Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Tuesday 17th March 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The patience of Pudsey is rewarded. I call Mr Stuart Andrew.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

21. What steps his Department is taking to protect children who are at risk of grooming.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Tuesday 9th December 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am sorry but demand always exceeds supply. Last but not least, Stuart Andrew.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

As my right hon. Friend heard earlier, there is currently a connectivity study on Leeds Bradford International airport. As someone who has been campaigning for that rail link, because the road network is always so congested, may I urge him to look at that study in great detail, as it will help us to contribute to that great economic powerhouse in the north?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Tuesday 10th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I encourage the Minister to learn to provide more succinct answers. They are always too long.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

12. What the planned timetable is for his Department’s congenital heart disease review.

Business of the House

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Thursday 25th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I have a hunch, as I suspect does the House, that the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner) is seeking to equal the volume of his predecessor.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

Figures released in answer to a written question I tabled on the Safe and Sustainable review show that costs to date include over £300,000 in legal fees, £1.7 million for external communication consultants and over £6 million in other costs. That is around £8 million in total. Now we hear that NHS England plans to add to the costs by appealing the High Court decision, potentially delaying the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s report. Given that, and in the time available, is there any way we can urge NHS England not to appeal, so that we can finally get a resolution to children’s heart surgery in this country?

Exam Reform

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Monday 17th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call finally Mr Stuart Andrew.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

Bottom of the class again!

Businesses in my constituency tell me time and again of their concerns about standards and their confidence in them. Members may find it hard to believe, but I was not the most academic pupil. I am therefore particularly interested in how best we can help such students. Guiseley school in my constituency has done excellent work on encouraging pupils into engineering and on working with local businesses to determine their needs. Will my right hon. Friend assure me that while he is introducing the changes he will put equal emphasis on creating opportunities for those less academic pupils and on encouraging partnerships such as the one that Guiseley school has established with local businesses?

Business of the House

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Thursday 5th July 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

As far as I am aware, the hon. Lady bears no obvious resemblance to her brother!

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

Yesterday, I spent seven hours sitting in a meeting, carefully listening to the decision from the Safe and Sustainable review of children’s heart units. There was a clear disregard for a fundamental principle of the NHS constitution, namely patient choice, as it was said that patients would be managed to use the Newcastle hospital and Lincolnshire patients were barely mentioned at all. In addition, the review goes against the Secretary of State’s recently stated four principles for the reconfiguration of services. This is a fundamentally important issue to many of our constituents, so please may I urge my right hon. Friend to ensure that, at the very least, the Secretary of State gives a statement to the House?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Monday 20th February 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I think the Secretary of State did, and I did too. However, the hon. Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) says that he never withdrew it in the first place. A gremlin got into the system.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

11. What contribution the armed forces will make to security at the London 2012 Olympics; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Wednesday 23rd November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I am extremely grateful to Prime Minister.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

Over the last 30 years, thousands of vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the UK have been supported through projects funded by Children in Need. Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Children in Need on raising more than £600 million over the years, and will he pay tribute to my constituents, who came together as a town, raised thousands of pounds and welcomed Pudsey bear home for the first time?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Monday 28th February 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am greatly obliged to the Minister.

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

T8. I welcome the scrapping of the previous Government’s top-down housing targets, which caused so much inappropriate development, particularly in my constituency. As the Localism Bill goes through Parliament, however, some developers are land-banking brownfield sites so that they can gain planning permission successfully at appeal on greenfield sites. What are the Government doing to protect such sites in this interim period? Will they consider re-introducing the sequential approach to planning?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stuart Andrew and John Bercow

Tuesday 6th July 2010 Commons Chamber

[Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

I call Andrew Stephenson—[Interruption.] He is not Andrew Stephenson, but he is very welcome. Let us hear from him.

[Stuart Andrew]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Given that top military officials have also been arrested, does my hon. Friend the Minister see any danger of interference in the elections by the Rwandan army?