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Business statement on Thursday, 15 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Harman. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.


Business of the House


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475 c1547 
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2007-08
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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 475 c1547 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?
Baroness Harman | 475 c1547 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 19 May—Consideration in Committee of the Huma...
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Baroness Harman | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, making changes to the National Insurance Contributions Bill [Lords] in respect o...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1552 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question, which I shall raise with my ministerial colleagues at the D...
Peter Bone | 475 c1564 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Leader of the House back to the glorious years of Prime Minister Blair? She will reca...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1555 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the parents, teachers and pupils of Washington school will be glad that my hon. Frien...
Stewart Hosie | 475 c1556 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister made his statement on the pre-legislative programme yesterday. It included £200 m...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1557 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend brings to the House a matter that is obviously of great importance to her constituent...
Philip Davies | 475 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House mentioned the importance of history. May we, therefore, have a debate on the...
Barry Sheerman | 475 c1550 (Link to this contribution) In this age of greater freedom of information and transparency, will my right hon. and learned Frien...
Jim McGovern | 475 c1561 (Link to this contribution) First, I concur entirely and sincerely with the tributes to Tommy Burns, who sadly passed away earli...
David Drew | 475 c1559 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, there was a very good debate in Westminster Hall on the Royal Mail and the Post Office. I...
Lord Mann | 475 c1559-60 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend bring to the House details of the funding of the parliamentary...
David Heath | 475 c1558-9 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Highways Agency's investment in trunk roads in the south-west? I have of...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1550-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked when I was first told that the Chancellor had reached a conclusion about th...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1558 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have heard the Chancellor earlier this week, and the Prime Minister yesterday, e...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1554 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her comments and I shall bring them to the attention of my right hon. Fri...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1557-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is one of those provocative questions. The hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicho...
Rob Marris | 475 c1552 (Link to this contribution) The Government rightly keep banging on about cutting vehicle emissions. Outside your official reside...
Celia Barlow | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time for the House to look at the level of support provid...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1564 (Link to this contribution) The Healthcare Commission has produced its findings, and I would like to thank the commission for it...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1559 (Link to this contribution) We want the process of parliamentary scrutiny to be improved. That is why we are publishing the draf...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1557 (Link to this contribution) That is not a question about the business of the House, and I will therefore quickly pass over it.
Baroness Harman | 475 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman could raise that matter in the pre-recess Adjournment debate, but I shall bring i...
Nicholas Winterton | 475 c1555 (Link to this contribution) May I make a plea that the right hon. and learned Lady use the weekly business questions to respond ...
Mark Pritchard | 475 c1563 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on poverty? Despite the Government's handbrake U-turn on the 10p tax ra...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1562-3 (Link to this contribution) I will chase up the answer to the hon. Gentleman's written questions. It is important that Ministers...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1556-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Unite group of MPs and Unite on their work on the fair tips charter. Obviously, i...
Speaker | 475 c1555-6 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot accuse the shadow Cabinet or any other hon. Member of deception. [Interruption.] I ...
Andrew MacKay | 475 c1560 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to the National Insurance Contributions Bill, which rightly seeks to align the leve...
Julie Morgan | 475 c1554 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Government's proposals to extend the opportunity to request flexible working to...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has reinforced the importance of the role of consular services. I will bring her cons...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1561-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and several of his hon. Friends have raised the matter of Simon Mann, which is of...
Paul Beresford | 475 c1553-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady consider allowing a topical debate on dentistry? Clearly, I hav...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1550-2 (Link to this contribution) First, can the Leader of the House tell us when she was first told that the Chancellor of the Excheq...
James Duddridge | 475 c1560-1 (Link to this contribution) If there is no conflict of interest, will the Leader of the House arrange for a statement or debate ...
Graham Stuart | 475 c1557-8 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on standards in education? Yesterday, the chief inspector of schools to...
Justine Greening | 475 c1561 (Link to this contribution) Given that there will be even more post office closures, is not it time we had an urgent statement f...
Julian Lewis | 475 c1561-2 (Link to this contribution) May we have an opportunity to question the Information Commissioner in person about his determinatio...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1559-60 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend refers, as did my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas), to the...
Fraser Kemp | 475 c1555 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend a ceremony with local children to celebrate the complete ...
Lord Robathan | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Leader of the House back to the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1560-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that, before the debate in the House on 24 January, the Senior Salaries Rev...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1552-3 (Link to this contribution) On 24 January, the House agreed that Sir John Baker would look into the question of MPs' pay in resp...
Michael Fallon | 475 c1557 (Link to this contribution) May we have a topical debate on whether anything could or should be done to stem the flow of increas...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1554 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to raise that subject during the debate on the Public Accounts...
Phyllis Starkey | 475 c1557 (Link to this contribution) This morning, I have become aware that there has been another problem on the west coast main line to...
Lord Spicer | 475 c1552-3 (Link to this contribution) When does the right hon. and learned Lady expect to receive the Baker report on MPs' pay, and when d...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1553-4 (Link to this contribution) Dentistry, as the hon. Gentleman says, is an important public health issue. He will have an opportun...
Fiona Mactaggart | 475 c1558 (Link to this contribution) May I encourage the Leader of the House to respond more positively to suggestions by the Conservativ...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1563 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the Opposition had scheduled a debate on pensioner poverty for Wednesday and it was r...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1547-50 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady mentioned the Prime Minister's statement on the draft legislative programme. I h...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1559 (Link to this contribution) I will refer my hon. Friend's point to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulator...
Jim Sheridan | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend may be aware of the untimely death of Scottish football legend Tomm...
Ian Cawsey | 475 c1560 (Link to this contribution) May I draw my right hon. and learned Friend's attention to early-day motion 1576? [That this House ...
Viscount Hailsham | 475 c1559 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate next week entitled, ““Consideration of Bills in Public Bill Committees””...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1553 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am sure that the whole House will join him in paying trib...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1558-9 (Link to this contribution) That can be raised with Ministers in the Department for Transport; no doubt the hon. Gentleman has d...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1561 (Link to this contribution) All hon. Members are concerned about the post office network and, since 1997, we have invested hundr...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1555 (Link to this contribution) I will try to refrain from making party political points in business questions. The problem is that ...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1550 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good proposal from my hon. Friend. I will take it up and report back to him and the H...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 475 c1547-50 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for giving us the business of the House. As the Leader of t...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1560 (Link to this contribution) I am certain that the Treasury would have taken those issues into account in their decision. Notwith...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 475 c1554 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the online filing system? A recent Public Accounts Committee report showed t...
Tony Baldry | 475 c1562-3 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House ensure that Departments answer ordinary written questions in a reasonab...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1560 (Link to this contribution) I will bring my hon. Friend's forceful points to the attention of my hon. Friends in the Ministry of...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1561 (Link to this contribution) Several hon. Members have just returned from visiting Auschwitz, and they felt that it was important...
Michael Connarty | 475 c1556-7 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House look at early-day motion 1567? [That this House welcomes the launch of...
Ian Lucas | 475 c1555-6 (Link to this contribution) Following today's publication of the report by the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges, may...
Baroness Harman | 475 c1556 (Link to this contribution) The draft legislative programme, which we published yesterday, is, I believe, an important opportuni...
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