Results 1-20 of 446 for speaker:Douglas Carswell

Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Administration (12 Nov 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the levels of administrative burden upon police forces.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: House of Commons: Offices (3 Nov 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission (1) how many unutilised square metres of office space there were on the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate in each year since the opening of the 2005 Parliament; (2) how many empty offices there are on the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.

Nato: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (20 Oct 2009)

Douglas Carswell: This debate, I believe, illustrates what is so wrong with our constitution and demonstrates how dire things are, not because of anything that is being said, but by the manner of the exchange. Look how barely attended the Chamber is! We debate our constitution, yet the people's tribunes are not here. Whips scurry around outside desperate to gather enough speakers to try to keep things ticking...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries) (13 Oct 2009) has video

Douglas Carswell: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the recall of Members of the House of Commons in specified circumstances; to provide for the holding of primary elections in such circumstances; and for connected purposes. It is not easy in the current climate to recall the emotions that we felt as new MPs or that mingled sense of pride and awesome responsibility...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Students (13 Oct 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of people who entered the UK on a student visa and remained in the UK after the expiration of the visa in the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Defence: Future Lynx Helicopters (20 Jul 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) when he expects the first Future Lynx helicopters to enter service; (2) what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the procurement of Future Lynx helicopters; (3) what his policy is on proceeding with the Future Lynx contract.

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances (20 Jul 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of applications for family visit visas from (a) India, (b) Nigeria, (c) Bangladesh and (d) Pakistan have been refused in each of the last six years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances (15 Jul 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of appeals against refusal of a family visit visa from (a) India, (b) Nigeria, (c) Bangladesh and (d) Pakistan have been dismissed in the last six years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Muslim Population (7 Jul 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the size of the Muslim population of the UK in each year since 1979.

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Families (17 Jun 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many family visitor visa applications were received from people in each of the six countries from which most applications were received in each of the last seven years; and how many such visas were granted to people from each of those countries.

Written Answers — Justice: Constitutional Renewal Bill (16 Jun 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his Department's planned timetable is for the Constitutional Renewal Bill.

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards: Greater Manchester (20 May 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the rate at which voluntary take up of identity cards will occur under the Manchester pilot.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Speaker's Statement (18 May 2009) has video

Douglas Carswell: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you will be aware, Members on both sides of the House have now tabled a substantive motion calling for a vote of no confidence in you. When will Members be allowed to choose a new Speaker with the moral authority to clean up Westminster and the legitimacy to lift this House out of the mire?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Common Fisheries Policy (2 Apr 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the recreational fisheries proposals in Article 47 of the proposed Council Regulation on compliance with the Common Fisheries Policy.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Insulation: Tendring (2 Apr 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what funding for loft and cavity wall insulation for (a) priority groups and (b) older people will be made available to Tendring residents.

Written Answers — Defence: Air Trooping Arrangements (30 Mar 2009)

Douglas Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the capacity and reliability of air trooping arrangements.