7 May 2008
National Youth Volunteering Programme
Nick Hurd asks whether private sector funding for the charity v is going to meet the target of £50million.
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23 April 2008
Crime (London)
Nick Hurd calls on the Minister for Policing to guarantee that numbers of sworn police officers will not be cut in the borough of Hillingdon.
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31 March 2008
Housing and Regeneration Bill
Nick Hurd questions requirements that will be placed on the new Homes and Communities Agency with regard to protection of public health.
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17 March 2008
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
Nick Hurd challenges the Government over the cost of using taxpayers' money to buy carbon credits in overseas markets to allow us to fulfil ambitious carbon targets - estimated by the NAO to be about £5 billion by 2020.
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6 March 2008
Business of the House: Governance of London
Nick Hurd calls for a debate on the governance of London and whether structures set up by the Government are working in practice, following alleged funding irregularities to community projects.
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27 February 2008
Treaty of Lisbon
Nick Hurd calls on the government to reconsider the decision to expand Heathrow in light of the government's policies on climate change.
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27 February 2008
Treaty of Lisbon
Nick Hurd calls for reform of the EU emissions trading scheme to reinforce the polluter pays principle and to include aviation "on terms that bite".
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4 February 2008
Local Government Finance
Nick Hurd challenges the Government over funding for the building schools for the future programme in Hillingdon.
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25 January 2008
Planning and Energy Bill
Nick Hurd supports a Private Members' Bill which enables local planning authorities to set requirements for energy generation and energy efficiency in local plans.
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9 January 2008
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (Programme) (No. 3)
Nick Hurd condemns the rushing through of this wide-ranging Bill in order to reintroduce a ban on strikes by prison officers and asks why business cannot be rescheduled to enable sufficient time to debate the Bill in full.
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18 December 2007
Climate Change Negotiations (Bali)
Following the statement about the climate change negotiations that took place in Bali last week, Nick Hurd asks if it would be more pragmatic for a deal to be done between the smaller group of nations that are responsible for some 90% of emissions.
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12 December 2007
Heathrow Expansion
Nick Hurd criticises plans for the expansion of Heathrow and outlines residents' concerns about the impact of new take-off flight paths.
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6 December 2007
Climate Change (China)
As China will build approximately half the new buildings in the world over the next 30 years, Nick Hurd calls on the Government to ensure the transfer of British expertise and technology to help make those buildings as energy efficient as possible.
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5 December 2007
Prisons (Carter Review)
Following the Secretary of State for Justice's statement on the new prison building programme, Nick Hurd asks how many of the 10,500 new places will be new cells.
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28 November 2007
Prisons
Speaking in a debate on overcrowding in prisons, Nick Hurd tells MPs that one of the reasons is that 15% of the prison population are foreign nationals.
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27 November 2007
Housing and Regeneration Bill
Nick Hurd questions how the proposed Homes and Communities Agency will work with democratically accountable local government.
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22 November 2007
Climate Change
Nick Hurd challenges the Government's commitment to climate change in light of the go-ahead given to the expansion of Heathrow.
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15 November 2007
Immigration
Nick Hurd calls on Ministers to meet representatives of those local councils that incur disproportionate costs in relation to immigration.
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8 November 2007
Queen's Speech Debate: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nick Hurd welcomes the Climate Change Bill and outlines a number of key observations that he believes the Government still needs to address. He also calls on the Government to energetically implement the Sustainable Communities Bill.
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25 October 2007
Emissions Trading
Nick Hurd raises concerns about the effectiveness and operation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and also about the new Administration's commitment to the climate change agenda and renewable energy targets.
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17 October 2007
Export Credits Guarantee Department
Nick Hurd calls for modernisation of the influential Export Credits Guarantee Department in respect of transparency, accountability and environmental standards.
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10 October 2007
Home Information Packs and Stamp Duty
Nick Hurd raises concerns that the botched introduction of HIPs risks affecting public attitude towards the energy performance certificate.
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8 October 2007
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
Nick Hurd questions whether clause 58, which extends the powers of non-legally qualified staff to conduct trials in magistrates courts, will help re-establish the credibility of the courts.
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24 July 2007
Penal System
During a debate about reoffending, Nick Hurd calls for the Government to examine and learn from the excellent work of the 'Blue Sky' initiative in Hillingdon.
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16 July 2007
Petition: Gardens
Nick Hurd presents a petition to Parliament calling for the protection of gardens in planning law.
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3 July 2007
Gaza and West Bank
Nick Hurd calls on the Government to learn from the Northern Ireland peace process and engage with Hamas.
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15 June 2007
Sustainable Communities Bill
Nick Hurd moves a new Clause 6 of the Sustainable Communities Bill as amended by the Public Bill Committee.
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15 June 2007
Sustainable Communities Bill - Third Reading
Sustainable Communities Bill passes its third reading in the Commons.
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5 June 2007
UK/Brazil Economic and Trade Committee
Nick Hurd questions the Minister for Europe about how to measure the success of the UK-Brazil joint economic and trade committee (JETCO) initiative.
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10 May 2007
Pension Funds
Nick Hurd tackles the Government over the £5 billion a year taken out of pension fund income.
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8 May 2007
Climate Change
During a debate on Climate Change, Nick Hurd calls for clarification of LibDem proposals requiring householders to take out a loan from a utility company for energy efficiency improvements.
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1 May 2007
Health Services (West London)
Nick Hurd speaks up for Harefield and Mount Vernon hospitals and calls on the Government to support them in the same way their local communities do by offering stability rather than the constant threat of change.
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19 April 2007
Carbon Emissions
Nick Hurd calls for an update on progress of deployment of combined heat and power technology.
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26 March 2007
Budget Debate
During the debate on the budget, Nick Hurd asks Environment Secretary David Miliband why he thinks he lost the argument to introduce VAT on domestic flights?
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15 March 2007
2012 Olympics
Nick Hurd calls on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to guarantee that the council tax for London will not rise beyond current commitments.
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