Results 181–200 of 4000 for in the 'Commons debates' speaker:Caroline Lucas

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Smallholder Farmers (Climate Change) (13 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Two weeks ago 20 pastoralists were killed in central Somalia following a dispute about access to water for their livestock, and people are starving and dying now as a result of the terrible drought and famine in the horn of Africa. Will the Minister press for a specific day to be set aside for discussion of smallholder farmers and food security at the upcoming COP 17, the 17th United Nations...

Metropolitan Police Service: National Policy Statements (Energy) (18 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: The Tyndall Centre has said that even the targets of the fourth carbon budget would provide only a 56% to 63% chance of avoiding a 2° C rise in average global temperatures. Is it not therefore the case that even the fourth carbon budget is not setting the right targets?

Metropolitan Police Service: National Policy Statements (Energy) (18 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I am very happy to follow the earlier speeches of the hon. Member for Hove (Mike Weatherley) and, perhaps less surprisingly, the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood). I only wish that the latter and his colleagues were in a position to vote according to how they have spoken if there is a vote later this evening. Time is very short, and I wish to make just three points. One is about...

School Funding Reform: Bovine TB (19 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Is the message that the Secretary of State is sending out today not highly likely to be seen as a green light to an increase in small-scale illegal badger killing that in turn is likely to increase the incidence of cattle TB, and will she acknowledge that there is significant scientific evidence countering the evidence that she has cited today?

Betting Shops: Home Department (19 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: One of my priorities as MP for Brighton, Pavilion is to tackle our city’s sad reputation as the drugs death capital of the UK. Since being elected, I have met many of those in my constituency who are most affected by drugs to explore ways of reducing the harms associated with drug use. Based on those meetings, I have two proposals for the Minister today. The first is that future drugs...

Public Confidence in the Media and Police (20 Jul 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Will the Prime Minister immediately put on hold his plans to introduce elected police commissioners while we learn the lessons of the last few weeks? We should reflect on the risks of things being swept under the carpet if we put someone whose political fortunes depend on the success of the force in sole charge of trying to hold them to account.

Public Disorder (11 Aug 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Violence is always to be condemned, but as the Prime Minister said, seeking to understand violence is a world away from seeking to justify it. Indeed, we ought to try to understand it to stop it happening in future. Given the growing evidence, from Scarman onwards, that increasing inequality has a role to play in drawing at least some people into violent behaviour, can the Prime Minister...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Empty Homes ( 5 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Could the Minister tell us exactly how many empty homes management orders have been used? As the number is not likely to be very high, does that not suggest that we ought to reform how they are used?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Libya ( 5 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Has the Prime Minister reviewed Cabinet Office papers to ascertain whether Tony Blair personally authorised the co-operation with the Libyan intelligence services that led to Abu Munthir’s detention and removal to Tripoli in 2003? Will he revise the terms of reference of the Gibson review, so that the nine human rights agencies that currently do not feel that they can co-operate with it...

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill: New Clause 3 — Expiry and repeal of TPIM powers ( 5 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I want to speak briefly in favour of new clause 7 on annual reviews, but only because it is the least worst option on the table. It is deeply concerning that, despite pre-election promises and having voted in the past against the massively controversial and now, I would argue, totally discredited control order regime, the coalition Government are trying to push through a Bill that in so many...

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill: New Clause 3 — Expiry and repeal of TPIM powers ( 5 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Will the Minister explain why he is so certain that the TPIMs regime will be effective, given that it is very similar to the control orders regime and nobody who has been placed under a control order has ever subsequently been prosecuted for a terrorism offence?

Vat: New Clause 2 — Conditions relating to the continuation of the provision of services etc. ( 6 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that when her party introduced foundation trusts back in 2003, many of us warned that it would lead to precisely the kind of privatisation that is now being threatened? Does she now regret that?

Vat: New Clause 19 — NHS Foundations Trusts: phasing out of provision of private health care ( 6 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: New clauses 19 and 22 also have my name on them, and I should like to say a few more words in support of them as I have not been reassured by the Minister. I find it unacceptable that taxpayers’ money has ever been used to allow private patients to jump the queue and use NHS facilities. The history of the cap was all very interesting, but the bottom line is that it serves an important...

Bill Presented — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill: New Clause 1 — Complaints about exercise of public health functions by local authorities ( 7 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I apologise for not being present for the first half hour of this debate. I was in the Environmental Audit Committee, where I had specifically asked for certain witnesses to be invited, and I have not yet worked out how to be in two places at once, although it is on my list. I will make a few general points about this part of the Bill before turning to a couple of the amendments that are in...

Bill Presented — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill: New Clause 1 — Complaints about exercise of public health functions by local authorities ( 7 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: It seems to me that if Wales and Northern Ireland have been able to abolish prescription charging altogether, it is certainly possible to do it. I would also argue that although everyone collectively having a stake in our public services may well mean that millionaires get a free eye test, under the type of regime that I would like to see they would be paying an awful lot more tax than they...

Bill Presented — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill: New Clause 1 — Complaints about exercise of public health functions by local authorities ( 7 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I thank the hon. Lady, but I do not agree that the two points that she makes are causally linked. Of course I do not want to see the abolition of nurses, but that does not mean that we should have to pay for our prescription charges. Either we want an NHS free at the point of delivery and with free eye tests and so forth or we do not. [Interruption.] Someone is speaking from a sedentary...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Brighton Digital Festival ( 8 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: If he will attend the Brighton digital festival in September 2011.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Brighton Digital Festival ( 8 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I am disappointed that the Minister cannot make the festival this time, and I hope very much that he will next year. Will he give a boost to the city’s growing digital sector by using his good offices and those of other Ministers to support a move towards all public sector contracts of less than £100,000 being given to small and medium-sized enterprises, and larger public sector contracts...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Corporate Harm (Overseas Victims) (13 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: What his policy is on the right of overseas victims of alleged human rights abuses by UK multinational companies to access justice in the UK.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Corporate Harm (Overseas Victims) (13 Sep 2011)

Caroline Lucas: I thank the Secretary of State for that interesting reply. Notwithstanding his response, he will be aware that the United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human Rights has said that clauses 41 to 43 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will present a major barrier to justice for overseas victims of human rights abuses by UK multinationals, not least...


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