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Business statement on Thursday, 16 February 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Geoffrey Hoon. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.


Business of the House


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Parliamentary proceeding
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442 c1559 
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2005-06
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Leader of the House of Commons
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House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 442 c1559 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give us the business for the week following the recess?
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1559 (Link to this contribution) The business for the week following the recess will be as follows: Monday 27 February—Progress on r...
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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 442 c1559-61 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business for the week after the recess. I am grate...
Gordon Prentice | 442 c1570 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the honours system? In 2004, the Public Administration Committee made a numb...
Elfyn Llwyd | 442 c1569 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to motion No. 49 on today’s Order Paper, which h...
Brian Jenkins | 442 c1571 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be pleased that I am not going to mention my early-day motion on Sunday tr...
David Leslie Taylor | 442 c1563 (Link to this contribution) We have heard the happy news from Opposition Members of the flurry of babies that have arrived, but ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1572 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that, once any proposals for the reorganisation of the health service in the west midlands...
David Chaytor | 442 c1569-70 (Link to this contribution) Shortly before he took advantage of the Government’s policy on paternity leave, which he had voted a...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1567 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to join my hon. Friend in offering congratulations and grateful to him for telling me the...
Wayne David | 442 c1561-2 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend represents a former coal-mining constituency, he will know of the great prog...
Michael Jack | 442 c1572 (Link to this contribution) This week, we have seen the first operation of the office of the alternative Prime Minister, with th...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1562-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I am supposed to welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new responsibilities. Perha...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1568-9 (Link to this contribution) I know that in my constituency the issue causes enormous distress and anger among local people. That...
Bernard Jenkin | 442 c1568 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House not feel the slightest discomfort at the Government’s committing a majo...
Andrew MacKay | 442 c1575 (Link to this contribution) I feel sure that the Leader of the House will recognise that the speech today by the chief executive...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1568 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows full well that we have regular defence debates. Although they are given par...
Martin Salter | 442 c1568-9 (Link to this contribution) There can hardly be a Member in this House whose constituents, or at least some of them, have not be...
Nicholas Winterton | 442 c1564 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware that there is huge opposition in England and Wales to the rest...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1572-3 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that construction can cause temporary disruption to people’s lives, and no doubt the hon...
Julian Lewis | 442 c1573-4 (Link to this contribution) Through the Leader of the House, may I express my thanks for the great courtesy shown by the Downing...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1570 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that my hon. Friend has not given credit for the way in which the Government have opened ...
Helen Goodman | 442 c1565-6 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Leader of the House is committed to having more women Members of Parliament, but may...
Jim Devine | 442 c1567 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my right hon. Friend has had a chance to look at early-day motion 1661, which ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1572 (Link to this contribution) I see that Opposition Members are in a light-hearted mood as they approach the recess. They are prov...
Lord Whitehead | 442 c1564-5 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the co-ordination of the contents of Government ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1575 (Link to this contribution) : I have seen press accounts of the speech and recognise that the chief executive of the RAC raises ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1571-2 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware that there was a shortage of diamorphine. I recognise that, in some parts of the wor...
Lindsay Hoyle | 442 c1574-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is aware that there is great pressure on home owners, with a potential rise of ...
Paul Flynn | 442 c1571-2 (Link to this contribution) When may we have a debate on the world shortage of diamorphine, which means that anyone dying in a t...
Keith Vaz | 442 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) May I draw my right hon. Friend’s attention to early-day motion 1654, which deals with the siting of...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1564-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important issue. A constant challenge for Governments organised on a depart...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1571 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend does know who to go to, but I appreciate that he is trying to save on ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1574 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising an issue that is important throughout the country. T...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1566 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important issue and one that clearly directly affects his constituents. I a...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) I have now had the opportunity of reading early-day motion 1654. My hon. Friend has set out, with hi...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1568 (Link to this contribution) I have not yet seen the detail of the report, but from my hon. Friend’s description, it obviously ra...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1565-6 (Link to this contribution) I assure my hon. Friend that it is also a significant factor in the Hoon household, so I take her po...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1570 (Link to this contribution) I repeat my thanks to the right hon. Gentleman for his hospitality in his constituency. I had an ext...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1559-61 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful at least for the right hon. Lady’s last, rather entertaining, comment. I suppose that ...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 442 c1574 (Link to this contribution) May I add to the right hon. Gentleman’s reading list by drawing to his attention early-day motion 14...
Nick Harvey | 442 c1562-3 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House make time for a debate on the future of the Post Office card account? I...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1564 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about huge opposition. I am certainly aware that there is some opposition. ...
Gwyn Prosser | 442 c1566 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on surplus school places and the way in which Conse...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1563 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to work out which part of my hon. Friend’s observations has anything to do with me. I wi...
Roger Gale | 442 c1566-7 (Link to this contribution) On 1 February, the propaganda unit at the Treasury, the Government news network, published the headl...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1566-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was referring in his opening remarks to hard-working civil servant...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1567-8 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is on temporary, sabbatical leave from the university of Cambridge. W...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1563 (Link to this contribution) I have not received any specific request from those involved in European scrutiny during this Parlia...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1574-5 (Link to this contribution) I take that as an early Budget submission. I am sure such issues will be properly considered by my r...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1566 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has had the privilege of visiting the Falkland Islands on a number of occasions, I re...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1569-70 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) is examining a range of constitut...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1574 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made her point, I think, but I recognise the importance of post office counters t...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1561-2 (Link to this contribution) I prefer not to be drawn further on my hon. Friend’s latter question, but he raises an important poi...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1565 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point with characteristic style. I was not aware that the process was g...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1570-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is referring to long-standing arrangements put in place by the Governments of the...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 442 c1563 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will know that the press and the public are excluded from the weekly meeting...
David Howarth | 442 c1567-8 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Leader of the House has had a chance to read a letter in The Times today from six pr...
Baroness Keeley | 442 c1574 (Link to this contribution) In the last round of post office cuts, more branches were closed in Worsley than in any other consti...
Jim Cunningham | 442 c1572 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the reorganisation of the health service in the midlands, specifically the w...
Peter Bone | 442 c1571 (Link to this contribution) Slavery has been abolished in this country for a very long time, but young women are being trafficke...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1573 (Link to this contribution) I am used to answering questions on matters for which I have absolutely no responsibility, but I rec...
Peter Bottomley | 442 c1570-1 (Link to this contribution) In social security upratings, there is something that is normally missed because neither the Governm...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1571 (Link to this contribution) This is an important issue and the Government are determined to stamp out that vile practice. I am g...
Richard Younger-Ross | 442 c1572-3 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House ask the Deputy Prime Minister or one of his Ministers to make a stateme...
Geraldine Smith | 442 c1573 (Link to this contribution) Now that we have banned smoking in all enclosed public places and private members’ clubs, is it not ...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1569 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised to hear the hon. Gentleman suggesting by implication that there has somehow not been ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 442 c1570 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Leader of the House for responding positively to my business question last October b...
Peter Robinson | 442 c1565 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House arrange for time for discussion in this place of the facilities for Mem...
Geoffrey Hoon | 442 c1573-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an issue that is regularly discussed in the House and with my right hon. F...
Sally Keeble | 442 c1568 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that a report is due out tomorrow of a major inquiry by Lord Carlile i...
Andrew Rosindell | 442 c1566 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Leader of the House has had time to read early-day motion 1637, which I tabled, rega...
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