Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 16th May 2023 Commons Chamber

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)]

20. What steps he is taking to bring forward legislative proposals to tackle strategic lawsuits against public participation.

[Mr Speaker]

Who is answering? Come on, Secretary of State.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 18th October 2022 Commons Chamber

[Rob Butler]

I am very happy to do so. Open prisons play a very important part in the rehabilitation of offenders, and I am more than happy to make sure that they have the understanding and the commitment of local communities, so we can rehabilitate prisoners, reduce reoffending and ensure we have fewer victims of crime.

[Mr Speaker]

That completes the questions. We now come to the urgent question. Those who wish to leave, please do so.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 11th July 2022 Commons Chamber

[Rob Butler]

I warmly congratulate the Minister on her appointment. Unemployment is at extremely low levels across the country, which is very welcome, but in my constituency of Aylesbury, we still have some small areas where some people struggle to find a job, despite there being vacancies nearby, often because they do not have the skills required to take those jobs. How can my hon. Friend’s Department help those who need new skills to get back into work?

[Mr Speaker]

I also welcome the Minister to the Dispatch Box.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 17th March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Grahame Morris. Not here. I call Rob Butler.

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)]

Over the past few weeks, contractors for HS2 Ltd have brought yet more disruption and, frankly, despair to my constituents, especially in Stoke Mandeville and Wendover. They have misled property owners, they have gone back on reassurances and they have started work for which they have no permission, which has had to be halted. Will the Minister for HS2 please remind HS2 Ltd that its pledge to be a good neighbour is not just a slogan, and that it demands action?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 27th January 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We have only five minutes left. We really have to think about Back Benchers.

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)]

T2. Two thirds of my constituency of Aylesbury is rural. Farmers there have told me that they really welcome the Government’s new policies, which recognise the importance of benefiting the environment as well as of producing food, so can my right hon. Friend update me on the roll-out of future farming schemes in Buckinghamshire?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 20th January 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Let the weather vane take me up to Aylesbury and Rob Butler.

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con) [V]]

The national roll-out of covid-19 vaccinations is a tremendous success story, but it is only in the past few days that over-80-year-olds in Aylesbury have been able to get their first jabs. Many of my constituents have contacted me to say that they are frustrated and worried that they have been either forgotten or pushed to the back of the queue. Can my right hon. Friend assure them that everybody in the Aylesbury area in the most vulnerable groups will be vaccinated by the middle of February?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Wednesday 15th July 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Can I just say to the Prime Minister that we are going to work through the Chair? The audience is not that way, it is this way.

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)]

My constituency is home to many farms producing excellent British food. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that the new trade deals our Government are working on will safeguard our high food standards and provide fantastic new opportunities to the hardworking farmers in my part of Buckinghamshire?

Coronavirus: Employment Support

Debate between Rob Butler and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 19th March 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We are really going to have to speed up.

[Rob Butler (Aylesbury) (Con)]

There are more micro-businesses in Buckinghamshire than in any other county in the country. I pay tribute to Buckinghamshire Business First, which is working extremely hard to try to support them, but may I urge my hon. Friend to take the unique needs of micro-businesses into account in the measures that he is developing?