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Written Question
Older People
Wednesday 4th May 2016

Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will consult on setting up a Commissioner for Older People.

Answered by Oliver Letwin

There is no current plan for Government to consult on setting up a Commissioner for Older Persons.

Written Question
Royal Family
Tuesday 12th January 2016

Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who in the Government takes decisions on what information is shared with which members of the Royal Family.

Answered by John Penrose

The decision to share Government information lies with individual Ministers and their departments as stated in Chapter 11 of the Cabinet Manual. Government information is managed in accordance with the Lord Chancellor's Code of Practice on the Management of Records issued under section 46 of the Freedom of information Act 2000.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jan 2016
EU Council

"At the recent meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, huge concern was expressed by parliamentary colleagues from right across the British Isles about this country’s possible exit from the European Union. What, if any, work is being done to look at the specific impacts on Northern Ireland and on the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2015
ISIL in Syria

"Is not the different between Iraq and Syria the fact that we have on the ground in Iraq a long-established ally, the Kurdish peshmerga, who want to work with us? We do not have that in Syria; we have there what the Prime Minister is now describing as a patchwork...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2015
ISIL in Syria

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Nov 2015
Syria

"Does the Prime Minister agree with his former Foreign Secretary, William Hague, and with John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the UN, that ultimately the world will have to redraw the map and create a Sunni state in northern Iraq and northern Syria? If so, does he think that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q4. May I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s comments about what will happen this weekend and also with the comments made by the leader of the Scottish National party, the right hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson)? Thousands of people who served our nation in the Royal Navy before …..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 11th September 2015

Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Blaydon to his Department of 30 March 2015 regarding arranging a meeting between a Minister and representatives of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign.

Answered by Oliver Letwin

I will respond to the hon. Member for Blaydon’s letter by Monday 14 September.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Jun 2015
Tunisia, and European Council

"One of the victims of this appalling act was my constituent Mrs Lisa Burbidge, a grandmother of four. She lived in the town of Whickham and, sadly, it is only six years since one of our own from the same town, Sapper David Watson, was killed in action in Afghanistan. …..."
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Written Question
Voluntary Work: Young People
Thursday 18th June 2015

Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 3 June 2015 to Question 321 and of 11 June 2015 to Question 1056, what roles are performed by personnel involved in delivering the residential phase of the National Citizens Service programme; and what qualifications are required to fulfil each such role.

Answered by Rob Wilson

NCS is delivered by a supply chain of over 200 organisations. Each organisation can tailor their offer based on their own expertise and resources to maximise the positive impact of the programme. As such, a wide range of roles and activities are performed by delivery personnel all of whom must be appropriately skilled and possess such qualifications as required to fulfil their roles.