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Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Dai Havard: Like the right hon. Member for North-East Hampshire (Mr. Arbuthnot), I was part of the delegation to the USA last week, and I want to make a few observations. We discussed issues that we have not discussed today but that are part of the general discussion. For example, we discussed the trade treaty, which the Defence Committee has asked to consider in particular and which this Parliament...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Dai Havard: The short answer is yes, and we continue to go around that discussion with some of our allies and the rest of NATO. We have been having that debate for some time. Who can turn up to do what? Will they turn up, and if so, when, and when will they pay for it? Rightly in a sense, the United States is saying, "Well, that's what we think we are doing. If we are going to do something that is...

Prayers: Statutory Redundancy Pay (Amendment) Bill (13 Mar 2009) has video

Dai Havard: As my hon. Friend will know, Hoover, an iconic employer in my constituency, is making redundancies in Merthyr. Workers there have had a fight about redundancy pay in the same way as a lot of others. I am old enough to remember the arguments for the introduction of redundancy payments back in the 1960s. It was not about someone winning the lottery, having a windfall, or the incidental benefit...

Women and Equality: Welfare Reform Bill (27 Jan 2009) has video

Dai Havard: I am following my neighbouring MP, the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Davies), in this debate; there is particular experience in the valleys of south Wales of economic incapacity and worklessness. My experience of trying to deal with the local organisations is slightly different from that of my neighbour. Interestingly, many local initiatives have been undertaken and they are beginning...

Women and Equality: Welfare Reform Bill (27 Jan 2009) has video

Dai Havard: I apologise Madam Deputy Speaker. I was referring not to you but to the Government; that is what I meant and that is what I should have said. The point I seek to make is a simple one: how things are done is the guts of this. There is a lot of commonality about what should be done—the need is obvious and some of the solutions are agreed. How they are applied is a very important part of...

Written Answers — Treasury: Interest Rates: Borrowing (26 Nov 2008)

Dai Havard: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward proposals to (a) raise the limits and (b) review the interest rates on prudential borrowing by local authorities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Iraq (22 Jul 2008) has video

Dai Havard: The Prime Minister will know that I have visited Iraq three times in the past 12 months, most recently with the Select Committee only a few weeks ago, so I can attest to the changes taking place there. In consolidating those changes, my right hon. Friend refers to the bilateral arrangements to be struck with the Iraqis in parallel with those of the United States. We currently operate a...

Orders of the Day: Clause 65 — Certificate requiring inquest to be held without a jury: England and Wales (10 Jun 2008) has video

Dai Havard: I know that a number of people wish to speak, so I shall keep my remarks short. It was interesting to hear reference made to the Deepcut barracks cases. My right hon. Friend the Member for—I will probably get this wrong—Walsall, North—

Orders of the Day: Clause 65 — Certificate requiring inquest to be held without a jury: England and Wales (10 Jun 2008) has video

Dai Havard: I knew I would get it wrong. My right hon. Friend was the Chair of the Defence Committee when we produced the report, "Duty of Care". That is an interesting phrase; it refers to our duty of care to people—the families—who have an interest in an inquest and go through the process. I am very interested in the subject. In some senses, the part of the Bill that we are discussing...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 5 — Control orders: pre-conditions (10 Jun 2008) has video

Dai Havard: The Minister talks about the prospects of prosecution and who is involved in the process, but may I take him back to new clause 5? He relies heavily on the issue—to be debated tomorrow—of involving the Director of Public Prosecutions in decisions about the number of days for which people should be detained, so why is he now resisting the idea of the DPP saying whether there is a...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 5 — Control orders: pre-conditions (10 Jun 2008) has video

Dai Havard: I believe that the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) raised the question about the legitimacy, particularly the political legitimacy, of the process with the general population and the people who may be subject to these orders. Surely the safeguard is that people affected would have some sort of verification that someone in the process, such as the DPP, in whom the Minister...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Income Tax (13 May 2008) has video

Dai Havard: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Income Tax (13 May 2008) has video

Dai Havard: I would like to read it—

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Tariffs for renewable energy (30 Apr 2008) has video

Dai Havard: I will not detain the House long. I have been struck by the fact that, as I am opposed to nuclear power being developed, I face the discipline of having to consider all the other forms of energy that might make up an efficient energy mix in future. I have considered what my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) said about feed-in tariffs; he explained better than I...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Employment (2 Apr 2008) has video

Dai Havard: It was expected that the office in Merthyr would remain in its current form until 2011. My concern, which I would like my right hon. Friend to express to his colleagues in Government and see how he can assist, is about how the consultation has been carried out. The expectation has now been changed in an arbitrary fashion, without the necessary consultation. I would like my right hon. Friend...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 11 — Possession orders relating to certain tenancies (31 Mar 2008) has video

Dai Havard: As the hon. Gentleman has mentioned my constituency, may I just say that while much of the provision in the Bill does not directly apply, it sets a background against which the Welsh Assembly has to operate, both ideologically and practically, in terms of local government expenditure? I ask the Minister to recognise that if his proposals are not amended, they will put local authorities in an...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Procurement (22 Jan 2008)

Dai Havard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidance his Department has issued to collaborative procurement hubs on the composition of procurement committees; (2) what mechanisms are in place to externally audit cost savings made through the joint procurement practices of collaborative procurement hubs; (3) what the methodology is for calculating cost savings made by collaborative...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008) has video

Dai Havard: If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 9 January.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008) has video

Dai Havard: The Prime Minister will know that economic inactivity in constituencies such as mine will only be successfully tackled with sustained investment in the creation of jobs, and the giving of skills and support to people. However, given the growing economic global uncertainty, will he meet me and colleagues who represent the valleys to look at the work already being successfully done by the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan (12 Dec 2007) has video

Dai Havard: When I visited Helmand last July, I saw British troops giving out leaflets saying that we did not do eradication. I welcome what the Prime Minister said about putting together a plan involving stronger governance and targeting traffickers, but may I caution him that, as my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) said earlier, it is not the individual producer but the big guns...