Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Cairns and Susan Elan Jones

Wednesday 4th March 2015 Commons Chamber

[Alun Cairns]

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We cannot pretend that this debate is not happening. We need to make the arguments for what the CBI wants—a reformed European Union of which the UK is a part.

[Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South) (Lab)]

I am intrigued. The Minister said earlier that businesses had told him various anti-EU things. Can he name a single business across the length and breadth of Wales—north, south, east or west—that has told him it would like Wales to leave the EU?

Wales Bill

Debate between Alun Cairns and Susan Elan Jones

Monday 31st March 2014 Commons Chamber

[Alun Cairns]

rose—

[Susan Elan Jones]

rose—

Public Bodies Bill [Lords]

Debate between Alun Cairns and Susan Elan Jones

Tuesday 12th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Susan Elan Jones]

They probably took as much account of those factors as they appear to have taken of everything else involving S4C.

[Alun Cairns]

May I return the hon. Lady to her point about funding? She claimed that S4C had suffered a 94% cut, but if we are to have a sensible debate about this important issue, should we not recognise the reality, which is that it will be subject to cuts of 6% per annum for the next four years? That is much better than what is happening to many other public sector departments, and should be sufficient for it to deliver its objectives. Does the hon. Lady regret the fact that over the last 13 years there has not been adequate scrutiny—