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Business, Innovation and Skills: High-Speed Broadband (12 Nov 2009)

Edward Vaizey: What steps he plans to take to provide support for development of high-speed broadband networks.

Business, Innovation and Skills: High-Speed Broadband (12 Nov 2009)

Edward Vaizey: The distinguished Government adviser Professor Andrew Cave has said that the wrong sort of regulation will deter private investment. Charles Dunstone of TalkTalk has said that the telephone tax will delay it. Why is the Minister introducing a telephone tax, and a wireless broadband tax of £100 a year that will hit our small businesses?

Written Answers — Transport: Departmental ICT (11 Nov 2009)

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what discussions his Department has had with UK companies about tendering to supply technology for the forthcoming hard shoulder running projects.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Davies Committee (9 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Vaizey: Answer!

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Listed Buildings (9 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Vaizey: Listed buildings are part of our national heritage—a national heritage that the Secretary of State described last week in disparaging terms as "the past, old buildings" and "monuments". Does that explain why the Minister's Department has cut funding to English Heritage by £100 million, more than halved lottery funding for heritage and withdrawn the draft Heritage Protection Bill?

Written Answers — Transport: Hard Shoulder Running Projects (9 Nov 2009)

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what decisions his Department has made on what technology to use to facilitate the forthcoming hard shoulder running projects.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Vocational Training: Finance (5 Nov 2009)

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will allow employee-responsive funding allocated for financial year 2010-11 by the Learning and Skills Council to be drawn down in financial year 2009-10 in order to pay for training being provided in that financial year.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Topical Questions (2 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Vaizey: With your indulgence, Mr. Speaker, may I just pass on my condolences to the friends and family of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid? Although not a constituent of mine, he was based at 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, which is based at the Vauxhall barracks in my constituency. He was, sadly, killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, and that is a salutary reminder of the dangers that that regiment...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Topical Questions (2 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Vaizey: The question is: given that it took this man five months to see a consultant, will the Minister do the most that he can to ensure that all our GPs and hospitals are aware of this important protocol?

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Regional Spatial Strategy (27 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the current timetable is for the revision of regional spatial strategies.

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Licensing Act (22 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: I am grateful for this opportunity to welcome the excellent Select Committee report that we have debated this afternoon, and will continue to debate for some time to come. I also congratulate the Chairman of the Select Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale), on the debate. Every time I debate with him, I find out something new about his racy...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Licensing Act (22 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: Indeed. My hon. Friend is a man who discovered Sting, pogoed to The Undertones and got down with Lemmy from Motörhead. He is about as cool as they come. He puts to shame some of the Conservative MPs who will be joining us in 2010 and who regularly feature in articles bigging up the Conservatives as the new cool political party. Whether he likes it or not, he is clearly as Cameroonian and...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Licensing Act (22 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: And now the Minister says that it did not need a licence—the situation is becoming even more confusing. What I think he should do is simply hand himself over—

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Licensing Act (22 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: If the Minister will just let me finish, I was going to say that he should simply hand himself over to the nearest policeman. I must say that if he had represented Ashford, he would have been arrested by now and threatened with life imprisonment.

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Licensing Act (22 Oct 2009)

Edward Vaizey: That is clear as mud then, is it not? In fact, if the Minister wants to cite the specific legislation that says that DCMS did not need a licence, I would be grateful if he could cite the specific section in the 2003 Act—