Mike Weatherley MP

Below are Mike’s most recent Written Questions. For all Mike’s Written Questions since being elected, click here.

21/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the financial effect on the creative industries of his proposals in the consultation on copyright to (a) widen the exception for education, (b) remove the licensing scheme for educational uses and (c) introduce a statutory code for collective licensing.

20/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions the Intellectual Property Office has had with higher education institutions on licensing of audio-visual works for education.

8/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: I am sorry to intervene so early. I speak as someone who owned a manufacturing company that won two Queen’s Awards for Export in the 1990s, and which exported to 49 countries around the world. Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the problem for small and medium-sized enterprises is the equity gap between what the banks will lend-usually up to £100,000-and what...

6/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (1) what assessment he has made of whether Ofcom's white space device trials in Bute and Cambridge will adequately measure potential interference from such devices to pre-existing users of ultra-high frequency spectrum in major urban areas; and if he will make a statement; (2) what the criteria are for measuring...

6/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what steps he plans to take to tackle the problem of unlicensed users of radio spectrum; and what resources he plans to allocate for that purpose.

6/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how many prosecutions of unlicensed users of radio spectrum have taken place in each year since 2006.

6/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) what proportion of energy consumed in the UK was (a) domestic and (b) business consumption in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007, (iii) 2008, (iv) 2009 and (v) 2010; (2) what domestic energy consumption was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009 and (e) 2010; (3) what business energy consumption was in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d)...

6/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the results of research published in the online journal BMJ Open into the proportion of school children who have chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME); and what steps he plans to take in response to the finding of that research that less than 25 per cent. of children in England affected by CFS/ME...

2/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the problem is the blame culture that has developed at various points in Network Rail’s history?

2/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: Will my hon. Friend comment on cases where the judges might have got something wrong and what routes of recompense there are in those circumstances? I speak as chairman of the all-party group on retail and business crime. I hear a number of instances from independent retailers where judges have given questionable summaries, so these retailers are unsure whether the justice system works in...

1/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to produce a national standard for care homes on the prevention, treatment and care of fractures resulting from osteoporosis and falls.

1/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will commission a real-time national audit of all non-hip fragility fractures as part of the re-tender for the National Hip Fracture Database and the national audit of falls and bone health in older people.

1/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will advise general practitioners to use the FRAX fracture risk assessment tool in order to meet the conditions required by the Quality and Outcomes Framework osteoporosis indicators.

1/02/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she considered introducing separate targets for biodiesel and ethanol in the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation.

30/01/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the green portacabins on King Charles street will be removed before the commencement of the Olympics.

26/01/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding his Department provided to Crisis in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

24/01/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department is taking to discourage the illegal production of biodiesel for commercial sale.

20/01/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what steps he is taking to encourage licensed use of programme making and special events equipment after digital switchover; and if he will make a statement.

20/01/2012

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what discussions he has had with Ofcom on the use of white space devices; and if he will make a statement.