Banbury MP Sir Tony Baldry was given a Parliamentary Beer Champions award last month to commerate his support for the country’s beer industry.

Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): Am I right in thinking that the Leitch review envisaged 250,000 apprenticeship starts a year by 2020 and that we now intend to ensure that the figure will be at least 360,000 a year? It is good news that employers are creating new apprenticeships, but is it not also important to ensure that 15 and 16-year-olds in school are aware of the range and quality of the apprenticeship opportunities open to them?

Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): Given that people are four times more likely to die in a fire if there is no smoke alarm installed in their home, have we not got to the situation where, if a private landlord does not install and properly maintain an alarm in the home, they are breaching a common law duty to properly look after their tenants and could be sued for breaching that duty of care?

North Oxfordshire MP Sir Tony Baldry has received a special award today, for his working in helping to secure last year’s historic cut in beer duty in the Budget. He was presented with the new ‘Beer Champion’ award, including a truly unique new beer brewed especially for the occasion.

North Oxfordshire MP, the Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Baldry MP has been named Patron of the Oxfordshire Oesophageal and Stomach Organisation (OOSO).