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Flood Prevention and Defence (11 Jul 2007)

John Greenway: ...closed because of disrepair. If that is the case, it is completely unacceptable. We need to manage waste water and sewerage better. There is much policy discussion these days on combating global warming and climate change, and rightly so, but we are doing nowhere near enough to counteract the effects of climate change. This matter is urgent and is doing huge economic damage to our society....

EU Sugar Regime (12 Jul 2005)

John Greenway: ...we need. That is exported, with the benefit of export subsidies, and many of the exports take the form of manufactured products such as confectionery and biscuits. That is unsustainable and must change. The Commission, supported largely by representations that have been made by the industry, has devised a scheme, which it considers provides a realistic prospect of taking out the 5 million...

Easter Adjournment (1 Apr 2004)

Mr John Greenway: ...less support than lowland farmers. That is not only unjust; it simply does not make sense. The support system has always recognised that upland farmers need additional help because of the difficult climate and landscape conditions under which they farm. They cannot grow quality crops, but access to good grassland in upland areas has enabled them to become the backbone of the beef and...

Communications Bill: Clause 3 — General Duties of OFCOM (14 Jul 2003)

Mr John Greenway: ...a technical point so that the Minister has time to check the matter before 6 pm. Amendment No. 155 refers to clause 368. A group of amendments—I believe that they are Nos. 156 to 187—change "newspaper" to "media". However, there is no amendment to replace the title of the clause, "Newspaper public interest considerations" with "Media public interest considerations". That may be...

Written Answers — Treasury: Amateur Sports Clubs (8 Jan 2002)

Mr John Greenway: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 10 December 2001, Official Report, column 689W, on amateur sports clubs, whether he will include relief from the climate change levy in his proposals for tax relief for community amateur sports clubs.

Bill Presented: Pensions (9 Jul 1997)

Mr John Greenway: ...as those that we are in tonight—the robbery of about £5 billion a year from our pension funds by the proposal on advance corporation tax in the Budget. Listening to some of the earlier exchanges about the proposals for basic pensions plus made by the previous Government—which, I seem to recall, were favourably received by the current Minister for Welfare Reform and by the...

Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill (7 Dec 1987)

Mr John Greenway: ...registration contract, but one assumes that the arrangement would take care of all the screening procedures, X-rays, and possibly even the cleaning of teeth. It would be unrealistic in the present climate, given the need of the Health Service for resources, to expect that the patient should not contribute to that contract. There is an opportunity here for us to do a great deal of good to...