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Business statement on Thursday, 5 February 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Harman. The answering member was Alan Duncan.


Business of the House


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487 c974;487 c972 
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2008-09
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Leader of the House of Commons
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Business of the House
Thursday, 5 February 2009
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Baroness Harman | 487 c974;487 c972 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week is as follows: Monday 9 February—Motion to approve a Standards and Privi...
Alan Duncan | 487 c974;487 c972 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give us the business for next week?
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Julian Lewis | 487 c985;487 c983 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement or a debate—or even, if we cannot have those, an expression of opinion from ...
Baroness Harman | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) I shall ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to write to the hon. Gentleman to clarify t...
Pete Wishart | 487 c979-80;487 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) Following the support of the both the Conservative and Labour parties for yesterday's Scottish Natio...
Graham Stuart | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) Following the mention by the spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, the hon. Member for Somerton and F...
Mary Creagh | 487 c982-3;487 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a debate—perhaps a topical debate—on the weather? I pay tribute to my own council in Wak...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) The past few days have shown that upland hill farmers have had a pretty tough time, especially in th...
Brian Iddon | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) In March, there will be a United Nation General Assembly special session on drugs in Vienna. That fo...
Baroness Harman | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) I shall refer the relevant Ministers to the points raised by the hon. Gentleman and in earlier quest...
Baroness Harman | 487 c981;487 c979 (Link to this contribution) On the Thursday before the recess, we are debating social security orders, and on the Thursday follo...
Julian Brazier | 487 c987;487 c985 (Link to this contribution) May I ask for another debate on port rating? A fortnight ago the Minister for Local Government told ...
Anne Snelgrove | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the scandalous gender pay gap of 40 per cent. in the ba...
Baroness Harman | 487 c987;487 c985 (Link to this contribution) We have a very important statement, followed by a debate on Sri Lanka and another on Afghanistan and...
Jeremy Wright | 487 c986-7;487 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) Now that we have a national dementia strategy for England, the long-awaited arrival of which was ann...
Baroness Harman | 487 c978;487 c976 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to remind us that that measure was brought in to deter people from leaving p...
Baroness Harman | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) We have put unprecedented investment into further and higher education, and we intend to continue to...
Baroness Harman | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will come to the House next Wednesday. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman seek...
Baroness Harman | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that this matter is extremely important. The UN has a major role to p...
Baroness Harman | 487 c987;487 c985 (Link to this contribution) By his question, the hon. Gentleman has shown that the issue, which I know is of concern around the ...
Baroness Harman | 487 c974-6;487 c972-4 (Link to this contribution) Well, I give the hon. Gentleman 10 out of 10 for frothy presentation and about zero for substance, b...
Andrew Murrison | 487 c986;487 c984 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House clarify the statement that she made in December and again on 13 January...
Stephen Ladyman | 487 c978;487 c976 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will be aware that when the economy was growing rapidly, we legisla...
Ann Cryer | 487 c976-7;487 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) Can time be found next week for an urgent debate on early-day motion 426, which I tabled? [That thi...
Baroness Harman | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) This issue could also be raised in Treasury questions. My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point o...
Lord Harper | 487 c987;487 c985 (Link to this contribution) May I reiterate the calls for a statement to be made by a Minister about the country's salt stocks? ...
Malcolm Moss | 487 c978;487 c976 (Link to this contribution) It was confirmed in a recent written answer by the Minister responsible for prisons that Whitemoor p...
Baroness Harman | 487 c985-6;487 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, unprecedented demands have been made on the stocks of salt, and difficu...
Baroness Harman | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) What people in London wanted was a gritting lorry rather than a soundbite. I can only repeat that we...
Alan Duncan | 487 c974-6;487 c972-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her statement, but may I, once again, ask for a debate o...
Philip Hollobone | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) With my constituency under six inches of early morning snow, making minor roads impassable, my const...
Lord Cormack | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) In a week when a devoted community nurse was suspended from her duties for wanting to pray for one o...
Roger Gale | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) In light of the right hon. and learned Lady's earlier remarks, may I place on record my self-sacrifi...
Baroness Harman | 487 c976-7;487 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has raised this issue personally with the Prime Minister. To take the mat...
Baroness Harman | 487 c979-80;487 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman take the opportunity to raise that point in Treasury questions. It...
Baroness Harman | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) In the first instance, the hon. Gentleman should raise the matter with his local council. If he is u...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 487 c985-6;487 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware that I raised a point of order last night about the dwindling ...
Baroness Harman | 487 c981-2;487 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) We all strongly believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes. It is objectionable for ...
Andrew MacKay | 487 c980;487 c978 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on the regulation of wheel clampers, particularly bearing in mind the ca...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) The Environment Agency recently scrapped an anti-flooding programme in Marlow, in my constituency, a...
Tobias Ellwood | 487 c986;487 c984 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, like you, I hope, on Monday, when Britain came to a halt, I decided to run to work. [Ho...
Baroness Harman | 487 c980;487 c978 (Link to this contribution) I shall bring the matter to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transpo...
Richard Younger-Ross | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) On Monday, the Mayor of London said that the problem was not the wrong sort of snow but that there w...
Baroness Harman | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) On the question of the nurse, whose case was reported in the newspapers, the matter is, I presume, a...
Baroness Harman | 487 c985;487 c983 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that there is any intention to sneak out information by way of written statements. If...
Paul Burstow | 487 c982;487 c980 (Link to this contribution) In a week when much of the country has been paralysed by snow, my constituents in Sutton and Cheam a...
Bob Russell | 487 c984;487 c982 (Link to this contribution) Two months ago, in a written statement, the Secretary of State for International Development said th...
Baroness Harman | 487 c986-7;487 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall take that as a suggestion for a future topical debate. I hope that all hon. Members welcome ...
Hugh Bayley | 487 c980;487 c978 (Link to this contribution) The falling value of the pound against other currencies creates important opportunities for export i...
Baroness Harman | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important topic. Everybody remembers the shameful situation of the drug...
John Bercow | 487 c988;487 c986 (Link to this contribution) May we please have a debate in Government time on the Floor of the House on the plight of the thalid...
Baroness Harman | 487 c982;487 c980 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that all the organisations concerned will be seeking to learn lessons from their response ...
Baroness Harman | 487 c979;487 c977 (Link to this contribution) I shall draw the question to the attention of my right hon. Friends in the Department for Environmen...
Baroness Harman | 487 c980;487 c978 (Link to this contribution) That is something that the Prime Minister answered yesterday. It is very much the preoccupation of t...
Baroness Harman | 487 c982-3;487 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I join my hon. Friend in congratulating Wakefield council on its response to the extreme ...
Andrew Rosindell | 487 c984-5;487 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) Further to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan), will the ...
Baroness Harman | 487 c986;487 c984 (Link to this contribution) I drove in on Monday, and I drove straight into the car park—[Interruption]—so I do not know what th...
Andy Slaughter | 487 c980-1;487 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) On the front of yesterday's Evening Standard was a picture of uncollected rubbish lying in the snow ...
Nicholas Winterton | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) During questions to the hon. Member representing the Church Commissioners, my hon. Friend the Member...
Baroness Harman | 487 c986;487 c984 (Link to this contribution) Traditionally, the House has debated armed services personnel separately from armed forces procureme...
Baroness Harman | 487 c983;487 c981 (Link to this contribution) I think that that would be a good topic for a Westminster Hall debate, and I shall bring it to the a...
Lord Young of Cookham | 487 c981;487 c979 (Link to this contribution) In response to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan),...
Baroness Harman | 487 c978;487 c976 (Link to this contribution) I will pass those comments on to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice.
David Leslie Taylor | 487 c981-2;487 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) There used to be a publishing imprint called ““Condensed Classics””, which provided compact versions...
Baroness Harman | 487 c980-1;487 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) I know that there is a great deal of concern about whether all the London boroughs stepped up to the...
David Heath | 487 c977-8;487 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) On the grounds that we should sometimes talk about what the rest of the country is talking about, th...
Baroness Harman | 487 c977-8;487 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's first point will be the subject of a statement by the Foreign Secretary immedia...
Baroness Harman | 487 c984-5;487 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) Consideration has been given to the question of flags in the debate on the constitutional renewal Bi...
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