Results 1-20 of 968 for in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates' speaker:Paul Rowen

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Expenditure Changes (30 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: What mechanism he plans to use to determine changes to expenditure on health services in the next four years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Expenditure Changes (30 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: I am sure that the Minister is aware of a leaked letter sent by the chief executive of the North West strategic health authority to PCTs calling on them to prepare cuts of 10 per cent. across the board and 15 per cent. in operational services. Such cuts include the shutting of Rochdale's accident and emergency department from 12 o'clock at night. Will the Minister admit, and stop trying to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: House Building Projects (9 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: What account his Department takes of the effects on local employment in the construction industry in its decisions on the allocation of funding for house building projects.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: House Building Projects (9 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: I understand that, but I am sure that the Minister is aware that there are 750,000 empty homes, and that more than 200,000 construction workers are chasing 300 jobs. Does he not accept, therefore, that the Government ought to do more to bring empty homes back into use?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (9 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: I am sure that the Secretary of State is aware that the mortgage repossession scheme operated by Rochdale council has been one of the most successful in the country in keeping people in their own homes. However, funding for that scheme nationally is available only until next year. What steps will the Secretary of State take to ensure that funding is available when the current funding finishes...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: Five years ago a young person in my constituency was on the dole for an average of eight months before getting a job. That figure now stands at 18 months, the highest figure in the north-west. Is not that the reality of how this Government have failed young people?

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Television Production (Funding) (1 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: What steps the Government are taking to encourage funding for the development of original UK television content.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Television Production (Funding) (1 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: As I am sure the Secretary of State is aware, investment in original content has declined by £340 million in the last five years. In the light of that, will the Secretary of State consider using the Digital Economy Bill as an opportunity to repeal the contract rights renewal regulations, which penalise, in particular, ITV's investment in original content?

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (1 March 2010)

Paul Rowen: With one premiership football club in administration and several others in hundreds of millions of pounds of debt, what steps will the Secretary of State take to ensure that there is financial probity in football?

[Mr. Graham Brady in the Chair] — Workplace Temperatures (24 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I hope the Minister will respond to my point that such issues arise at the lower end of the temperature scale, and that has not stopped us having a minimum temperature, so why cannot we use the same process and have a maximum temperature?

[Mr. Graham Brady in the Chair] — Workplace Temperatures (24 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I apologise for missing the start of the debate. It was due not to high temperatures, but merely a broken-down bus. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Brady. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) on initiating this debate. This is an important issue in which, as he is aware, I have taken some interest. In response to a parliamentary...

[Mr. Graham Brady in the Chair] — Workplace Temperatures (24 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I am grateful for that clarification. I agree that although the review is part of a process, there must be a wider discussion of the value of a maximum temperature. I agree with the hon. Members for Hayes and Harlington and for Luton, North that it is a worrying trend that the HSE's resources have been cut and that there has been a fall in the number of inspections and, consequently, the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (23 February 2010) has video

Paul Rowen: Primary care trusts in the north-west currently have a year-to-date deficit of £15.3 million. Will the Secretary of State tell us, or give us a guarantee, that important services to patients will not be sacrificed in trying to reduce those deficits?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Civil Litigation Costs (9 February 2010) has video

Paul Rowen: What assessment he has made of the recommendations in Lord Jackson's review of civil litigation costs; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Civil Litigation Costs (9 February 2010) has video

Paul Rowen: Does the Secretary of State accept that if the proposals are implemented, especially those on litigation costs for industrial personal injuries, it will be ordinary men and women with, say, asbestosis or byssinosis who will lose out? That will be in direct opposition to the commitment made on behalf of the Government by the right hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Hoon) on 14 April 1999, when he...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (9 February 2010) has video

Paul Rowen: Will the Secretary of State tell us when a decision will be made on compensation for pleural plaque victims? He has been saying for 18 months that an announcement is imminent. Will it be made before the general election?

Alcohol Fraud (9 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I have listened carefully to the proposals that the Minister is working on. When she meets members of the FWD and distributors, will she explore the registration scheme with them, because from the evidence that they have presented to me the wholesale part of the chain is now the only bit that is not regulated and is therefore the weak link in the chain? If that could be regulated we could,...

Alcohol Fraud (9 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: It is a pleasure to be able to speak under your chairmanship once again, Mr. Amess. I would like to thank Mr. Speaker for granting me the debate, and the Federation of Wholesale Distributors for supplying me with much of the background to the growing problem of alcohol fraud. In recent years, supermarkets have been rightly castigated for selling cheap alcohol at below cost price. The impact...

Alcohol Fraud (9 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention. To return to my previous point, are those figures for prosecutions a result of a reduction in action by HMRC, or of a reduction in the resources that the Government are targeting in that area? Last April, at the time of the Chancellor's Budget, the Government published their alcohol fraud strategy, which set out several measures designed to...

[Mr. Eric Martlew in the Chair] — Child Poverty (London) (9 February 2010)

Paul Rowen: I congratulate the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) on initiating this debate and on her thoughtful and thought-provoking views on child poverty and its effects on our capital city. I agree with her that as well as the issues that affect child poverty in general, there are specific issues with regard to our capital city. Solutions ought to be found to those...