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Chris Evans: ...and lower welfare payments. I worry that if SMEs also lose out, even less will be returned to the taxpayer. Subsection (2)(d) would require the review to consider “whether Navantia UK are on track to fulfil guarantees on the UK content, UK steel targets and social value”. The UK steel industry also plays a role here, and it is vital that we ensure that Navantia UK is on track to fulfil...
Chris Evans: ...is through transparency. Labour would go further in government than the present Conservative Government. We would introduce a Ukraine-style publicly accessible dashboard of Government contracts tracking delivery and performance. I am pleased that the Government have made some commitments to increasing transparency on large projects. The reforms—particularly the introduction of a number...
Chris Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is on track to receive the first Boxer vehicles in 2023.
Chris Evans: ...across the country, can enjoy the amazing landscapes that Islwyn has to offer without fear or intimidation. There are, of course, people who enjoy off-road biking responsibly. They go to designated tracks or use private land with permission. Unfortunately, those who do not respect the law ruin the reputation of the sport for everyone. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau...
Chris Evans: ...to stand here and denigrate the DSIS. Many of the ideas are very good for an encouragement of British industry, for collaboration and for investment in research. However, judging by the MOD’s track record in the past 10 years, one cannot help thinking that those ideas are built on sand. Some of the major components of the integrated review will take over a decade to realise, so we will...
Chris Evans: ...are in the forces. He clearly had some sort of problem, and he needed to live in that regime where he was told what to do day in, day out. Once that left his life, his life went completely off the track. He said that he missed not just being told what to do but the camaraderie of his unit. Once that was gone, he felt friendless and alone. However, the problem we have is that there is a...
Chris Evans: .... Uyghurs living in China have no privacy. They are even required to submit biometric data to the police. Social media activity, travel and even which door they use to enter their house are all tracked by the police. Identification cards must be swiped in schools, banks and parks. No movement goes untracked. The Chinese Government have justified the existence of camps and surveillance as a...
Chris Evans: ..., from fines to six months in prison per egg. There are a variety of motivations behind egg theft. Recent arrests have shown that many collectors find themselves addicted to the process of tracking birds and capturing their eggs. The individuals who take part in those horrendous activities take pride in their ability to steal eggs from nests that lie in purposely secluded and difficult to...
Chris Evans: ...are slipping through the net and are becoming increasingly difficult to regulate and identify. Blue Cross has been working in partnership with classified ad site Gumtree, which has been able to track repeated advertisers of puppies. It found that online sellers were using multiple email addresses, placing hundreds of adverts over the course of 24 months, and selling in multiple local...
Chris Evans: ...said that one third of infrastructure projects might not be achieved at all. When the Chancellor makes those announcements in future, I hope we have a report on whether the projects are still on track and whether they will be achieved. For me, the Budget was a huge disappointment. I was expecting something better. Britain deserves better, and business above all deserves better than what it...
Chris Evans: ...and there is a new train service. People can get from town to town. However, Ceredigion, which is a huge constituency that I know quite well, Anglesey and Clwyd South all have country lanes and one-track roads. How can people get from one branch to another? It is a major outing for many people. Before a bank closes, it is imperative that a full assessment is carried out of the impact that...
Chris Evans: ...Affairs, at what intervals her Department receives accident and injury data on (a) racing and (b) retired greyhounds from (i) the Greyhound Board of Great Britain and (ii) individual greyhound tracks.
Chris Evans: ...firmly in the communities of the long-term unemployed. That service would ensure that there is localised, individualised and specialist support for jobseekers, delivered by groups with a proven track record of success in their locality. As the Policy Exchange report identified, it would be more effective for funding to flow to different providers, following the individual jobseeker to the...
Chris Evans: ...bell signifying that the 11 am greyhound race from Romford or Walthamstow was about to begin. Each Christmas, our work outing would be a night of dog racing just down the M4 at Swindon’s race track. I make it clear that, when it is well regulated, greyhound racing can be a fun pastime. Even though it was a bit before my time, I can still remember the names of Ballyregan Bob and Scurlogue...
Chris Evans: ...from animal welfare organisations. Secondly, there must be full transparency. Those involved in greyhound racing must be required by law to disclose welfare information at the national and track level to the regulatory body each quarter. Thirdly, the use of substances such as testosterone and anabolic steroids on greyhounds must be prohibited. Fourthly, we must introduce greyhound...
Chris Evans: ...but they had some rogue advisers who were allowed to move from company to company before their bad advice was discovered by the company, and then the company was punished. Is there any way to track individual advisers who may give that type of information and yet move on to another company before they are found out?
Chris Evans: ...available in prison to short-term offenders makes gaining employment after prison difficult. Having a criminal record is an obvious stumbling block for someone trying to get their life back on track. The Institute of Leadership and Management published an article in April 2014 on employing ex-offenders. It states that fewer than 50% of businesses would interview someone with a criminal...
Chris Evans: ...) Bill. It was based on the Dodd-Frank Act in America, which enables each and every bank transaction to be monitored. Perhaps we would have discovered the LIBOR scandal earlier if we had been tracking everything and had an office of financial research. The constituency represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Teresa Pearce) is not like mine—mine is a valleys...
Chris Evans: ...in rural areas. I agree with the hon. Gentleman. On my visit to Battersea dogs home, I learned that some 72% of the dogs that it looks after do not have a microchip, which makes it impossible to track down the owner. The Government have recently announced plans to combat that and have proposed the compulsory microchipping of puppies. However, in Battersea dogs home, I saw hundreds of dogs...
Chris Evans: That is a different case. When I was bitten through a letterbox, I did not know who owned that dog. I could not track that person down. I knocked on the door and there was no answer. Somebody’s dog bit me and I do not know who owns it. If we are going to introduce major measures, we need to know who owns these dogs.