Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 10 Mar 2020
British Steel Industry
"I will call the Minister no later than 5.33 pm...."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 10 Mar 2020
British Steel Industry
"Order. It is traditional in a one-hour debate that the Front Bench speaks for five minutes. I have been lenient because the hon. Lady took an intervention, but can we move on? Mr Stafford, you have not been here for the whole debate, so I think we will just let …..."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 10 Mar 2020
British Steel Industry
"Minister, you have until 5.53 pm at the latest to sit down, so that we can allow the mover of the motion, Mr Kinnock, to wind up...."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Mar 2019
Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
"Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that we want to share the time out: if he could wrap up in two minutes, that would be great...."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Mar 2019
Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
"Minister, please could you leave two minutes at the end for Mr Wishart to wrap up?..."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 14 Mar 2019
Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
"Mr Wishart, you have three minutes, 45 seconds, or thereabouts...."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 5th April 2018
Asked by:
Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of new registrations with HM Land Registry were registered within the 25 day period in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
Since 1 April 2017, 16.5% of applications made to HM Land Registry to register a new title were completed within 25 days. HM Land Registry have been working to reduce the oldest cases in the system and the average age of all pending applications to register a new title is 26.5 days.
Written Question
Thursday 5th April 2018
Asked by:
Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that HM Land Registry completes new registrations within the 25 day turnaround period.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
Government has approved HMLR’s business strategy for the next five years including a digital programme that will deliver enhancements to current system capability over the duration of HM Land Registry’s Business Strategy, and appointed a new and expanded Board to support the organisation to deliver its objectives.
HM Land Registry have plans in place to deliver and maintain improved capacity for new registrations and resilience. Since October 2017 366 new staff have joined the organisation and an additional 120 new recruits are expected to join in May 2018. Since 2014-15, 567 Apprentices have joined HMLR including 510 in the Operations directorate who directly contribute to processing applications for registration. This includes 138 Apprentices taken on by the Operations directorate in 2017-18. A number of measures are in place to improve HM Land Registry processes and productivity in order to increase output, including the use of overtime and system improvements.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 Mar 2018
Energy Efficiency and the Clean Growth Strategy
"I thank colleagues for being here today. There are some terrible weather conditions across the country, which I think will suppress attendance at this debate. Some colleagues had to get back to their constituencies before they got cut off, or the rail links got cut off. I call Antoinette Sandbach …..."Charles Walker - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 Mar 2018
Energy Efficiency and the Clean Growth Strategy
"Mr Graham is now going to make some progress...."Charles Walker - View Speech
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