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[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] — UK Relations with Russia (14 Oct 2009)

David Wilshire: I was born when fighting stopped in Europe at the end of the second world war. I grew up in a household, town and country that had learned to hate fascism and hate Germans. Sixty-five years later, western Europe is united, harmonious and making progress. One needs to ask: how did that transformation come about? Clearly, it did not happen overnight. It started very badly, but there was mutual...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Valuation (12 Oct 2009)

David Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answers to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 9 September 2009, Official Report, columns 1924-7W, to the hon. Member for Ludlow of 14 September 2009, Official Report, columns 2131-2W, and to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 September 2009, Official Report, columns 2212-4W, on housing: valuation, how...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Police: Council Tax (25 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date his Department first informed Surrey Police Authority that it intended to use (a) a 2008-09 notional budget requirement and (b) a 2008-09 notional Band D council tax rate when deciding whether to cap Surrey Police Authority's precept.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill: Clause 3 (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: With this, it will be convenient to discuss amendment 19, in clause 3, page 4, line 26, at end insert— ‘(5) Regulations made by virtue of this section may, in particular, make provision for the payment of fees.’

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill: Schedule 2 (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: I thank hon. Members for the comments made. I thank our Clerk, who ensured that we did this properly. It was probably appropriate that I chair a Committee dealing with learner drivers because I am a learner Chairman, as you have noticed, and I am grateful to you all for accepting my shortcomings with good humour. I am sure that it is not only Mr. Knight I will see in the Smoking Room later.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: Order. I just want to prove that I can stand up straight at this time in the morning. If I could ask the right hon. Gentleman to withdraw that, I would, but it is now on record.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: Order. This is getting worse—I do not think it has anything to do with the Bill. If we can get back to the Bill, it will save me some blushes.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: It is going to be a long time before I live that one down. I was saying to the Clerk that I do not think that anyone from the Daily Telegraph is here, so perhaps that will not feature.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill: Clause 2 (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 15, in clause 2, page 3, line 45, leave out ‘Transport Tribunal’ and insert ‘First-tier Tribunal’.

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: Before we start discussing of the Bill, may I make a few comments? First, as Mr. Donohoe was anxious to know, of course everybody may take their jackets off if they feel the need to do so. Secondly, will those with a mobile phone either turn it off or put it on silent? If anybody is tempted to try to table amendments at this stage, I must make it clear that I do not like late amendments, so I...

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 2, in clause 1, page 1, line 12, after ‘considering’, insert ‘whether to refuse the application for an extension of the person’s registration or (as the case may be)’.

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

David Wilshire: I always find these debates fascinating. I see that the Annunciator says "European Affairs", but these debates are usually about the European Union. I still have an atlas that has Norway, Switzerland and Russia in Europe, so this is not wholly a debate about the European Union, and I want to speak on a different subject. I have the pleasure and the privilege of leading the Conservative...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

David Wilshire: My hon. Friend mentions the anthem as well. The Council of Europe is being upstaged by the European Union and the European Parliament. Vast sums of money are being spent on duplication of the human rights work done by the Council of Europe. We have this great institution of human rights, which the European Union is claiming for itself, and huge sums are being put into duplicating the work of...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

David Wilshire: I apologise for not hearing the beginning of the hon. Gentleman's clearly uncontroversial speech. He has referred to separate groups. Would he care to explain how the following comes about? In the Council of Europe, the British Conservatives are in a group of their own. While it was the third largest—and bigger than the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe—it was very...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: My hon. Friend mentions the Oxford Economics report. Has he had a chance to read the new one?

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: Having 51 minutes versus nine minutes is a bit of an imbalance when putting such cases. May I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie) on securing this debate? Had he been a bit more astute he could have got the second debate, in which case I would have been in the Chair and therefore silenced. I am sorry about that. The House knows my views, Mr. Taylor, so I will...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: Okay, if one looked at the matter seriously and decided that it would be a good idea to have another airport elsewhere—I take my hon. Friend's point that he did not say that he wanted one—the idea presumably would be to have one. Looking at the rest of the world, in Montreal, for example, where they have done just that, the new airport is now being closed because the old one is...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: That is highly unlikely. These figures are the best one has in respect of passengers in the domestic market coming into Heathrow. That market is not big. Almost all the flights are international. The number of regional flights is declining as ever more people go from regional airports to Schiphol, Amsterdam and Charles de Gaulle. That is another reason why not much is done about carbon...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: My hon. Friend is right to say that the business community is not totally supportive. I remind him that not every MP near the airport is on the same side.

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Heathrow Airport Expansion (16 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: I have heard time and again the argument that transit passengers are only worth a cup of tea. Does my hon. Friend accept that if 35 to 40 per cent. of passengers—indeed, well over half on some flights—are transferring through Heathrow and going out again on different flights, many flights would not be economically viable, and more routes would be lost, if that were to change?