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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (14 May 2013)

Paul Blomfield: In just over an hour, in an unprecedented move, the bishops of Sheffield and Hallam and a delegation of civic, community and faith leaders will present a petition to No. 10 from thousands of Sheffielders calling for a fair deal for our city. Will Ministers accept their argument that the unfair distribution of cuts is having a disproportionate impact on cities such as Sheffield, widening...

Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

Paul Blomfield: It is a delight to follow the hon. Member for South West Devon (Mr Streeter). I might not have agreed with everything he said, but he was right to point out that away from this place people’s concern is about economic growth. Sadly, the Queen’s Speech does not adequately address that concern. Some of the less thoughtful contributions have demonstrated just how deeply divided this...

Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

Paul Blomfield: My understanding is that the majority of unions would support standardised packaging. I deeply regret the fact that the tobacco giants use some individual trade unionists as de facto lobbyists. The Government surrendered to the tobacco giants. What message does that send to the country? This Government are prepared to see people die and, as the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Pauline Latham)...

Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

Paul Blomfield: I agree with my right hon. Friend: the tobacco industry should not be listened to. However, it finds no end of ways to seek to defeat the arguments of public health lobbies against smoking, and indeed to encourage the wider use of cigarettes. Shockingly, in the last year for which figures are available about 207,000 children aged between 11 and 15 started smoking. The vile way—to use my...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Child Care and Early Intervention (22 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: What plans he has for child care and early intervention provision; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Child Care and Early Intervention (22 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: In Education questions on 4 March, I asked the Secretary of State about the cut of 27%, or £6.8 million, to Sheffield’s early intervention grant, forcing the council to make deep cuts in early years provision. In his reply, he cited a grant of £25.2 million, describing it as an increase of 3.9%. I have since confirmed the position with council officers, who said that they...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (22 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many benefit sanction referrals have been made by Work programme providers in (a) South Yorkshire and (b) the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; (2) how many benefit sanction referrals have been made in South Yorkshire by each Work programme provider.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Burma (18 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has discussed with his Burmese counterpart the issue of withdrawal by the Burmese Army from ethnic states of Burma.

Written Answers — International Development: Burma (18 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate she has made of the proportion of people made homeless by Cyclone Nargis in Burma who have now been rehoused.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Finance (18 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what adjustments have been made and savings assumed in departmental expenditure for new regime UK-domiciled part-time undergraduate students entering higher education courses for the first time in 2012-13 at institutions which are not Higher Education Funding Council for England-fundable; and what assumption he has made...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Finance (18 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the departmental expenditure was for new regime UK-domiciled full-time undergraduate students entering higher education courses for the first time in 2012-13 at institutions which are Higher Education Funding Council for England-fundable; and on what number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time students and at what average...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Part-time Education (18 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what adjustments have been made and what savings have been assumed in respect of Government expenditure for new regime UK-domiciled part-time students entering higher education courses for the first time in 2012-13 at institutions which are Higher Education Funding Council for England-fundable following the decline in...

Written Answers — International Development: Burma (17 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what reports she has received on whether ration cuts are forcing women from Burma in refugee camps in Thailand to leave those camps to work illegally in Thailand.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Heart Surgery (Leeds) (15 April 2013)

Paul Blomfield: We have seen an extraordinary sequence of events that have unnecessarily tarnished the reputation of what the Secretary of State described as a fine hospital, and caused enormous anxiety to families across Yorkshire and the wider region. Does the Secretary of State not agree therefore that we need a full inquiry into how the decision was taken?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: It was good to see the Chancellor pop into the Chamber a few moments ago, although I wish he had been here a few moments before that to hear the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) accuse him of “absolute madness” for saying in opposition that he would back Labour’s spending plans, right up to the world financial crisis in 2008. That was the case, however, and the...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law (25 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: No, I will not, simply because of time; I would love to otherwise. That crisis created choices, and the Conservative-led Government have consistently made the wrong choices. The Liberal Democrats also have something to answer for because during the election they argued—rightly, and alongside Labour—that the post-2008 Tory austerity plans were wrong: wrong because they caused pain...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Probation Service (19 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: What plans he has for the future of the probation service; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Probation Service (19 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: My probation trust in south Yorkshire is not alone in being concerned about the proposal to split responsibility for offenders between public and private providers, depending on the level of risk, as that introduces a dangerous artificial divide that fails to take account of the way in which risk fluctuates. Will the Minister tell the House how many offenders on licence saw their risk level...

Written Answers — Justice: Probation (14 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his reasons are for recommending a reduction in the number of probation areas to 16 prior to outsourcing of probation work.

Probation Service — [Mr David Crausby in the Chair] (13 March 2013)

Paul Blomfield: It is a pleasure to be able to take part in the debate under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds East (Mr Mudie) on securing this important debate and on his comprehensive critique of the Government’s proposals. I am sorry that several pages of his speech were lost, owing to interventions, but that shows the strength of concern about the...