Jeremy Corbyn: I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and for his commitment to report regularly to the House, which is extremely welcome. I was, however, very disappointed in his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick). President Gorbachev and his country suffered more than anyone else, apart from the Afghan people, because of the military activities of the red army in...
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what investigation his Department has undertaken into the fire protection procedures at Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston following the fire in August 2010.
Jeremy Corbyn: Does the Minister not understand the anger of firefighters-who have kept this city safe for so long, and whom we all rely on and applaud when they put fires out and make places safe-when they are sent dismissal notices and are told that they have to accept a new contract without any negotiation, and when we have a Mayor who refuses to meet them and a Minister who is apparently not even...
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what reports he has received on the support provided to the Ministry of Defence Fire Service by local fire services during the fire at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in August 2010.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what definition of market rent his Department uses in respect of the proposal to raise the rents of new council tenants to 80 per cent. of market rent.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what advice his Department issues to fire control centres on assistance to those whose first language is not English who are reporting a fire.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what observers from the UK Embassy in Turkey have been present at the trial of Kurdish defendants in Diyarbakir which began on 18 October 2010; and if he will make a statement.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many people resident in each parliamentary constituency applied to each higher education institution in each of the last five years for which information is available; (2) how many people resident in each parliamentary constituency applied to enter an undergraduate course at each higher education institution in each...
Jeremy Corbyn: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have been trying to follow what the Minister is saying, and it appears to me-I do not know whether you have the same impression-that he is deviating a long way from the terms of the Bill. He is giving his view of the history of industrial relations in the 1980s and early 1990s, when he should be addressing whatever concerns the Government have about...
Jeremy Corbyn: The Chancellor will be aware that housing is the biggest and most serious problem facing people in my constituency, because of overcrowding and a shortage of social housing. His proposals in July to cap housing benefit render at risk the lives of many people living in private rented accommodation, where the rent is paid by housing benefit, and his proposals now to have two tiers of council...
Jeremy Corbyn: The nuclear non-proliferation treaty commits this country to long-term nuclear disarmament and to take steps to achieve that. The Prime Minister has just announced the replacement of the Trident nuclear system at some point in the future. Is this not illegal under the terms of that treaty, and how much money will it cost us to develop another generation of weapons of mass destruction, when...
Karen Buck: ...the fact that in east or south-east London, and many other parts of the country, there are no rooms or houses to spare to absorb that movement. My hon. Friend the Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) talked about the sometimes perverse consequences of the right to buy, a popular policy that delivered much to those who benefited from it, but which down the line has contributed to...
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the use of khat in the UK; what estimate she has made of the monetary value of khat imported in the last 12 months; and what recent representations she has received on its legal status.
Jeremy Corbyn: I want to take the Secretary of State back to the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Oldham West and Royton (Mr Meacher). The universal cap of £500 a week will have a devastating impact on people living in inner-London areas such as mine, where private sector rents-paid for by housing benefit-are exorbitant, to put it mildly. The cap will result in desperate poverty for...
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if his Department will take steps to assist African countries in implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will take steps to reduce the level of tobacco-related disease in developing countries; and if he will make a statement.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development in what programmes his Department plans to participate to reduce the incidence of green tobacco sickness and poisoning from pesticides and fertilisers among child labourers in the African tobacco sector.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many National Offender Management Service headquarters functions have been moved outside London in each of the last six years; and if he will make a statement.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many operational managers were employed by the National Offender Management Service in each of the last six years.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many new prison places have been created in each of the last 24 months for which figures are available; and what the estimated capital construction cost was per prison place per year of lifespan of the prison concerned, excluding operation, maintenance and other costs.