Results 1-20 of 3,365 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Andrew Turner

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: Island prisoners must be guarded when they need health care outside prison. By the end of this year, the local health budget will have been exceeded by more than £1 million. That could pay for an extra 15 nurses. Will the Prime Minister ensure that this inequity is corrected urgently?

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Affordable Housing (Rural Areas) (3 Nov 2009)

Andrew Turner: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that although he has referred to problems, there are also successes, such as Nettlestone on the Isle of Wight, where a decision has been taken locally to build houses for people to live in, and I think five or six houses have been built there recently?

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Affordable Housing (Rural Areas) (3 Nov 2009)

Andrew Turner: I thank the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) for securing the debate and congratulate the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) on his common-sense view, which I wish were shared by those on his own Front Bench. This debate gives us the opportunity to discuss one of the most pressing issues in many of our communities. Affordable rural housing and the lack of adequate...

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

Andrew Turner: Apart from the United States, what representations have been made to other NATO Governments about increasing troop numbers in Afghanistan?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: Is the hon. Lady saying that members of the Committee are shortly to be appointed—in other words, that she knows who they are—or that she does not yet know who they are and neither does anyone else?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: I am sorry, I meant the board.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: My hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) is mouthing the word, "How?" Can my hon. Friend help him by explaining how he does that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Operation Miser (28 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: What assessment she has made of the findings of Sir Ian Johnston's review of the investigation of leaks from the Home Department under Operation Miser which relate to the actions of her Department.

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Operation Miser (28 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: The police inspectorate's report has savaged the role of the Cabinet Office in calling the Metropolitan police to arrest my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green). Will the Minister place the current guidelines and protocol in the Library so that we can review the failings of the existing rules?

Points of Order (22 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would you be happy to allow the noble Lord Mandelson to answer questions here, but standing beyond the Bar and not in the House?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Goods Vehicle Testing (22 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: Motorcyclists on the Isle of Wight must get their vehicle to the mainland for it to be tested. That is at least an hour and a quarter each way. What is being done to ensure that a test station is available on the island?

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Andrew Turner: The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, but my concern is that even when landlords wish to get rid of a useless tenant it takes months to do so, which makes things more difficult for the landlords.

Nato: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (20 Oct 2009)

Andrew Turner: Can the right hon. Gentleman explain how someone can be in favour of the words of the national anthem one day, as a member of the Government, and later be against them?

Nato: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (20 Oct 2009)

Andrew Turner: I wish today to address the proposals in the Bill to remove the hereditary principle of the House of Lords. The wish to remove peers is based on the seemingly arbitrary principle of how they were ennobled. That is a worrying portent for the future. It takes another step towards the Government's stated goal of a democratic second Chamber, and it is another example of the Government's...

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

Andrew Turner: 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

Andrew Turner: I am very grateful for the Minister's reply. However, can we not have at least a minimum time for Report stage and Third Reading—perhaps by using these effectively empty Thursdays after lunch, for example?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Andrew Turner: The Isle of Wight shares many problems with the mainland, and has a few of its own. My time as the island's MP is often taken up addressing those matters and explaining their importance to the House and to Ministers. With that in mind, I should like to extend my thanks to certain Ministers for their help this year with issues that have affected my constituents. Three months ago the right...

Teaching Standards (England) (7 Jul 2009)

Andrew Turner: Before the hon. Lady moves on to another subject, what would she do about physicists and chemists, who appear not to be necessary because of the biologists? How can we include more physicists and chemists in the group?.

Fallen Stock (Isle of Wight) (23 Jun 2009)

Andrew Turner: The important issue of the safe and legal disposal of fallen stock has concerned farmers in my constituency for at least four years. As the Minister will know, fallen stock—farm animals that have died of natural causes or been humanely shot or euthanised by a vet—must be disposed of safely. Since May 2003, under European Union law, it has been illegal for fallen stock to be buried...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Andrew Turner: My first point is about the European common fisheries policy, which has completely failed. Only last month, the EU Commission was forced to admit that its quota fishing system had failed. The position paper stated that 88 per cent. of European fishing stocks are overfished and 30 per cent. of managed fisheries are now outside "safe biological limits". The single market is encouraging greed in...