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Business statement on Thursday, 21 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.


Business of the House


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c1517 
Session
2006-07
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 461 c1517 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?
Jack Straw | 461 c1517 (Link to this contribution) The business for the coming week will be as follows: Monday 25 June—Motion to approve a Ways and Me...
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Jack Straw | 461 c1531 (Link to this contribution) It is the duty of all of us to represent our constituents, but the hon. Gentleman needs to be a bit ...
Mary Creagh | 461 c1526 (Link to this contribution) I join my right hon. Friend in paying tribute to our colleague and comrade Piara Khabra. Today the ...
Philip Hollobone | 461 c1531 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement from the Secretary of State for Transport about why the Department for Trans...
Jack Straw | 461 c1526 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for all the work that she has done on this important issue, includin...
Jack Straw | 461 c1522 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concern of my right hon. Friend and pay tribute to her for all her work to help tho...
Ann Clwyd | 461 c1522 (Link to this contribution) I join in the tributes to Piara Khabra. He was a member of the International Development Committee, ...
Lord Garnier | 461 c1522-3 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House for an early debate in Government time on the adequacy of minister...
Jack Straw | 461 c1526-7 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that concern. Let me offer a personal view. I am afraid that I have found Salman Rushd...
Jack Straw | 461 c1530 (Link to this contribution) That was uncharacteristically ungenerous of the hon. Gentleman, although I understand his concern fo...
Jack Straw | 461 c1523 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly consider that issue. My hon. Friend will know of my right hon. Friend the Transpor...
Iain Wright | 461 c1523 (Link to this contribution) In announcing the business, the Leader of the House mentioned that we would discuss the remaining st...
Jack Straw | 461 c1524 (Link to this contribution) The devolution settlement for Scotland has been settled, and appears to be working well. It was alwa...
Jack Straw | 461 c1529 (Link to this contribution) I will do a deal with the hon. Gentleman. I will pass on his remarks to my right hon. Friend the Cha...
Jack Straw | 461 c1524 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. We are celebrating a renaissance not just in m...
Jack Straw | 461 c1527 (Link to this contribution) I return the right hon. Gentleman’s compliment. I have already given the explanation. Of course, any...
John Hayes | 461 c1529-30 (Link to this contribution) Many months ago, Lord Leitch published his report, which the Government commissioned, on the nation’...
Bernard Jenkin | 461 c1526 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the Leader of the House’s attention to the fact that the Government have invested conside...
Jack Straw | 461 c1528-9 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend’s concerns about what appears to be increasing alcohol abuse, especially by y...
Simon Burns | 461 c1529 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I am one the last people in world to intrude on private grief, pr...
Jack Straw | 461 c1528 (Link to this contribution) The nature of the devolution settlement is, first, that it is asymmetrical and, secondly, that it ad...
Julian Lewis | 461 c1530 (Link to this contribution) As the Leader of the House contemplates his well deserved and highly skilled migration to either No....
Jack Straw | 461 c1521 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course we will. My bid to my right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary is to ensure that all...
Jack Straw | 461 c1526 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for hon. Gentleman’s thanks in the first part of his question. He illustrates how the ...
Jack Straw | 461 c1523-4 (Link to this contribution) Throughout our discussions, I never thought that that very large constitution would change significa...
Paul Rowen | 461 c1526-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Leader of the House, representing as he does Blackburn and Darwen, is aware of th...
James Clappison | 461 c1523-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House confirm that changes in voting weights, and all the other matters to wh...
Jack Straw | 461 c1520 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I remember making that speech—
Jack Straw | 461 c1525 (Link to this contribution) Even if I am back next week in the same role, may I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished...
Jack Straw | 461 c1527-8 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important issue, because cervical cancer is the second most common cancer of women wo...
Jack Straw | 461 c1520-1 (Link to this contribution) I should add to what I have just said by saying that some of my best friends are Liberal Democrats, ...
Jack Straw | 461 c1517-20 (Link to this contribution) Before I respond to the right hon. Lady, may I first pay my own personal tribute to our dear friend ...
Jack Straw | 461 c1522 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a precise answer now, but it is due soon. I have certainly not seen...
Jack Straw | 461 c1530 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his compliments. I take them in the spirit in which they wer...
Jack Straw | 461 c1527 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s sedentary comment may or may not be correct. I fully understand my hon. Friend...
Lord Spicer | 461 c1522 (Link to this contribution) When does the Government expect to receive the report of the Senior Salaries Review Body on Members’...
Tony Lloyd | 461 c1524 (Link to this contribution) May I join the shadow Leader of the House in her kind remarks about the role of my right hon. Friend...
Keith Vaz | 461 c1525-6 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, join in the tributes to Piara Khabra? He was the first person of the Sikh faith to be el...
Gordon Prentice | 461 c1520 (Link to this contribution) My friend famously described the Liberal Democrats as the scavengers of British politics. Can he giv...
Jack Straw | 461 c1522-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, you will make me redundant shortly. I shall certainly follow up the matter. ...
Jack Straw | 461 c1529 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s concern, but his continuing campaign is having an effect on the Treasu...
Julie Morgan | 461 c1527-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware of the important decision made yesterday by the Joint Committee o...
Jim Sheridan | 461 c1529 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the unfairness of the airport duty tax? It is especially unfair to those of ...
Jack Straw | 461 c1529-30 (Link to this contribution) My memory may be defective, but I recall my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Education ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 461 c1524 (Link to this contribution) Given the successful meeting between the leaders of Scotland’s Government and Northern Ireland’s lea...
Jack Straw | 461 c1520 (Link to this contribution) In 1984. I think it remains a reasonably accurate description, and I think it is fair to say that it...
Robert Key | 461 c1530 (Link to this contribution) Today is midsummer’s day—the summer solstice. Had the Leader of the House been in my constituency th...
David Heath | 461 c1520-1 (Link to this contribution) rose— I start by adding my tributes to our former colleague Piara Khabra, who was a decent, quiet,...
Phyllis Starkey | 461 c1521 (Link to this contribution) I note that the business for yesterday and today has no votes and that that coincides with Royal Asc...
Jack Straw | 461 c1524-5 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s concerns, as does my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trad...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 461 c1517-20 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the future business. This may be the last time that he...
Nicholas Winterton | 461 c1525 (Link to this contribution) May I join the tributes to the late Piara Khabra? He was a kind and caring man and will certainly be...
Jack Straw | 461 c1525-6 (Link to this contribution) As Home Secretary, I had responsibility for the British Board of Film Classification, which covered ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 461 c1528-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the recent publication of the Home Office document on alcohol issues, but evidence suggest...
Anne Moffat | 461 c1524-5 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement on the Communication Workers Union dispute? I know that it is not Government...
Andrew MacKay | 461 c1527 (Link to this contribution) As one of the many attributes that make the Leader of the House an outstanding holder of his high of...
Dari Taylor | 461 c1527 (Link to this contribution) On a topical subject, does my right hon. Friend accept that the British Library and other museums in...
Michael Fallon | 461 c1528 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House reconsider his refusal last week to allow a debate on the Scottish bloc...
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