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Business of the House

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Parliamentary proceeding

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436 c447 

Session

2005-06

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Grayling | 436 c447 (Link to this contribution) Although our thoughts are very much elsewhere this morning, will the Leader of the House give us the...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c447 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 11 July—Remaining stages of the Racial and R...

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Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c453 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing this issue to the House's attention, not least becau...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) After that detailed exposition of the issue, I anticipate that my hon. Friend will perhaps not need ...

John Austin | 436 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that the House used to have an annual debate on the Metropolitan poli...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c456 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman took the same view of civil servants speaking out when he ...

Anne Begg | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Leader of the House has had time to read the early-day motion that I table...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c461 (Link to this contribution) I know how seriously the hon. Gentleman takes such issues and I am grateful to him for having raised...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c456 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Although the bid's strength was its concentration in a spec...

David Leslie Taylor | 436 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) The Government will shortly announce the results of their consultation on updating part L of the bui...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c457 (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent and helpful suggestion. It is important that the work of the House of Commons C...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c464 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady knows better than I do that the financial arrangements at MG Rover are still the subje...

Michael Connarty | 436 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding this morning's terrible events, I am sure that the Leader of the House will agree th...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 436 c457 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind the fact that the elected representatives of the people of Northern Ireland do not h...

William Cash | 436 c453 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House may have noticed my Bill, published today, entitled the International Develo...

Andrew Miller | 436 c453 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend enjoyed, as I did, last week's fantastic fleet review. Did he share...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c458 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that important issue. I am grateful to all right hon. and hon. Memb...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman the policy is not about penny pinching. It is about ensuring that the la...

Lord Young of Cookham | 436 c451 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the debate on Wednesday setting up the Select Committees and debating the revised code of ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c454 (Link to this contribution) Having spent two years of my ministerial career grappling with the subtleties of legal aid and its r...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) All those who played such an excellent role in securing the Olympics for London and the United Kingd...

Peter Bone | 436 c460 (Link to this contribution) Wellingborough is a large and expanding constituency where many thousands of new homes are being bui...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c454 (Link to this contribution) I could not possibly improve on what the hon. Gentleman has just said, and I agree with him entirely...

Glenda Jackson | 436 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) When will the House be afforded the opportunity in Government time to debate the continuing insurgen...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that my hon. Friend will have precisely that opportunity later today, during the debate en...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c453 (Link to this contribution) I was proud to be part of last week's fleet review, on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Wave Ruler. T...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c463 (Link to this contribution) I take this opportunity to congratulate all those who have been involved in the organisation of the ...

Chris McCafferty | 436 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) Given the priority that MPs and, indeed, the nation now give to international development, will my r...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c452 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned to learn that. Since becoming a Minister, I have never refused a request from an hon....

Sandra Gidley | 436 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will recall that, last week, hon. Members of all parties raised the subject ...

Tony Baldry | 436 c452 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Leader of the House could give some thought during his busy week to ministerial...

Robert Walter | 436 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has announced that the House will consider the Council Tax Limitation (Engla...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not familiar with the specific circumstances that my hon. Friend raises, but I shall ensure tha...

John Robertson | 436 c463 (Link to this contribution) At the time the Olympics have been awarded to London, may I tell my right hon. Friend that the speci...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made a written statement yesterday on removals. He set out i...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) I have seen the early-day motion and I congratulate my hon. Friend on tabling it and other hon. Memb...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members are being unusually kind today in allowing me to range over my previous experience. As ...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 436 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question of the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) about the way in which...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that I take this very seriously and it is something that the Government would wa...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c460 (Link to this contribution) May I make two points clear to the hon. Gentleman? First, the Government have invested more money in...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It is important to have up-to-date and accurate information to ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c451 (Link to this contribution) I hope to put a number of issues before the House by Wednesday. There are some consequential changes...

Jim Cunningham | 436 c460 (Link to this contribution) When are we going to have a debate on the Strategic Rail Authority, particularly on the lack of inve...

Clive Betts | 436 c458 (Link to this contribution) Recently, my right hon. Friend responded positively to a request from hon. Members for a debate on A...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c457 (Link to this contribution) I have already told hon. Members about the Government's concern to ensure proper debate on Northern ...

Derek Conway | 436 c461 (Link to this contribution) Is the Leader of the House aware that more than 12 million homes in Britain benefit from having an a...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has identified an important issue for his constituents and, indeed, for a wider g...

Eric Forth | 436 c456 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate entitled "Should Civil Servants be able to Speak Out Freely?", in the context o...

Danny Alexander | 436 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House knows that the Department for Transport has recently completed a consultatio...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c463 (Link to this contribution) I understand how sensitive the issue is to those parents, but before we take further action it is im...

Tim Loughton | 436 c463 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware that the paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow is appearing b...

Tom Levitt | 436 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my right hon. Friend recalls a conversation that we had in 1991, when he had t...

Keith Vaz | 436 c454 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House is aware that, this week, the Lord Chancellor published proposals on legal a...

Joan Walley | 436 c456 (Link to this contribution) May I revert to the successful Olympic bid? When the Leader of the House is considering how Parliame...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c460 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously important that we continue to increase the funding available for the railway network...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to repeat my answer to the hon. Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley), but it is importa...

David Chaytor | 436 c459 (Link to this contribution) In the next few weeks, many hundreds of thousands of parents and children will turn their thoughts t...

Lord Grayling | 436 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, as the Leader of the House says, the business of the House is overshadowed by this morning'...

David Heath | 436 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) On a day when it is right that all parties in the House demonstrate how we stand together on such ma...

Julie Kirkbride | 436 c464 (Link to this contribution) Following the Leader of the House's robust responses to the hon. Members for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne)...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the important of development issues to the House. That is why we recently scheduled the ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady said, the issue has been raised previously. There are obviously rules that affect w...

Michael John Foster | 436 c452 (Link to this contribution) Sport will have a major boost over the next few years with the Olympic games coming to London, but m...

Julie Morgan | 436 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on the movement of civil service jobs? Does my right hon. Friend know of...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c459 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that this is an extremely sensitive and important subject for parents and children at th...

Lord Whitehead | 436 c457 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may know that his predecessor scheduled a debate in Westminster Hall last Sessi...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course I recall precisely the specific conversation that my hon. Friend mentions, not least becau...

Lord Bannside | 436 c454 (Link to this contribution) May I associate my hon. Friends, myself and the people of Northern Ireland with the comments of the ...

Chris Huhne | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) In his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley), the Leader of the House was ki...

Andrew MacKay | 436 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) Before this morning's dreadful events, this was going to be a second day of great celebrations of Lo...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) I am confident that detailed information will have been made available to the local authorities on t...

Baroness Hoey | 436 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) I refer the Leader of the House to early-day motion 440 on Zimbabwe and asylum seekers. [That this...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c452 (Link to this contribution) I once tried to demonstrate how cricket is played to my American family, with conspicuous lack of su...

Simon Burns | 436 c462 (Link to this contribution) In the light of yesterday's lobby by the Fire Brigades Union, will the Leader of the House arrange a...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) I have already paid tribute, but am pleased to do so again, to the emergency services, especially th...

Geoffrey Hoon | 436 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his observations. On the specific points that he raises, t...

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