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Energy Bill — Second Reading (18 June 2013) See 10 other results from this debate

Lord Whitty: My Lords, this has been a fascinating, interesting and well informed debate. I pity the Minister who has to sum it up, so I will try to help her out by giving my view of the debate. My thanks to the Minister and her staff for all the information that she has given to us, in particular to the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, and his group. That was a good preparation for this debate, and it is...

Education Act 1996 (Travelling Families) (18 June 2013)

Richard Graham: It is fair to say that the educational achievements of all communities vary from place to place. Showmen are a community spread across the whole of the United Kingdom in 10 different regions. I do not have precise statistics for their educational achievements. It is one of the issues that I will mention before finishing my speech, if the hon. Gentleman will allow me to, but he is right to...

Sudan and South Sudan (18 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Ian Lucas: I thank the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) for initiating the debate. He has done a great service in bringing the subject of Sudan and South Sudan to the House two years after it was last discussed in detail. I commend all contributors to the debate. They spoke with passion, eloquence and authority on the dreadful situation that prevails in Sudan. I pay tribute to the all-party group on...

Common Agricultural Policy: European Elections 2014 (18 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

David Lidington: ...grateful to all hon. Members who have taken part in the debate. I do not want to detain the House long, so I will try to reply briefly to the various questions raised. My hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) asked how funding from European political parties and other EU sources might influence domestic election campaigns in the United Kingdom. I want to place on the...

NHS Funding (York and North Yorkshire) (18 June 2013)

Hugh Bayley: All of us in north Yorkshire and York share concerns about the low level of funding for our patch. I share the hon. Gentleman’s concern about the lack of transparency, which is why it would be enormously helpful for the Minister to ask his funding advisory panel to carry out the calculation I have mentioned. That would illustrate whether there is a problem such as I have suggested, and...

Railway Services (North Cornwall) (18 June 2013)

Dan Rogerson: It is a pleasure, Mr Streeter, to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon. I am grateful for the opportunity to raise rail issues in my constituency. If you cast your mind back, Mr Streeter, you may remember a joke in a 1980s Eddie Murphy film, “Coming to America”. A waiter brings soup to a table and the customer asks him to try the soup. The waiter says, “What’s...

Common Agricultural Policy: Financial Transaction Tax and Economic and Monetary Union (18 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Christopher Leslie: I want to make some progress, as there is not much time. For the longer term, we must recalibrate the contribution of financial services to society. Of course, we must nurture a revival and restoration of the City of London’s primacy as the most trusted and professional place for financial transactions, but we cannot ignore the fact that most other jurisdictions are revisiting how...

Common Agricultural Policy (18 June 2013)

David Heath: The hon. Gentleman is right that it is a long, hard business to reform the CAP. The sadness is that occasionally within negotiations some member states want to turn the clock back, and even to forgo the reforms that have already been accomplished, so I will not pretend anything other than that this is a long, hard process and the advantages and the movement forward that we gain are not always...

Invisible Walls Rehabilitation Programme (HMP Parc) (18 June 2013)

Jeremy Wright: I congratulate the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mrs Moon) on securing this debate. On behalf of Her Majesty’s prison Parc and all the staff who work there, I thank her not only for how she made the case for the Invisible Walls programme, but for her support over a much longer period. The debate highlights an issue at the forefront of the Government’s plans to transform the criminal...

[Martin Caton in the Chair] — Unpaid Internships (18 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Hazel Blears: It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Caton. I begin by thanking Mr Speaker, not only for allocating the time for the debate, but for his personal commitment to this whole agenda, which I will discuss later in my speech and for which I am very grateful; it has made a huge difference. I am also very grateful to colleagues from all political parties for coming along this...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Investment: Foreign Investment (18 June 2013)

Lord Wallace of Saltaire: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Viscount Trenchard, dated June 2013 As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions asking how many jobs are estimated to have been...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Roads: Funding (18 June 2013)

Earl Attlee: Funding allocated to the Highways Agency for maintenance of the motorway and trunk road network is not allocated to the City of Liverpool or any other local highway authority. A breakdown of the capital funding grant allocated to the City of Liverpool for highways maintenance, including top-up funding, over the last five years is as follows: Financial Year Amount £million 2009-10...

Written Answers — Transport: Railways: Sanitation (18 June 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what discussions (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had with train operating companies in respect of the provision of adequate toilet facilities; (2) what information his Department collects on the provision of toilet facilities or working toilet facilities by rail franchise; (3) what sanctions are available to his Department...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances (18 June 2013)

Mark Harper: holding answer 12 June 2013 Since February 2012 all travel document applicants have been required to hold, or simultaneously apply, for a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) to confirm their immigration status in the UK. Where an applicant already holds a BRP they need not apply for another. Such applications for BRPs may experience delays if they are rejected, for instance if required...

Written Answers — Attorney-General: Offences Against Children: Internet (18 June 2013)

Oliver Heald: Offence based records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in magistrates courts. The following table shows the number of charged offences relating to indecent images of children. Legislation and Section Offence 2008/-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Coroners and Justice Act 2009...

Written Answers — Attorney-General: Prosecutions (18 June 2013)

Oliver Heald: Offence based records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced. CPS records do not identify the number of defendants prosecuted for specific offences. Rather, they show the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in magistrates courts. The number of offences charged under sections 44,...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Children: Maintenance (18 June 2013)

Steve Webb: The following table shows, as of March 2013, the amount of debt due to parents with care in Barnsley Central, South Yorkshire and England.   Total debt owed to Secretary of State or parent or person with care (£) Of which: owed to parent or person with care (£) Barnsley Central 7,103,000 4,246,000 South Yorkshire 93,545,000 56,090,000 England 3,380,307,000...

Written Answers — Education: Pupil Exclusions: Barrow in Furness (18 June 2013)

Elizabeth Truss: Information on the permanent exclusions and number of pupils with one or more fixed period exclusions in Barrow and Furness constituency, Cumbria local authority and England is shown in the following tables. Information has been provided for the academic years 2007/08 to 2010/11. To provide data for further years would incur disproportionate cost. The most recent available data on exclusions...

Written Answers — Education: Schools (18 June 2013)

Elizabeth Truss: Information about schools visited by all Ministers since May 2010 is not held centrally and could therefore be provided only at disproportionate cost. A list of ministerial visits made to schools by the Secretary of State by year is as follows. This does not include political or constituency visits. 10 May 2010 to 31 December 2010 Lampton School, Hounslow Cuckoo Hall Primary School,...

Written Answers — Education: Secondary Education (18 June 2013)

David Laws: At January 2012 there were 3,234,875 pupils(1) in state-funded secondary schools(2) in England. This information is from table 2b of the publication “Schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2012” available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-an d-their-characteristics-january-2012 Information for January 2013 will be published on Thursday 20...