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Business, Innovation and Skills: NEETs (12 Nov 2009)

Ann Winterton: How many people under the age of 24 were not in education, employment or training on the most recent date for which figures are available.

Business, Innovation and Skills: NEETs (12 Nov 2009)

Ann Winterton: Those are absolutely terrible figures and much higher than one would have expected, especially as so much taxpayers' money has been focused on getting young people into education, employment or training. May I suggest to the Minister that those young people who are fit and well and not included in those three sectors should be encouraged—in fact, made—to work for the local...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Training and Employment (11 Nov 2009)

Ann Winterton: What recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on measures to promote training and employment in Wales.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Training and Employment (11 Nov 2009)

Ann Winterton: Unemployment in Wales is rising faster than anywhere in the United Kingdom, while manufacturing capacity and output is going in the opposite direction. May I suggest to the Minister that he examine the small to medium-sized business sector, because such companies are best able to get finance and take on people who are properly trained, and best fitted to assist with the very high unemployment...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (10 Nov 2009) has video

Ann Winterton: Mr. Speaker, you will be horrified to learn that last year up to 40,000 assault cases were dealt with only by a caution, in spite of official guidance stating that they should be used only for low-level offending. Will the Justice Secretary tell the Crown prosecutor that such abuse of the system should be ended forthwith, and that cautions for assault cases are totally inappropriate?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Territorial Army (2 Nov 2009) has video

Ann Winterton: Now that the "one Army" concept has been, at the very least, severely damaged by the decisions of the regular generals last week, how does the Secretary of State believe it will feed through to retention rates within the TA? Has he considered another blow to morale—to all those small employers who have supported so generously their personnel going off on active duty?

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

Ann Winterton: What recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of bovine tuberculosis.

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

Ann Winterton: Far too many good dairy cows have been put down in my constituency of Congleton in Cheshire and elsewhere. While I welcome the progress made by the bovine TB eradication group, will the Secretary of State accept that veterinary surgeons who are members of the British Veterinary Association and the British Cattle Veterinary Association believe that he should reassess his criteria for targeting...

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

Ann Winterton: Is the Minister aware of the risk, if changes are made to the United Kingdom pet travel scheme—it might be extended in 2011—of introducing from the European Union to the United Kingdom a parasite called echinococcosis? An EU-wide risk assessment, followed by a prevention, reduction and control strategy, should be introduced before risking both animal and human health in the United...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Ann Winterton: The hon. Gentleman seems to be approaching the end of an excellent speech, but before he finishes, will he tell the House how he believes the dented one-army concept that he mentioned could be undented? What does he believe the Government, the MOD, the regular generals and everyone else must do to reassure the TA that it is very much part of the overall Army structure, and that we are very...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Ann Winterton: Does my hon. Friend agree that when the Army was asked to make cuts amounting to £43 million, the regular generals were rather Machiavellian in choosing to cut the TA budget, knowing that that would be very unpopular with the country and that it would probably be reversed? Is it not, however, also at a stroke a blow to the one Army concept, because what will the TA now think about the...

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: The Minister is absolutely correct about Vector being welcomed. I remember attending a briefing at the Ministry of Defence in which a young army officer—I cannot remember his name—recommended Vector. He and I had a slight clash of opinion. I said to him that having the driver's seat over the front wheel would be absolutely disastrous. I do not know about such things, but, as a...

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: I would like to say, quite frankly, that other European countries have made a great deal of money out of those contracts. Most ordinary men and women in the United Kingdom would like to see more people—not just a few more—present on the front line. We very much resent the fact that it is British, Canadian, Estonian, Dutch and Danish troops who have paid the price in Afghanistan,...

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: I am grateful to my hon. Friend giving way. May I just tell him that the situation in Northern Ireland was completely different from that in Afghanistan? The problem in Afghanistan, as he will well know, being a pilot himself, relates to flying helicopters hot and high. We have nothing that is totally suitable for the environment there, so many helicopters spend masses of time on the ground....

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: Defensive aid suites?

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: I have spoken about that in debates, and I agree with the hon. Gentleman on the reconstruction, bringing civil enterprises into being, and so on, but that is a different argument. When we went into Iraq, we were inadequately prepared militarily because we simply did not have the vehicles to save soldiers' lives. We had Snatch Land Rovers, which were deployed because we had nothing else at the...

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: The fact is that the next Government, after the defence review, have to decide what we need as a country because we cannot afford to have it all. My point is that we have ensured that young men and women have served in Iraq and are serving in Afghanistan and while they are in mortal danger, we should do our best to support them with appropriate vehicles and aircraft. In the long term there...

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: It is a pleasure to introduce the debate under your chairmanship, Mr. Taylor, and I am delighted to have secured it on my first attempt—normally I try for months to secure debates, but on this occasion I was lucky first time. I wanted to have this debate not least because my years in the House of Commons are drawing to an end after nearly 27 years and I shall not be around when the next...

Military Vehicles and Aircraft (27 Oct 2009)

Ann Winterton: I am grateful for that intervention. I do not feel that I should blame either of those two bodies; certainly it was a combination of both. The problem so often in the procurement of vehicles, aircraft or whatever, is that the process is convoluted and complex, and there are people such as the hon. Gentleman who campaign for certain projects that affect their own constituency. I think, too,...