Results 1-20 of 2,802 for speaker:John Pugh
- Written Answers — Defence: Asbestos Contamination: RAF Bases (17 June 2013)
John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence in which RAF bases asbestos contamination is a health issue.
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 178 - Rates of alcoholic liquor duties (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: Perhaps the hon. Lady can help me with my lack of knowledge on the Scotch whisky industry. What percentage of Scottish whisky is exported and therefore not subject to this duty?
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 177 - Fuel duties: rates of duty and rebates from 1 April 2013 (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: I thank the Minister for clarifying, and I will seek to withdraw the amendment. I know he supports the industry, but does he believe that it can see far enough ahead to make the key investment decisions it needs to make on LPG?
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 177 - Fuel duties: rates of duty and rebates from 1 April 2013 (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 177 - Fuel duties: rates of duty and rebates from 1 April 2013 (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: I beg to move amendment 20, in clause 177, page 105, line 25, ;leave out paragraph (b).
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 177 - Fuel duties: rates of duty and rebates from 1 April 2013 (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: This is a probing amendment to lever in some discussion of the Government’s policy on LPG and taxation. I have a personal interest in this issue because I own and drive two top-of-the-range Japanese cars: a 3.4-litre Honda Legend and a 3-litre Toyota Camry, which motoring experts in the room will know has the same engine as the Lexus. Unfortunately, they are both 16 years old and very...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: High Street Businesses (13 June 2013)
John Pugh: Is it not time that we looked at the impact of business rates on the high street, and particularly at the glacial speed of appeals and revaluations?
- Written Answers — Health: NHS: Databases (12 June 2013)
John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress his Department has made on data sharing within the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Health: Strokes (12 June 2013)
John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what comparative assessment he has made of the performance of (a) the UK, (b) the EU and (c) the US with regard to (i) mortality and (ii) morbidity and disability in stroke outcomes; (2) what assessment he has made of the findings of the 2011 NHS Atlas of Variation on (a) the number of patients who experience transient ischaemic attack who are...
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 16, 183, 184 and 200 to 212, schedules 3 and 41 and certain new clauses and new schedules) - Clause 67 - Cars with low carbon dioxide emissions (11 June 2013)
John Pugh: I am sympathetic to the hon. Lady’s point, but not to the amendments that have been tabled. I think that the Government would happily agree with her suggestion that we need a long-term strategic approach to such matters. I have tabled an amendment to a later clause a propos liquid petroleum gas. We are in agreement that the Government need to be strategic, take a long-term view and...
- Department of Health: NHS Hospitals (Bed Occupancy) (11 June 2013)
John Pugh: Given that we have the lowest ratio of intensive care beds in the EU, what are the Government doing to monitor possible risks in future?
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 67 - Cars with low carbon dioxide emissions (11 June 2013)
John Pugh: The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting speech, but there is a complication when we talk of decarbonisation, because electricity is produced from carbon sources. People who argue for clean diesel would say that the overall impact of that would be less than that of an electric car, so the Government face a dilemma if they do not know the exact source of the electricity.
- Energy and Climate Change: Energy Bills (6 June 2013)
John Pugh: What steps are being taken to stop profiteering by the National Grid, which can charge a fortune to move or change a domestic meter?
- Accident and Emergency Waiting Times (5 June 2013)
John Pugh: The last time I was in A and E I had hit myself on the head with a 300 lb iron bar—don’t ask why. I had a lump the size of an egg, but no lasting damage, apparently. The time before I was involved in an accident on the M1. I was not driving the car, but I ended up in North Hampshire A and E. My latest visit was with my mother-in-law who had a suspected heart attack. I use those...
- Written Answers — Transport: Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (5 June 2013)
John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will investigate the recent financial management of Merseyside Passenger Authority.
- Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 16, 183, 184 and 200 to 212, schedules 3 and 41 and certain new clauses and new schedules) - Clause 35 - Relief for television production and video games development (4 June 2013)
John Pugh: I have a few observations to make. I am not a great fan of video games, because I think life is too short to engage with them seriously, but I do have constituents who develop them. My feeling is that we were a world leader in this area, because we had a generation of school children who used BBC Micro and Acorn computers before they got into simply working Microsoft applications. In...
- The High Street — [Philip Davies in the Chair] (21 May 2013)
John Pugh: I congratulate the hon. Member for Rochdale (Simon Danczuk)on having introduced the debate with his usual cheery optimism, in a slightly more partisan way than he needed to. I must apologise to you, Mr Davies, because I am moonlighting from the Finance Bill and might have to return there before the final summing up. I have another colleague here in a similar situation—the Whips should...
- The High Street — [Philip Davies in the Chair] (21 May 2013)
John Pugh: Totally. Out-of-town shopping centres have a duty to the town that they are outside, and with which they are often not engaged. I understand that, during the pre-Budget negotiations, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills thought it reasonable to investigate whether something might be done about retail business rates, but that the difficulty is how to advantage the people we want...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: A and E Departments (21 May 2013)
John Pugh: Better co-ordination of ambulance trusts and A and E departments is essential, but it will not happen by accident. Are we not now missing the strategic health authorities, given that ambulances are being sent to units already working at full capacity?
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
John Pugh: I apologise to the House for not having been here at the start of the debate. I was in the Finance Bill Committee, and unfortunately I cannot be in two places at the same time. I also apologise for missing the introductory speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow). I pay tribute to everything he has done to put mental health on Parliament’s agenda....