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Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 126 - Purposes of sentencing (30 Jan 2003)

Ian Lucas: Does my hon. Friend agree that we must at all costs avoid the politicisation of sentencing? I think that we are gently moving in the right direction, and hope that the process that we are engaged in today will amount to further steps in the right direction—that of removing the politics from sentencing policy. That would be in the best interests of the community at large and of politicians, too.

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education and Research Bill: Examination of Witnesses ( 6 Sep 2016)

Professor Jonathan Seckl: The concern I have is about the potential for emasculation of the research councils which have served us so well. It has been well aired here I am sure, and it is well aired in the press that the UK is No. 1 pound for pound in delivery of research excellence on the globe. We do this really well. The academic community—the Royal Society of Edinburgh has to reflect...

Public Bill Committee: Fisheries Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Fisheries Objectives ( 8 Sep 2020)

Taiwo Owatemi: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. I will speak in support of amendments 75 to 78. Amendments 75 and 76 aim to protect the ecosystem of our marine environment by mitigating the catchment of sensitive species. It is therefore right that amendment 77 allows for better monitoring and enforcement of fishers. The absence of historical data on catches means that there is...

Public Bill Committee: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: New Clause 83 - Review of public health and poverty effects of Act (20 Oct 2022)

I hear a cheer in the room as I rise to my feet for a final time. I thank you, Mrs Murray, for your chairing of the Committee. I also thank your colleagues, the Clerks and Hansard. We have had a lot of really important debates. New clause 83 stands in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams). Reviewing our public health policy is really...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 (24 Jun 2008)

Phil Woolas: I do not accept that point entirely. The EU is well placed internationally, because a number of EU countries, including the UK, are on course to meet the Kyoto targets. Indeed, it is interesting that in the international debate the objection to 2° C is sometimes that some European countries are on course to do better in their contribution. The EU policy is a 20 per cent. reduction in the...

Public Bill Committee: Small Charitable Donations Bill (18 Oct 2012)

Sajid Javid: I do not have that number to hand. We talked in earlier sessions about the number of charities. Of the 180,000-odd charities in the UK, approximately 100,000 already have a relationship with HMRC, and in a typical year about 65,000 are making claims under gift aid. One could use those numbers to provide an approximate answer to the hon. Lady, but I am happy  to see if there is a better way...

Public Bill Committee: Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: (Except clauses 1 to 9) - New Clause 2 - Analysis of PSNI Historical Enquiries Team material (16 Jul 2013)

Mike Penning: Follow that! We have had a sensible debate, informed by the extensive knowledge of the former Secretary of State who brought in the HET. As for the HET itself, I know the shadow Minister said that it was perhaps a bit looser than it should be, but we are where we are with it. We also have to say—I often do, and am often criticised for doing so—that we have to let devolution work in...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 49 (24 Jan 2008)

Bob Neill: The three amendments all hang together. They build on what the Government and almost all the witnesses recognised as the important issue of ensuring that there is a robust consultation procedure, which we seek to strengthen. The clause requires certain tests to be met for the application to be accepted, because requiring the applicant to demonstrate the robustness of the consultation is...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 69 ( 3 May 2011)

Karen Buck: The amendment leads seamlessly on from the debate that we have just had about ring-fencing and some of the issues that we have already touched on. The two amendments that I have tabled relate to each other quite closely. I wholly agree with the Minister—I am sure that we would all agree—that there are cases where local authorities in rural areas would seek to provide a service differently...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 61 - Nuisance rough sleeping conditions (23 Jan 2024)

Andrew Jones: I rise to make a couple of points. The Minister made a very important point: we have to get the balance absolutely right here. We have a case in Harrogate at the moment concerning a pavilion in Crescent Gardens that was used by rough sleepers in a series of tents in September. They were there for two weeks, and it has been fenced off ever since. I have absolutely no doubt that when the hon....

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 27 (16 May 2006)

David Gauke: Not nearly enough, but we will make a start there. In brief and to simplify, the Factortame cases related to the Merchant Shipping Act 1988, which determined that in respect of shipping quotas, the UK quotas would be available only for UK persons. The ECJ determined that this was in breach of EU law. The House of Lords determined that the terms of the European Communities Act 1972 meant that...

Public Bill Committee: Enterprise Bill: Clause 255 - Disqualification from office: local government (14 May 2002)

Mr Harry Barnes: The same principles apply to clause 255, which concerns councils. There are, however, some extra considerations that need to be taken into account. Councillors, unlike Members of Parliament, are blocked by decisions made in Parliament, which include statutes, regulations following statutes and ministerial circulars. When, for instance, they deal with planning matters, they have to be very...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Care Bill: New Clause 66 - Support provided by the NHS to populations at risk of malnutrition ( 2 Nov 2021)

Alex Norris: I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. This new clause would put responsibility on integrated care boards to take the lead on tackling malnutrition in their community. We spoke about malnutrition in the context of hospital food standards, and we were not able to move the Minister to extend those hospital food standards to other care settings. I thought that was a shame, and I...

Public Bill Committee: Rating (Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill: Clause 3 - Rate relief for rural food shops ( 8 May 2001)

Bob Ainsworth: The five amendments concern the extension of mandatory rate relief to all village food shops. Amendment No. 14 changes the overall definition of a food shop. Amendments Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 15 concern the exclusion of confectionery and catering from the definition of a food shop. Amendment No. 14 would extend mandatory relief to any village shop that sold food as only a small part of its...

Public Bill Committee: Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Meaning of “psychoactive substance” etc (27 Oct 2015)

Mike Penning: I thank the shadow Minister for her detailed and extensive comments, which I take in the context in which they were delivered. I want to address some of the points that were made. The SNP spokesman mentioned the idea of a toolkit—we do not need to reinvent the wheel every time, do we? In England, local authorities, which have responsibility for public health, spend £830 million a year on...

Public Bill Committee: Elections Bill: Schedule 1 - Voter identification (22 Sep 2021)

Fleur Anderson: In Northern Ireland, people can take an expired form of photo ID and it will still count, so there is no limit there. A limit of 15 years does not apply in Northern Ireland, so perhaps a longer period of time should be looked at. It would be good to know the Minister’s thinking on that. Mandating renewal of these documents any less than every 15 years would have a huge and disproportionate...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Capacity Bill: Clause 36 - Duty of NHS body to seek advice before providing accommodation ( 4 Nov 2004)

Tim Boswell: Briefly, I am delighted that the hon. Lady has spoken to the new clauses tabled by the right hon. Member for Coatbridge and Chryston and it is right to pause for a moment to consider them. I do not intend to reopen the issue of advocacy. That is in no sense to suggest that it has gone away, but at this stage it may not be appropriate to add much to what has been said. However, I would like to...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill (except clauses 4, 5, 20, 28, 57 to 77, 86, 111 and 282 to 289, and schedules 1, 3, 11, 12, 21 and 37 to 39): Relief for community amateur sports clubs (13 May 2004)

Richard Bacon: It does not surprise me that something that the hon. Member for Ealing, North was involved in turned out not to be profitable. The fact is that community amateur sports clubs—while they are plainly not, in all cases, charities, in many cases are, by definition, not charities, and in some cases are not eligible to apply to be charities—are widely understood to be essentially philanthropic...

Public Bill Committee: Licensing Bill [Lords]: Clause 105 - Counter notice where permitted limits exceeded (13 May 2003)

Malcolm Moss: Yes, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. ACRE made its arguments successfully to the Minister for Rural Affairs, and the Minister alluded to the fact that his door continued to be thumped on by the relevant Minister who was trying to press the case. Will the Minister write to ACRE, or tell the Committee that he would be pleased to see its representatives to discuss the...

Public Bill Committee: Building Safety Bill: Clause 40 - Revocation etc of certain provision made under section 2(2) of ECA 1972 (23 Sep 2021)

Christopher Pincher: I would be happy enough to speak to clause 30 again, Mr Efford, although I am not sure that that is the desire of the Committee. My eloquence and possibly my effluence covered all bases. Clause 40 makes a technical but necessary provision to enable the revocation of out-of-date provisions in building regulations made under the European Communities Act 1972 as we modernise the regulations in...


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