Results 21–40 of 400 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Dan Byles

Clause 3 — Conviction of serious offence (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: Let me clarify this. That was a flaw in the original drafting of the Bill, but in Committee we introduced a provision whereby the House of Lords has the right to vote to disregard the clause removing peers through being absent in certain circumstances, to deal with exactly the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises.

Clause 3 — Conviction of serious offence (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: I am very grateful to the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) for introducing his amendment, because we should regularly revisit and discuss what the correct length of time should be. I took the trouble to look up in Hansard what was said in 1981 when the Representation of the People Act was debated. Lord Belstead made it clear that it was a pretty arbitrary decision...

Clause 3 — Conviction of serious offence (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: I would agree with the hon. Gentleman on that. My heart entirely understands the distinction in the amendments between the Commonwealth and elsewhere, but my head says that it is difficult to justify the suggestion that countries such as Germany and France, for example, should be put into a different category from some members of the Commonwealth. I presume that the amendment that would make...

Clause 1 — Resignation (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: The idea that there would be an illegible squiggle and that nobody would know whose it was is a bit fanciful. There are not many other legal documents for which we set out in primary legislation a requirement to include a name, address, social security number and so on. It needs to be properly witnessed, but I am not convinced that a big problem with the Bill will be that we will end up with...

Clause 1 — Resignation (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg) for the way he expressed his concerns about the Bill, and for tabling the amendments, because that has given us the opportunity to discuss some very important issues. It is crucial to get such a Bill right, and I am pleased that we can discuss the amendments, but I urge the House to resist supporting them for the...

Clause 1 — Resignation (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: My understanding of the Bill is that the witness would be a responsible person in the same manner as for other legal documents, which usually means a Member of Parliament, a doctor and so on. I do not believe that the Bill needs additional safeguards to ensure the effectiveness of resignation notices. Many very important legal documents and other matters involving this House take such an...

Clause 1 — Resignation (28 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: I now understand my hon. Friend’s concern better, but I still disagree. For the reasons that he has given, I believe it is a serious step for a Member to take the decision to leave. One change that we made in Committee was to say that a Member who decides to retire or resign may not subsequently be reappointed to the House of Lords. We did that for the very reasons that he has given....

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree that the Coventry and Warwickshire city deal initiative could see tens of millions of pounds invested locally, which would build on the recent successes that we have seen in the automotive supply chain industry and manufacturing industry, creating jobs and boosting investment?

Business of the House: Backbench Business — Energy Company Charges ( 4 Feb 2014)

Dan Byles: I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. Is he aware of any studies or work that looks at exactly how the burden of this problem falls on different income distribution groups? If such work is not available, does he think that Ofgem, or possibly the Department of Energy and Climate Change, should commission it so that we can see exactly where the burden of this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Haass Talks ( 8 Jan 2014)

Dan Byles: The Haass discussions took place during a backdrop, in the run-up to Christmas, of increased efforts by dissidents to disrupt economic life in Northern Ireland. What recent discussions has my right hon. Friend had with the Chief Constable about the ongoing and future threat from dissidents?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements ( 8 Jan 2014)

Dan Byles: Soaring car sales—they are back to pre-crisis levels—have helped supply chain companies such as Sertec in Coleshill in my constituency to create manufacturing jobs; 200 have been created in the past year, and a further 400 are planned. Does the Prime Minister agree that that shows that we are successfully rebalancing the economy and that we need to stay the course with policies that are...

Recall of Elected Representatives: Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty ( 4 Dec 2013)

Dan Byles: I am grateful to my Select Committee colleague for giving way to me. Does he recall that the operators said that the sale of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery formed an important part of their economic calculation?

Recall of Elected Representatives: Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty ( 4 Dec 2013)

Dan Byles: On my hon. Friend’s point about investment, we hear about the oft-quoted trilemma in energy policy—the requirements for energy security, affordability and decarbonisation—but does he agree that we should actually be talking about the quad-lemma and that the fourth leg of our energy policy should be investability? If we do not have a credible and investible energy policy, we might as...

Recall of Elected Representatives: Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty ( 4 Dec 2013)

Dan Byles: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the transition we are trying to make in our economy, from what we have now to what we seek in 2050, is so complex that we cannot simply approach it in an ideological way and assume low-carbon energy sources will magically appear? Instead, we need a credible, investable and coherent plan for getting from where we are now to where we want to be.

[Nadine Dorries in the Chair] — Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty ( 7 Nov 2013)

Dan Byles: According to DECC, average gas and electricity prices have risen by 41% and 20% respectively in real terms since 2007. There has been a lot discussion in the past couple of weeks on the most recent price rises—on average, 10% per company price rises, which we all saw in a very short space of time—and a lot of the debate focused on how much the energy companies could or could not blame the...

[Nadine Dorries in the Chair] — Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty ( 7 Nov 2013)

Dan Byles: No problem at all—I will wind up in less than a few minutes, Ms Dorries. Thank you. We have an enormous challenge in keeping our energy costs down, in decarbonising and in attracting the huge amount of investment that we need. The fourth part of the trilemma—the right word should be “quadlemma”—is the investment needed. We must come up with a way of keeping energy costs down and...

Business of the House: Clause 1 — Preparatory expenditure (31 Oct 2013)

Dan Byles: Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Business of the House: Clause 1 — Preparatory expenditure (31 Oct 2013)

Dan Byles: My right hon. Friend and I had many discussions on this issue during his time as a Transport Minister. Yet again, we have come back to the idea that it is about not speed but capacity. Would he therefore support redesigning the line to run at a slower speed so that it could go around places such as Water Orton primary school, ancient monuments and people’s houses?

Business of the House: Clause 1 — Preparatory expenditure (31 Oct 2013)

Dan Byles: If the principal benefit is now capacity rather than speed—this seems very much how the argument has moved—why not slow it down? If it is slowed down, we will no longer have the engineers I sit down with every week telling me, “We can’t go around Water Orton primary school because speed means it must be a straight line; we can’t go around ancient bluebell woods because speed means...

Business of the House: Clause 1 — Preparatory expenditure (31 Oct 2013)

Dan Byles: I would like to draw the House’s attention to the Transport Committee’s detailed report on high-speed rail. It stated that “only time will tell whether or not HS2 will, for example, help to rebalance the economy and reduce the north-south divide.” It is a £50 billion project, yet we are told that “only time will tell” whether it will achieve its main aim.


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