The first Lisbon item is interesting in that Germany have suspended ratification on legal grounds. If I remember correctly their Constitution does not allow it, just as ours should have stopped it here.
lisbon treaty : 1 Commons debate
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Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Lisbon Agenda
(30 Jun 2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-06-30a.157.3&s=Lisbon+Treaty#g158.3
Mark Francois: Given today's remarkable legal judgment in Germany to suspend ratification, it is a great shame that the original question was not about the *Lisbon treaty*.
But as it is not, I shall observe that the *Lisbon* agenda was intended to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010-and that with one year to go, there is clearly a lot still to do. Will...
lisbon treaty : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers - Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: European Union (30 Jun
2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-30a.282702.h&s=Lisbon+Treaty#g282702.r0
Chris Bryant: The December 2007 European Council conclusions stated that the *Lisbon Treaty* would mark the end of institutional debate.
Heads of governments attending said: "The *Lisbon Treaty* provides the Union with a stable and lasting institutional framework.
We expect no change in the foreseeable future."
The June 2009 European Council provided the assurances that Ireland needed to move forward on the...
state pension : 2 of 19 Written Answers
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Written Answers - Work and Pensions: Carers Benefits: Pensioners (30 Jun
2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-30a.280496.h&s=state+pension#g280496.r0
Jonathan R Shaw: The number of people over *state pension* age who are entitled to carer's allowance but not receiving any payment because of the overlapping benefit rule is 362,350.
The estimated maximum annual cost of paying carer's allowance to *pensioners* who are subject to the overlap is around £1 billion. Notes 1. This estimate does not include people who do not make a claim for carer's allowance, as...
Written Answers - Work and Pensions: Departmental Data Protection (30 Jun
2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-30a.281063.h&s=state+pension#g281063.q0 Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of *State* for Work and *Pensions* how many breaches of information security there have been at (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in the last five years.
fluoridation of water : 3 Written Answers
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Written Answers - Health: Fluoridation (30 Jun 2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-30a.282243.h&s=Fluoridation+of+water#g282243.q0
David Crausby: To ask the Secretary *of* State for Health how many letters his Department received requesting *fluoridation of* the public
*water* supply in each year since 2000.
Written Answers - Health: Fluoridation: North West (30 Jun 2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-30a.282241.h&s=Fluoridation+of+water#g282241.q0 David Crausby: To ask the Secretary *of* State for Health how many members *of* the North West *Fluoridation* Evaluation Group set up by the North West Strategic Health Authority have expressed public opposition to *fluoridation of* public drinking *water* in the North West.
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