Results 121–140 of 497 for speaker:Mr Keith Raffan

Business of the House (27 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Let me join other hon. Members in welcoming my right hon. and learned Friend warmly to his new and important post. In view of the major outbreak of salmonella poisoning in my constituency and in other parts of the north-west, and the statement on food safety that we are about to hear, can my right hon. and learned Friend assure the House that an early debate on food safety and the...

Local Government Finance (Wales) (20 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Is it not very revealing that, when my right hon. Friend reached the section in the statement that concerns the dramatic benefit that it will bring to the 300,000 people in Wales who are on income support, it met with silence from Opposition Members? Is it not also revealing that the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) is as churlish as usual, and cannot pay tribute to my right hon....

Water (19 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could explain how the Government are ducking and weaving on the European Community directive when they have incorporated it in law and have imposed 14 additional national standards. That is an extraordinary way to duck and weave. Long may Governments continue to do that when it means improving on the standards that have been put to us by Europe.

Water (19 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: If the Conservative Government did what the Labour Government did when they were in power and cut expenditure on river infrastructure by 50 per cent. there would be an outburst of horror. The Government have increased expenditure, yet the Opposition still dare to attack us. Of course we shall remind them of their record because it is so deplorable and disgraceful.

Water (19 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Does not the performance of members of the Opposition Front Bench on access to information contrast sharply with their behaviour when in office when they kept details of discharge consent applications secret from the public? They prevented the openness and access to information that this Government are now providing.

Water (19 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Will the hon. Lady give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Tourism (18 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when he intends announcing the outcome of, and decisions arising from, his Department's review of tourism initiated in July 1988.

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Tourism (18 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: By asking the British Tourist Authority to devolve greater authority to its overseas regions, does my hon. Friend risk the possibility of more uniform and so less effective promotion of Wales overseas?

Economic Summit (Paris) (17 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: I join in welcoming the setting up of the financial action task force to attack the laundering of illicit profits from the drug trade. Will my right hon. Friend tell the House whether the international conference on drugs next year will have as one of its main objectives a multilateral agreement to back up that task force, so as to ensure that the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 can be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Labour Statistics (17 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on his latest inward investment success and the major part that he played in bringing the Toyota engine plant to Shotton in the constituency of the shadow Secretary of State for Wales, who could never have brought it there had he tried. My right hon. Friend did so without costing the taxpayer a penny. How many jobs will be created by that project in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Rail Services (17 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Is my hon. Friend aware of the great concern in north-east Wales, particularly among business men and industrialists, that the Welsh Dragon does not stop at Flint or Prestatyn, although it stops at Stafford, Lichfield and Nuneaton? Will he suggest to the chairman of British Rail that the Welsh Dragon either stops at more stations in north-east Wales or is renamed the English Unicorn?

Community Care (12 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that his statement will be especially welcome to hon. Members such as myself who represent seaside communities, who have witnessed with considerable concern the proliferation of residential homes of an uneven quality in recent years, and who want to see a much better balance between home care and institutional care? What further measures does he...

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: That is a distortion. The more the hon. Lady is challenged, the more she distorts. I am glad that Welsh Members are present as they can confirm that there has been almost a doubling of capital expenditure by the Welsh water authority—

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: It was desperately needed because of the years of neglect under the Labour Government. The Welsh water authority has the longest—

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: I am not giving way. I am finishing a sentence. I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman because he, too, has already had a bite of the cake. He should remain quiet and let me make my point. I am well aware that what I am saying is unpalatable to the Opposition. It is fit for human consumption, but I am not sure that it is fit for the Opposition consumption. After all, they do not like...

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: I have made it clear that I will not give way again—[Interruption.] I was generous in giving way earlier —[HON. MEMBERS:"Give way."] All right, I will give way, but I do not want to take up too much time.

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: It is not that at all. The hon. Gentleman is wrong again. I have talked often to Mr. John Elfed Jones, the chairman of the Welsh water authority, who wants to be released from the possible nightmare—although it is a fantasy—of a future Labour Government. He does not want a repeat of what happened in the last three years the Labour party was in power. Because the Labour Government so...

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: The hon. Lady brings in Euro-seats as a distraction. I do not remember the Labour candidate in north Wales mentioning the Bill. Indeed, he did not mention much to do with Europe at all. I doubt whether he even knew that the European drinking water directive existed. As usual, I wish to be constructive, and in the few minutes remaining to me I shall refer to some of the points to which the...

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: That was the clear inferencee to be drawn from Opposition speeches. I listened very carefully, as I always do, to the hon. Members for Bridgend and for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey).

Clause 20: Orders for Securing Compliance with Certain Provisions ( 3 Jul 1989)

Mr Keith Raffan: From the point of view of public health, the directives' key sections concern bacteria and toxic substances. Water in England and Wales has always enjoyed very high standards of bacteriological purity. There remain only three very small water supplies which are adversely affected in that regard, and they are being quickly dealt with. The Government propose to incorporate in their...


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