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Business statement on Thursday, 10 November 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Geoffrey Hoon. The answering member was Lord Grayling.

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2005-06
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Lord Grayling | 439 c470 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give us the business for next week?
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c470 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows. Monday 14 November—Remaining stages of the Violent ...
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Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c479 (Link to this contribution) The previous discussions were part of the usual process by which the House determines the dates of i...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c485 (Link to this contribution) I have already met union officials from the Transport and General Workers Union. I will meet them ag...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c478 (Link to this contribution) As I announced to the House at the start of business questions, there will be a debate on Thursday 1...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c478 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise her constituents' concerns. I hope that she will forgive me, as thi...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c477 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the considerable extra spending that has been made available in Northern Ireland to de...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c481 (Link to this contribution) I think that I also made the point last week that in the past my hon. Friend has not been slow to cr...
Mark Pritchard | 439 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) Would the Leader of the House allow time for a debate on the Government's flawed decision to close t...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his practical and realistic view of the September sessions. He w...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c476 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary believes with some justification that he has ...
Julian Lewis | 439 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) When the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill is debated next week, may we have coupled with it a statem...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c482 (Link to this contribution) I have spent so much time over the past few weeks poring over details of the different holiday arran...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly willing to continue to keep the matter under review. I have made it clear that the ov...
David Heath | 439 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) May I express my surprise that a decision has apparently been taken on September sittings without th...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c480 (Link to this contribution) I know that that issue interests right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House. I recall fr...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise the particular circumstances in Sheffield as they affect his consti...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c487 (Link to this contribution) First, there is a consultation. There is a wide range of views on the appropriate structure of polic...
Kerry McCarthy | 439 c485 (Link to this contribution) To return to the subject of the House of Commons cleaners, which was mentioned earlier, my understan...
David Winnick | 439 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) One of the welcome changes from Tory years was September sittings. The word "recess" is wholly unkno...
Michael Connarty | 439 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) When my right hon. Friend gets around to reading the book of early-day motions, which I know he take...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that difficult issue concerning members of the armed forces and...
Eric Forth | 439 c474 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a helpful suggestion. I am certainly happy to listen to the political...
David TC Davies | 439 c476 (Link to this contribution) Further to the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Mr. Mackay), can the ...
Graham Stuart | 439 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the many contributions on this subject, may I broaden the question of the role—and...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c476 (Link to this contribution) The Second Reading is on track. The Government have a considerable amount of legislation to bring be...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c488 (Link to this contribution) My constituents have raised 24-hour drinking with me in my constituency surgery. They have been alar...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) This issue has been raised with me on a number of previous occasions. In the past the two specific p...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if my hon. Friend felt that I was treating him with any less respect than I always treat ...
Andrew Turner | 439 c485 (Link to this contribution) Now that the Terrorism Bill has almost reached a conclusion in the House, may we have a debate on wh...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c481 (Link to this contribution) That is an important issue. Sufficient funds are allocated to local authorities to ensure that they ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that always when sharp differences of opinion arise it would be helpful, if the timetabl...
Lord Garnier | 439 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Leader of the House is a keen supporter—and, indeed, a keen student—of the constitut...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend puts his case well on behalf of the Post Office. I shall ensure that the rel...
Pete Wishart | 439 c482 (Link to this contribution) I, too, want to bring up the issue of the next summer recess, but I want the Leader of the House to ...
Peter Bone | 439 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) Last night, I was contacted by an upset constituent, Mr. Nigel Anderson, about his wife who gave bir...
Gordon Prentice | 439 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) What does my Friend think of early-day motion 985? [That this House believes that no person should...
Lord Grayling | 439 c470-2 (Link to this contribution) At Treasury questions this morning—I was present, but the Leader of the House did not have the benef...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 439 c484 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday in the House, the Prime Minister urged us to support legislation on the basis that it was ...
Lord Bellingham | 439 c478 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is a former experienced Defence Secretary, so he will consider sympatheticall...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman put his question with his usual elegance. I am always grateful that w...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to comment on that specific case, but I shall ensure that a Minister from the Departm...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I anticipate that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will be in the House later today. I am sur...
Martin Salter | 439 c487 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Modernisation Committee that proposed the September recalls, I fully accept that ...
Chris Mullin | 439 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) The decision to renege on September sittings confirms many hon. Members' suspicion that fitting the ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c479 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this issue, which is vital to women and their families th...
Nigel Evans | 439 c481 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible for the Leader of the House to arrange for an early debate on road maintenance fundin...
David Chaytor | 439 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) Following yesterday's events would my right hon. Friend find time for a debate entitled, "How the Ho...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I am beginning to have the slight suspicion that there is an element of co-ordination on these matte...
Paul Flynn | 439 c479 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has answered three questions about September sittings, but he has inadverten...
Lynda Waltho | 439 c488 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend schedule a debate on the effects of the Licensing Act 2003, which is due t...
David Leslie Taylor | 439 c476 (Link to this contribution) As the chairman of the all-party group on smoking and health I am getting a great deal of contact fr...
Roger Williams | 439 c487 (Link to this contribution) As the Leader of the House pointed out earlier, we are in a period of consultation about the future ...
Anne Moffat | 439 c478 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend find time for the introduction of primary legislation to control ship-to-s...
Andrew MacKay | 439 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) May I be helpful to the Leader of the House and move off September sittings? Does he accept that whe...
Andrew Mackinlay | 439 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Leader of the House back to the reply that he gave me last week? When I asked for a f...
Lord Harper | 439 c490 (Link to this contribution) I impress on the Leader of the House the remarks of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harbor...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) I have made plain the position on September sittings. It is strongly supported in the House, and alt...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c480 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has published the Green Paper, ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) The announcement made by the Defence Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Kilbride, St...
Nia Griffith | 439 c482 (Link to this contribution) Given that increasing aggression is shown towards our emergency workers, will my right hon. Friend a...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c470-2 (Link to this contribution) If I may say so, the hon. Gentleman has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, but I will start wi...
David Simpson | 439 c490 (Link to this contribution) Can the Leader of the House explain why the Government have cut funding to young enterprise programm...
Eric Forth | 439 c474 (Link to this contribution) I support the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). The Leader of the House will recall that one o...
Clive Betts | 439 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) Would my right hon. Friend arrange for an early debate on the state of our bus services in metropoli...
Lynne Jones | 439 c481 (Link to this contribution) I draw my right hon. Friend's attention to early-day motion 888. [That this House believes there s...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c490 (Link to this contribution) I have made it clear that there will be opportunities to discuss the proposals for police force rest...
Shailesh Vara | 439 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) May I return to a question that has been asked already by right hon. and hon. Friends about the 1...
Dennis Skinner | 439 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House recall that the move to hold a fortnight of sittings in September was a...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) Again, my hon. Friend is conscientious about holding Ministers to account, whether or not the House ...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention to early-day motion 995? [That this House condemns Hew...
Iris Robinson | 439 c477 (Link to this contribution) Could the Leader of the House arrange for a debate on the viability of public-private partnerships o...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) I have not read the specific terms of early-day motion 994, but I assure the House that I will. Pres...
Bob Spink | 439 c480 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if we had September sittings, as I believe we should, that ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) My announcement in no way affects the normal way that the House deals with its sitting dates or with...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c485 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly good point, but I am sure as well that he will reflect on the f...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) I have read the early-day motion and recognise my hon. Friend's concern. I congratulate him on the w...
Ed Miliband | 439 c480 (Link to this contribution) According to the House of Commons Library, there has not been a debate in Government time on new ser...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c482 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that important issue. Material recently published by the TUC recoun...
David Anderson | 439 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share the sense of shame that Members across the House feel about the way ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) I have noticed over the years—I think that my hon. Friend and I were elected to the House at about t...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 439 c479 (Link to this contribution) Would it be possible to have a debate on ovarian cancer? Of the 7,000 women who are diagnosed with o...
Geoffrey Hoon | 439 c484 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to trade with the hon. Gentleman remarks about the situation in Northern Ireland. He ...
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