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Jack Brereton: ...about listings. We should look at the process in Wales and whether it could be applied in England to protect buildings under huge threat, such as we saw with the destruction of the Crooked House pub. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), although I will make a little correction: Staffordshire is not part of the Black Country, although part of the...
Kit Malthouse: .... The limits that are drawn here will draw in all manner of businesses, not least some eminent barristers who will fall foul of some of the numbers. Indeed, the average town-centre or city-centre pub will be covered by these regulations, such is their level of turnover and employees. It is worrying that I am perhaps the only small-business voice here and that there are not enough...
Lord Lexden: ...so. Is that not a wholly reasonable proposition? We were told in Committee that my noble friend Lady Scott said “it remains the case that planning permission is required to change use to or from a pub. This ensures that local consideration can be given to any such proposals, in consultation with the local community”. Surely local communities should have a say in the establishment of...
Willie Rennie: ...they cannot find a home to live in. We can consider the Balcomie housing development in Crail. Apart from the social housing section at the back of the new development, all the other properties, bar a few, are now used as short-term lets or second homes. That has happened within a few short years of the estate being built. Ten miles away, in St Andrews, the situation is even more acute....
Jenny Rathbone: ...pollution and (b) industrial emissions as well. In these unprecedentedly austere times for public funding, we all need to recognise that there are costs as well as benefits to raising the bar on air quality. We certainly can't afford to go blindly in on any unintended consequences of legislation. There is yet a great deal we do not know about the interaction of different pollutants from,...
Lloyd Russell-Moyle: ...and ensure that suppliers of those canisters are punished properly. Many of my constituents think we should do that with the plastic cups strewn on our beaches, because we do not know which bar has given them out and not picked them up. I agree with that. I think that for waste and recycling we need to move to a completely different model, but that is not a model of criminalising young...
Lee Waters: ...gain the benefit as this now becomes normalised behaviour. That, I think, is the big win of this, if we can change what feels normal, just as it no longer feels normal to light up a cigarette in a pub, even though at the time there were huge claims as to the damage that would cause—and, indeed, the Conservatives were on the wrong side of that as well. It is now normal behaviour not to do...
Vicky Ford: ...many Ministers who have worked on this, and especially the Secretary of State, who continued to work on it through her maternity leave, and those in the other place. It was wonderful to be at the Bar of the other place, listening to Baroness Kidron, and others, when they spoke, and I thank her for being here today. I also particularly wish to thank Baroness Morgan and Lord Bethell. A few...
Mark Drakeford: ...opposed by people before the change comes about. I am quite old enough to remember the introduction of the breathalyser, when people felt that it was perfectly okay for them to spend the day in the pub and then drive home in the car when they were quite unfit to do so. There was just as much controversy about that as there is about this, as there always is when you bring about change. Once...
Rachel Maclean: The Government recognises the importance of local pubs to their communities and there are strong protections in place through the planning system. The demolition or change of use of a pub always requires planning permission. Local planning authorities have strong enforcement powers to tackle breaches of planning control, including the ability to issue enforcement notices which can require the...
Mike Freer: ...caseload in both the magistrates’ court and the Crown Court is currently higher than in 2019, due to additional pressures faced by the courts during the pandemic and as a result of the Criminal Bar Association Strike, there have been improvements in the last quarter. In the magistrates’ court, the outstanding case load stood at 8,964 in Q1 2023 compared to 9,401 in Q4 2022. In the...
Mike Freer: ...Crown Court vacated (i.e. cancelled) trials is improving. Following the Crown Court Improvement Group update in January, we have seen 27% fewer vacated trials compared to the same period before the Bar Strike. While short notice postponements are undesirable, they are not always avoidable. Judges are responsible for listing. Most cases that are vacated are done so in excess of 10 days from...
Christine Grahame: ...at both UK and Scottish Government levels. Some providers, such as Stobo Castle Health Spa, which also serves food, closed completely and took the opportunity to refurbish, as did the Central Bar in Peebles. It is a very small pub and could not comply with the requirement to serve food, so it closed and underwent refurbishment. Some businesses have yet to see their bank balances recover,...
Lord Newby: ...nature of the spying which the parliamentary researcher might have undertaken. According to media reports, one of his crimes seems to be to have organised regular drinks sessions at a Westminster pub. This may not be a meritorious activity but it is hardly a serious offence. I think everybody will be fascinated to discover, if charges are pursued, exactly what kind of secrets the...
Barry Sheerman: Will the Deputy Prime Minister remind the House of December 2016, when the then Prime Minister David Cameron was in the Plough pub in Cadsden with President Xi? We were all urged to be very positive towards China. Indeed, when I expressed worries about the takeover by China of a global company based in Huddersfield, I was told to go away and be quiet. I have also consistently asked for an...
Andrew Murrison: ...of all personnel, we expect all Armed Forces entrants to be able to serve, fit and healthy, for the period of their engagement. Consequently, there are a number of medical conditions that are a bar to Service that would not be an impediment to most other careers. Medical entry standards applied to both regular and reserve forces are regularly reviewed by subject matter experts, military...
Lord Bilimoria: ...in that period. The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said that the contribution of nuclear to the UK’s energy mix will “fall substantially by 2028, when all plants bar Sizewell B are scheduled to come to the end of their lives”. We know that we must achieve net zero by 2050. Delivering new and advanced nuclear power was one of the 10 points in the...
Hannah Bardell: .... The only way it can be proven is if those tests were done on pregnant women, and we all know that would be utterly ridiculous and absurd. However, we do know that there was association, and the bar has been set so high that it has become impossible for people to get justice. That responsibility lies at the door of the Government. Thalidomide campaigners were able to settle with the...
Yvette Cooper: ...political hierarchies that have been set. Neil Basu, the former counter-terror chief, has said that we also need to make sure there is earlier intervention and prevention. He said: “If we set the bar for Prevent so high that it can deal only with those who are already radicalised, we will have more terrorists, not fewer.” Finally, what action is being taken in response to the former...
Marco Longhi: ...may be aware of a tragedy that struck a chord of sadness and anger among my constituents, in the wider Black Country, nationally and, indeed, internationally. The building known as the Crooked House pub was built in 1765. It was symbolic of the region’s industrial heritage, and was home to tens of thousands of individual personal memories. Soon after its sale, the Crooked House was...
