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Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Taxes on Income and Capital) (Netherlands) Order 2008

Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Taxes on Income and Capital) (Netherlands) Order 2008. (Affirmative instrument). Together with an explanatory memorandum from the Treasury. Laid before the House of Commons for approval by resolution of that House. Coming into force in accordance with article 2(d).
Department
Privy Council
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
13 November 2008
Reference
SI 2009/227
House
House of Commons
Crime: DNA Profiles Inquiry

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity (Meg Hillier) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary undertook that Ministers would report to Parliament once the police investigation following liaison with the Dutch authorities over data from a disk containing Dutch...
Member
Lord West of Spithead (Labour)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Date
23 October 2008
Reference
704 c75-6WS
House
House of Lords
Dutch DNA Profiles: Police Investigation

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary undertook that Ministers, would report to Parliament once the police investigation, following liaison with the Dutch authorities over data from a disk containing Dutch DNA crime scene profiles were complete. I am today able to fulfil that commitment. As previously reported, this followed...
Member
Meg Hillier (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Date
23 October 2008
Reference
481 c18-9WS
House
House of Commons
Double Taxation (UK-Netherlands/UK-Isle of Man)

A new Double Taxation Convention and Protocol with the Netherlands was signed on 26 September 2008. A new Tax Information Exchange Agreement with the Isle of Man was signed on 29 September 2008, alongside an arrangement amending the 1955 Double Taxation Arrangement with the Isle of Man. After signature, the...
Member
Stephen Timms (Labour)
Department
Treasury
Type
Written statements
Date
21 October 2008
Reference
481 c7WS
House
House of Commons
Taxation: Double Taxation

My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Stephen Timms) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. A new double taxation convention and protocol with the Netherlands was signed on 26 September 2008. A new tax information exchange agreement with the Isle of Man was signed on 29...
Member
Lord Davies of Oldham (Labour)
Department
Treasury
Type
Written statements
Date
21 October 2008
Reference
704 c68WS
House
House of Lords
Food: Pork and Bacon

asked the Chairman of Committees:Further to his Written Answer on 16 July(WA 168–69), whether he has referred the difference in quoted costs for bacon between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to BPEX for its comment.
Asked by
Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 October 2008
Reference
5573; 704 c79WA
House
House of Lords
Teaching Life Skills
Britain stands in stark contrast to many countries in continental Europe in these matters. For example, only a little while ago in Holland, there was one sixth the number of teenage pregnancies compared with Britain. Is my right hon. Friend looking into why those contrasts are so dramatic, and can we learn something from countries such as Holland that would serve to improve the situation in Britain?
Asked by
Kelvin Hopkins (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 October 2008
Reference
480 c521
House
House of Commons
House of Lords: Pork and Bacon

asked the Chairman of Committees:Further to his Written Answers on 3 April (WA 198) and 29 April (WA 18), what priority is given to (a) the Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative; (b) farm assurance; (c) animal welfare; and (d) health and nutrition, when purchasing bacon; and whether the policy on...
Asked by
Lord Hoyle (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 July 2008
Reference
4826; 703 c168-9WA
House
House of Lords
DNA Profiles Disk Inquiry

My right hon. Friend the Attorney-General has made the following written ministerial statement: ““I am today publishing a report from Peter Lewis, the Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), of his inquiry into the CPS handling of a disk containing 2,159 Dutch DNA serious crime scene profiles that...
Member
Vera Baird (Labour)
Department
Solicitor General
Type
Written statements
Date
21 May 2008
Reference
476 c28-30WS
House
House of Commons
Crime: DNA Profiles Inquiry

I am today publishing a report from Peter Lewis, the chief executive of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), of his inquiry into the CPS handling of a disk containing 2,159 Dutch DNA serious crime scene profiles that had been sent to the CPS by the Dutch authorities in January 2007....
Member
Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)
Department
Attorney General
Type
Written statements
Date
21 May 2008
Reference
701 c89-91WS
House
House of Lords
House of Lords: Pork and Bacon

asked the Chairman of Committees:Further to his Written Answer of 22 April (WA 284), what price is paid by the House of Lords Refreshment Department for English back bacon; what price is paid for its Dutch equivalent; and what is the price of a bacon sandwich, or other comparable bacon...
Asked by
Lord Hoyle (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2008
Reference
701 c18WA; 3213
House
House of Lords
Crown Prosecution Service
The Dutch authorities submitted 2,159 crime scene profiles from unsolved crimes. When my noble and learned Friend the Attorney-General became aware of issues surrounding the disk, she ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to conduct an urgent inquiry into what had happened. The inquiry has three strands, two of which will be concluded by the end of this month. I shall not be able to comment on numbers of DNA matches, or anything like that, because of ongoing operations.
Answered by
Vera Baird (Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1068-9
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
The Solicitor-General has said in the past that, unlike recent cases of official negligence, the data have not actually been lost, but how does she know? If the CPS did not know it had the disk in the first place, how can it possibly reassure us that the disk was never copied illegitimately, or that something similar did not occur?
Asked by
Sandra Gidley (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
Is not the real lesson that the Government cannot be trusted with sensitive data? They do not know the value of such data and cannot keep them safe. How will the Solicitor-General achieve a real cultural change in the way the Government handle data?
Asked by
Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
Does that incident not illustrate a more important point about the use of the DNA database? If reports are to be believed, the incident came about because the Crown Prosecution Service could not cover the absence of a prosecutor. Does that not show that resources would be better spent on using the data that we already have more efficiently and effectively, than on endlessly expanding the DNA database to include more and more innocent people, who have less and less likelihood of being involved in crime?
Asked by
David Howarth (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1070
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
I am a little troubled by the length of time the inquiry is taking. On the face of it, if some of the background facts that have already come into the public domain are correct, it would seem that the answers to the inquiry are probably fairly simple, yet as the Solicitor-General will appreciate, particularly from the question she has just received, some of the disquiet centres on the fact that we still do not have the inquiry report. Will she assure the House that it will be brought forward as quickly as possible? I am a little troubled about the length of time it is taking given that the facts seem fairly simple.
Asked by
Dominic Grieve (Conservative)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069-70
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
The full facts about where the disk was and how it was handled will become clear from the outcome of inquiry. The hon. Lady should not overlook the fact that this was an excellent example of international co-operation between UK law enforcement offices and those abroad, which is capable of taking a lot of criminals off the streets who would not have been taken off the streets if we did not have our strong DNA database and excellent international relationships with our European partners.
Answered by
Vera Baird (Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
I remind the hon. Gentleman that no data have been lost in this case, so he really should take a calming pill. He should set his feet slightly more firmly on the ground and take his head slightly further out of the clouds. There is an inquiry and it will produce outcomes in due course. It should take only a moment's thought to appreciate that when we delivered our DNA data disk to the Dutch, it was taken by an Association of Chief Police Officers officer. It was handcuffed to him and he was escorted by another officer. When the data came to the CPS, which is—as again a moment's thought would have told the hon. Gentleman—remote from ownership of our database and not the appropriate recipient, it came with no destination except ““CPS, Ludgate Hill””. The hon. Gentleman is going too far in his criticisms; he needs to wait until he knows a few facts—a little knowledge is a terribly dangerous thing.
Answered by
Vera Baird (Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
Probably the most important fact for me to confirm is that the results of the matching process have been returned to the Dutch. We have completed the inquiry into where the disk was at any given time, and by the end of the month it is expected that the CPS will have looked at responsibility for that. The third strand, to which I have just alluded, is the one on which our ACPO officers and the Dutch police are now able to take matters forward. We will produce the results as soon as we can.
Answered by
Vera Baird (Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1069-70
House
House of Commons
Crown Prosecution Service
We are determined to use the DNA database in the most effective way, so that it can stamp out crime that would otherwise not be detected. If that is not how the Liberal Democrats see an appropriate criminal justice policy going forward, so be it. The hon. Gentleman's factual basis for his question is wrong. He, too, must wait until he has a little bit more knowledge than the tiny amount that he has at present.
Answered by
Vera Baird (Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
473 c1070
House
House of Commons