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Business statement on Thursday, 22 January 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Harman. The answering member was Alan Duncan.


Business of the House


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
486 c898 
Session
2008-09
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Alan Duncan | 486 c898 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the business for next week?
Baroness Harman | 486 c898 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 26 January—Second Reading of the Coroners and...
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Baroness Harman | 486 c903 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman seeks a meeting with the relevant Secretary of State on that impor...
Baroness Harman | 486 c898-901 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the shadow Leader of the House to his new position and pay tribute to the work done...
Patrick Mercer | 486 c903 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House may well be aware of the increasingly serious disturbances that are occurrin...
Alan Duncan | 486 c898-901 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the forthcoming business and, in turn, I thank you, Mr...
Alistair Carmichael | 486 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the impact of the ending of the UK opt-out from the working time directive f...
Mike Gapes | 486 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on community cohesion so that Members of all parties can emphasise that ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c907 (Link to this contribution) We already have rules on the importation of timber, but there is obviously a need to consider streng...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 486 c906 (Link to this contribution) One aspect of the Planning Act 2008 was a community cohesion fund to put money back into the local c...
Baroness Harman | 486 c904 (Link to this contribution) Each day, and therefore each Thursday, I look at the business to try to ensure that we have the righ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a detailed and complex point, although it is actually about the simple a...
Baroness Harman | 486 c905 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary to the Treasury made a statement to the House about Equitable Life and answered ...
Robert Flello | 486 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the use of statutory consultation in the Building Schools for the Future pro...
David Leslie Taylor | 486 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995? I tabled ear...
Baroness Harman | 486 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary acknowledged, the attention of the international com...
Julian Lewis | 486 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) May we have an in-depth statement from the Secretary of State for Justice on sentencing policy in th...
Baroness Harman | 486 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) The points that my hon. Friend raises are of the utmost importance. We should all recognise that par...
Baroness Harman | 486 c908 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has played a leading role in the quest for justice for the Palestinians, ...
Bob Spink | 486 c910 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on Warm Front? It is an excellent scheme, but it could be greatly improved. Som...
Baroness Harman | 486 c903 (Link to this contribution) I will raise that important point with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport and...
Parmjit Dhanda | 486 c901 (Link to this contribution) These are my own cufflinks, Mr. Speaker. Would my right hon. and learned Friend consider allowing t...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 486 c906 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House for a debate on the method whereby the Audit Commission arrives at...
Rob Marris | 486 c903 (Link to this contribution) May I make my annual plea to the Leader of the House that Government drivers coming on to the estate...
Baroness Harman | 486 c908 (Link to this contribution) We are grateful to Ofcom for its well-considered report. We are in no doubt about the importance of ...
Jo Swinson | 486 c911 (Link to this contribution) The reputation of our politics has suffered a severe blow this week as a result of the Government's ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c901 (Link to this contribution) The week after next, motions relating to the police grant and local government finance reports will ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on mentioning the ““Time to Change”” campaign, and, like her, I give i...
Baroness Harman | 486 c905 (Link to this contribution) Of course statistics on crime are important. The Home Secretary has been holding discussions with th...
Tony Baldry | 486 c909 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on access to mortgages? Borrowers are finding it almost impossible to access mo...
Lord Young of Cookham | 486 c904 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question asked by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris), is it n...
Philip Davies | 486 c912 (Link to this contribution) May I reiterate the calls for an early debate on Ofcom's public service broadcasting review? Given t...
Mark Hunter | 486 c905 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members know that my hon. Friend the Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) has secured a Westminste...
Baroness Harman | 486 c904 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman, like all hon. Members, has an opportunity to ask the Prime Minister questi...
Baroness Harman | 486 c906 (Link to this contribution) The Act develops even further an innovative approach of ensuring that local communities benefit from...
Peter Bone | 486 c912 (Link to this contribution) This week, Mr. John Black, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said of the new EU working ti...
Baroness Harman | 486 c912 (Link to this contribution) I will bring the hon. Gentleman's question to the attention of the Secretary of State for Health. I ...
Keith Vaz | 486 c905 (Link to this contribution) Last December, in a press release, the Home Secretary told us that knife crime involving teenagers c...
Baroness Harman | 486 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps that could be the subject of a Westminster Hall debate in which my hon. Friend could set out...
Barry Gardiner | 486 c907 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this year, the Government refused to support a Bill which had cross-party support in the Hou...
David Heath | 486 c901-3 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, welcome the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan) to his new position? I am s...
Pete Wishart | 486 c908 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, Ofcom produced its report on the future of public sector broadcasting in the United Kingd...
Andrew MacKay | 486 c904 (Link to this contribution) Can I put it to the Leader of the House that it is very important to have further urgent debates on ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we all strongly back the Building Schools for the Future programme, and it is obvious...
John Bercow | 486 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) Could we please have a debate in Government time on the Floor of the House on the continuing crisis ...
Phyllis Starkey | 486 c908 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on the current status of the EU-Israel trade agreement? The House has b...
Baroness Harman | 486 c906 (Link to this contribution) I think that the most important benchmarks against which local housing authorities can be judged are...
Baroness Harman | 486 c901-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a point about the economy. As I said to the shadow Leader of the House, we ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c910 (Link to this contribution) Energy prices have recently fallen, and that is very welcome, but they are still higher than they we...
Baroness Harman | 486 c912 (Link to this contribution) A Government paper on digital Britain will deal with a number of those issues. It seems to me that t...
David Drew | 486 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) May I refer my right hon. and learned Friend back to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member...
Celia Barlow | 486 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the ““Time to Change”” campaign. It is inten...
Baroness Harman | 486 c909 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there has been a big fall in capacity in the mortgage market, ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c911 (Link to this contribution) There is going to be a full debate on these issues straight after business questions. I think that w...
Baroness Harman | 486 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) As ever, the hon. Gentleman makes an important set of points. When a sentence causes public outrage ...
Baroness Harman | 486 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) Waste management is an important issue generally. I was going to say that the incinerator was a hot ...
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