Cyn Ceidwadwyr MP ar gyfer Spelthorne
Welcome back, Minister.
It will indeed be the last time.
Order. I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but he went past a full stop, so I have to call a halt to the debate.
Once I have retired, the attendance at Ashton Gate may increase a little. I understand that the club is looking for a manager. Should I apply, can I count on the Minister for a reference?
It is a privilege to follow a speech such as the one that we have just heard. I do not necessarily agree with all of it, but a thoughtful and personal speech adds a great deal to any debate. This is probably the last speech that I will make in the House. Those who like to check such things might find that it is probably my first major speech on defence in the 23 years in which I have been a...
The right hon. Gentleman knows that I have spent a fair bit of my 23 years here in Committee Rooms trying to wind him up; without succeeding, I hasten to add. I have waited a long time-it is a great pleasure to do so just before I leave this place-to say that I agree with the Government and with the Secretary of State. I wanted to get that on the record. What he has said about the Falklands...
It is a myth that we do not have grand coalitions in this country. What a first-past-the-post system does is create the coalitions before an election. The Conservative party certainly has two wings, as has the Labour party, and the Liberal Democrats have the Liberals and the Social Democrats. Are not those coalitions?
The hon. Gentleman mentioned Australia, and I am fairly certain that it was there that somebody managed, under an AV system, to get 6 per cent. of first preference votes and get elected. Is that a system that commends itself to him?
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answers to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 9 September 2009, Official Report, columns 1924-7W, to the hon. Member for Ludlow of 14 September 2009, Official Report, columns 2131-2W, and to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 September 2009, Official Report, columns 2212-4W, on housing: valuation, how...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date his Department first informed Surrey Police Authority that it intended to use (a) a 2008-09 notional budget requirement and (b) a 2008-09 notional Band D council tax rate when deciding whether to cap Surrey Police Authority's precept.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many meetings between Ministers and officials from his Department and (a) Surrey Police and (b) Surrey Police Authority took place between July 2008 and May 2009; on what date each such meeting took place; who attended each meeting; and what topics were discussed at each meeting.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) on what date his Department first informed Surrey police that it intended to use a 2008-09 notional budget requirement and a 2008-09 notional Band D council tax rate in determining whether to cap Surrey Police Authority's precept; (2) what information (a) the Secretary of State and (b) (i) Ministers and (ii) officials...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) escapes, (b) attempted escapes and (c) assaults on staff there have been at HM Prison Bronzefield in each year since it opened.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) which (a) publicly funded and (b) privately run women's prisons provide specialist help for inmates who have self-harmed; and in each case whether such help in each prison is made available on a permanent or temporary basis; (2) how many inmates there are in each (a) publicly funded and (b) privately run women's prison; and how many inmates...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many women are being held at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Middlesex; and how many of them are (a) on remand, (b) serving sentences of less than six months, (c) serving sentences of between six and 12 months, (d) serving sentences of between 12 months and five years, (e) serving time-limited sentences of more than five years, (f) serving life...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice at which prisons it is the practice to (a) photograph and (b) take fingerprint impressions from official visitors; and what action is taken in respect of such records following a visit.
