Results 5501–5520 of 6740 for speaker:Andrew Selous

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Apprenticeships ( 2 Oct 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people applied for an electrical apprenticeship in the last year for which figures are available; and how many were accepted.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Benefit Payments (18 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many methods of calculation are available to decision makers in his Department making decisions on overpayment of benefits; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Nurses (18 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses completed their training in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006; and how many have not been able to find jobs.

Written Answers — Transport: Traffic Accidents (18 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of all traffic accidents in England and Wales involved foreign registered lorries in each of the last three years.

Written Answers — Transport: Thameslink (13 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which of the bidders for the renewal of the Thameslink franchise expressed an interest in re-opening the Luton to Dunstable branch line; and why this offer was not taken up.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Sexual Orientation Regulations (13 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the content of school assemblies will be covered by the sexual orientation regulations.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Sexual Orientation Regulations ( 4 Sep 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the sexual orientation regulations will require (a) Anglican Churches and (b) Churches of other denominations to perform civil partnership services in their churches; whether the regulations will apply to teaching in Sunday schools; and if she will make a statement.

Petitions: Lewsey Road Occupational Therapy Workshop (25 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: I wish to present a petition signed by some 367 constituents, many of them stroke patients and their carers. They are most upset by the closure on 23 June of the Lewsey road occupational therapy workshop in Luton. They tell me that they were given only two weeks' notice of the decision. The petition states: To the House of Commons. The Petition of the residents of South Bedfordshire and...

Orders of the Day: Adjournment (Summer Recess) (25 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: I shall be brief. First, I want to mention endowment shortfalls, which a number of my constituents have raised with me. The House and the Government are not taking the issue seriously. Statistics tell us that many endowment policies will come to fruition in the next five to 10 years, and a large number of our constituents will find themselves in serious financial difficulty. The Treasury...

Written Answers — Home Department: Citizenship (18 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether a mother can require a DNA test to be undertaken to prove the paternity of her child in relation to citizenship.

Written Answers — Home Department: Citizenship (18 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether a British father is required to supply his details to enable his child to be registered as a British citizen where the mother wishes this to happen.

Orders of the Day: Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill (14 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: The hon. Lady has been generous in giving way and I am most grateful to her. She mentioned the need for a national education campaign. Does she agree that parents, perhaps especially fathers, play a crucial role? We must nip in the bud the sort of attitudes that we have been considering, and that must be done in people's homes, because children first learn behaviour from their parents.

Petitions: Three-tier Education System (13 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: I rise to present a petition signed by some 4,000 of my constituents, of whom roughly 1,000 are schoolchildren, to request the Government to ask Bedfordshire to keep the three-tier system of education, comprising lower, middle and upper schools. The petition states: To the House of Commons. The Petition of residents of South Bedfordshire. Declares that the overwhelming majority of local...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: A5 (Hinckley) (11 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: The A5, which runs through my constituency south of Hinckley, is horrendously congested. The Comptroller and Auditor General wrote to me recently to say that the Highways Agency intended to put in a new junction, 11A, at the same time as widening the M1 to save £10 million. However, I learned from a letter from the Secretary of State yesterday that that is only a possibility. Will the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Official Report (Corrections) (10 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: If he will make a statement on how corrections sought by Ministers to matters recorded in the Official Report should be implemented.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Official Report (Corrections) (10 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: I hope that it is not old-fashioned to believe that being inaccurate at the Dispatch Box is one of the cardinal sins of British politics. If that is still the case, should not corrections be made at the Dispatch Box at the same time of day as the original error, in order to gain the same publicity as the original words received on "Today", "Yesterday in Parliament" or anywhere else?

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Community Family Trusts (10 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills under what programme he envisages future funding for community family trusts to be provided; whether such trusts are eligible for funding from the Children, Young People and Families Grant scheme for national programmes; and what the criteria are for the scheme.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Community Family Trusts (10 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which community family trusts received funding for 2006-07; and under what grant programme such funding was made available.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Travellers (10 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what powers are available to planning authorities enabling preventive action to be taken in relation to the Unauthorised development of land sold to Travellers.

Estimates 2006-07: Department of Health ( 3 Jul 2006)

Andrew Selous: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Parliament should not do anything to deny any child the possibility at birth of growing up with both a mother and a father?


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