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Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]: Savers (21 Jan 2009) has video

Richard Spring: ...is the background to the current situation. Business interest repayments in personal debt have soared to £92 billion in the past 12 months. It is therefore absolutely essential in the long run that big changes are made. We need to move from an economy that this Government have built entirely on debt to one that is built more in a traditional way on savings. Britain needs to be...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (26 Nov 2008)

Richard Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the average contribution requested from householders assisted under the Warm Front scheme was in (a) Suffolk and (b) England since the inception of contributions.

Flight Paths (London) (2 Jul 2008)

Richard Spring: ...a second runway to accommodate 500,000 flights a year. Although it is important for London to continue to be a hub for air passengers, it is also important to ensure that a balance is achieved. The biggest change proposed for the Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and north-east Essex area is to increase the number of holds for Stansted and Luton arrivals from two to three. The two Stansted holds...

Human Rights (Burma) (25 Feb 2004)

Mr Richard Spring: ...and education amounts to just 0.5 per cent. of gross domestic product—a fraction of what is spent on the military forces of a country with no obvious external enemies. All that fosters a climate in which corruption and abuses of economic, civil and social rights are all too common. The picture in Burma is indeed gloomy, but there have been some welcome developments. I freely pay...

Convention on the Future of Europe (2 Dec 2002)

Mr Richard Spring: ...constructive engagement to address Europe's underlying problems, yet seems utterly incapable of coming up with specific, clear ideas for fixing them. It has forgotten that it must travel alongside changing times. We have seen its European bloc mentality, which is perfectly understandable, born as it was out of the second world war and the cold war during the second half of the last...

Opposition Day: Foreign and Security Policy (25 Apr 2001)

Mr Richard Spring: ...as an important player in the world, and—that elusive democratic deficit again—a fundamental reluctance to ensure that accountable forms of government, our best option in times of rapid change, remain to the fore. Those views, regrettably, are powerfully echoed by the Government. Given our range of assets across the world and our influence through our language and culture....