20 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Bishoprics (Funding)
Mark Pritchard pays tribute to the work of the Bishops of Hereford and of Lichfield and calls for a commitment that those bishops’ funding will be safeguarded and that their valuable work will continue to be recognised.
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20 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Marie Stopes International: Finance
Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Health about funding given to the Marie Stopes organisation for its recently established abortion telephone counselling service.
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19 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Post Office Closures
Mark Pritchard calls for reassurance that Government Ministers - who are lobbying against post office closures in their own constituencies - are not given preferential treatment over other MPs.
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19 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Government Departments: ICT
Mark Pritchard calls on the Home Secretary to make a statement on steps taken to improve cyber security and resilience across Government Departments.
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18 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Abortion
Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for Health about the numbers of women who have had higher numbers of abortions.
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18 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
Mark Pritchard calls on the Defence Secretary to hold discussions with his French counterpart on increasing France’s military deployment to Afghanistan.
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17 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Teachers’ Pay
Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether he believes future pay settlements should include some sort of bonus or performance-related pay that is linked to improving discipline in the classroom?
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17 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Tibet
Mark Pritchard calls on the Prime Minister to speak with the Dalai Lama.
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11 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Topical Question: Oath of Allegiance
Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Justice on his views on whether allegiance should be sworn to the UK, Her Majesty the Queen or a President of Europe.
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11 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Opencast Mining: Health Hazards
Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory to discuss with UK Coal the funding of research into links between asthma in children and the proximity to open cast mining areas.
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10 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Topical Question: Human Rights in China
Mark Pritchard challenges the Government over its support of the Beijing Olympics given China's record on human rights abuses, animal cruelty and repression of religious minorities.
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10 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Departmental Data Protection
Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Defence about personal details of serving military personnel held on recently stolen MoD laptop computers.
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10 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Diplomatic Service: Parliamentary Questions
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to ensure that parliamentary questions relating to specific countries are communicated for information to British diplomatic staff in those countries.
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10 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Equatorial Guinea: Diplomatic Service
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to increase consular resources in Equatorial Guinea and establish a temporary consular office in Malabo.
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6 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Business of the House: Iran
Mark Pritchard calls for an urgent debate on Iran given that Iran has continued to progress its nuclear programme while also progressing its long-range ballistic missile programme.
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6 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
International Women's Day
During a debate on International Women's Day, Mark Pritchard endorses the Filipina candidate for the new International Criminal Court as there is currently not one femail judge sitting on the ICC.
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6 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Topical Question: Post Office and Northern Rock
Mark Pritchard challenges the Chancellor of the Exchequer over the problems faced by the Post Office which cannot compete with Northern Rock who are offering a rate of 6 per cent., subsidised by the taxpayer.
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5 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Veterans and Armed Forces Health Care
Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Scotland on a report by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities that suggests that free health care for the elderly should now be subject to eligibility criteria.
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4 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Homicide: Females
Mark Pritchard calls on the Home Secretary to meet with Muslim community leaders to discuss advice to women who are in fear of honour killings.
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4 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Equatorial Guinea: Diplomatic Service
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to reopen the UK mission to Equatorial Guinea.
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4 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Abortion
Mark Pritchard asks the Health Secretary about the number of second and third abortions carried out in England and Wales in 2007.
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3 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Lisbon Treaty
As protesters demonstrate on a crane in Parliament Square, Mark Pritchard challenges the Minister for Europe for "failing democracy" when people feel they need to take direct action to campaign for a referendum on the EU treaty.
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3 March 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Wolverhampton University: Grants
Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills to discuss with the management of Wolverhampton University the impact of proposed changes to equivalent learning qualification funding.
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29 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Armed Forces: Training
Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Defence to ensure that MoD training is not provided to overseas military piltos from regimes associaited with repression of minorities and ethnic cleansing.
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29 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Sudan: China
Mark Pritchard asks the Foreign Secretary for a report on progress from discussions with the Chinese on the political and humanitarian situation in Darfur.
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28 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Post Offices Closures
As Government Ministers campaign to save post offices in their own constituencies whilst being fully signed up to the closure of post offices elsewhere, Mark Pritchard calls for a debate on collective responsibility in government.
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27 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Military Training Academy
Mark Pritchard calls for an assurance that package 2 of the defence training review is safe.
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27 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Mass Media: Middle East
In a written question, Mark Pritchard calls on the State for Culture, Media and Sport to hold discussions with UK media on the balance of media coverage of the Israel/Palestinian conflict.
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27 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Children: Homicide
Mark Pritchard calls for an independent inquiry into the circumstances leading up to the death of Jessica Randall.
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26 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
European Union (Amendment) Bill - EU institutions and EU decision making
Mark Pritchard highlights the fact that there is no single energy policy for Europe as the Germans and the French refuse to liberalise their energy markets.
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26 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Armed Forces: Training
Mark Pritchard asks how many new jobs will be created in Wales by Package 1 of the Defence Training Review Rationalisation Programme/BORONA programme.
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26 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Burma: Elections
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to discuss with the Burmese Government the banning of the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from standing in the 2010 election.
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26 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Post Office: Personal Savings
Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many depositors have withdrawn their savings from the Post Office network since 17 February 2008.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Student Visas
Mark Pritchard asks the Government about communication between universities and the Border and Immigration Agency over foreign students who drop-out of full-time education.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Debate
Treaty of Lisbon - International Development
Mark Pritchard calls for the control of UK development money to come back from Europe to cut delays between decision and distribution which has a real impact at the front-line.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Carbon Emissions: China
Mark Pritchard calls on the b>Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to commission research to measure the level of carbon emissions resulting from the production of goods in China for the export market in 2007.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Kosovo
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to have discussions with EU countries on the declaration of independence of Kosovo.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Vietnam: Religious Freedom
In a written question, Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to hold discussions with the Government of Vietnam on the treatment of the Underground Church in that country.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Vietnam: Religious Freedom
Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to hold discussions with the Government of Vietnam on the imprisonment of church leaders in that country.
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25 February 2008 :
Parliamentary Question
Gurkhas
Mark Pritchard asks the Defence Secretary about members of the Royal Ghurkha Rifles applying for indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom.
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