Results 1-20 of 157 for speaker:Edward Timpson

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education (12 Nov 2009)

Edward Timpson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many young people who had been in local authority foster care in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority (i) enrolled in and (ii) completed a further education course in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Further Education (12 Nov 2009)

Edward Timpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people have taken a 14 to 19 diploma course in each subject in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority in each year since the introduction of those diplomas.

Written Answers — Transport: Roads: Finance (11 Nov 2009)

Edward Timpson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) how much his Department (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend on the (i) A11 Fiveways to Thetford improvement, (ii) A14 Ellington to Fen Ditton improvement, (iii) A21 South Pembury to Hastings route improvements, (iv) A21 Tonbridge to Pembury dualling scheme and (v) A23 Handcross to Warninglid improvement; and what the total...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Departmental Pilot Schemes (10 Nov 2009)

Edward Timpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pilot schemes his Department has commissioned in each year since 1997.

Written Answers — Justice: Crime (5 Nov 2009)

Edward Timpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what criminal offences enacted since 1997 have never resulted in (a) a criminal prosecution and (b) a criminal conviction.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: New Clause 21 — Chief executive of the Supreme Court (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: I take the Minister's point about the Supreme Court's being the apex of our judicial system, but most members of the public who have to access our judicial system tend to do so at the lower end—in the magistrates courts and family proceedings courts. When they see their magistrates courts in a poor state of repair and, on occasions, see them closing, it makes it even more important that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: New clause 20 — Lords Justices of Appeal (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: Why does the hon. Gentleman think that the Joint Committee came to the position that the JAC was being criticised for inefficiencies and delays in the judicial appointments process?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: New clause 20 — Lords Justices of Appeal (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: Does my hon. Friend agree that the Minister should welcome new clauses 20 and 22, as they would contribute to his stated aim of bringing about the maintenance of good-quality, high-calibre candidates for the bench? They would provide a system that does not have in-built delay, is efficient and brings candidates as good as those that we have had in the past without unnecessary costs. In the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 35 — Judicial appointments etc (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: The Minister has mentioned that some minor amendments to this Bill are being proposed to try to streamline the judicial appointments process. Can he tell the Committee what assessment is being made of the effect that these streamlining measures will have on attempts to reduce the unfortunate delay that there still is in the appointment of judges, which is causing such problems in our court system?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 35 — Judicial appointments etc (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: As the Minister might recall, this was an issue that I raised with the Lord Chancellor on Second Reading. I have in fact written to him to set out specific examples of where there are some holes in the number of judges in certain circuits across the country. Clause 35 and schedule 5 will, on the face of it, reduce the time that the medical assessment of a potential candidate will take, but...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 35 — Judicial appointments etc (4 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: indicated assent.

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

Edward Timpson: In Crewe and Nantwich, there are a number of veterans who were affected by the British testing of nuclear weapons in Australia and Christmas Island during the 1950s and 1960s. Will the Secretary of State tell the House what progress has been made, as part of the investigation into the health needs of those nuclear-test veterans, with the follow-up to the Rowland report on chromosomal damage,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: Cheshire East council has recognised a problem raised recently by one of my constituents, which is that 30 per cent. of street lighting in the Crewe and Nantwich area does not meet British safety standards regarding spacing. What can the Secretary of State do to help this relatively new council improve that statistic in respect of what is a very important community safety issue?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (26 Oct 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: In recent months, Crewe and Nantwich residents have been working in close partnership with the police in the fight against drugs on the streets. Although I am sure the Home Secretary would commend them for their actions, what can he tell them that the Government have planned to help to alleviate the administrative burden placed on the police in dealing with drugs crime?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (22 Oct 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (22 Oct 2009) has video

Edward Timpson: Does the Minister support, as I do, the proposal from the Association of Train Operating Companies that the Crewe to Chester line should be electrified, not least because of its importance to the Cheshire economy and to Crewe as one of the country's key railway junctions?

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

Edward Timpson: Will the Minister give way?

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

Edward Timpson: May I take the Minister back to his suggestion that the term "modest Bill" had come from the Whips? I would like him to reconsider his position on that. He is welcome to look at my notes, which are in my own handwriting, and which contain the word "modest". On this occasion, I am going to take credit for that description, rather than the Whips.

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

Edward Timpson: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Second Reading of this Bill. I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich (Mr. Carswell) that I am genuinely here to speak on the Bill and under no other pretence. I wish to touch on two parts of the Bill in particular—part 1 in respect of the civil service and part 6 on courts and tribunals. First and foremost, however, I want to...