Results 1-20 of 22 for guto bebb welsh language

Did you mean: auto bebb welsh language?

[Sir Alan Meale in the Chair] — Backbench business — S4C (31 January 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Alun Cairns: ..., and I am also grateful to the Members who have contributed to it: the hon. Members for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones) and for Aberavon (Dr Francis), and my hon. Friend the Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb), who focused on the importance that S4C has attached to the Welsh language; the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr Williams), who focused on the agreement between the BBC and S4C, which...

Business of the House: Backbench Business — Atos Work Capability Assessments (17 January 2013)

Guto Bebb: ...factor to the way in which he fought the disease. We need to make sure that we do not categorise everybody who has a long-term chronic illness as incapable of any type of work. On a specifically Welsh issue, despite the promises made by Ministers in the Welfare Reform Bill Committee when I tabled an amendment to allow assessments through the medium of Welsh, I have encountered numerous...

Written Answers — Wales: Welsh Language Commissioner (13 December 2012)

Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) whether there has been recent progress on the appointment of a secondee from the Welsh Language Commissioner's Office to work with his Department; (2) how he plans the new Welsh Language Commissioner standards will be implemented in non-devolved Government Departments.

Welsh Language (Non-devolved Departments) (20 November 2012) See 4 other results from this debate

Stephen Crabb: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Howarth. It is also a pleasure to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) defend the Welsh language, as he does like no one else. He has a fantastic reputation as a defender of the Welsh language, and he comes from a constituency that has an illustrious history of producing defenders of the Welsh language. I recall his...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Capability Assessment (29 October 2012)

Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that Welsh language correspondence from Jobcentre Plus decision makers to claimants is (a) available and (b) timely.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Personal Independence Payment (23 October 2012)

Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what progress his Department has made on ensuring that the assessments for personal independence payment will be available in the Welsh language.

Business of the House (18 October 2012)

Guto Bebb: The Welsh Language Act 1993, which was championed in this House by my predecessor Lord Roberts, has been diluted by the Welsh language measure passed by the Labour-Plaid Administration in the Welsh Assembly in 2011—a change that has resulted in significantly less protection for the Welsh language in non-devolved matters. May we have a debate in this House to reaffirm the principles of...

Bill Presented — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill: Welsh Affairs (1 March 2012)

Nia Griffith: .... Friend the Member for Ynys Môn referred to the need for clear policies on energy, and I shall return to that matter shortly. The hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr Williams) made the case for devolving Welsh language broadcasting. Sadly, the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) spent a great deal of time criticising a report, when his constituents would probably have been more...

[Mr Edward Leigh in the Chair] (31 January 2012)

David Hanson: ...also pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) for his concern about western north Wales. We have also heard interesting contributions from the hon. Members for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) and for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies), and from the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake). He was helpfully reminded of his election pledge to support 3,000...

Business of the House: Coastguard Modernisation (14 July 2011)

Guto Bebb: ...the Secretary of State agree that the waters around north Wales will be safer as a result of this announcement because of the retention of local knowledge in Holyhead, not least the ability to recognise Welsh language place names?

Royal Assent: Public Bodies Bill [Lords] (12 July 2011)

Guto Bebb: I will be brief, but I want to say a little about S4C. As the House may know, the Welsh Assembly is responsible for most of the quangos in Wales, but S4C is one Welsh organisation that will be affected by the Bill. I well understand the strength of feeling about the Bill. I am possibly the only Member present this evening whose office has been vandalised as a result of it. Members of the...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 78 (10 May 2011) See 1 other result from this clause

Guto Bebb: I beg to move amendment 193, in clause 78, page 56, line 21, a t end insert— ‘(d) must provide for the assessment to be carried out in accordance with the Welsh Language scheme adopted by the Department and endorsed by the Welsh Language Board.’ It gives me great pleasure to bring this issue to the attention of the Committee today. Obviously, it...

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Disability Living Allowance (9 March 2011)

Guto Bebb: .... Before I look at the mobility component of DLA, I would like to make a point about the work capability assessment process. I am MP for a constituency where about 42% of the population are first-language Welsh speakers. Time and again, people who come to my surgeries are expected to attend a work capability assessment in which they must explain their position and say whether they are...

Written Answers — Justice: Citizens' Advice Bureaux: Wales (3 March 2011)

Guto Bebb: ...advice bureaux in North Wales of the planned reduction in the legal aid budget; (2) what assessment he has made of the potential effects on the provision of face-to-face legal advice through the Welsh language in Wales of his proposals for legal aid reform.

Suppmentary Estimates 2010-11 — Department for Education: HM Revenue and Customs (2 March 2011) has video

Guto Bebb: On IT systems and call centres, is my hon. Friend aware that the current system is not compliant with HMRC’s own Welsh language policy and is also contrary to the Welsh Language Act 1993? As a result, I have constituents who are unable to deal with the tax authorities through the medium of their own language because the offices have been closed, or because the call centre or online...

St David’s Day (2 March 2011)

Mark Williams: ...out introducing it unless it was explicitly supported by business. That was disappointing, but, as a result of this debate, I hope that the Government will be willing to discuss the matter with Welsh Ministers in a reasonable manner—something the Minister always does in these debates—and in the spirit of the respect agenda that they rightly hold as their overriding principle in...

Backbench Business — [18th Allotted Day]: Legal Aid Reform (3 February 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Jonathan Djanogly: ...of services and help the disabled. People will be able to ask to be called back, as is currently the case, so the cost would be low. I should like to tell my hon. Friend the Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) that we believe the telephone advice will assist people in rural areas, and that language translation will be catered for, particularly for Welsh speakers. The service currently has a...

Backbench Business — [11th allotted day]: Independent Financial Advisers (Regulation) (29 November 2010)

Guto Bebb: ...Gummer) made the point about rural services very strongly in the Westminster Hall debate, and I agree with him, but I would go further. In Aberconwy, many professional firms work through the medium of Welsh. If rural financial advice services are taken away from parts of my constituency, people will lose the ability to go to a local financial adviser and deal with their problems in the...

S4C (20 October 2010) See 3 other results from this debate

Edward Vaizey: It is an honour and a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Brooke. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) on securing this timely debate, which has allowed Members to consider the future not only of S4C, but of Welsh language programming and its funding levels. I want to put on the record the Government's support for Welsh language programming and S4C's...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Wales (11 October 2010)

Guto Bebb: ...Justice what provision is being made in prisons serving North Wales to ensure that rehabilitation, education and support services take into account the fact that many prisoners in such prisons have Welsh as their first language; and if he will make a statement.