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Business statement on Thursday, 17 November 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Geoffrey Hoon. The answering member was Lord Grayling.


Business of the House


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Parliamentary proceeding
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439 c1103 
Session
2005-06
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Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Grayling | 439 c1103 (Link to this contribution) While I suspect that this morning’s events might give rise to a discussion in the Procedure Committe...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1103 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 21 November—Second Reading of the Equality Bi...
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Diana Johnson | 439 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that far too many children and young people die on ou...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1117 (Link to this contribution) The matter needs to be followed up and I will ensure that it is.
James Gray | 439 c1113 (Link to this contribution) At 6.6 am, BBC Online reported that the Minister of State, Ministry of Defence would come to the Hou...
Julie Morgan | 439 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear that we now have a date for the Second Reading of the Health Bill, which is an ...
Angela Watkinson | 439 c1112 (Link to this contribution) Was the Leader of the House one of the lucky Members who received a copy of the Daily Sport in their...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1118 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that the farming industry in Northern Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdo...
Mark Pritchard | 439 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has clearly had a difficult time this morning, so may I thank him in anticip...
Bill Wiggin | 439 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) Has the Leader of the House read early-day motion 814? [That this House congratulates Tenbury Engli...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I have no idea how BBC Online came by that information. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that my right ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) We have had a discussion in recent weeks about the importance of robust cost control and effective f...
Paul Burstow | 439 c1116 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to early-day motion 1035, on council tax and the...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1116 (Link to this contribution) Looking ahead at the parliamentary schedule, I notice that oral questions to my right hon. Friend th...
David Leslie Taylor | 439 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) As a representative of an east midlands mining constituency, my right hon. Friend will be well aware...
Peter Robinson | 439 c1115 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House not feel even a tad embarrassed at having to announce today the Second ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) It important that people in rural areas and elsewhere have access to intensive care facilities and t...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The House will have been able to study the detail of the Queen’s Speech, and it is one of my respons...
Nigel Evans | 439 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible for the Secretary of State for Health to make a statement on intensive care bed provi...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1115 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raised this precise matter in precisely the same way this time last week. I will ...
Maria Miller | 439 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House arrange an urgent debate on council tax funding? The south-east county ...
Richard Younger-Ross | 439 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) Could the Minister of Communities and Local Government come to the House to make a statement, follow...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) No one is suggesting that there is no room for improvement as far as the Child Support Agency, but I...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on early-day motion 913. The Government, local authorities and road sa...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1118 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to highlight the problem he faces on Sunday mornings, which I recognise ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1117 (Link to this contribution) It is important that those who can be returned safely and securely to their countries of origin shou...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I cannot agree with the hon. Lady’s final observation, not least because a careful and even-handed a...
Stephen Hammond | 439 c1118 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the Leader of the House chided my hon. Friend the shadow Leader of the House for his commen...
Iris Robinson | 439 c1110 (Link to this contribution) Can the Leader of the House assist hon. Members in next Wednesday’s debate by making available the c...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1103-5 (Link to this contribution) I can only congratulate the hon. Gentleman, or his researchers, on the assiduous trawling that he ap...
Peter Bone | 439 c1117 (Link to this contribution) Last week at business questions, the sad case of Mrs. Anderson was raised. She gave birth at 4.30 am...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to go into detail about the precise security measures, but I can assure the hon. Gent...
Lord Gove | 439 c1114 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House kindly make time for a debate on the Floor of the House on the grotesqu...
David Mundell | 439 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) Is the Leader of the House familiar with the concept of the Sewel motion—the mechanism by which the ...
Lord Grayling | 439 c1103-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Leader of the House for announcing the business and—finally—giving us an update...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I made it clear to the House a few moments ago that no one is suggesting that there cannot be an imp...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise the important work of the Mines Rescue Service. I represent a forme...
Eric Forth | 439 c1112 (Link to this contribution) Can we please have a debate entitled ““The Loneliness of the Prime Minister””? The Leader of the Hou...
Owen Paterson | 439 c1109 (Link to this contribution) My constituent, Councillor Brian Gillow, of Hoarstone near Market Drayton, has for years taken in pl...
Grant Shapps | 439 c1116 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House consider a debate about TV licensing? A 54-year-old constituent of mine...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s efforts to entertain us in a not-yet seasonal way, but he rai...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1107 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, that scheme has been a remarkable success in providing, at long last, for many people adv...
Ashok Kumar | 439 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) Later today I will be attending the launch of the north-east process industry cluster, together with...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 439 c1118 (Link to this contribution) The farming industry is still a major industry in Northern Ireland and many are the challenges facin...
David Heath | 439 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) Could we have a debate entitled ““The Government understanding of urgency””, with the subtitle, ““Ho...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1110 (Link to this contribution) It is important that all hon. Members have access to relevant documents, but I know that the hon. La...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to join my hon. Friend in congratulating the NEPIC. My hon. Friend has played a signi...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I agree that this is an important issue and that clarification of the rules is required because they...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be able to report to the House and the right hon. Gentleman that I had a meeting with ...
Graham Stuart | 439 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House graciously suggested that he would look into the impact of regulations on th...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I will be able to resist that temptation, but I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman looks so critically...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue yet again. I am certainly aware of the strength of fee...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 439 c1107 (Link to this contribution) As the Government appear to have run into a number of difficulties in their legislative programme la...
Andrew MacKay | 439 c1108 (Link to this contribution) Why have Ministers been caught so offguard by the problems of the CSA, bearing in mind that they hav...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman a very clear answer. In the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire strategic h...
Keith Vaz | 439 c1105 (Link to this contribution) May I say to Leader of the House that in view of what he said I shall check carefully how he has sig...
Mike Penning | 439 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) On Saturday morning, there will be several thousand of my constituents in the high street of Hemel H...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1105 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has pursued the matter assiduously, in the interests not only of his constituents but...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, made a statement earlier on these m...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1116 (Link to this contribution) At least we seem to be discussing a different kind of licensing from that which we have been discuss...
Philip Hollobone | 439 c1117 (Link to this contribution) Given that, of Britain’s 78,000 convicted prisoners in jail, 10,000 are overseas nationals, will the...
Wayne David | 439 c1107 (Link to this contribution) In my parliamentary constituency some £47 million has been paid out in compensation to former miners...
Desmond Swayne | 439 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House congratulated my hon. Friend—[Interruption.] The Leader of the House congr...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will have many opportunities to debate any changes in the arrangem...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) I am familiar with Sewel motions. I hope in due course to visit the Scottish Parliament to discuss h...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1114 (Link to this contribution) The House has regular debates on all aspects of European issues and I anticipate that, before the Eu...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the passion with which he raises individual constituency cases....
Charles Walker | 439 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on accident and emergency provision in south-east Hertfordshire, where ...
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