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Treasury: Topical Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Stephen Metcalfe: As my right hon. Friend knows, Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine has driven up energy prices across the world. The Government were therefore right to support households throughout the country. What is the long-term plan to reduce our dependence on gas so that taxpayers do not have to subsidise energy bills?

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: First World War Commemoration ( 9 Jun 2016)

Stephen Metcalfe: What steps his Department is taking to ensure the greatest possible engagement by children and young people in the commemoration of the First World War.

Backbench Business: Digital Records in the NHS — [Phil Wilson in the Chair] (28 Apr 2016)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, which, for those who do not know—this is a bit of a plug for it—is the oldest all-party parliamentary group, established in 1939 to help with the war effort, to bring Parliament and science together and to look at things such as how we can improve the public’s health and food security and what we can do to improve our defences. It strikes...

Resettlement of Vulnerable Syrian Refugees (10 Dec 2014)

Stephen Metcalfe: Having visited a refugee camp on the Syria-Turkey border earlier this year, I am all too aware of the conflict’s impact, especially on children. Will my hon. Friend join me in thanking the Turks for all they are doing to provide support? Does he agree that the best way to resolve the problem is to find a way to end the war, however difficult that may be? Will he remain committed to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Armed Forces (Recognition) (14 Jul 2014)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...The Soldiers’ Charity, for which I recently jumped out of a plane; the Essex Military Support Association, which organised the excellent South Essex Armed Forces day; Basildon council, which has awarded the Royal Anglian Regiment the freedom of the borough; and a group of residents who have recently refurbished the Stanford-le-Hope war memorial? As well as the Government having a role,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: First World War Commemoration (13 Mar 2014)

Stephen Metcalfe: What plans her Department has put in place to ensure a suitable commemoration of the first world war.

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme (29 Jan 2014)

Stephen Metcalfe: .... Are they the lost generation? What are their education opportunities or their life opportunities? You start to feel their pain and try to carry out a small act of kindness, giving out sweets and warm clothing, only to be mobbed. A sense of how a situation can change strikes you and if you think too much about it is easy to be overwhelmed by the sense of loss of hope. Those people are our...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: World War I: Anniversaries ( 5 Sep 2013)

Stephen Metcalfe: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport What steps she is taking to ensure a suitable commemoration of the First World War.

Backbench Business — Death Penalty (India): Kurdish Genocide (28 Feb 2013)

Stephen Metcalfe: I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Let us consider the following words: “I remember 16 March as if it was yesterday, I remember the roar of military aircraft overhead, hiding in my family’s shelter with family and friends, and emerging hours later to find twisted, deformed bodies lying in the street. I remember people crushed...

[Martin Caton in the Chair] — Ford UK (Duty of Care to Visteon Pensioners) ( 4 Dec 2012)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...employees feel so aggrieved is that, because they felt part of that “family”, they trusted their employer, Ford. Ford is a blue-chip firm with a history going back to before the first world war, and its employees were told that their pension was secure. The employees took that at face value. Of course, perhaps in hindsight they should have sought a little more clarity and explored what...

Amendment of the Law (22 Mar 2012)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...start, I put on record my appreciation to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor for his statement yesterday, for putting growth at the heart of the Budget, for unashamedly backing business, and for rewarding hard-working families. Those are the areas I want to focus on, but first I want to talk a little about the cut from 50% to 45% in the top rate of tax. I have to say that I did not...

Amendment of the Law (22 Mar 2012)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...in direct tax, whereas the other Budget measures introduced yesterday raise five times that amount—£500 million. We should not listen to Labour on this matter. Its aim is to reignite the class war and divide Britain along the lines of envy for its own political gain. I want to say to the people of South Basildon and East Thurrock, “Ask yourself this simple question: what is in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: War Memorials (14 Nov 2011)

Stephen Metcalfe: What steps his Department is taking to prevent the desecration of war memorials.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: War Memorials (14 Nov 2011)

Stephen Metcalfe: At this solemn time of year, when we remember those who fell to protect our freedoms, there is a small, despicable group of people who go round stealing metal from war memorials. What action are my right hon. Friend and his colleagues across Government taking to bring the full force of the law to bear on those individuals?

Amendment of the Law (29 Mar 2011)

Stephen Metcalfe: ..., was welcome up and down the country. We have to contrast that with the landscape that we inherited from our Labour colleagues. I do not quite know how to put it—whether it was neighbours at war or a family in crisis—but the situation was very much that they had maxed out the credit card and ceased to open the post. Time and again, I hear a degree of denial from Labour Members saying...

Apprenticeships and Skills (Public Procurement Contracts): Equitable Life (Payments) Bill (14 Sep 2010)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...support all of our constituents who have lost so much because of how Equitable Life conducted its business. I acknowledge that we as a nation face the most challenging financial situation since the war, but if we are to share the pain equally at this time of austerity, we must recognise that many who invested in Equitable Life have already been suffering that pain for many years and that...

Bills Presented — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill: Clause 2 — Payments under Academy agreements (22 Jul 2010)

Stephen Metcalfe: ...opportunity to address the House-through this Committee-for the first time, Mr Evans, in this important debate. First, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart), on making what I believe is his second maiden speech, and the hon. Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass), who has added considerably to this debate. I do not think that I shall be able...


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