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Business of the House

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

475 c445-6 

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, 1 May 2008
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 475 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?

Baroness Harman | 475 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) The business for the week commencing 5 May will be: Monday 5 May—The House will not be sitting. Tu...

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Baroness Harman | 475 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I think those points could be the subject of a contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Thursd...

Mark Lazarowicz | 475 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) At this moment, mothers and young children from across Edinburgh are in the Scottish Parliament prot...

Baroness Harman | 475 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) That does seem a bizarre decision, at a time when the importance of the link between sport, exercise...

Baroness Harman | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my hon. Friend had the opportunity to raise that point during DEFRA questions,...

Nicholas Winterton | 475 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to ask the Leader of the House how she can justify her comment of a few minutes ago tha...

Baroness Harman | 475 c448 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that question. There was a debate in the House recently for Holocaust mem...

Baroness Harman | 475 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) It is not the case that the Government have shifted resources from rural communities into inner-city...

Lord Harper | 475 c456 (Link to this contribution) Four years ago, on European election day, the House had a debate in Government time on disabled peop...

Baroness Harman | 475 c454 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which should be considered as part of the debate on MPs’ pa...

Ann Winterton | 475 c453 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House whether we could have a full day’s debate, in Government time, on ...

Lord Robathan | 475 c454 (Link to this contribution) Could we have a statement on the accuracy of parliamentary reference books, which we all use and whi...

Baroness Harman | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) I will look into that matter and write to the hon. Gentleman.

Baroness Harman | 475 c450 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that that is a serious issue. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman had an opportunity...

Dennis Skinner | 475 c454 (Link to this contribution) I will apologise for coming in late, Mr. Speaker, but I went to the hospital to have a heart monitor...

Sandra Osborne | 475 c450 (Link to this contribution) This week some Members had a meeting in the House with the Scotland office of the new Equality and H...

Baroness Harman | 475 c455 (Link to this contribution) Well, I shall take the hon. Gentleman’s remarks as a suggestion for a topical debate. If he sees fit...

Baroness Harman | 475 c452 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that many announcements are subject to the purdah rule. As far as being...

Andrew George | 475 c450 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House ensure that a Minister from the Department for Environment, Food and Ru...

Baroness Harman | 475 c456 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I also thank him for his proposal for a topical debate. I n...

Tom Levitt | 475 c456 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that my right hon. and learned Friend has chosen the middle east as the theme for toda...

Tony Baldry | 475 c452 (Link to this contribution) Is the Leader of the House aware that, notwithstanding representations made by local authorities, lo...

Baroness Harman | 475 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) Since we came into government, there has been a two and a half-fold increase in investment in resear...

Baroness Harman | 475 c454 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that that is really a point for me to answer as Leader of the House. However, it gives...

Baroness Harman | 475 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) In fact, hon. Members on both sides of the House have been concerned to ensure, throughout the Unite...

Philip Dunne | 475 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, the Prime Minister made the extraordinary statement that this Government have invested in...

Ann McKechin | 475 c448 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House will know that many hon. Members have taken...

David Leslie Taylor | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) As I cycle around the more rural parts of my constituency, it is clear to me that the problem of fly...

Graham Stuart | 475 c455 (Link to this contribution) Throughout DEFRA questions today and in business questions, issues of food security and coastal defe...

Baroness Harman | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) The Government will be considering that important report, and I shall raise the right hon. Gentleman...

Baroness Harman | 475 c450 (Link to this contribution) Our commitment to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and to a new equality Bill, remains on t...

John Robertson | 475 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will be aware that a few weeks ago I asked for a debate in Governme...

Peter Bone | 475 c455 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report that stated:"““Migration from...

Baroness Harman | 475 c453 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a number of important points. Food security was the subject of a written ministe...

Lord Young of Cookham | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) Has the Leader of the House had time to read a report published recently by the Joseph Rowntree Foun...

Baroness Harman | 475 c456 (Link to this contribution) The question of the equality of, and support and opportunity for, disabled people is one that cuts a...

Peter Soulsby | 475 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Leader of the House can confirm my understanding of her statement, which is that the...

Baroness Harman | 475 c455 (Link to this contribution) The first topical debate we had was on immigration, but I will consider that as a request for anothe...

Lord Spicer | 475 c451 (Link to this contribution) Have the Sessional Orders giving Members free access to the House been signed? If not, why not?

Baroness Harman | 475 c446-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady raised the question of Zimbabwe. As she will know, the Prime Minister raised the...

Simon Hughes | 475 c448-50 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin on a consensual note by thanking the Leader of the House for her announcement that the ...

Baroness Harman | 475 c448-50 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept the hon. Gentleman’s points about Zimbabwe, and I think the House will want an early ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 475 c446-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the forthcoming business, particularly for her stateme...

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