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Parliamentary Questions

Yazan: Lucy | 26 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Goings On

It’s Defra’s turn for Oral Parliamentary Questions this week.  Written questions can, and do, arrive in Departments at any time, but oral questions come round on a rota.  The minister answers the questions in person in the House and MPs can then ask additional questions.  One of the more ‘entertaining’ aspects of this job is [...]

Putting things off

Yazan: Lucy | 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings

Hello again world.
I haven’t actually abandoned this blog, nor has it lain fallow for want of content.  There is loads going on in the wider world of waste, and, indeed, plenty happening in my little corner of it, I just haven’t had time to write about it.
This is entirely down to my own dreadful time [...]

Ermine and vermin

Yazan: Lucy | 26 March 2009 | 5 Comments
Categories: General Witterings

On Tuesday, I had my first experience of the House of Lords.  Yes, after 8 and half years in the Civil Service I finally failed to drop oral Parliamentary Questions onto a London-based colleague and had to attend myself.
Oral PQs are an odd sort of thing really.   A member asks a question, which the Minister [...]