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- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (6 Jul 2009)
Tony Baldry: Earlier this afternoon, the Home Secretary said that if one has a biometric passport and changes one's address, one has a duty to inform the passport office of that change. During the course of questions, inquiries have been made of the passport office, which says that that is not the case. What is the situation? Is it not somewhat daft to be under an obligation to report a change of address...
- Bill Presented: Preparing Britain's Economy for the Future (18 Jun 2009) has video
Tony Baldry: ..."fiscal policy... will have to change". Very wisely, Mervyn King pointed out that in five years the national debt would be more than double its current level of around 40 per cent. of GDP. He said, without any ambiguity, "it is also necessary to produce a clear plan to show how prospective deficits will be reduced during the next Parliament". The spat was all the more stark as a result of...
- Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)
Tony Baldry: ...speak. I am not sure that the Government have got it. They have an unrivalled opportunity on climate change. There is now overwhelming cross-party support for new legislation to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions by at least 3 per cent. every year. We have to hope that Ministers will seize the opportunity presented by this consensus and will make the UK a world example in developing a low...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)
Tony Baldry: The right hon. Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) knows jolly well and full well that if the Labour manifesto had said in terms that the Government were going to introduce compulsory ID cards, they would have got a raspberry. We all know from our constituency postbags and from conversations on the doorstep that the people of this country are resolutely opposed to...
- Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (16 Mar 2006)
Tony Baldry: No. As the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution said, "we continue to believe that the constitutional significance of the Bill is that it adjusts the fundamental relationship between the individual and the State." If one is going to adjust the fundamental relationship between the individual and the state—an issue of some importance—one would have thought that that...