Results 1-20 of 30 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Mike Wood

Business of the House (30 Apr 2009) has video

Mike Wood: It is four years since the high hedges legislation was put on the statute book. May we have a ministerial statement on departmental monitoring of the legislation, and what advice is being given to local authorities to make it more effective?

Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment): Clause 2 — Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants (17 Mar 2009) has video

Mike Wood: Will the Secretary of State make it clear whether he thinks that the amount of treatment necessary is actually available?

David Burrows (22 Jan 2008)

Mike Wood: I am not asking the Minister to comment on specific cases, but does he think it appropriate that the supervising IPCC investigator was not only an ex-police officer, but that he had only recently been a senior officer in the police force that was under investigation?

David Burrows (22 Jan 2008)

Mike Wood: Thank you, Miss Begg. I am pleased to have the opportunity to consider a very serious and troubling case from my constituency. Let me start by outlining what happened. In 2005, three men were stabbed—one fatally—and the man found guilty of the murder subsequently committed suicide in custody. That was a complete waste, and the family of the stabbed man want to ensure that lessons...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: Is the hon. Gentleman really suggesting that we double the number of prison places?

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: This is an important debate, so I hope that my cold will not mean that most of what I say is unintelligible. Despite the Home Secretary's emollient words earlier in the debate, I am very concerned about many aspects of the Bill, for two reasons: it will not cut reoffending; nor will it give the public greater protection—rather the reverse. John Colvill, the chair of my local probation...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: Perhaps I can make some progress before my good friend the Minister interrupts me. As the debate progresses, we will hear that there is very little support for the Bill in the House.

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: It is not true to say that those voluntary organisations are wholeheartedly in favour of these proposals. Of course they recommend themselves to some of those voluntary organisations, because such organisations will be the beneficiaries of some of the profits, but that is quite different from saying whether the proposals have any support in any other profession or in the country more...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: The hon. Gentleman makes an obvious point, but I hope that I can perhaps deal with it in more detail as I continue my speech. The Bill has so little support, because of its innate weaknesses, that the Government have recently chosen to malign the probation service and to misuse their own reoffending figures. The Government have not justified the proposals, other than to restate their belief...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. In fact, we are being offered the ending of the probation service, after 100 years of professional service and commitment, and its replacement by a hotch-potch of competing companies and organisations. It is interesting to look at the recent experience of the probation service in passing to private companies services such as catering, cleaning and...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Mike Wood: Just as the offer of Lemsip is not totally convincing, nor are the Minister's reassurances to the probation service. We heard earlier that nobody disputes that the reoffending rate is high. It has been a problem ever since the probation service was instituted 100 years ago. However, the probation service is not the only responsible party. The Government should look at themselves and at some...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (8 Dec 2004)

Mr Mike Wood: My right hon. Friend will know that PC Ian Broadhurst, a constituent of mine, was shot dead in Leeds on Boxing day last year. It now transpires that the bullets used in that killing and in the attempted murder of two of his colleagues were home-made. The components and the machine necessary to produce that ammunition were bought over the counter, with no questions, no vetting and apparently...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Mike Wood: During the recess, yet another authoritative report was produced pointing to the dangers of the use of CS gas spray, which is currently used by all but three police forces in the country. It seems that the health not just of people who are sprayed but of police officers using the equipment is under considerable threat, so could we have a statement?

Business of the House (15 Jul 2004)

Mr Mike Wood: The Leader of the House will no doubt be surprised to hear that ambulance drivers regularly receive speeding tickets as part of their life-saving work, and even more surprised that ambulance trusts around the country spend £1 million a year to resolve that issue. After a 37-year blemish-free career with the ambulance service, my constituent, Mick Ferguson, was under threat of prosecution...

Sectarian Violence (Gujarat) (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: I want to raise two issues relating to the communal and religious violence that swept through large parts of Gujarat in northern India just over 12 months ago. My interest was centred initially on the fact that four of my constituents were caught up in the violence, with devastating consequences for them, their families and for the wider constituency community, especially in the Batley area...

Sectarian Violence (Gujarat) (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: Although the families find it impossible to accept that Sakil and Saeed are still missing, we have to assume that they, too, fell victim to that terrible crime. Some remains of one of those men were found soon after the event, close by, by a relative who went to search for them, but, 12 months later, because of the poor forensic facilities in Gujarat, the family do not know which of those two...

Sectarian Violence (Gujarat) (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: Of course, I am pleased to identify with the points raised by my hon. Friend. That leads me to the second, more wide-ranging issue that I wish to raise with the Minister.

Sectarian Violence (Gujarat) (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: Again, I hear what my hon. Friend says, although in many ways words are cheap. In the face of the violence that we saw, and the causes of it, actions would speak considerably louder. As I develop my second point, perhaps he will understand where I am coming from. I share the view of many reputable commentators that the secular India that we have known since independence is under threat....

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: I am interested in the fact that my hon. Friend says that we have done nothing since 1991 in relation to Iraq. Does he count the sanctions, the over-flying of the no-fly zone, the work of the weapons inspectors who destroyed 95 per cent. of the weapons of mass destruction as nothing?

Iraq (26 Feb 2003)

Mr Mike Wood: Would my hon. Friend confirm that resolution 687 also calls for the creation of a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the middle east, which would entail the end of Israel's nuclear arsenal?