Alison Seabeck: The Secretary of State is ever the optimist, but he will know that staff in DE&S and industry need certainty, and nothing in the changes to DE&S fits that description. His Department still has not confirmed the arrangements to bring the managed service providers into the business. He talked about the flexibilities and freedoms being broad—they are not in the public domain yet, and April is...
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the value is of the break clauses in each contract his Department currently holds with Capita.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what criteria his Department used in its decision on to whom to award the contract to manage the Defence Infrastructure Organisation; (2) what the role of the new strategic partner taking over the Defence Infrastructure Organisation will be in the statutory planning process; and whether his Department will be the final arbiter in planning...
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on legal costs relating to International Military Sales Ltd in each of the last five years.
Alison Seabeck: What support the Government are providing for PE and recreational sport for people with limb loss; and if she will make a statement.
Alison Seabeck: Given the success of our Paralympians in both the summer and winter games, and the inspirational effect they have on young amputees, does the Minister share my concern that NHS England is supplying either a sports limb or a standard limb to young people, thereby restricting their capacity to compete or take part in recreational sport? Will she agree to talk urgently to her colleagues in the...
Alison Seabeck: rose—
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy that future grants from his Department to the Nursing and Midwifery Council should be subject to agreement of a cap on registration fees for newly-qualified nurses.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the re-baselining of the QE Class aircraft carrier has been completed and whether the programme has been re-approved.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the final performance cost and time envelope for the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability tankers has been agreed with the Ministry of Defence Approving Authority.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has received advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation regarding the introduction of a meningitis B vaccination programme in the NHS since 11 February 2014.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 6 February 2014, Official Report, column 549W, on armed forces: housing, how many service personnel were placed temporarily in hotels in (a) Plymouth and (b) nationally in each of the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of use of hotels for this purpose.
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the End Crypto Graphic Unit programme to be completed.
Alison Seabeck: The Minister is talking about financing and the envelope in which we are all working. Has consideration ever been given—this will not be popular in some parts—to tolling a tunnel and paying for it that way?
Alison Seabeck: The hon. Gentleman is right. The distances are not wildly out. It is distressing, when one visits Secretaries of State in some Departments, to find that they think that Plymouth is a bit like Hastings, in terms of its distance from London. Some education is needed in Departments.
Alison Seabeck: I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way—or should that be the right hon. Gentleman?
Alison Seabeck: Sorry, I am not doing very well with titles today. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that if a solution is not found on Stonehenge and the Blackdown hills, dualling other bits of the road and encouraging more traffic on to them will simply cause further problems at bottlenecks? There is almost a case for sorting Stonehenge and then working backwards.
Alison Seabeck: It is a pleasure to have you in the Chair, Dr McCrea. The hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen) is to be congratulated on securing this debate, not least because the A303 is one of the few strategic road links down to the far south-west, and particularly to Plymouth. Its importance therefore cannot be overstated. The recent extreme weather in the far south-west shows how vulnerable we are;...
Alison Seabeck: The hon. Lady knows the region very well. I will come to those issues a little later, but she is absolutely right that there are major problems when either the M5 or the A303 closes for one reason or another. We have had relatively little investment in the south-west, as recent weeks have shown. Across the south-west, we have less investment in transport per person than any other region in...
Alison Seabeck: Will the Minister congratulate residents of Barne Barton in my constituency on the work they are putting in, with the Ministry of Defence, to get the neighbourhood plan together? Locally, the Ministry of Defence is really helpful with very sensitive land issues. However, there is a clear lack of understanding of the statutory remit as regards what is in and what is out in relation to...