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Business statement on Thursday, 5 March 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
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488 c989-90 
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2008-09
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Leader of the House of Commons
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House of Commons chamber
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Business of the House
Thursday, 5 March 2009
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House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Harman | 488 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 9 March—Estimates (2nd allocated day). There ...
Alan Duncan | 488 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) May I invite the Leader of the House to give us the future business?
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Barry Sheerman | 488 c993 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend join me in deploring the Competition Appeal Tribunal decision ...
Philip Davies | 488 c1001-2 (Link to this contribution) May I first agree with the hon. Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer) on the issue that she raised. May ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c998 (Link to this contribution) We are trying to ensure on that Bill that there are as few Government amendments as possible, aside ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c994-5 (Link to this contribution) All of us as Members of this House know that we are fair game for rumbustious political debate; we e...
Baroness Harman | 488 c990-2 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his excellent response to the business statement? He has ra...
Andrew Dismore | 488 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent statement on the deteriorating situation Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan army o...
David Heath | 488 c992-3 (Link to this contribution) The deputy Leader of the House was far too excitable and noisy earlier for me to give an illustratio...
Edward Leigh | 488 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) is one of the most honourable, straightfo...
Andrew MacKay | 488 c999 (Link to this contribution) Let us get back to the behaviour of the Treasury Minister, Lord Myners, who is totally unaccountable...
Baroness Harman | 488 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) I will draw the matter to the attention of my ministerial colleague. I would have liked to be able t...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1001 (Link to this contribution) There will be the customary debate on the Floor of the House in Government time on defence procureme...
Baroness Harman | 488 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) That Bill was dealt with in the usual way, and the question of the selection of amendments is a matt...
David Drew | 488 c998 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will be aware of the parlous state of Sudan at the moment, with the...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 488 c995 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on how Members of Parliament who represent this House in other assemblies repor...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the most direct route for the hon. Lady to follow would be to raise the point at Tran...
Baroness Harman | 488 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that my hon. Friend seek a meeting with the Minister responsible. I know that it is an imp...
Alan Duncan | 488 c990-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the forthcoming business, and welcome her back from he...
Baroness Harman | 488 c993 (Link to this contribution) I will draw my hon. Friend's comments to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of Stat...
Brian Iddon | 488 c999 (Link to this contribution) My constituent David Fielding was one of those haemophiliacs, referred to by the hon. Member for Som...
David Chaytor | 488 c996 (Link to this contribution) For the past few days, a delegation of doctors from the north-west of England, including at least on...
Lord Swire | 488 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) Following East Devon district council's insistence on a judicial review of the boundary changes, Mr....
Baroness Harman | 488 c1000-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know, because he is closely involved in and works continually on these issue...
Baroness Harman | 488 c996 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might have seen that the Secretary of State for International Development was in Gaza...
Philip Hollobone | 488 c1002 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, the charity SANDS, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society, held a parliamentary recept...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) The motion is on the Order Paper today, and it is disappointing that it has been blocked. It is impo...
Christopher Chope | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister promised that there would be full consultation with Members on our relationship w...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c996 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on the nationalised banks and, in particular, access to the minutes of ...
Gordon Prentice | 488 c992 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement next week about the national Statistics Authority and the e-mail trail that ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) It is not a reform that has been buried—far from it; the topical debates have been very useful. The ...
Andrew Murrison | 488 c1001 (Link to this contribution) In the business statement I missed again any reference to a debate on the aircraft carrier programme...
Evan Harris | 488 c998 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister gave an undertaking that the Executive would ensure that the House was able to sc...
Jim McGovern | 488 c994 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the future of the UK's energy needs? Such a debate would allow us to highlig...
Baroness Harman | 488 c998 (Link to this contribution) I will look for an opportunity to debate the important issues that my hon. Friend raises. It is impo...
Richard Ottaway | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate to clarify the definition of assisted suicide? The Leader of the House will be ...
Lord Harper | 488 c1002 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to consider again a debate in Government time on the Government's ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1002 (Link to this contribution) The Government will be responding to the SANDS report. The society has done excellent work over the ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) What has happened to our topical debates? Does the right hon. and learned Lady recall saying the fol...
David Leslie Taylor | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) My constituent, Declan Turner, who is dyslexic, achieved nine A to C grades at GCSE. Despite that, b...
Ann Cryer | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) Can we have an early debate on the operation of the Department for Transport's Vehicle and Operator ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's points and I am in the process of seeing whether there is an opportunity...
Baroness Harman | 488 c995 (Link to this contribution) These issues are important, and this might, perhaps, be the subject of a Westminster Hall debate.
Baroness Harman | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important point on behalf of his constituents. I shall raise it with my...
Baroness Harman | 488 c996 (Link to this contribution) Treasury Ministers frequently address questions to do with giving out information that is in the pub...
Baroness Harman | 488 c998-9 (Link to this contribution) There clearly is a demand for a debate—it could probably be discussed in Westminster Hall—on the imp...
Julian Lewis | 488 c994-5 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement from the Leader of the House herself on the basic standards of ethics expect...
Mark Lazarowicz | 488 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) The business of one of my constituents in Edinburgh has been severely affected by the dubious practi...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1001-2 (Link to this contribution) That is a good argument for the hon. Gentleman to put his name forward to join the Yorkshire and the...
Baroness Harman | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) This House has set down the legal framework, and the Government have no plans to amend the law on as...
Greg Mulholland | 488 c995 (Link to this contribution) It is welcome that the Government have published the national dementia strategy, but the way that wa...
Baroness Harman | 488 c994 (Link to this contribution) It is a pity if the SNP fails to recognise the sea change there has been on the need to ensure that ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c992-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman made some comments about my deputy, but I have to say that I will not hear a word...
John Bercow | 488 c1000-1 (Link to this contribution) I echo the request made by the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) about Sudan, and in particular Darf...
Baroness Harman | 488 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: the situation in Sri Lanka remains extremely grave, even since that which w...
Justine Greening | 488 c1000 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House urgently investigate with the Department for Transport the content of a...
Nicholas Winterton | 488 c998-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the shadow Leader of the House raised the matter of the news journalists being made r...
Baroness Harman | 488 c995 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Parliamentarians do an important job in scrutinising legisl...
Baroness Harman | 488 c992 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has acknowledged that she jumped the gun in putting out one particular statistic,...
Baroness Harman | 488 c999 (Link to this contribution) I will take into account the points that my hon. Friend has made, and I offer my congratulations to ...
Baroness Harman | 488 c997 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about concerns in her constituency, and I suggest that she t...
Baroness Harman | 488 c999 (Link to this contribution) Lord Myners is accountable to the House of Lords, and he was accountable in the proceedings there on...
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