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• Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions (24 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: May I urge Ministers to ignore the canned melodrama of the shadow Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary on the Beecroft report? Will the Minister confirm that the current call for ev …

 

• Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: G8 and NATO Summits (23 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: Currently, Britain has only some 3% of the European market in services. Can the Prime Minister confirm just how important completing the services market is for British services?

 

• Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Employment Law (Beecroft Report) (21 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: Over 50% of Britain’s smallest businesses say that they would hire more staff if they were given greater clarity about how to end an employment relationship. Does my hon. Friend ag …

 

• Business of the House (17 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: Grahame Maxwell, chief constable of North Yorkshire police, was only the second chief constable in British policing history to be found guilty of gross misconduct. This week, he walked a …

 

• Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Foreign Affairs and International Development (15 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: Will the right hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to congratulate British business, whose exports were more than £50 billion extra last year, across 2011?

 

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Civil Proceedings (15 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce the number of vexatious claims brought before employment tribunals.

 

• Debate on the Address: Business and the Economy (14 May 2012)
  Danny Alexander: …debate, with many contributions from all parts of the House. I would particularly single out the contributions of my hon. Friends the Members for Solihull (Lorely Burt) and for Ski …

 

• Bills Presented: Home Affairs and Justice (10 May 2012)
  Julian Smith: Does my right hon. Friend agree that leadership from the top is vital, and that the recent allegations of poor procurement practices and the payment of large consulting fees to ex-copper …

 

• Business of the House (26 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: Colin Brannigan of Ripon is having his sleep badly disturbed by unsolicited marketing fax calls to his home phone. He has tried Ofcom and the Information Commissioner. May we have a deba …

 

• Written Answers — Transport: Road Signs and Markings (26 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of brown tourist signs on the Highways Agency managed road network are paid for (a) from the public purse and (b) by the touri …

 

• Association of Chief Police Officers (24 Apr 2012)
  James Brokenshire: I welcome you to the Chair, Ms Clark. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Smith) on raising a number of significant and important questions relati …

 

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EU Staff (24 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British nationals are serving as EU civil servants; and what proportion of the total number of EU civil servan …

 

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EU Staff (24 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had on increasing the number of British nationals applying to be civil servants for the EU.

 

• Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Enterprise Allowance (23 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the new enterprise allowance.

 

• Written Answers — Attorney-General: Crown Prosecution Service: Yorkshire and the Humber (23 Apr 2012)
  Julian Smith: To ask the Attorney-General what assessment he has made of the effect on the operation of the Crown Prosecution Service of the proposed reorganisation in Yorkshire and the Humber.

 

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