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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

John Baron: According to the Select Committee on Health and other bodies outside this place, inequalities in cancer outcomes have widened in the past 10 years. Will the Health Secretary try to explain why that is the case?

Business, Innovation and Skills: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (12 Nov 2009)

John Baron: What recent progress his Department has made in assisting small and medium-sized businesses to secure finance.

Business, Innovation and Skills: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (12 Nov 2009)

John Baron: I have to beg to disagree with the Minister. Many companies in my constituency and the most recent credit crunch survey by the Federation of Small Businesses have confirmed that in too many cases, the cost of credit is actually increasing, whatever the Government say. What are they going to do about that? Which of the Minister's schemes is actually going to ensure that the cost of credit is...

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

John Baron: May I press the Secretary of State on the Rural Payments Agency? He will know that it has taken far too long to resolve a number of late payments under the single payment scheme. Many farmers throughout the country are suffering as a result, including my constituent Mr. Peter Philpot. I urge the Secretary of State to press forward with the reforms and get these payments sorted out now, for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: Even those of us who believed that the Government fundamentally underestimated the task when they first became involved in Afghanistan felt that the recent fraud-ridden presidential election was a worrying development. Given that the Prime Minister is aware that troops provide time and space but not a political solution—which will be an essential part of the jigsaw if we are now to...

Nato: Afghanistan (20 Oct 2009)

John Baron: Further to the previous question, the Foreign Secretary will be fully aware that soldiers can buy one time and space, but what we need in Afghanistan is a political solution. Given that the Electoral Complaints Commission said that about a third of President Karzai's votes in the presidential elections were fraudulent, will the Foreign Secretary assure the House that any poll run-off will be...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: Will the Minister give way?

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: My hon. Friend may have misheard what I said. I was suggesting that what we needed in Afghanistan at the end of the day was a political solution, and that the failures that I cited were all signs that we were not near to a political solution. I did not for a moment suggest that solving those problems was the main objective of our forces.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: I rise because, of the 37 names that, sadly, the Prime Minister read out yesterday, five were those of fusiliers of my regiment. My thoughts, and, I am sure, those of the House, are with their families and friends. It will be no surprise to the Minister that I revert to Afghanistan because it currently dominates our defence thinking. Let me start by briefly making the obvious point that...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: I am sure that the Secretary of State would agree that until we reach the point that he has just described, we need to ensure that we have enough troops in theatre to carry out the task that is asked of them. At the height of the troubles, we had more than 20,000 troops in Northern Ireland. As he is well aware, Helmand province is nearly twice the size of Northern Ireland and Wales put...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: I appreciate the Secretary of State's generosity in giving way, but there is a growing body of opinion, including in the military, that a substantial increase in troops is needed if we are to do the job properly. As Brigadier Butler has said, we either go long, or we go deep, or we go home. The comparisons with Northern Ireland still stand, because there is a continuing acute shortage of...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: May I bring the Secretary of State back to the equipment increases with regard to trying to guard against IEDs and so on? Although I very much welcome the news that more equipment is being sent out, to many people, that feels like playing catch-up. For example, the statistics show that something like 30 per cent. of American casualties are caused by IEDs, but the figure for British forces is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Parliamentary Scrutiny (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: What recent representations she has received on increasing the time available on the Floor of the House and in Committee for hon. Members to scrutinise legislation.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Parliamentary Scrutiny (15 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: Will the Minister address this matter seriously and urgently? Answers to written questions show that between 1997 and 2000, for each page of primary legislation, there were 14 minutes of debating time on the Floor of the House. In the three Sessions ending in 2006, that figure had halved to seven minutes. We need either to increase the amount of time we have to scrutinise legislation, or to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (13 Oct 2009) has video

John Baron: Many cancer patients complain of feeling isolated during their treatments, citing lack of appropriate information and support. The Department's "Cancer Reform Strategy" promised the introduction of cancer patient experience surveys to help to monitor better-quality care that is given to cancer patients. Could the Minister explain why this measure still has not been introduced, two years after...

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

John Baron: The shortage is serious for a number of reasons, many of which have been aired this afternoon. If commanders on the ground are given the option of moving troops by air as well as by road—we saw plenty of that in Northern Ireland—and if there are not enough helicopters, many victories on the ground will become pyrrhic if we do not dominate the ground afterwards. That is what we are...

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (9 Jul 2009) has video

John Baron: Why is the Minister so intent on ignoring the evidence against long pre-charge detention periods? Having served in Northern Ireland, I know that it was a recruiting sergeant for the IRA in turning communities against us. However, that question has already been asked, so let me refer him to the international evidence, which suggests that in the vast majority of countries across the world, and...

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

John Baron: With discussions on reform of the House under way, will the Leader of the House reflect on answers given during Work and Pensions questions, showing that, between 1997 and 2000, each page of primary legislation received 14 minutes of scrutiny in this place, and the most recent figures, showing that that time has halved to seven minutes? May I suggest to her that if this place is to do its job...

Energy and Climate Change: Newspapers (Surveillance Methods) (9 Jul 2009) has video

John Baron: May I return to the very serious allegation about illicit accessing of the police national computer? It is one of the more serious aspects of the matter. Will the Minister use this opportunity to re-examine the measures in place to make sure that the integrity of the PNC is maintained?

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

John Baron: The justification used by Government and others since the war has been varied. We have heard explanations that Iraq is a much better place, and that there was a need for regime change, despite the fact that regime change is illegal under international law. But we cannot get away from the fact that the main justification for war at the time was weapons of mass destruction. It is therefore...