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Business statement on Thursday, 6 November 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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Parliamentary proceeding
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482 c355 
Session
2007-08
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Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Harman | 482 c355 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 10 November—Opposition day [20th allotted day...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 482 c355 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?
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Baroness Harman | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) I, too, very much welcome the report that shows finally, after many years of a growing gap between r...
Baroness Harman | 482 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I will have to look into that issue. I will call the hon. Gentleman this afternoon ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) All I can say is that the hon. Gentleman should support the inquiry that the Treasury Committee is c...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 482 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the right hon. and learned Lady a question that I asked the Deputy Leader of the House a c...
Baroness Harman | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) All our defence Ministers are strongly committed to supporting our armed services—I am sure that tha...
Baroness Harman | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) I will raise the hon. Gentleman's important point with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Jeremy Wright | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will recognise the widespread eagerness to see the Government's national dem...
Peter Bone | 482 c369 (Link to this contribution) Last Thursday, the excellent Conservative candidate Ben Lewis was elected as a councillor in my cons...
Damian Green | 482 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) May I reinforce the call of my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) for an early d...
Lord Bellingham | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. and learned Lady aware that the Land Registry has stated that later this month it ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c370 (Link to this contribution) The issue has been raised by a number of hon. Members and the House authorities are aware of it. The...
Baroness Harman | 482 c358 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to my hon. Friend's contribution to our debate next week. In case hon. Members have n...
Baroness Harman | 482 c358-60 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked about the consideration of amendments on Report. Our concern is that there ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman raises the matter with the Foreign Secretary next Tuesday, when he...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 482 c355-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the forthcoming business. Today the Home Secretary is ...
Andrew MacKay | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) Following the bovine remarks of the Under-Secretary of State for Defence, the hon. Member for Granth...
Keith Vaz | 482 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. and learned Friend had the opportunity to look at early-day motion 2416? [That th...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 482 c362 (Link to this contribution) Postwatch merged with the National Consumer Council and Energywatch on 1 October to create Consumer ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c369 (Link to this contribution) It is imperative that Ministers on ministerial visits give information to the local Member of Parlia...
Graham Stuart | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) Rural areas, including my constituency of Beverley and Holderness, have large numbers of elderly peo...
Baroness Harman | 482 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has regularly updated the House on ID cards. She has ensured that they are rolled...
Barry Sheerman | 482 c360 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider an early debate on Lloyds TSB's proposed takeover of ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as a long-standing member of the Modernisation Committee, makes an important point. ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) All I can say is that, when the decision has been made, the House will be made aware of the arrangem...
Richard Younger-Ross | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement on the position of the Tibetan community in Nepal? Following anti-Chinese de...
David Heath | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) May I associate myself with the point that the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) made about th...
Hywel Williams | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the rate of value added tax levied on housing repairs? It is currently 17.5 ...
Lord Harper | 482 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) I just want to press the right hon. and learned Lady on the point that my right hon. Friend the Memb...
Peter Soulsby | 482 c358 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's announcement that next week the Government intend to br...
Baroness Harman | 482 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that we would all agree that the House is right to expect to be kept informed of the situati...
John Bercow | 482 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) Further to the announcement by my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley), the...
Paul Burstow | 482 c366 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the Leader of the House's attention to early-day motion 2008 about the Post Office card a...
Lord Young of Cookham | 482 c364 (Link to this contribution) Further to that answer—and we are, indeed, to debate regional accountability next Wednesday—I see fr...
Andrew Rosindell | 482 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady will be only too aware of the enormous sacrifices that loyal British...
Baroness Harman | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) I will raise the hon. Gentleman's point with the Secretary of State for Health. An important point i...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 482 c364 (Link to this contribution) Could we please have a debate on the Government's role in regional spatial strategy? In Solihull, af...
Lord Robathan | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) You, Mr. Speaker, will have noticed that the Leader of the House failed to respond to the question o...
Baroness Harman | 482 c360 (Link to this contribution) I understand only too well my hon. Friend's commitment to his constituents and his concern for his c...
Alan Reid | 482 c367 (Link to this contribution) A simple yes/no answer from the Leader of the House, please. Will the statement on the Post Office c...
Andrew Pelling | 482 c370 (Link to this contribution) This House, as part of the Palace of Westminster, acts as a welcoming host to 1.2 million visitors a...
Baroness Harman | 482 c355-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady raised the question of ID cards and argued that there should be an oral statemen...
Baroness Harman | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) I will raise the hon. Gentleman's point with the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor,...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) In the St. Andrews agreement, the Government indicated that they would take action if any party defa...
Viscount Hailsham | 482 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) May I reinforce the message of the shadow Leader of the House to the effect that we should have an e...
Baroness Harman | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we want to ensure that war memorials are properly maintained in all the cities, towns and...
Baroness Harman | 482 c366 (Link to this contribution) I reassure the hon. Gentleman, as I reassured the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Si...
Philip Hollobone | 482 c370 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate in Government time about the impact of cheap alcohol sales in supermarkets on t...
Baroness Harman | 482 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Prime Minister and all the Ministers in the Department for Business, Enterprise and...
Baroness Harman | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, tax rates are a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who conside...
Baroness Harman | 482 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) This is a serious issue. The economy faces a big challenge, and we are concerned to protect homeowne...
Baroness Harman | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) Protecting the economy and people in this country in these difficult economic times and seeing the e...
Baroness Harman | 482 c364 (Link to this contribution) I hope that, next Wednesday, when we establish—if the House so wishes—the regional Committees, there...
Baroness Harman | 482 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) The Government are concerned about the effect on children of violent internet and video games, which...
Nicholas Winterton | 482 c365 (Link to this contribution) May I emphasise the request from Conservative Members for a major debate in Government time on the e...
Baroness Harman | 482 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) There has been a lot of concern about the work of NICE, and the Secretary of State for Health announ...
Fiona Mactaggart | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) Can the Leader of the House find time for a debate on inequality? She will be aware of the OECD repo...
Baroness Harman | 482 c364 (Link to this contribution) The Modernisation Committee has conducted extensive scrutiny, including several important evidence s...
Baroness Harman | 482 c370 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the issue is one that hon. Gentleman, too, can raise with Ministers in the Department for Cu...
Simon Hughes | 482 c358-60 (Link to this contribution) I have regularly raised with the Leader of the House the question of time for the consideration of B...
Ann Coffey | 482 c363 (Link to this contribution) I have received, as have other right hon. and hon. Members, correspondence from constituents regardi...
Baroness Harman | 482 c362 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a question about whether public money was properly spent in this case. A numbe...
Baroness Harman | 482 c362 (Link to this contribution) It is Department for Culture, Media and Sport questions on Monday, so I suggest that the hon. Gentle...
Greg Mulholland | 482 c362 (Link to this contribution) Can the House find time to debate the increasingly topical issue of pub closures, particularly the s...
Baroness Harman | 482 c368 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the national dementia strategy, which I shall brin...
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