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Business statement on Thursday, 11 January 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.


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2006-07
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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c433 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the business for the coming weeks?
Jack Straw | 455 c433 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 15 January—Second Reading of the Planning-gai...
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Nicholas Winterton | 455 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) On a point of clarification, will the Leader of the House say whether the debate on Iraq and the mid...
Jack Straw | 455 c433-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady asked me first about the debate on the middle east. I am grateful to her for ack...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c433-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business for the next two weeks, and for announcin...
Jack Straw | 455 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to talk about this. The hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Burrowes) ...
Andrew Murrison | 455 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) was obliged...
Jack Straw | 455 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) First, the hon. Gentleman asked whether it would be in order to include Afghanistan in the debate ab...
Jack Straw | 455 c445 (Link to this contribution) Any advice I give to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary in private is, with great respect, not ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 455 c439 (Link to this contribution) Is the Leader of the House as appalled as I am at the daily scenes of harassment by the paparazzi of...
Jack Straw | 455 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) On the Home Office issues, there is no point in my offering the Liberal Democrats any fraternal advi...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 455 c441 (Link to this contribution) At Prime Minister’s Questions on 25 October, the Prime Minister told the House from the Dispatch Box...
Jack Straw | 455 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to welcome the Opposition Chief Whip to a speaking position on the Back Benches. I d...
Jack Straw | 455 c449 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is well aware that decisions about car parking charges are local matters, for the...
Jack Straw | 455 c442 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Lady says, but it is not unusual for a Minister to defend Government poli...
Jack Straw | 455 c446 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman raises the issue of asylum. Of course some asylum seekers sho...
Jim Sheridan | 455 c444 (Link to this contribution) May I ask my right hon. Friend if we can have a debate on the accuracy and accountability of the Bri...
Mike Penning | 455 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) I was pleased to hear the Leader of the House confirm my constituents’ concerns about the democratic...
Peter Bone | 455 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) Last year, unemployment in Wellingborough increased by more than 20 per cent. It is now 6.5 per cent...
Jack Straw | 455 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) It is extraordinary that in trying to defend the previous Administration’s lamentable record on unem...
Geraldine Smith | 455 c442 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware of the public concern about the proliferation of quangos that ...
Jack Straw | 455 c441 (Link to this contribution) I note what my hon. Friend says. We are all aware of the terrible conditions faced by travellers at ...
Keith Vaz | 455 c436 (Link to this contribution) Is the Leader of the House aware of the campaign by Age Concern, which is supported by the Leicester...
John Leech | 455 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House arrange for an urgent debate on the Floor of the House on police resour...
Jack Straw | 455 c448 (Link to this contribution) It is not the case that murderers are inappropriately transferred to open conditions. They cannot be...
Jack Straw | 455 c439 (Link to this contribution) I am, indeed, absolutely appalled by the scenes. I commend News International for saying that it wil...
Gordon Prentice | 455 c447 (Link to this contribution) More than 100 million land mines are scattered around the globe. Scandalously, Pakistan is adding to...
Philip Davies | 455 c448 (Link to this contribution) May I add to the earlier calls for a debate on prisons and sentencing? Dangerous murderers inappropr...
Tony Lloyd | 455 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) May I refer back to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (Ger...
Jack Straw | 455 c443 (Link to this contribution) I note my right hon. Friend’s request. I will do my best. Whoever else was to blame for the many hou...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 455 c443 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Leader of the House that, since he and I have been Members of the House, the Animal...
Jack Straw | 455 c441 (Link to this contribution) I note what the hon. Gentleman says, and I have said repeatedly that debates on foreign affairs are ...
Julian Lewis | 455 c447 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, the Prime Minister agreed with his hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, North (Sarah Mc...
Jack Straw | 455 c448 (Link to this contribution) It is an important issue and an important proposal. I cannot guarantee that time will be found but I...
Jack Straw | 455 c436 (Link to this contribution) I will make a note of my right hon. Friend’s request. I am glad that he acknowledges what the Govern...
Jack Straw | 455 c447 (Link to this contribution) I have already given the House an indication that there will be a full debate on defence in which th...
Jack Straw | 455 c442 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a fellow north-west Member of Parliament, and I think that such a debate would be ...
Jack Straw | 455 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point, as did my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesda...
David Heath | 455 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) When the hapless Home Secretary and his hopeless Ministers come to the Dispatch Box on Monday for Ho...
John Bercow | 455 c448 (Link to this contribution) May we please have a debate in Government time about sexual health? Given that the incidence of sexu...
Jack Straw | 455 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman’s concern about water. Indeed, an interesting report on that issue came ou...
Barry Sheerman | 455 c441 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend consider an early debate on the way in which BAA conducts its business? Ma...
Wayne David | 455 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) One of the great success stories of the Government has been the fact that hundreds of millions of po...
David Leslie Taylor | 455 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) On Tuesday, I tabled early-day motion 586 on Chinese human rights activist, Chen Guang Cheng. [That...
Jack Straw | 455 c444 (Link to this contribution) I know of the concerns of the hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Maidstone—[Hon. Members: ...
Angela Watkinson | 455 c442 (Link to this contribution) In Westminster Hall yesterday there was a debate on the new boatmaster licence. The consensus among ...
Philip Hollobone | 455 c449 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House ask the Secretary of State for Health to attend the House and make a st...
Fraser Kemp | 455 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill received Royal Asse...
Jack Straw | 455 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) There will be a debate—if not the week after next, then the week after that—on the police grant orde...
Jack Straw | 455 c446 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend’s work as a member of the Joint Committee. The Government welcome the Commi...
Andrew MacKay | 455 c445 (Link to this contribution) As this week’s revelations have brought into question the reputation and integrity of certain Home O...
Andrew Miller | 455 c446 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement that there will be a debate on the Joint Committee on Conventions next Wedne...
Jack Straw | 455 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is well aware of the concerns of my hon. F...
Jack Straw | 455 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend and the Sunderland Echo on their campaign, and of course I shall do what I ...
Lord Benyon | 455 c444 (Link to this contribution) Rail passengers in west Berkshire are having to suffer the indignity of fewer trains, greater overcr...
Jack Straw | 455 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) I fully understand my hon. Friend’s concern, and above all the concern of the parents. There are cer...
Clive Betts | 455 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may be aware that in 2005 First increased bus fares in Sheffield and south York...
Jack Straw | 455 c444 (Link to this contribution) If we had a debate in the House every time that allegations were made that the accuracy and credibil...
Tony Baldry | 455 c446 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on Government waste? On the Home Office’s own figures, they are spending some £...
Jack Straw | 455 c447 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will excuse me if I do not offer that condemnation, not least because I am not fully ...
Lord McLoughlin | 455 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House seemed prepared for questions on the Prison Service, but when he said that t...
Jack Straw | 455 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand the problem, not least from the strong briefing that I have received on this matter fro...
Jack Straw | 455 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s deep concern about this matter. It is no part of Government policy tha...
Lindsay Hoyle | 455 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give time for a discussion on a hideous crime and the subsequent sentencin...
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