Results 1-20 of 802 for speaker:David Jones

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Offender Management (11 Nov 2009)

David Jones: Further to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Upminster (Angela Watkinson), the Ministry of Justice has made it clear that it is looking for a number of 1,500-place prisons, and that they should be located in the areas from which the most prisoners come. Since only some 650 prisoners in the entire system come from north Wales, is there not a concern that the exercise that...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Wales (11 Nov 2009)

David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what tests were carried out on the soil of the former Dynamex site at Caernarfon to assess its suitability as a location for a prison; (2) pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 349W, on Friction Dynamex: asbestos, what his latest estimate is of the likely cost of asbestos remediation on the former Dynamex site in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Prison Site (North Wales) (10 Nov 2009)

David Jones: What progress has been made on identifying a site for a new prison in north Wales.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Prison Site (North Wales) (10 Nov 2009)

David Jones: The owners of the site at Caernarfon that the Ministry rejected were willing to sell it, fully remediated and with a commercially acceptable warranty, for a sum of £10 million. Given that the Ministry studiously refused to enter into any negotiations for the site and did not, so far as I can see, ever conduct any soil tests, how is the Minister able to say with such certainty—she...

Written Answers — Treasury: Economic Growth (3 Nov 2009)

David Jones: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his most recent assessment is of the level of growth in the UK economy compared with those of other OECD economies; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Justice: Remand in Custody: Prison Sentences (2 Nov 2009)

David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many adults usually resident in the North Wales Police force area are (a) remanded in custody and (b) serving a custodial sentence.

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Libya (12 Oct 2009) has video

David Jones: If the decision to release al-Megrahi were made not by the Scottish Justice Secretary but by the Foreign Secretary's colleague, the Lord Chancellor, would the Foreign Secretary still feel constrained to remain silent in the face of the world's press?

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Health Care Provision (15 Jul 2009) has video

David Jones: The Secretary of State will know that the report of the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs on cross-border health services identified the inadequate payment of English hospitals by the Welsh Assembly Government as one of the principal barriers to the timely treatment of Welsh patients. To what extent does he regard it as part of his role to co-ordinate discussions between the Department of...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 304 (14 Jul 2009)

David Jones: I am sorry to labour the point, but this is a matter of some importance. The clear impression given by the memorandum is that WAG would not create a coastal route that affected land that is the subject of reserved powers, if the Secretary of State withheld consent. The clarification that I am seeking, which I think the Minister is giving, is that if the Secretary of State decided, for...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 304 (14 Jul 2009)

David Jones: I want to speak briefly on the clause, which confers primary legislative competence on the Welsh Assembly by inserting two new provisions—matters 16.2 and 16.3—in field 16, which deals with sport and recreation, of the Government of Wales Act 2006. Under matter 16.2, the Assembly would be empowered effectively to create a coastal route in Wales. Matter 16.3, to which I propose to...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 304 (14 Jul 2009)

David Jones: I am grateful for the indication that the Minister has just put on the record. There is one matter that perturbs me however. There are installations around the coast of Wales connected with reserved matters. If, for the sake of argument, the relevant Secretary of State, having consented to the creation of a path that affected one of those installations, decided later that the path needed to...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 304 (14 Jul 2009)

David Jones: It is not an easy route; it is a draconian route. The impression given in the memorandum furnished to the Committee is that the Assembly Government  would not create a route that affected an installation that was subject to the sway of a UK Minister without the consent of that Minister. Circumstances might subsequently change, in which case if the Secretary of State went back to the...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 297 (9 Jul 2009)

David Jones: I realise that the hon. Gentleman has a local interest in the two estates that he has mentioned, but has he carried out an assessment of the extent of English coastline that comprises parkland?

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smuggling: Fuels (8 Jul 2009)

David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent estimate he has made of the level of fuel smuggling in Northern Ireland.