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- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Aerospace Industry (15 May 2013)
Owen Smith: Airbus is a quintessentially European company. It employs 6,000 people in Wales and 10,000 in the UK, and 100,000 further jobs support it. Does the Secretary of State believe that those jobs will be more or less secure if Wales is not part of Europe?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Aerospace Industry (15 May 2013)
Owen Smith: Leaving the pedantry aside, we had no answer from the Secretary of State on whether he believes that those 6,600 jobs in Wales will be more or less secure if Wales is not part of the EU. For the record, could he clarify his position on whether the jobs will be more secure if Wales is in or out of the EU? What is our Secretary of State’s opinion?
- Written Answers — Wales: Visits Abroad (25 April 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much was spent on international travel for Ministers in the Wales Office in each year since 2008-09.
- Written Answers — Wales: Procurement (24 April 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was purchased by his Department in October 2012 with payment number 1001623.
- Written Answers — Wales: Public Sector: Redundancy (24 April 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many public sector job losses there have been in (a) Wales and (b) each parliamentary constituency in Wales since May 2010.
- Written Answers — Wales: Treasury (24 April 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many meetings he has held with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last three months.
- Written Answers — Wales: Treasury (24 April 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2013, Official Report, column 406W, on Budget March 2013, if he will publish his letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Economic Situation: Wales (19 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effect on the Welsh economy of policies announced in the 2012 Budget.
- Written Answers — Wales: Budget March 2013 (18 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the likely effect on Wales of measures planned to be announced in Budget 2013.
- Written Answers — Wales: Commission on Devolution in Wales (18 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when the Government plans to respond to the recommendations of the first report of the Commission on Devolution in Wales.
- Written Answers — Wales: National Assembly for Wales (18 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals relating to the proposals included in the Green Paper on future electoral arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales.
- Written Answers — Wales: Universal Credit (18 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the outcome of the demonstration project for universal credit carried out in Torfaen.
- Written Answers — Transport: Official Cars (6 March 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2013, Official Report, column 163W, on transport: official cars, which cars are currently allocated to which Government departments; and what changes in this allocation there have been since April 2012.
- Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty) (27 February 2013)
Owen Smith: Will the Minister confirm that the total amount of money available in discretionary funds to Wales will be £6.1 million? He will have seen that the Welsh Government last week estimated the total cost to Wales of the bedroom tax at £25 million. Does he concede that there is a significant shortfall, or is he proposing to increase the money available to Wales—and, indeed, to the...
- Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty) (27 February 2013)
Owen Smith: The Minister is generous in giving way. He says that Wales is doing exceptionally well, but his own impact assessment demonstrates in black and white that 46% of claimants will be affected in Wales versus a UK average of 31%. Wales faces the largest impact—more than anywhere else in the country. Will the Minister therefore reconsider his remark that Wales is doing particularly well out...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Economic Policy (27 February 2013)
Owen Smith: Last week the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned that Wales faces a decade of destitution as a result of policies pursued by this Government, and the Welsh Government said that £600 million is being taken out of the pockets of ordinary Welsh people. Is the Secretary of State telling the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues what people are saying about his Government in Wales, or is...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Under-occupancy Penalty (27 February 2013)
Owen Smith: How on earth can the Minister defend a policy that is unfair and unworkable and will penalise the disabled, forces’ families and foster parents in Wales? Does he deny that his Government’s own impact assessment shows that Wales will be harder hit than anywhere else in the UK? Is there not a single issue on which he and the Secretary of State will stand up for Wales?
- Written Answers — Transport: Official Cars (25 February 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what arrangements there are for allocating particular models of car to Ministers through the Government Car Service.
- Written Answers — Wales: Official Cars (13 February 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what the total cost has been of his ministerial car since 4 September 2012; (2) how many journeys he has undertaken in a ministerial car since 4 September 2012; (3) what the total mileage is of all journeys he has undertaken in a ministerial car since 4 September 2012; (4) how many journeys of under a mile in distance he has undertaken in a...
- Written Answers — Wales: Official Engagements (12 February 2013)
Owen Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what official engagements (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have undertaken since September 2012.