Results 1-14 of 14 for hunting speaker:Malcolm Bruce

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Scotch Whisky (9 Jul 2008) has video

Malcolm Bruce: Will the Minister join me in welcoming the fact that planning permission has been granted for a new distillery, which is to be built in the town of Huntly? Will he recognise that the strength of the investment made there depends on a strong and healthy industry, and the export industry, and that increasing duty on whisky in future Budgets would not help the current resilience of that success?

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Cross-border Rail Services (29 Jan 2008)

Malcolm Bruce: ...sometimes tried to do, with a family, notwithstanding family rail cards and the like. My office priced a journey for a long weekend next month, travelling on Thursday and returning on Monday, from Huntly in my constituency to Bristol. That is not an unusual journey—it is not true that everybody wants to go to London—but the cheapest price for one adult is a saver return at...

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — HIV/AIDS (11 May 2006)

Malcolm Bruce: ...up a couple of points to which I hope the Minister can respond. The Committee had quite a debate about how to achieve the 2010 target progressively, and the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) will have something to say about interim targets if he catches your eye, Sir Nicholas. We recommended that the Department consider including a target on access to treatment when formulating...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Investment (7 Apr 2005)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...Does she not recognise that Sean Quinn's 500 jobs have been put on hold because 1,000 jobs in existing manufacturing plants are likely to be lost, and in my constituency, jobs at R. B. Farquhar of Huntly have been lost as a direct result of public money being put into a Danish competitor to steal business from it? I appreciate the courtesy of having been included in the discussions on MG...

Minorities (Former Yugoslavia) (17 Jun 2003)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...when I was monitoring elections in and around Sarajevo. In one of the polling stations that I visited, which was high up in the hills, about 15 miles off the main road, I found myself in a Serbian hunting lodge. The people there felt relaxed as Serbians living a long way from everywhere else, but said that there was no real future for them in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I asked them what was...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...effective speech there, but it has been seriously undermined by what has been said since by other members of his Administration, using the language of a John Wayne wild west movie: "We're going to hunt him down and we're going to get him, regardless of what the United Nations does." Certain people are also apparently putting pressure on the United Nations to agree to a specific...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (14 Jan 1997)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...are cutting the very service that people would use in those circumstances. The Government should at least take account of local circumstances, which they clearly have not done with the job club in Huntly. Transport and the roads budget are also matters for concern. In rural areas, public transport is limited and the potential for further development is virtually non-existent, so the...

Schedule 38: Repeals (28 Mar 1996)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...debate. The House will understand when I say that I was detained by dealing with the crisis in the beef industry which deeply affects my constituency. The right hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt) says that he wants to promote jobs. I have lost 100 jobs today and I have hundreds more hanging by a thread. Although I believe that we urgently need some definite policies from the...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (15 Jan 1996)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: It was interesting to watch the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) follow the lead of the right hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt) in his robust defence of one-nation conservatism. The contents of the Bill seem to have provoked a sudden debate about that, which I assume has nothing to do with anything that has happened outside the House. There is a fundamental difference between...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: GP Fundholding (28 Jun 1995)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...the past two years much against their will, because they felt that they were under pressure to do to so in order to benefit their patients? What assurances can he give to medical practitioners in Huntly, who have recently been told that the minor surgical operations that they carry out at the Jubilee hospital in Huntly will not be funded in future by the health board, and that if they do...

PowerGen and National Power (9 Jun 1995)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...too, should be bound by the rules of the marketplace that they suggest other people should follow. The right course of action is not a cumbersome, independent inquiry, which could turn into a witch hunt of the Government, but an inquiry carried out by the stock exchange. It is the appropriate body to do that because it is independent and it has the power to do so. It would want to do that...

Hospitals (Grampian Region) (10 May 1995)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...changed and it has never materialised. In fact, the site is now a car park. Other maternity units were also closed at that time, although strenuous local campaigning ensured that we saved Keith, Huntly and Torphins. Over the past year, hospitals for the mentally ill at House of Daviot and Kingseat in my constituency have closed. Most of the patients have been transferred to Aberdeen, some...

Orders of the Day — British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Bill (18 May 1992)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...lorries will take to that road, which will have a detrimental effect on all users. I have a regular flow of complaints from passengers on the line who say that the quality of the stations is appalling. In Huntly, some taxi drivers have refused to take passengers to the station because of the potholes in the drive. When I went to look at them, they had suddenly and mysteriously been filled...

Welfare State (27 Jun 1983)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: .... The Scottish Office can only tell me: The need for an ambulance station at Ellon will be kept firmly in mind. This is hardly a firm assurance. Services provided by the small hospitals in my constituency at Inverurie, Huntly and Insch are under constant review, but always for reductions, never for increases. The consultant surgeon who was at Huntly is now employed part-time. The...