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Business statement on Thursday, 1 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by David Heath. The answering member was Baroness Winterton of Doncaster.


Business of the House


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Parliamentary proceeding
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512 c999 
Session
2010-12
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 512 c999 (Link to this contribution) Will the Deputy Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business for the week.
David Heath | 512 c999 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has given notice to the shadow Leader of the House and ...
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Desmond Swayne | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) May I urge the Deputy Leader of the House to award the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria E...
Mark Tami | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) Last week, the Prime Minister said that our troops would be back from Afghanistan within five years,...
Maria Eagle | 512 c1009-10 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Deputy Leader of the House for an early statement on potential venues for the next £10...
David Heath | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Paediatric cardiac services are of considerable importance. Health Ministers are reviewing the situa...
Robert Halfon | 512 c1002 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend seen early-day motion 328, which describes how Google allegedly mapped every wire...
Diana Johnson | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, two of my constituents travelled from Hull to lobby me on the important issue of contamin...
Julian Lewis | 512 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) Given the excellent agreement in New Forest East between leading Liberal Democrats and Conservatives...
David Heath | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, it is a serious matter whenever we hear about job losses of this kind, and the hon. Gentl...
David Heath | 512 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Yes, I have read his early-day motion and it seems to raise a v...
David Heath | 512 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will not have a statement from me on a matter of health policy, but he can quite ...
David Heath | 512 c1007 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, my condolences go out to the friends and family of the hon. Gentleman's constituent, who ...
Craig Whittaker | 512 c1007 (Link to this contribution) May I ask a question in a similar vein to the request from my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keyn...
Lord McCabe | 512 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to help the Government to cut waste and extravagance. In that context, does the Deputy Lea...
David Heath | 512 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) I think I hear from the hon. Gentleman that he does not think his constituents ought easily to be ab...
David Heath | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, we are committed to regular debates on the conflict in Afghanistan and ...
David Heath | 512 c1005 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, it is always a matter of great concern to hon. Members when their constituents find thems...
Greg Mulholland | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) The children's heart unit at Leeds general infirmary is one of the oldest in the country—it has perf...
David Heath | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has almost persuaded me that we ought to find Government time for that debate. I ...
David Heath | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that situation and I am grateful to the hon. Lady for bringing it to my attention...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 512 c1005 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on supporting British citizens overseas? The Deputy Leader of the House might r...
David Heath | 512 c1009-10 (Link to this contribution) And he then apologised very clearly, which is an important point to note. It really is extraordinary...
Stephen Mosley | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the future of the UK's financial services industry? That would allow me to h...
David Heath | 512 c1016 (Link to this contribution) It is something that the hon. Gentleman may want to raise in the context of the Opposition day debat...
David Heath | 512 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman what is fair. He mentioned pensioners, and it is fair finally to give ...
David Heath | 512 c1004 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend says on the last matter. I could not possibly comment, but I am sure that...
Gloria De Piero | 512 c1003-4 (Link to this contribution) A debate on police productivity would allow me to question Ministers on how much time police officer...
David Burrowes | 512 c1009 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the annual report of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, whi...
David Heath | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that a debate would be worth while, because the OBR is independent of Government.
Lord Watts | 512 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Government's fairness agenda? Recent announcements on tax increases, ben...
Andrew Stephenson | 512 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) Will the Deputy Leader of the House agree to a debate on whether the law currently provides sufficie...
David Heath | 512 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an awful meal of the fact that he engineered a win of a vote in a Commi...
Peter Bone | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) During the last Parliament, I was regularly concerned about the blood pressure of the previous Speak...
David Heath | 512 c1006 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. I, too, yesterday met constituents who either had...
Martin Vickers | 512 c1012 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House may have heard or read reports of an incident on Tuesday at the Linds...
David Heath | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady, and also congratulate her on her election to the Backbench Business ...
David Heath | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members on both sides of the House will have many questions to ask about the circumstances of t...
David Heath | 512 c1006 (Link to this contribution) I cannot possibly pre-empt the statement, but the hon. Lady is right to press us on this. We are ver...
David Heath | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) It would be very useful to have a debate on that subject. There is a huge amount to be said for co-o...
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 512 c999-1002 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Deputy Leader of the House for the business statement. I think it is in order to welcome...
Alison Seabeck | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) The deadline for the payment to pleural plaques victims of compensation worth £5,000 has come and go...
Wayne David | 512 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House will know that yesterday afternoon the Government suffered an embarra...
Barry Sheerman | 512 c1014 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on the role and responsibilities of the Deputy Prime Minister? Did the D...
David Heath | 512 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the clarification he wants simply because I do not...
David Heath | 512 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) Many hon. Members will be shocked by what has happened to the hon. Gentleman's constituent—it is sim...
Lord Walney | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House will be aware that we are in the middle of Co-operatives fortnight, c...
David Heath | 512 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been a doughty supporter of Equitable Life policyholders over the years, as h...
Philip Davies | 512 c1008 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Government's new sentencing policy so that we can point out to the Secre...
David Heath | 512 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) ... Well, I shall also assume that the question has something to do with parliamentary business—[Hon...
Michael Connarty | 512 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Deputy Leader of the House to get his master, the Leader of the House, to come to th...
Helen Goodman | 512 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has already explained why some information has been given not to this House but t...
David Heath | 512 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had made it plain that we are having four debates in the next two weeks on that sub...
Lord Beamish | 512 c1005 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on pay for our brave servicemen and women, especially in the light of t...
Andrew Griffiths | 512 c1008-9 (Link to this contribution) Despite Tony Blair's promise that they would result in a café culture, the late-licensing laws are h...
David Heath | 512 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I very much appreciate the hon. Gentleman raising this point on behalf of his constituents, and I am...
David Heath | 512 c1009 (Link to this contribution) We have known for a long time that the problems with substance, drug and alcohol abuse have not been...
David Heath | 512 c1003-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know that this has been a recurrent theme over many years, since long before she ...
David Heath | 512 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I was rather hoping that there would be a punch line. There might be a case for a debate on Stockhol...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate about the timing of reports from the Office for Budget Responsibility? ...
Kris Hopkins | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the use of postal votes in our electoral system? It has been proved to be op...
Chuka Umunna | 512 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor of the Exchequer came here last week and declared that he would be the model of trans...
David Nuttall | 512 c1014 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on how we ought to deal with habitual criminals, given that most of my constitu...
David Heath | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) First, may I also congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his election to the Backbench Business Committe...
David Heath | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I have great affection for the World Wide Fund for Nature becau...
David Heath | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) I think I am right in saying that the Deputy Prime Minister intends to make a statement on that subj...
David Heath | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy with my hon. Friend, because I used to raise this matter very regula...
David Heath | 512 c999-1002 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Leader of the House has asked me to restate a position that I stated many times in opposi...
Christopher Chope | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) When is the motion on the fixed-term Parliament, which was promised by my hon. Friend the Deputy Lea...
Chris Leslie | 512 c1016 (Link to this contribution) Will the Deputy Leader of the House consider his reply to the hon. Member for City of Chester (Steph...
Oliver Heald | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Leader of the House—[Hon. Members: "Ah!"] I apologise, I meant the Deputy Leader of the H...
Duncan Hames | 512 c1010 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the role of the Environment Agency's policies on hydropower generation on ou...
David Heath | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I agree that we need to reform the process for private Members' legisl...
Julian Smith | 512 c1015 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent justice debate on the devastating impact for local justice in Skipton and rura...
David Heath | 512 c1008 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his election to the Backbench Business Committee, on whi...
Grahame Morris | 512 c1009 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the Deputy Leader of the House's attention to the contribution of my hon. Friend the Memb...
Mike Hancock | 512 c1004 (Link to this contribution) May I first declare an interest as a member of Portsmouth city council? That council, like many othe...
Bridget Phillipson | 512 c1006 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Deputy Leader of the House on his earlier answer about the future of the Building Sc...
Glenda Jackson | 512 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate in Government time on the Chancellor's grossly disproportionate attack ...
David Heath | 512 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I do not find the difficulty that the hon. Gentleman suggests, because I believe that some of the le...
Mark Williams | 512 c1006 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House is aware of the impressive lobby of this place yesterday by the Hunti...
Ian Lucas | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on sentencing policy and the construction of new prisons? There is real...
David Heath | 512 c1008-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that the change of licensing policy that the last Government introduced has not pr...
David Hamilton | 512 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The next time—or perhaps the first time—the Deputy Leader of the House meets the Backbench Business ...
David Heath | 512 c1011 (Link to this contribution) Concerns about the integrity of the postal vote process have been expressed for a long time. Postal ...
Derek Twigg | 512 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent statement on the release of the documents on the Hillsborough disaster? The la...
David Heath | 512 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) Happily, I have no responsibility whatsoever for what happens in the 1922 committee and that is no d...
Mark Lazarowicz | 512 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) Last week, when I asked for a Government statement on Equitable Life, the Leader of the House rather...
David Heath | 512 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Gentleman that we need a penal policy that stops people reoffending and that reduc...
David Heath | 512 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) I invite the hon. Lady to ask questions of the Department for Work and Pensions on 19 July. She also...
David Heath | 512 c1013 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's best opportunity to ask that question is at Justice questions on Tuesday 20 Jul...
David Heath | 512 c1005 (Link to this contribution) I seem to recall that there was a significant increase in the allowances made available to members o...
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