undertaking that he will work with the Regional Ministers, including the Minister for the West Midlands, so that areas such as Stoke-on-Trent can take advantage of the new environmental technologies that...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Joan Walley: Deforestation is critical in getting an overall agreement. I was therefore disturbed to read reports in the media a couple of weeks ago that the European negotiating position would be not to support the removal of palm oil in plantations. I understand that is not the case. I would be grateful if my right hon. Friend would put the record straight, so that we know what position Europe is taking...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: British Waterways (29 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: What recent representations he has received on the activities of British Waterways in the Stoke-on-Trent area.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: British Waterways (29 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: In anticipation of the representations that the Minister will receive from the Burslem port project, may I welcome the investment in canals? However, will he give his active support in that partnership working to the plans to bring the arm of the Trent and Mersey canal back into use at Burslem port? We want to see the volunteer scheme, which is about to clear the site, matched by a firm...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Regional Spatial Strategy (27 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: Given the curtailed debate last week on clause 67 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, will the Secretary of State ensure that planning guidance to the new regional development agencies on the regional strategic strategies will give weight to environmental as well as economic concerns?

Economic Recovery (22 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: Given the unprecedented challenge that we face in dealing with climate change, what are the Government doing, as we go through the recession and try to restore employment, to ensure that we have a green economy and sustainable environmental growth alongside the economic recovery?

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: We want to be bold in Stoke-on-Trent. We want to sign up to the 10:10 campaign, and it is vital that we work together right the way across Parliament and down to the people at grass-roots level. That is taken as read. May I point out to the hon. Gentleman, however, that it would have been helpful if his motion had mentioned the report that was delivered only last week to Parliament from the...

Nato: Royal Mail (20 Oct 2009)

Joan Walley: Everyone listening to the statement will have greeted it with dismay and anger. As long as the Royal Mail is in public ownership, what is done is done in the Government's name. We are talking not about the Premiership but about a precious public institution, so will the Minister instruct Adam Crozier to go to ACAS and get a negotiated solution?

Nato: China (20 Oct 2009)

Joan Walley: What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of EU co-operation with China.

Nato: China (20 Oct 2009)

Joan Walley: Will my hon. Friend tell me how existing co-operation and the European Union's current stance can be used to ensure that we get a fair and effective Copenhagen climate change treaty that involves China?

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 6 — Purposes of regional development agencies (13 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: Given my long-standing interest in the whole issue of sustainability, and the length of time I have sat here hoping for an opportunity to speak to the amendments, I want to impress on my right hon. Friend the importance of putting a definition of sustainable growth in the Bill—an explicit reference to make sure that the regional strategies that the Government are now introducing...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 6 — Purposes of regional development agencies (13 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: I will happily give way.

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): New Clause 6 — Purposes of regional development agencies (13 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: I am most grateful. I look forward to an urgent meeting with great interest. I should like the Campaign to Protect Rural England to be involved as well. Like many voluntary organisations, the CPRE has impressed on us the importance of making sure that we do not repeat the mistakes that were made when the Government set up the regional development agencies without giving proper powers on...

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

Joan Walley: Will my right hon. Friend allow me to put on record that, all along, we in Stoke-on-Trent had serious concerns about the changes that she seeks to make retrospectively, and that we do not feel that they were in the best interests of governance in Stoke-on-Trent?

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Joan Walley: Is my hon. Friend aware of the concerns of the NHS in Stoke-on-Trent, particularly in respect of the very high number—the figure is well above the national average—of 11 to 16-year-olds who classify themselves as regular smokers? Does she agree that it is right that this Government should do all they can to reduce smoking, including among young people, and that we must go even...

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Housing and the Credit Crunch (16 Jul 2009)

Joan Walley: That is much appreciated.