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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (8 Sep 2010) See 5 other results from this debate

Jack Straw: May I join the Deputy Prime Minister in paying tribute to all those who have lost their lives serving our country in Afghanistan since the House last met? We know that for each one of those individuals, there is a family who are immensely proud of their service but who are consumed with grief for their loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with those bereaved families and the comrades and...

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (6 Sep 2010) has video See 22 other results from this debate

Jack Straw: The difference is that all of those had been subject to extensive pre-legislative scrutiny and were agreed across the House, whereas one part of this is agreed but the other is a wholly partisan measure. The political purpose behind it has been well exposed by the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr Field) in his excellent blog on the ConservativeHome website.

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Boundary Changes (27 Jul 2010) has video See 2 other results from this debate

Jack Straw: Will the Minister confirm that under the Bill, local boundaries, including county boundaries, can be completely ignored and that the only boundaries required to be observed are the national boundaries? Will he also confirm that under the Bill the Boundary Commission will be required, by law, to begin the process of redrawing the boundaries for the whole of the United Kingdom in the Isle of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (27 Jul 2010) has video

Jack Straw: On the assumption that the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister are not holidaying together in Montana, will the Deputy Prime Minister say if and when he will be in charge of the country when the Prime Minister is away on holiday?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Public Expenditure (27 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department's total (a) capital and (b) current spending was in each year since 1995 in (i) cash and (ii) constant prices; how many full-time equivalent (A) UK-based and (B) locally-engaged staff his Department employed in each such year; and how much his Department spent on consultants (1) contracted to his...

Written Answers — Home Department: Crime: Statistics (22 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 5 July 2010, Official Report, columns 385-86W, what role (a) the National Statistician and (b) the UK Statistics Authority will have in the review of crime statistics.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Jul 2010) has video See 10 other results from this debate

Jack Straw: I join the right hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to the British servicemen who have been killed in Afghanistan in recent days: Marine Jonathan Crookes, from 40 Commando Royal Marines, and Senior Aircraftman Kinikki Griffiths, from the RAF Regiment, who both died on Friday; and Sergeant David Monkhouse, from the Royal Dragoon Guards, and Staff Sergeant Brett Linley, from 11 Explosive Ordnance...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Pay (21 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimates his Department makes of the level of emoluments it pays to locally-engaged staff; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that the level of such emoluments is in line with that paid to locally-engaged staff of other departments.

Written Answers — International Development: Departmental Pay (21 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimates his Department makes of the level of emoluments it pays to locally-engaged staff; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that the level of such emoluments is in line with that paid to locally-engaged staff of other departments.

Written Answers — International Development: Departmental Public Expenditure (21 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department's total (a) capital and (b) current spending was in each year since 1995 in (i) cash and (ii) constant prices; how many full-time equivalent (A) UK-based and (B) locally-engaged staff his Department employed in each such year; and how much his Department spent on consultants (1) contracted to his Department and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Human Rights Act 1998 (20 Jul 2010) has video

Jack Straw: The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he had had a range of views on whether the Human Rights Act should be repealed, but he has actually had one view, which he has repeated over and over again-he even described the Prime Minister's proposal as "anti-foreigner". Given that consistency, which I commend the right hon. and learned Gentlemen on and welcome because it was supporting a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Complaint Systems (Victims of Crime) (20 Jul 2010) has video

Jack Straw: The Minister of State will recall that at Justice questions on 15 June, he said in answer to me: "We are aware of the important work that the National Victims' Service is planning to do."-[ Official Report, 15 June 2010; Vol. 511, c. 733.] Given that, I am surprised that there is no reference whatever to the National Victims' Service in the just-published draft structural plan for his...

Written Answers — Justice: Prison Sentences (20 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of the prison population in England and Wales was comprised of prisoners sentenced to (a) six months imprisonment or less and (b) between six and 12 months on the latest date for which information is available.

Written Answers — Treasury: Departmental Accountancy (14 Jul 2010)

Justine Greening: ...MP Asset Protection Scheme Propriety 2010 DCLG Right hon. John Denham MP Proposals for new unitary local Government structures for Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk VFM 2010 MOJ Right hon. Jack Straw MP Pleural Plaques Regularity and VFM 2010 MOD Right hon. Bob Ainsworth MP Basra memorial wall dedication ceremony VFM 2010 BIS Lord Mandelson North West Development...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Electoral Systems: Referendums (14 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what estimate he has made of the costs of holding a referendum on the alternative vote system.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Constituencies: Boundary Commissions (13 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much funding he plans to provide for the boundary commissions in each of the next three years.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Constituencies: Boundary Commissions (13 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether an equality impact assessment will be produced for his legislation to change parliamentary constituency boundaries.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Electoral Register (13 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many eligible voters who are missing from the electoral register he estimates will have been added to the register by December 2010.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Electoral Systems (13 Jul 2010)

Jack Straw: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what discussions he has had with the Electoral Commission on his proposal to speed up implementation of individual voter registration.

Defamation Bill [HL]: Second Reading (9 Jul 2010)

Lord Lester of Herne Hill: ...Sedley, who, when faced with a pompous colleague of mine who had made himself honorary life president of a lawyers' body, said: "Why only life?". I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Bach, to Jack Straw and to the former Government, who initiated serious reforms in this area. I was glad to hear what the noble Lord said today. I agree with him very much on the need for urgency on costs; we...