Former Conservative MP for Salisbury
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Is my hon. Friend content with clause 31, on the digital switchover? It is estimated that the costs to the consumer will be £800 million, and there is no sign of manufacturers of DAB radios producing cheap radios, no estimate of the cost of throwing away millions of existing FM sets, no sign that the motor car industry is going to come up with the goods- [Interruption.] A Labour Back Bencher...
The people of Estonia have held this country in particular regard ever since the intervention of the Royal Navy in their war of independence after the first world war. In fashioning the future foreign and defence policy of this country, will this Government and the next never forget the professionalism and sacrifice of Estonian forces fighting alongside British forces in Afghanistan and the...
What resources were allocated to his Department under the Government's resource accounting system in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2003-04.
Does the Secretary of State agree that it is always a case of lies, damn lies and statistics, and that it is a matter of great regret that, since the Prime Minister lost his way on defence statistics, it has done nobody any good that we cannot trust the Government on their defence statistics? Does the Secretary of State agree that we really have to stop that, and that we have to have a...
The five rivers that flow into the Avon basin are being depleted by abstraction. Has the Secretary of State finished reflecting on last year's consultation on the abolition of Crown immunity from water abstraction licensing, particularly as it applies to the Ministry of Defence and its establishments on Salisbury plain?
I strongly support the Bill, and I hope that the House will not need to divide on it, but I intend to be in my place at the end of the debate to say aye. I feel very passionately about this issue, which has engaged me since I was a child, as I shall explain. On 10 July 1998, I stood at the Dispatch Box as a defence spokesman for the Opposition to throw our weight behind the Bill that became...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons the provision of the fast jet test and evaluation advice was transferred from Boscombe Down Airfield to RAF Coningsby.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the fast jet test and evaluation advice available at RAF Coningsby is provided in-house.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what grants were awarded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to non-hub designated museums in the South West in 2009.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what assessment he has made of the effect on roads in England of the recent severe weather conditions; and what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Highways Agency and (b) local highway authorities on filling potholes and repairing carriageways.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to reply to Question (a) 312701, (b) 312702 and (c) 312703, on personal, social, health and economic education, tabled by the hon. Member for Salisbury on 19 January 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what training will be given to teachers of the personal, social, health and economic education curriculum to respond appropriately to a child or young person, who, during such teaching, discloses abuse.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what plans he has to provide specialist teacher training to (a) teachers and (b) trainee teachers to deliver sex and relationships education within the personal, health, social and economic curriculum; (2) how many teachers he expects to be trained to teach sex and relationships education under the personal, social,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the consultants' reports on (a) the outline business cases for the Porton Down and Terlings Park options and (b) the preferred option analysis for the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response Developments at Terlings Park or at Porton Down.
