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Orders of the Day: Clause 51 — Nuclear decommissioning: regulations and guidance (18 Nov 2008) has video

Steve Webb: ...could come from renewable heat, gas on the grid and the like. The scope for that seems enormous. Given that, as the Minister said, 2020 is only a little over 11 years away, it is worrying that Lord Hunt was so vague about how long all this would take. It would be very worrying if there were any unnecessary delay. I hope that the measure can be introduced at the earliest possible...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill: Clause 3 - Exemptions (8 Dec 2005)

Steve Webb: ...on the potential impact of the distinction between food and non-food. All that I really want to say is that there is a danger. I do not know what the Committee or you, Lady Winterton, think of the hunting legislation, although I have a hunch that I might be on dangerous territory. However, it was possible to drive a coach and horses through that legislation, and we might be in the same...

Community Hospitals (2 Nov 2005)

Steve Webb: ...broke that will not happen. Do they have a long-term future under a tariff-based payment-by-results system? The hon. Gentleman raises a good point there. The hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) referred to the problem of how we work out how much an area should get and the inequalities that can result. He raised the important issue of the cost of delivering health care. It is not...

Prayers: Dairy Farming (South Gloucestershire) (17 Mar 2000)

Professor Steve Webb: ...the past. There was Government assistance until last summer under the calf processing aid scheme, but that has now ended. Typically, a bull calf will now be shot at birth—often by the local hunt, apparently. Thirdly, and perhaps crucially, the real price of milk is now about half of what it was 30 years ago. Farmers in my constituency are talking about a price of 8p a pint, which is...

Prayers: DNA Sampling (10 Mar 1999)

Professor Steve Webb: ...had been carefully hidden. The police inferred from that, and from other circumstances, that the murderer was a local man, or certainly a man with strong local connections. Thus began a murder hunt which was to last for many months. As the body had been found—and despite the circumstances—it was possible to obtain a DNA sample, although it was some eight weeks after Louise had...