Results 1-20 of 964 for speaker:Nick Herbert

Flooding (Cumbria) (23 Nov 2009)

Nick Herbert: I thank the Secretary of State for early sight of his statement a short while ago. On behalf of the official Opposition, I extend our sympathy to the individuals, families and businesses affected by the floods. I, too, saw the scale of the damage when I visited Keswick and Cockermouth on Saturday. The effect on people's homes and local businesses is dreadful. My hon. Friend the Member for...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Data Protection (4 Nov 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) data tapes, (b) CDs, (c) memory sticks, (d) laptops and (e) other equipment containing data of each type have been lost from (i) his Department and (ii) each of his Department's agencies in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Rural Payments Agency: Data Protection (4 Nov 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) on what date (a) he, (b) the Minister for Food, Farming and the Environment and (c) officials in his Department was informed of the recent loss of confidential data from the Rural Payments Agency; (2) who ordered the investigation into the recent loss of confidential data from the Rural Payments Agency; (3) what...

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

Nick Herbert: The Commission's draft reformed CAP is reported to include a third pillar on climate change. Farming must play its part in reducing carbon emissions, but does the Minister agree that Lord Stern's call for people to give up eating meat was totally irresponsible and damaging to our livestock industry?

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

Nick Herbert: Lord Stern said—and I quote directly from his interview: "Meat is...wasteful... A vegetarian diet is better." Britain's livestock producers are listening carefully to the Government's answer. Does the Minister agree with those comments or not?

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

Nick Herbert: The reason why the Secretary of State has suddenly announced another data loss by the Government is that Farmers Weekly obtained the information and will report it tomorrow. If the loss was discovered earlier this year and an investigation done, as the Secretary of State said, why have the public not been told until now? This looks like a cover-up. Will he accept responsibility for another...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Nick Herbert: In responding to the Secretary of State, I begin by paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall), whose private Member's Bill in 2001 highlighted the urgent need for a marine Bill. Eight years later, I am sure he will share our pleasure that we are finally speaking in the Third Reading debate of the Marine and Coastal Access Bill. I know from my own conversations...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Nick Herbert: I agree with my right hon. Friend. It was a shame that there were, apparently, reasons, I believe they were largely technical, why the amendment could not be accepted. It created a power for the Secretary of State to have regard to the issues of a whole ecosystem. It is true that rather too much of the work of nature conservation is process-driven, so we have to remember that creating a...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Farming Link (15 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was of producing and distributing the Farming Link publication in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Public Expenditure (12 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding each of his Department's (a) executive agencies and (b) sponsored bodies received in the last five years; and how much each will receive in the (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11 financial years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hazardous Substances: Waste Disposal (12 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment he has made of levels of illegal export of hazardous waste materials to Brazil; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste: Exports (12 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many individuals have been (a) charged and (b) prosecuted for the illegal export of waste in each of the last five years; (2) what the (a) number and (b) monetary value was of fines imposed for the illegal export of waste in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste: Exports (12 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which countries have been in receipt of illegally exported waste of each type from the UK in each year since 1997.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Water Charges: Sewers (12 Oct 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what percentage of (a) all and (b) low income households spent more than 3 per cent. of their disposable income before housing costs on water and sewerage bills, in the latest period for which figures are available.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Rural Economy (2 Jul 2009) has video

Nick Herbert: May I add my own congratulations to you, Mr. Speaker? It appears that the recession is already taking its toll on DEFRA, which has had its budget cut by £200 million since the pre-Budget report. Will the Minister confirm to rural communities that DEFRA's budget is frozen for the next three years—what the Prime Minister would call a "zero per cent. rise"—which means that it...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Rural Economy (2 Jul 2009) has video

Nick Herbert: Why does the Minister not at least have the courage to repeat what the Secretary of State admitted on "Any Questions?" last week, when he said that the DEFRA budget was "going to be less"? Rural communities are being hit hard in the recession and they want the truth about what lies ahead. Rising unemployment and debt interest mean that the Government's own plans show spending cuts of at least...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns (25 Jun 2009)

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the responses received relating to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) stage one financial viability study of the eco-towns programme have been passed to the PwC team; and what provision there is for earlier comments to be taken into account during stage two of the study.

Bill Presented: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [ Lords] (23 Jun 2009)

Nick Herbert: The American poet Walt Whitman once described the sea as "a continual miracle". His description captures both the beauty and the importance of our marine environment. The waters surrounding our island contain a rich and diverse collection of species. Indeed, our seas contain double the number of animal groups found on land. It is estimated that more than 44,000 different types of plant and...

Bill Presented: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [ Lords] (23 Jun 2009)

Nick Herbert: I agree: what is the point of the 2001 manifesto commitment if it is not honoured? I was simply making the point that the Bill has been delayed and that there is considerable concern among conservation bodies that it should now get safely on to the statute book, because the measures that it contains are urgent and necessary. As my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge said back in October 2001...

Bill Presented: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [ Lords] (23 Jun 2009)

Nick Herbert: Depending on the conditions set for the zones, one benefit would be to ensure sustainable fishing, but I shall deal with the specific concern about the common fisheries policy, because without reform of that policy we shall not achieve the sustainable management of our fisheries that we want. In that sense, I agree with my hon. Friend's point. Many of us will have received e-mails from...