Raedwald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The Telegraph reports that Cameron has asked his front bench to find a few moments in their busy private business schedules to comb through Whitehall budgets for savings in their policy areas. Well, here's a start for Peter Ainsworth, shadow DEFRA minister. Back in July I looked in detail at just one area, food and farming regulation. I estimated that the direct national costs of regulation...
Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Every now and again you get a sequence of questions in hansard that garner some great information and then hit a brick wall at the end that makes you think "hmmm how very convenient". Take for example: Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many legal proceedings naming his Department as a defending party are ongoing or unresolved;...
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... 1 hour ago - 11am ToryDiary: National debt counter launched on conservatives.com 11am Parliament: Peter Ainsworth asks about illegal timber imports 10am Parliament: Oral ... 3 hours ago - My concern about the UK economy has centred around the large banking sector relative to National Income and tax revenue, the large consumer deficit, and th... 4 hours ago - But will it look differently...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Friday, November 14, 2008masthead-search-locationGot a story? Text: 63000 - Email: 700,000 bags of litter on our roads Litter disgrace ... driver dumps rubbish from carBy DAVID WOODINGWhitehall Editor SELFISH litter louts chuck enough rubbish on motorways every day to fill an incredible 2,000 bin bags — about 700,000 every year. Disgusted ... Peter AinsworthClean-up patrols last year...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... for a day and took place at a conference centre in central London. Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth said: "In the current economic climate it is bizarre that Defra are recruiting and training caviar commissars to go around inspecting restaurants. "At a time when enforcement activity against potentially deadly imports of illegal meat is being cut, is caviar inspection really...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... discourage people from disposing of household waste on compost heaps.Tory environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth said: 'Penalising people for doing their bit for the environment is typical of the Government's confused and counter-productive approach.'There are around 2553 sites in the UK which are currently registered as composting biodegradable waste.Under the rule changes, 1685 -...
