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EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I think we know the President of whom the hon. Gentleman speaks. The President is a most illustrious individual, but the last time I looked he was not a member of the Privy Council. We will leave it there as I think it was a rhetorical question.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not quite sure where the hon. Gentleman is coming from. Someone cannot be found guilty of an offence when none has taken place. My predecessor has said that the story is categorically untrue, so that really should be the end of the matter.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Andrew James Bridgen (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Leader of the House agree that if the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr Clegg) or someone else at the Privy Council meeting made a note of their recollection of a conversation with Her Majesty, perhaps for a book or diaries, which, amazingly, politicians tend to want to write at the end of their careers, perhaps the number of people who may have been privy to the information may include not only Privy Counsellors? That may be where the leak came from.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): The response to the hon. Gentleman’s comment from across the House suggests that not everyone disagrees with the view he puts forward. I hope that he gets the chance to go to the palace before he ends his illustrious career.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): We will soon be having a visitation from the Queen to this Palace for the Queen’s Speech, on 18 May, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will see on that occasion what our plans are for the legislative programme in the years ahead.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): My natural generosity got the better of me; the hon. Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) is unfailingly courteous, but his question was a bit wide of the mark. Half a dozen or so people, perhaps slightly more, are still seeking to catch my eye and it would be good if everybody remained in order—led by Mr Stephen Pound.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not sure that a self-denying ordinance can be imposed. Those who have consulted their scholarly craniums advise me that that might not be possible—indeed, it might be either a contradiction in terms or a tautology. I will leave the hon. Gentleman to reflect on the matter.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): As far as I am aware, Mr Speaker, we are having a debate where everybody’s views are being put forward, on both sides of the argument, and that is going to carry on for another three months.
EU Referendum (Privy Council) — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): If I understand it correctly, the serious issue is about the story in the newspaper, which is being investigated, but my predecessor, the former Lord President of the Council, has said that the story is categorically untrue.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Very disorderly conduct. The hon. Gentleman is pressing a serious case. If I may, at the risk of making an in-joke, be permitted to say this, that whatever is the subject of this debate, fortunately, not least for him, Otis is not.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Fortunately for the hon. Gentleman, he does not need to do so. He is innocent. He has been transgressed against; he has not transgressed. He can now speed ahead with his oration, to which we look forward.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Christopher Heaton-Harris (Conservative, Centre-right): I have long contended—I have said it in pretty much every speech I have given on wind in the House—that, if local people want a wind farm, who is the local MP or any politician to get in their way? I want it to be subsidy-free and I want people to benefit from it, but if the majority of local people believe that it is a benefit to their local community, I have no issue with it whatever People should be aware of the potential health concerns from the noise from amplitude modulation. We have the opportunity to ensure that those concerns can be mitigated. When a local community steps forward and says, "Yes, we’d desperately love to have 100 wind turbines surround our village, devalue our houses and hide us from our rural hinterland," they can do so knowing that they could get the turbines that produce amplitude modulation turned off, so that they could at least sleep comfortably in bed at night.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Housing
Christopher Heaton-Harris (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very much aware of that study and obviously agree with what Professor Styles found. The interesting thing is that, as turbines get larger, amplitude modulation is generated over a slightly larger area. We have gone past the 80-metre stage. My constituency has dozens of wind turbines of 126.5 metres and upwards. That is about the size of the London Eye. When the blades move around and chop the wind, they create amplitude modulation. There is an understanding now that this is happening, so we need a suitable and sensible planning condition to ensure that local communities affected by this problem have a way of stopping it happening to them.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Christopher Heaton-Harris (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution and I agree with her. I have been to Cotton Farm to see the wind farm for myself and to meet some of the residents. I met the illustrious Bev Gray—I do not know if he is a constituent of my hon. Friend—who has provided me with more information than any man could ever possibly want about amplitude modulation readings and the noise his community suffers on a regular basis. As my hon. Friend suggests, this is not rocket science. Where there is amplitude modulation, people suffer and genuine health concerns have for too long been swept under the carpet The Den Brook planning condition, as it has become known, was a chance to introduce a sensible planning condition that evoked amplitude modulation and tried to deal with it. The wind industry could have welcomed it as a method to defeat wind farm opponents across the country who say "You don’t deal with the problem of wind" by saying, "We understand there is a problem with wind noise, and we will deal with it and mitigate it when it happens." Instead, the industry went into complete denial and actual upfront aggressiveness. It fought the planning condition through the courts over an eight-year period to ensure that it was not applied, and to get it removed and then sufficiently weakened so as to make it pretty pointless if it were ever to return. In fulfilling our manifesto commitment and making this change to the renewables obligation as of the end of the month, I suggest that we also bring forward the appropriate planning conditions to address the problem of amplitude modulation and make wind developers and farms a bit more acceptable in the parts of the country where they already exist.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Mowat (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is making an interesting speech about amplitude modulation. Is it predictable—is it possible to say, given a certain design, "There will be this much modulation"—or is it something that just happens, depending on other factors, and therefore quite hard to plan for?
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): Is it not the case that from the moment people knew who had won the general election, they knew what would be Government policy in this area and they knew that it would be done as expeditiously as possible? Surely everyone could plan perfectly well around that obvious point.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Centre-right): I hear what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but is there not an issue of fairness and social equity here? He is making a special plea on behalf of the renewables companies for what is effectively a de facto fiscal payment from some of the poorest consumers who are in fuel poverty to those individuals and those companies. Is that not the bigger issue, not least when we also have an electoral mandate to carry through this policy, as the hon. Gentleman is well aware?
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Our consideration having been completed, I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes in order to make a decision about certification. The Division bells will be rung two minutes before the House resumes. Following my certification, the Government will table the appropriate consent motion, copies of which will be made available in the Vote Office and distributed by the Doorkeepers.
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I can now inform the House that I have completed certification of the Bill, as required by the Standing Order. I have confirmed the view expressed in my provisional certificate issued on 9 March. Copies of my final certificate will be made available in the Vote Office and on the parliamentary website. Under Standing Order No. 83M, a consent motion is therefore required for the Bill to proceed. Copies of the motion are available in the Vote Office and on the parliamentary website, and have been made available to Members in the Chamber. Does the Minister intend to move the consent motion?
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Under Standing Order 83M(4), the House must forthwith resolve itself into the Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales) The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales) (Standing Order No. 83M). [Mrs Eleanor Laing in the Chair]
Energy Bill [Lords] — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): There will now be a debate on the consent motion for England and Wales. I remind hon. Members that all Members may speak in the debate but, if there are Divisions, only Members representing constituencies in England and Wales may vote on the consent motion. I call the Minister to move the consent motion for England and Wales.
Commonwealth Day — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Civil Rights
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (Conservative, Centre-right): I could not work out the waving, so I apologise again, but it is very nice to be waved at. I thank the hon. Lady once again, but I think we all know that this is a huge team effort. I know that our secretary-general and many others take a keen interest in what we do as a body. It is important that we support each other. The work that has been done, even since he has been here, has been truly remarkable. I pay tribute to Andrew Tuggey and the entire team in the CPA. Without them, we would not be able to do what we do today. Andrew stands in for me. I made of a mess of something earlier and he had to step in and save me—and I am very grateful for being saved by him on a regular basis The hon. Member for City of Durham is right that there is a lot of work to do so far as women and many other issues are concerned. We are realistic about the challenges; we know what they are; we know what we have to do to change things; we will continue always to strive for that because that is our ethos—gender balance and gender understanding. I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for the work she has done in this area, and I am very grateful to her.
Commonwealth Day — House of Commons, 2016-03-14
Topic: Mixed Topics
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (Conservative, Centre-right): The very first Commonwealth games I ever went to as a boy many years ago were in Edinburgh. The Glasgow Commonwealth games were exemplary. They were handled beautifully. It was the family enjoying itself in many ways. The sport was incredible and remarkable—there were no Sepp Blatters or anything like that in sight. A very good organisation runs it. It is always a credit. Glasgow did an incredible job, and nobody can ever take it away from the city. I am most grateful for all it did. It showed the Commonwealth at its very best, as a group of nations that are very good at what they do. What other organisation could arrange a games free from all the other things we see so many sports tainted with?
Constitutional Legislation — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Paul Wright (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not sure that there is much appetite anywhere in Europe for re-opening those negotiations. The hon. Gentleman might find that there are proposals coming from this Government to make our relationship with the charter of fundamental rights clearer, based on protocol 30 of the treaties, which, as he will be aware, was negotiated by a previous Government. The protocol makes it clear that the charter does not extend rights in this country. We will bring forward further proposals on clarifying that, and again he will have a good opportunity to discuss them when he sees them.
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Paul Wright (Conservative, Centre-right): With permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer Question 4 alongside Questions 7 and 9. I regularly meet ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest, including on domestic and international human rights law. As the House knows, not least because the Solicitor General has said this once already today, I am not able to talk about any legal content of those discussions, because, by convention, whether the Law Officers have given advice or not is not disclosed outside Government.
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Paul Wright (Conservative, Centre-right): I have no plans to repeal any of them. As the hon. Gentleman may have heard me say in this place before, I do not think any of us has any serious argument with the content of the European convention on human rights, which is an admirable document. The difficulty we have is with the interpretation of that document by the European Court of Human Rights. This is not a matter of repealing rights; it is a matter of bringing some common sense back into the ambit of human rights law, and the Government are committed to doing that.
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Michael Tyrone Ellis (Conservative, Centre-right): Part of the UK’s human rights obligations is to ensure that minority communities are not subjected to harassment and distress. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that allegations of rabid anti-Semitic behaviour from the Oxford University Labour club are a disgrace to Oxford and no doubt an embarrassment to the Labour party, and that they should be dealt with robustly by the University, if not by other authorities?
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Paul Wright (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with my hon. Friend: these are very troubling allegations, and I hope they are dealt with swiftly and effectively. However, he makes the important point that all of us, on both sides of the House, believe in the protection of human rights and in rules and laws that allow that protection to happen. What we are not in favour of is the perversion of human rights law by the introduction of silly cases that should not be before the courts at all. That obscures the important work my hon. Friend is referring to.
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Christopher Robert Chope (Conservative, Centre-right): Under the Lisbon treaty, the European Union has a treaty obligation to join the European convention on human rights. However, the European Court of Justice has said that that would be incompatible with EU law. Does that not demonstrate that the European Court of Justice is, indeed, supreme?
Human Rights Obligations — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy Paul Wright (Conservative, Centre-right): No. The position is this: Government Members, I am sure in common with the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues, will continue passionately to advocate the case for the protection of human rights both in this country and abroad. He is quite wrong to say that this Government, in common with their predecessors, do not challenge other states that have a doubtful human rights record—we continue to do that In relation to the Amnesty International report, I have a huge amount of respect for what Amnesty International does, but in this report it has, in my view, overstated its case just a little. It is not the case, as I have said before and as the hon. Gentleman knows, that human rights and the Human Rights Act are the same thing. It is possible to protect human rights without the Human Rights Act—in fact better to do so—and that is what this Government intend to do.
Race Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Immigration
Marcus Charles Jones (Conservative, Centre-right): The Under-Secretary of State for Refugees, my hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Richard Harrington), who works across the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Home Office, is working extremely hard to support refugees in a way similar to the programme that the hon. Gentleman mentions.
Race Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Marcus Charles Jones (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We should certainly encourage companies across the country—not just FTSE 100 companies, which seem to be making significant efforts, but companies large and small—to look at diversity and how they can use it to improve their business.
Universities: BME Students — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Other
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not familiar with the impact assessment, but I have to say that I am quite surprised by it. I reiterate the point: it is absolutely imperative that we make it very clear that everybody should aim high. That is what we want to do and that is what we are seeking to do.
Gender Economic Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Maria Frances Lewis Miller (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not doubt my hon. Friend’s commitment to reducing the gender pay gap further, and I commend the Prime Minister for his position, but the reality is that women in my constituency of Basingstoke face a gender pay gap of 30%. Should this not be on the agenda of every single company throughout the country, as well as on that of our local enterprise partnerships?
Gender Economic Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): I am afraid that the hon. Lady, who is my twin, is completely wrong on this. The facts are that we are extending the free childcare offer to many people and bringing in tax-free childcare for many, many people. I share her aspiration to unleash the economic potential of women in our economy. The OECD has said that if the participation rates of men and women were equalised, the economy would be 10% larger. We are therefore taking a range of steps to encourage that to happen.
Gender Economic Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Ben Howlett (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the draft gender pay gap reporting regulations that the Government published last week. Although I understand why the Government would not want to bring in enforcement procedures for non-compliance, will the Minister assure the House that the matter will be kept under constant review? Does she agree that it would be counter-productive for companies not to comply with the new regulations, as it would deter the most talented women from applying for their jobs?
Gender Economic Inequality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a very good point and I welcome his support for the initiative. It is a voluntary scheme. We are trying to change the culture, and transparency is part of that. It will allow women to make a choice. If they are thinking of working for a company, they will be able to ask, "Am I able to see how this company treats men and women?" And at a time of record employment for women in this country, women have more choices.
Welfare Reform: Gender Equality — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Priti Sushil Patel (Conservative, Centre-right): I come back to my opening comment: we fully assessed the impact of the Bill’s equality measures, and we are meeting our wider obligations. As the hon. Gentleman will recognise, universal credit supports people in employment, and that applies equally to women. That is alongside all the additional measures that we are now implementing, such as the national living wage, increased childcare and tax-free childcare.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not quite sure what is not correct, but, in any event, I know what the minimum wage is and it is for all apprentices. If there is evidence that women doing apprenticeships are being in some way discriminated against in their pay, we want to know about it, and we look forward to the hon. Lady coming forward, meeting the Minister for Women and Equalities, and between us we will sort it out.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a really important point. When it comes to those sectors, the Minister for Women and Equalities and I—in fact, all of us—are extremely keen to make sure that we use every opportunity and anything available to us to make the case that younger women in particular must go into these excellent work streams. We know we need to do more. We all have a part to play and that, of course, includes Government.
Entrepreneurs: Government Support — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): We are absolutely committed to supporting women to start and grow their own businesses. I am really proud that Britain has been named the best place in Europe for female entrepreneurs. Our £1 million women and broadband programme enables them to take advantage of technology to start or grow their own business. We are running nationwide "meet and mentor" sessions to help give female entrepreneurs access to the right support and encouragement.
Entrepreneurs: Government Support — House of Commons, 2016-02-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): I think we have to get away from the supposition that this is just a women’s problem. The fact that women are not as fully engaged as they should be on boards or indeed all the way through the business pipeline is a problem for everybody, and all businesses need to address this issue. That is why we need excellent people to lead this investigation, ensuring that it is all done as properly and fully as possible.