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Business of the House

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

472 c1913;472 c1911 

Session

2007-08

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Business of the House
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Proceeding contributions
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Business of the House
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 472 c1913;472 c1911 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?

Baroness Harman | 472 c1913;472 c1911 (Link to this contribution) The business for the week commencing9j 10 March will be: Monday 10 March—Estimates [2nd Allotted Da...

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Marsha Singh | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time to debate the current crisis in Gaza? While we all d...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1922-3;472 c1920-1 (Link to this contribution) I undertake to speak to my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and ask him what action can be ta...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend expresses strongly the great concern throughout the House and within the Government a...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1929-30;472 c1927-8 (Link to this contribution) I know that our consular officials have been involved in that case. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to ...

Mark Pritchard | 472 c1928;472 c1926 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on Iran? Does the Leader of the House believe that it is a coincidence ...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) Would the Leader of the House consider a debate on London? My constituents in the suburbs have been ...

Lord Bellingham | 472 c1929-30;472 c1927-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for getting us all in, Mr. Speaker. The right hon. and learned Lady will recall that, a f...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) World war two lasted more than five and a half years. This month marks five years since the Iraq war...

Barry Gardiner | 472 c1922-3;472 c1920-1 (Link to this contribution) It is now almost one year since Mr. Moudud Ahmed, the former Prime Minister and Vice-President of Ba...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) On Monday we have a debate on the London Underground, but I will consider whether there should be a ...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) There has been much discussion in this House about the stage at which there should be proper conside...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1919-20;472 c1917-8 (Link to this contribution) I will take that as a suggestion for a topical debate. Many of us in this House support the campaign...

Anne Moffat | 472 c1919-20;472 c1917-8 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that as we sit in the House today, there is a demonstratio...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1928;472 c1926 (Link to this contribution) I will draw the hon. Gentleman's points to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secreta...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1921-2;472 c1919-20 (Link to this contribution) It is important and right that, having set out priorities and increased year on year the funding ava...

Ian Liddell-Grainger | 472 c1918;472 c1916 (Link to this contribution) In the last few weeks, tuberculosis has reached parts of my constituency that have not had it for 60...

John Penrose | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) Before the promised debate on post offices, will the Leader of the House undertake to look into the ...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1917-8;472 c1915-6 (Link to this contribution) That is an important regulatory authority, but it needs to do its work promptly. I will raise the ma...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1922;472 c1920 (Link to this contribution) Next week, there will be a Budget debate. When the Conservatives were in government, poverty was sca...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1923;472 c1921 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises two important points. We need to ensure that more young people have skills as ...

Andrew Rosindell | 472 c1925;472 c1923 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady accept that we need an urgent debate in the House on matters re...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It is fundamental to the House's ability to scrutinise ...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1925;472 c1923 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman seek to raise the matter as an oral question on Monday.

Mark Field | 472 c1930;472 c1928 (Link to this contribution) While I agree with the Leader of the House that matters that are subject to a police investigation s...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 472 c1927;472 c1925 (Link to this contribution) Has the Leader of the House had a chance to read the Work and Pensions Committee report on eradicati...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1926-7;472 c1924-5 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish elections were the subject of a review, and action has been taken in respect of that. T...

Mike Penning | 472 c1926;472 c1924 (Link to this contribution) In 1997, when the Labour Government sadly came to power, there was a consultant-led maternity unit i...

Andrew MacKay | 472 c1926-7;472 c1924-5 (Link to this contribution) Following the serious and well-publicised problems in Scotland last May, when we had multiple electi...

Jim McGovern | 472 c1917-8;472 c1915-6 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate in Government time about the Security Industry Authority? This Government can b...

John Bercow | 472 c1928;472 c1926 (Link to this contribution) May we please have a debate in Government time on the Floor of the House on small businesses, in rec...

David Evennett | 472 c1925-6;472 c1923-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to add my voice in support of the suggestion that my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbrid...

Elliot Morley | 472 c1918;472 c1916 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will be aware that concern has been expressed about the dramatic ri...

Nigel Evans | 472 c1921;472 c1919 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible to hold a debate on tourism next week, given that the Minister for Culture, Media and...

Philip Hollobone | 472 c1928-9;472 c1926-7 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady give due and proper consideration to early-day motion 1127, on ...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1927-8;472 c1925-6 (Link to this contribution) It is an unfortunate situation, and we all hope that a settlement of the dispute will be reached sho...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) We have had several discussions through statements and oral questions in the House on the drugs stra...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1930;472 c1928 (Link to this contribution) I think all London Members feel extremely strongly about those issues, and I have said that I will c...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1927;472 c1925 (Link to this contribution) Everyone will sympathise with the hon. Gentleman's point. I will ask my right hon. Friend the Secret...

Paul Flynn | 472 c1920-1;472 c1918-9 (Link to this contribution) When may we debate the need to prosecute GlaxoSmithKline for suppressing the truth about drug trials...

Lord Young of Cookham | 472 c1923-4;472 c1921-2 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has announced that there will be four days' debate on the Budget after the B...

David Chaytor | 472 c1915-6;472 c1913-4 (Link to this contribution) In the autumn Budget statement, the Chancellor announced the launch of the competition for the carbo...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1915-6;472 c1913-4 (Link to this contribution) In the Climate Change Bill there is not an aspiration but a requirement by law to reduce carbon emis...

Lord Cormack | 472 c1917;472 c1915 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House think that we could have a debate in the near future on the naming of p...

Jim Hood | 472 c1917;472 c1915 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating my right hon. and learned Friend. I see on the Order Paper today, under th...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1927;472 c1925 (Link to this contribution) The Government will issue a response to the Select Committee report in due course. Of course it is t...

David Drew | 472 c1922;472 c1920 (Link to this contribution) I associate myself with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Singh). I a...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1919;472 c1917 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of how the post office services in the House of Commons fit into the general local po...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 472 c1921-2;472 c1919-20 (Link to this contribution) This year, money for the Government's preventing violent extremism scheme, which is paid to local au...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1928;472 c1926 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman could raise those issues in the Budget debate if he so wished. I a...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1921;472 c1919 (Link to this contribution) The Government have done a great deal to support culture and the arts in this country. The Proms has...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1928-9;472 c1926-7 (Link to this contribution) We are considering how to ensure that that very important Bill can be properly debated in the House,...

Ben Wallace | 472 c1925;472 c1923 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, under the cover of the referendum vote, the Government sneaked out a statement saying tha...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1923-4;472 c1921-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman approves of the amount of time that h...

Robert Neill | 472 c1924-5;472 c1922-3 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the operation of the Greater London Authority Acts? If an employee of any ot...

James Clappison | 472 c1922;472 c1920 (Link to this contribution) In response to the request of my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) for a debate...

Nick Hurd | 472 c1926;472 c1924 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to the Leader of the House that her response to my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley a...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 472 c1913-5;472 c1911-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the forthcoming business. This morning the Home Secret...

Richard Younger-Ross | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House explain or make a statement on the disrespect shown to the House in the...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1917;472 c1915 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point, and he has raised it with me on a previous occasion. I apo...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1922;472 c1920 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend's point. We want to ensure that we have good prevention policies, enable those...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1925-6;472 c1923-4 (Link to this contribution) I will consider London for a forthcoming topical debate, because I know that hon. Members who repres...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1917;472 c1915 (Link to this contribution) That is not a matter for the business of the House. The naming of political parties and how they app...

Andrew Selous | 472 c1927;472 c1925 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House for an urgent debate on the way in which rail franchises are grant...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1923;472 c1921 (Link to this contribution) There will be an opportunity to discuss the hon. Gentleman's points when we consider Lords amendment...

David Leslie Taylor | 472 c1924;472 c1922 (Link to this contribution) Further to the comments of the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes), may I ...

Simon Hughes | 472 c1916-7;472 c1914-5 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the Leader of the House that in the mayoral election, as in all elections, there are mo...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1925;472 c1923 (Link to this contribution) It is very important that, under the privilege available to Members of the House of the Commons, uns...

Evan Harris | 472 c1923;472 c1921 (Link to this contribution) The historic vote in Parliament last night on the abolition of the blasphemy laws will be welcomed b...

Keith Vaz | 472 c1921;472 c1919 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the development of housing on brownfield sites, following the decision of Ge...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1918;472 c1916 (Link to this contribution) The question of people being able to afford their fuel bills and keep themselves warm is of great im...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1926;472 c1924 (Link to this contribution) I do not have anything further to add to my response to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst ...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1920-1;472 c1918-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1921;472 c1919 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point, which touches on Government concern for a good enviro...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1918;472 c1916 (Link to this contribution) The question of bovine tuberculosis is kept under serious review by the Department for Environment, ...

Bill Wiggin | 472 c1927-8;472 c1925-6 (Link to this contribution) Today, for the first time in 150 years, members of Her Majesty's Coastguard have gone on strike. Res...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1913-5;472 c1911-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady asked about the Home Secretary's announcement on ID cards. The policy on them ha...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1916-7;472 c1914-5 (Link to this contribution) As I said to the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) last week, deportatio...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1924;472 c1922 (Link to this contribution) Those are important points. We want to ensure fair treatment in tax matters. The issue is one that h...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1924-5;472 c1922-3 (Link to this contribution) There are proper rules for accountability and probity in the Greater London authority, which were pa...

Baroness Harman | 472 c1926;472 c1924 (Link to this contribution) We want to ensure that we give mothers more choice about whether to have their babies at home, that ...

Jim Sheridan | 472 c1923;472 c1921 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on how best to encourage young non-academic people into the world of politics? ...

Brian Iddon | 472 c1920;472 c1918 (Link to this contribution) On Wednesday of last week the Government published their second 10-year drugs strategy—in a written ...

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