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- Feb 2, 2012:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Business, Innovation and Skills: Prospects for Growth (2 Feb 2012)
Roger Williams: In these difficult times, the food and drink sector is an example of success with year-on-year growth. I commend the report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and UK Trade and Investment entitled "Driving Export Growth in the Farming, Food and Drink Sector", but trade barriers still exist. Will the Secretary of State ensure that such trade barriers are...
- Oral Answers to Questions - Business, Innovation and Skills: Prospects for Growth (2 Feb 2012)
- Jan 19, 2012:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Farming (Innovation) (19 Jan 2012)
Roger Williams: The UK is already a successful exporter of meat and meat products, and that is a fantastic way of increasing employment in farming and food processing. I have recently returned from Kazakhstan, where there is a huge and unmet demand for meat and meat products. What is DEFRA doing to ensure that all potential exporters are supported, and that we promote the quality of British meat throughout...
- Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Farming (Innovation) (19 Jan 2012)
- Jan 18, 2012:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Allocation of Funds (18 Jan 2012)
Roger Williams: What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the autumn statement on the allocation of funds to the National Assembly for Wales.
- Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Allocation of Funds (18 Jan 2012)
Roger Williams: As a result of extra funding, the pupil deprivation fund, which was agreed to by the Welsh Government and Welsh Liberal Democrats, will mean that schools in Wales are better resourced, closing the education funding gap between England and Wales. For example, Maes-y-Dderwen school in my constituency will receive an extra £34,000 a year. Does the Secretary of State agree that this will...
- Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Allocation of Funds (18 Jan 2012)
- Jan 17, 2012:
- Sexual Offences (Amendment): Backbench Business - [Un-allotted Day] - Future of Town Centres and High Streets (17 Jan 2012)
Roger Williams: Does my hon. Friend agree that another facility we would expect to find on our high streets is a branch of a bank? However, in my constituency Barclays has closed its branch in Rhayader high street and HSBC is going to close its branch in Presteigne. Such closures pull our high streets still further downwards. We should let banks know that we expect them to respect the communities they serve.
- Sexual Offences (Amendment): Backbench Business - [Un-allotted Day] - Future of Town Centres and High Streets (17 Jan 2012)
- Dec 20, 2011:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Deputy Prime Minister: Electoral Participation (20 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: Gurkha soldiers have had their terms and conditions improved vastly in recent years, but while they fight and die for this country they do not have the opportunity to vote in our parliamentary elections. Will my right hon. Friend investigate whether this can be corrected?
- Oral Answers to Questions - Deputy Prime Minister: Electoral Participation (20 Dec 2011)
- Dec 14, 2011:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister: Bovine TB (14 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: I draw Members' attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Today-this very day-cattle will be taken from the farm for which I have responsibility to be shot, because they were found to be reactors last week. I welcome the Secretary of State's courageous announcement following the incisive scientific analysis by David King, but will she...
- Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister: Bovine TB (14 Dec 2011)
- Dec 8, 2011:
- Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half Day] - Public Sector Pensions (8 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful point, and many of us have sympathy for those on small and medium incomes, but there are people on large incomes who also receive very large pensions. People pay taxation to provide those high pensions and that is a matter of concern.
- Business, Innovation and Skills: Water White Paper (8 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: I welcome the commitment in the White Paper to tackle water quality on a water catchment area basis. I notice that the Teme, Wye and Severn catchment areas straddle the England-Wales border. I ask the Minister to work closely with Ministers in the Welsh Assembly and other agencies to ensure that water quality is improved as quickly as possible.
- Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half Day] - Public Sector Pensions (8 Dec 2011)
- Dec 7, 2011:
- Animal Experimentation (7 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: I, too, am greatly concerned about animal welfare and the Minister will know that I have asked a number a questions on the issue. I recently visited Cardiff university to see how the animals kept for scientific experimentation were looked after. The key thing for me was that the relevant science departments were open to inspections at any time-night or day-as a particular...
- Animal Experimentation (7 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: The hon. Gentleman makes a compelling argument. Indeed, no one doubts his sincerity. However, if these human-based tests were more effective and cheaper than the animal tests, why are the commercially sensitive companies not taking that route? Why do they persist with animal testing?
- Animal Experimentation (7 Dec 2011)
- Dec 1, 2011:
- Energy and Climate Change: Green Investment Bank (1 Dec 2011)
Roger Williams: The coalition agreement emphasised anaerobic digestion as a technology to take forward, yet many people who are keen on it find obstacles in their way, including funding. Will the Green investment bank be able to provide funds for those people so that they can take their projects forward?
- Energy and Climate Change: Green Investment Bank (1 Dec 2011)
- Nov 30, 2011:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: While I welcome the reduction in corporation tax, which will encourage the businesses affected to expand, 90% of the businesses in my constituency are not incorporated and will not benefit from the tax reduction. Will the Prime Minister ensure that in the spring Budget those businesses are given similar tax incentives to ensure that they grow to their full potential, in the economy and the...
- Oral Answers to Questions - Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Nov 2011)
- Nov 24, 2011:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: The six-day movement rule and the ban on on-farm burial are particularly burdensome to livestock farmers. Since their introduction the scientific understanding of these matters has moved on. Will the Minister commission a scientific review of the regulations with a view to their relaxation?
- Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (24 Nov 2011)
- Nov 23, 2011:
- Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Unemployment (23 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: Will the Secretary of State join me in welcoming the announcement by the BSW Timber sawmill in Newbridge-on-Wye in my constituency that it is about to create another 20 jobs, bringing Christmas cheer to those families who will benefit from that employment?
- Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Unemployment (23 Nov 2011)
- Nov 15, 2011:
- Royal Assent: Fuel Prices (15 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the effect of high fuel prices on businesses. One way in which businesses can deal with it is by upgrading their fleets so that their lorries become more fuel-efficient, but that will not be possible if the current proposal to phase out 100% capital allowances is implemented.
- Royal Assent: Fuel Prices (15 Nov 2011)
- Nov 8, 2011:
- Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence): Cost of Motor Insurance (8 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: The hon. Gentleman is making a very powerful case. I know that the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) made a point about a restriction of freedom, but surely that is the whole point of a driving licence. People have to pass a test, and maybe there ought to be another test for them to pass before they can have unlimited access to a car.
- Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence): Cost of Motor Insurance (8 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: I welcome this opportunity to speak in the debate. I want to say a few words about young drivers, the insurance industry and Government policy. I have some sympathy with the excellent points about why the industry is being pushed into charging ever higher premiums, but the premiums young people are charged are very high indeed. Many would argue that that is for good reason. Premiums have been...
- Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence): Cost of Motor Insurance (8 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: I was aware of the report, and I have met the Minister in this Government. While he understood my good intentions, he was not able to reciprocate positively.
- Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence): Cost of Motor Insurance (8 Nov 2011)
Roger Williams: That was precisely the comment that the Minister made to me. I commend the work of Co-operative Insurance and other insurance companies, which have come up with their own graduated driving licence scheme. A smart box in the insured car monitors many aspects of the driver's habits, including speed, cornering and the time the car is driven. The driver is given a quarterly cashback payment...
- Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence): Cost of Motor Insurance (8 Nov 2011)
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