Results 21–40 of 6000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:David Heath

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Topical Questions ( 2 Mar 2015)

David Heath: This Government have protected school budgets, yet those at the secondary school in my constituency who wrote to me last week say that they are facing a cut of nearly 3% in their funding next year. Is that a result of the long-standing unfair budget formula, is it because of an imbalance between secondary and primary schools, or is it because of decisions taken by Somerset county council locally?

Business of the House (12 Feb 2015)

David Heath: We had a rather unedifying debate in this House on tax evasion, but there has also been enormous public concern about the issue. May we have a debate on the role of audit? Large accountancy firms are being paid enormous amounts of money for external audit, yet they do not seem to notice what is happening in the banks and they do not seem to notice the tax arrangements of their corporate...

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Engineers (12 Feb 2015)

David Heath: The Minister will know that the largest manufacturing industry in the country is food and drink, and that it has one of the biggest export potentials. Will he recognise that engineering disciplines that are ancillary to that industry also have enormous potential, whether it be agricultural engineering, food processing, food storage requirements or food transport. Will he look at technical...

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (12 Feb 2015)

David Heath: A business in my constituency received a communication from Royal Mail the week before Christmas, saying that with effect from four business weeks later, the business reply and freepost service that it had used for 10 years was to be discontinued and it would have to re-register. The business was told that if the old address was used, there would be a 20p penalty per item and the item may not...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Programme (No.3): Clause 1 — Seizure of passports etc from persons suspected of involvement in terrorism (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: As I said on Report, it is extraordinarily difficult to get the balance exactly right between the security of the citizen and of the realm and the accretion of powers by the state. I pay tribute to the Home Secretary and her colleagues in the Department for listening carefully to the things said about this Bill by Members on both sides of the House. All the amendments we have received from...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Programme (No.3): Clause 1 — Seizure of passports etc from persons suspected of involvement in terrorism (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: That is not the way Third Reading and Report work; what we put into the Bill then is the Bill—it is not a question of principle at that stage. The principle was that the Home Secretary accepted our arguments, she has brought this back and I am grateful to her. I am also grateful to her for the changes to the privacy and civil liberties board. The one area where we still have a mess, despite...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Programme (No.3): Clause 1 — Seizure of passports etc from persons suspected of involvement in terrorism (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: Indeed. I really do hope that we have something that is workable, that addresses specifically, and on a risk basis, the issues that the Home Secretary seeks to address, and that does not introduce a duty that is inaccessible.

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Programme (No.3): Clause 1 — Seizure of passports etc from persons suspected of involvement in terrorism (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: That is a very helpful reassurance from the Home Secretary. I am grateful to her for what she has said. On that basis, I shall now sit down.

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Programme (No.3): Clause 1 — Seizure of passports etc from persons suspected of involvement in terrorism (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: I hope to say a few words on this subject later if I get the opportunity to do so, but will the Home Secretary tell me whether subsection (3) of the new clause proposed by amendment 16, which applies the duty to ensure freedom of speech and academic freedom to the Secretary of State herself in drawing up the guidance, will have a material effect on the draft guidance she has already issued?

Contaminated Land (Householder Responsibility) (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: The local authority has been as helpful as possible in this case and did identify both of those factors as arguments for waiving the fees. Nevertheless, it expressed concern that a number of other properties around the district council area will end up in similar circumstances. That would mean a substantial capital sum mounting up very quickly, which would be difficult for a small district...

Contaminated Land (Householder Responsibility) (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way at this point. In the course of the debate, I have been advised that the matter has not yet been resolved. It might be a matter of loan or of grant, but the household concerned is still not absolutely clear about where the funding will come from.

Contaminated Land (Householder Responsibility) (10 Feb 2015)

David Heath: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I am particularly pleased to have secured this brief debate on an issue that affects perhaps only a limited number of people, but in a substantial way: the liabilities of householders when contamination is found on their land, whether that is their home or business. I will deal in particular with domestic householders and their...

Business of the House ( 5 Feb 2015)

David Heath: The Leader of the House represents a north Yorkshire constituency, so he will be familiar with the F40 campaign for fair funding for those chronically underfunded education authorities, in which I was first involved when I was chair of education in Somerset back in 1996. To their credit, the Government have recognised the injustice and have done something to mitigate the effects next year,...

Energy and Climate Change: Community Energy Generation ( 5 Feb 2015)

David Heath: Will the Minister look carefully at the application of community feed-in tariffs to small-scale hydro? I recently wrote to the Secretary of State on behalf of villagers in West Lydford, who have made a heroic effort to repair a weir in Lydford. They formed a company to do so, and now find themselves in difficulties because of the rules.

Living Wage (Reporting): Backbench Business — Rural Phone and Broadband Connectivity ( 3 Feb 2015)

David Heath: As a brief coda to this excellent debate, I do not believe the Minister doubts my commitment to broadband in rural areas. We have spoken many times about it. I am grateful for his commitment to the roll-out of the programme across the country and what the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has done. I used to have meetings with him as a DEFRA Minister. The two Departments energised each...

Living Wage (Reporting): Backbench Business — Rural Phone and Broadband Connectivity ( 3 Feb 2015)

David Heath: May I take the hon. Gentleman back to the question of the economy and growing businesses? One quick boost that we could give to a lot of small businesses would be to encourage entrepreneurs who want to provide broadband by a wi-fi connection to places that will never gain from 3 miles of copper cable to the nearest exchange. I met such an entrepreneur only last week who was to provide for...

Living Wage (Reporting): Backbench Business — Rural Phone and Broadband Connectivity ( 3 Feb 2015)

David Heath: I recognise what the hon. Gentleman is saying. We have made good progress in Devon and Somerset in terms of the BT contract, but there is still the last bit. If I may say so, it is pointless meeting BT, because it simply will not deliver in those areas and what we need to look at now is other smaller providers filling in the bits that BT will never reach.

Living Wage (Reporting): Backbench Business — Rural Phone and Broadband Connectivity ( 3 Feb 2015)

David Heath: This concept of the last 10% and the last 5% is what worries me. There is a saying in rugby clubs nowadays that the London Irish are known as the “not nots” because they are not London and they are not Irish. We have the same things with “not nots” in the rural population: people who do not get broadband, do not get mobile phone coverage and do not get the other infrastructure. They...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Neighbourhood Planning and Community Rights ( 2 Feb 2015)

David Heath: Does my hon. Friend recognise that one of the difficulties in persuading local communities to engage with neighbourhood planning is the huge amount of effort invested in the past in producing parish plans and village design statements that were then completely ignored by both local planners and the planning inspectorate? Will he reassure me that neighbourhood planning now really means something?

Business of the House (29 Jan 2015)

David Heath: May we have a debate on the responsibilities of householders for contaminated land since the removal of contaminated land grants? An elderly couple in Langport in my constituency are facing crippling bills for the removal of contamination from the land on which their house stands—contamination for which they were not responsible, and which they had no idea was there when they bought the...


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