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- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Passports (16 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Bore da i chi, Mr Speaker—good morning to you. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has become infamous for U-turns, but now our Eurosceptic Secretary of State has been forced into making an embarrassing EU-turn as a result of the horsemeat scandal. He scrapped the national equine database last year, right in the middle of a tendering process, to save £200,000....
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Measles Outbreak (15 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Will the Minister commend the work of local authorities such as Bridgend working hand in hand with the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg university health board and running drop-in clinics in every school in the constituency? Does he agree with me, a father of three teenage boys, that the very best protection against this disease is for everyone not to be afraid and to turn up to these clinics and get...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Will the Secretary of State give way?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
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- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
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- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: It is a delight to speak in this Queen’s Speech debate, focusing on the cost of living. It is also a delight to follow the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Graham Evans), who referred back to sunny Jim Callaghan, who was a Cardiff MP. I would like to pick up on the hon. Gentleman’s theme of pensions. He says that what happened under sunny Jim and subsequently made him end up on the...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Nothing but, and never anything else! I should have liked to see, in the rather light luggage that we are carrying, a consumers Bill to tackle rising energy costs, train fares and so forth. I should have liked to see a housing Bill that would take action against the real scandal in housing: rogue landlords and extortionate fees and charges in the private rented sector. At present, when people...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: It is an absolute scandal, and if we had a Labour Government now, that would be on the front page of the papers every single day—and it should be, because that is the real scandal. We all want to see people in jobs, so let us get them those jobs and put them into those jobs. We can attach conditionality to welfare to ensure that they take those jobs if they have been unemployed, but...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: This morning I was at a breakfast meeting with a contingent from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, which has published a report that advocates increasing expenditure on infrastructure, not necessarily through the public sector but through imaginative use of private sector investment, including being underwritten by the Government at a time when interest rates are at a record low....
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: What does the hon. Gentleman make of the National Farmers Union’s repeated call over the past few months for an extension to allow seasonal agricultural workers from beyond EU borders—places such as Moldova and Bulgaria—to come to the UK and pick the crops in the fields because of that issue of affordable food? How does that tie in with the Government’s thinking on...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Against the glowing backdrop that the Secretary of State paints, why do I now have a food bank in every single village in my constituency when there was only one three years ago? Why has there been a quadrupling of food banks under this Government? His record cannot be that good, given the backdrop of the inexorable rise of food poverty.
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I will not abuse his graciousness any more. Against that backdrop, why is it that independent analysis from the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group shows that an additional 300,000 people went into fuel poverty last year, and the Hills review suggests that 200,000 will be driven further into fuel poverty in the next four years? Against the glowing...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: The right hon. Gentleman knows that the cap on costs of care is a little way off the Dilnot proposals. How many weeks—surely his Department has made some calculations—would that involve for a typical older person before they reach the £72,000 cap?
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: On occasions such as this, at the closing of a debate, we often hear words about what a fine debate it has been, what eloquent testimony Members have given and what a fine day it is for Parliament. There have indeed been some very fine contributions today, from both sides of the House, and I will return to some of them in a moment. Today, however, I have to say that this is not a shining...
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: The hon. Lady says she has been contacted by just three, but three is three, and I know for a fact that a large number of Members—many of whom are, for understandable reasons, not present for this debate, but who will, I assume, be passing through the voting Lobby—have been extensively lobbied by agricultural workers in their communities. The question is this: how will they vote...
- Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: I welcome the opportunity to do so, because it has wrongly been said that we have already made up our mind not to re-establish the AWB. When the AWB is abolished, it will, in effect, be shattered into little pieces. Its mechanisms will be entirely taken away, but I will tell my hon. Friend what we will do: Labour has already made clear its proposals under the Fair Work Commission—which...
- Prime Minister: Engagements (24 April 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Was the Prime Minister consulted on the decision to reject the appointment of Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to the chair of Sport England?
- [1st Allocated Day]: Clause 200 — Bank Levy: rates from January 2013 (17 April 2013)
Huw Irranca-Davies: Has the Minister looked down the back of the Treasury sofas to find the £900 million a year that is missing? What has gone wrong?