Results 1-20 of 2,412 for speaker:Christopher Huhne
- Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: I am sympathetic to the right hon. Gentleman's case for the importance of bonuses in leading to potentially excessive risk taking, but I wonder whether he thinks it necessary to go as far as having new legislation, because the Financial Services Authority already has the power to increase capital requirements for financial institutions that, in its view, are taking extra risks. It could...
- Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To reinforce the right hon. Gentleman's excellent point about Glass-Steagall, does he agree with me that the Canadian example offers no obvious illustration of how such a measure would fail, given that the Canadian banks have never been known for their investment banking activity and are, in effect, universal retail banks?
- Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video
Christopher Huhne: It would be useful if the Lord Chancellor put on record what I understood him to say earlier from a sedentary position—that the Lord Chief Justice could go on exercising that veto, should he so desire.
- Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Mother and Baby Units (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many babies were born to mothers in prison in each month of (a) 2008 and (b) 2009.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Children In Care (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local authorities in England and Wales have contracted out their provision for care leavers.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Animal Experiments (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Stroud of 1 September 2008, Official Report, column 1518W, on animal experiments, what recent representations he has received on the practice of using death as an experimental endpoint in projects licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Borders: Personal Records (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what data is collected by the UK Border Agency in respect of international rail travellers entering the UK; and what such data will be required to be collected under the e-borders scheme.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Borders: Personal Records (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of exits from the UK recorded by the e-borders scheme in 2009; and what target percentages have been set for each of the next 10 years.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Young Offenders: Sexual Offences (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were subject to indefinite notification requirements for sexual offences committed when they were under the age of 18 years in each year since 2000.
- Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children in Care: Remand in Custody (12 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many former relevant children, as defined in the Government's guidance on Children (Leaving Care), there are in custody.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Vetting (11 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) standard and (b) enhanced checks from the Criminal Records Bureau were outstanding on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many such checks were outstanding on the same date in each year since 1997.
- Written Answers — Justice: Community Orders (11 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) breach rate of community sentences and (b) imprisonment rate of those who breached community sentences was in the latest period for which figures are available.
- Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Drugs (11 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of the recommendations of the Blakey Review into disrupting the supply of illegal drugs into prisons have been implemented fully; when he expects all recommendations to be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Young People (11 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many 18 to 21 year-olds in England and Wales received benefits in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Borders: Personal Records (10 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with representatives of (i) airlines, (ii) ferry companies, (iii) international rail operators, (iv) leisure craft representatives and (v) other transport operators on the e-borders scheme in 2009.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Religious Persons (10 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applicants from each country seeking to visit the UK for the purpose of speaking in mosques have been (a) granted and (b) refused the right to visit the UK in each of the last five years.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Religious Persons (10 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many imams from each country have been (a) granted and (b) refused the right to work in the UK in each of the last five years.
- Olympics: FOI Request (Immigration) (9 Nov 2009) has video
Christopher Huhne: We will sustain public consensus behind the value of legal immigration only if controls are effective and illegal immigration is firmly countered. That has clearly not been the case. First, there is clear evidence that immigration policy was to grant applications rather than to refuse them, and to give the benefit of the doubt to the applicant—a policy that was never made public or...
- Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Religious Persons (5 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what vetting procedures his Department applies in respect of imams from abroad who are seeking employment in the UK.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Independent Safeguarding Authority (5 Nov 2009)
Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the expected running costs are of (a) the Independent Safeguarding Authority and (b) the Vetting and Barring Scheme in each of the next five years.