Results 1-20 of 405 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Richard Benyon

Thames Valley Police (3 Nov 2009)

Richard Benyon: The chief constable wrote to Mr. Fidler only when I wrote to her. Does the Minister not agree that it is a strange way of doing things to tell the contract manager to terminate the contract, not giving any reason why and not giving any reason to the MP concerned until I contacted her and she approached Mr. Fidler?

Thames Valley Police (3 Nov 2009)

Richard Benyon: I am grateful to the Minister for responding to the debate, and I understand the limitations on him and the Home Office. I should like to put on the record again that I have a very good working relationship with the chief constable; I hope that good relationship continues after today. However, the purpose of MPs, every now and again, is to stand up for people whom we feel have been...

Thames Valley Police (3 Nov 2009)

Richard Benyon: It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Sheridan. I secured this debate to represent the views of my constituent, Paul Fidler, and the employees of his company, Wessex Recovery Ltd. I believe strongly that they have been the victims of a miscarriage of justice. Wessex Recovery Ltd is owned entirely by Mr. Fidler. It was formed in 1991 and since 1993 has had a contract...

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

Richard Benyon: It is clear that the Government will break their promise to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. In an admission of failure to the Environmental Audit Committee, they said that it was "never realistically achievable". Now the Secretary of State talks of more targets for some date way in the future. Is it not the truth that there remains a marked lack of will in the Government to reverse...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: The hon. Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter) paid great tribute to the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies), calling him a superb Minister, but he also gave him a challenge, which was to think hard about the matters we have discussed in this debate. I regret that he and his colleagues have not risen to the...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: Will the Minister comment on the points that I made about the number of employees who might transfer from the MFA?

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: The hon. Gentleman makes many interesting points about renewable energy, but to return to the amendment, we are talking about which agency is best equipped to deal with the developments to which he refers. I am sure that he agrees that a number of the developments will have an environmental impact, whether it is a tidal barrage, which his hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew)...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: Is it not possible that the hon. Gentleman is looking at this down the wrong end of the telescope? The IPC will, as long as it is allowed to exist, have plenty to do in connection with land-based issues. We are creating a new organisation for the management of the seas. Should we not be thinking that the MMO should be responsible for developments of higher megawatt output, rather than be...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: I apologise, Mr. Speaker; my understanding was that it had been selected, with a very late phone call to the Clerk's office. I may have been misinformed on that. In that case, I shall make a further point on the other amendments, which links in quite well with what I have been saying. It is important that the MMO has the breadth of knowledge that it needs. The Minister might be able to let us...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: I beg to move amendment 30, page 2, line 7, leave out from the first 'of' to 'sustainable' in line 8 and insert 'furthering'.

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: Here we are at the last stage of the marathon passage of this Bill—well, we hope that it is the last stage, but that is of course dependent on another place. Hopefully, we will co-operate and get the Bill on the statute book as soon as possible. Amendments 30 and 31 seek to address an imbalance in the Bill between clauses 2 and 44. The Minister will remember the lengthy debate that we...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Benyon: I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments; he puts my point of view very well. As I said, the wording matters. This provision is at the very start of the Bill, and it sets out the duties and obligations of an organisation that we are creating to be, in the words used in the House of Lords, the standard bearer for our seas. If we give it a weakened duty, we diminish the organisation and...