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Business, Innovation and Skills: First Capital Connect (12 Nov 2009)

Theresa Villiers: As well as today's massive disruption to Thameslink services, the same concerted action by drivers caused all First Capital Connect's Great Northern line services to be cancelled on Sunday. Does the Minister share my anger that drivers chose to disrupt services on a day when many, including my own constituents, would have wished to use the train to attend Remembrance day events? Does he agree...

Cyprus (10 Nov 2009)

Theresa Villiers: I congratulate the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) on obtaining the debate, and draw the Chamber's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests about a recent visit to attend the Morfou rally in Cyprus. During a week when across Europe we are celebrating the incredible day in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down, it is right and timely to consider Europe's last divided...

Cyprus (10 Nov 2009)

Theresa Villiers: I am grateful to you, Mr. Olner, and to my hon. Friend for an intervention with which I wholeheartedly agree. Those issues were one reason for my writing to the Prime Minister and Chancellor Merkel this week, to ask them to use this week's celebrations as an opportunity to push forward with progress towards a settlement, and to put pressure on Ankara. They need to make clear to Ankara that it...

Cyprus (10 Nov 2009)

Theresa Villiers: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is an urgent need to press ahead with locating the remains of missing people, to give their families the truth about what happened to their loved ones?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: The Yorkshire Post this morning again highlights the importance of high-speed rail for the north of England, with its "fast track to Yorkshire" campaign, so I want to ask the Minister: will he promise us a year by which time construction of a new high-speed rail line to the north of England will have begun?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: What the Minister does not tell the House is that the formal remit of HS2 is a route from London to the west midlands. The Conservative commitment to high-speed rail covers Manchester and Leeds. Why will Labour not match that?

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: I cannot think of another instance in which we have seen the Government respond to an ombudsman's report in a remotely similar way. It seems that this is unprecedented. Does the hon. Lady agree?

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 3 — Office of Tax Simplification (7 Jul 2009)

Theresa Villiers: Surely it is bogus to accuse the Conservative party of undermining the support we have always expressed for simplification just because, on occasion, we support a change in the law that might possibly add one further small complication to the tax system. That argument does not hold together intellectually. We can show general support for simplification while accepting that in certain...

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: National Express East Coast Franchise (1 Jul 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: Twelve hours after the stock exchange, 11 and a half hours after "Today" programme listeners, and some four hours after the House of Lords, we finally get to hear the news officially. What we have heard is evidence of the incompetence and failure that has characterised the Government's handling of the rail franchising system. Two franchises have collapsed in the space of two and a half years...

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: The hon. Gentleman and I are as one on the importance of stroke services and major trauma centres, but he has not explained why a London Select Committee will be more effective in highlighting those issues than the Greater London assembly, which his Government created.

Business of the House: Regional Select Committee (London) (25 Jun 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: One advantage that the GLA would have over a London Select Committee when scrutinising such matters is that its members would have been elected by Londoners, whereas I understand that a London Select Committee could have members from all over the country.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Motorway Congestion (25 Jun 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: I congratulate you, Mr. Speaker, and the new ministerial team. What is the Minister's estimate of the cost to the United Kingdom economy of an hour's closure of a stretch of a key motorway such as the M25 or the M62?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Motorway Congestion (25 Jun 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: The Government have no comprehension of the huge cost impact of these closures. They have broken their promises on congestion again and again. In their entire term of office they have built less than 20 miles of new motorway, and they have a road maintenance backlog of 13 years. Have they not manifestly failed motorists in this country?

Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]: Business Rates (15 Jun 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: The Minister is speaking at great length about how she thinks that the re-rating system is a fair one. Does she think it is fair that so many businesses in ports have been landed with a huge retrospective rates bill because of Government incompetence?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Speed Limits (14 May 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: As of this morning, a petition against the Government's A road speed limit proposal is ranked No. 2 on the Downing street website, beaten only by one entitled with the single word, "Resign". So it is official: Labour's speed limit policy is the most unpopular thing in the country apart from the Prime Minister, though admittedly he is ahead by a comfortable margin of 30,000. Everything that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Speed Limits (14 May 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: But will the Minister not recognise that the flaw in reducing the default speed limit, which is what he is proposing to do, is that it will hit all motorists with a collective punishment for the actions of the irresponsible few, rather than target high-risk, problem drivers? Why are the Government failing on these problem drivers? Why, after a decade in charge of our roads, are they still...

Business of the House: Swine Flu Update (29 Apr 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: Will the Secretary of State confirm that one of the cases to which he referred in his statement has occurred in the borough of Barnet? Will he join me in sending the good wishes of the House for a swift recovery to the individual concerned? Will he give reassurance to my constituents in Chipping Barnet that every possible effort is being made to trace those who have come into contact with the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-Speed Rail Services (10 Mar 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: We have heard the Secretary of State confirm this afternoon that the Government will make an announcement on a high-speed rail proposal next year. Will he pledge to the House that that proposal will match the Conservative commitment to building a high-speed rail line connecting London, Manchester and Leeds?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-Speed Rail Services (10 Mar 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: I think we can take it that the answer is no. The Minister of State yesterday and the Secretary of State today confirmed that, even if the Government decide to go ahead, the only routes that they are asking HS2 to consider for the proposal that it is publishing, whether this year or next year, are between London and the west midlands. In February, the Secretary of State told the Lancashire...

Support for Women (Economic Downturn) (5 Mar 2009) has video

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