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Business statement on Thursday, 26 April 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Young of Cookham. The answering member was Angela Eagle.


Business of the House


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543 c1099 
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2010-12
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Leader of the House of Commons
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Business of the House
Thursday, 26 April 2012
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Angela Eagle | 543 c1099 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House please give us the business for next week?
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1099 (Link to this contribution) The business for next week is as follows: Monday 30 April—Consideration of an allocation of time mo...
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Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1109 (Link to this contribution) We have had a number of days debating the Budget, the Finance Bill and the Financial Services Bill, ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1110 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that if we want sustainable growth and secure, well-paid jobs we must rebala...
David Nuttall | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) May we please have a debate on the outcome of last week's Brighton conference on the reform of the E...
Robert Smith | 543 c1102 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will know how important business in the north-east of Scotland is to the Sco...
Angela Eagle | 543 c1099-101 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for his comprehensive statement. I also thank the staff of the House...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Gentleman what I said a few moments ago. We had the Budget, followed by several da...
Caroline Lucas | 543 c1102-3 (Link to this contribution) Southern Water, which serves my constituents, loses over 92 million litres of water a day. That is e...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing attention to the written ministerial statement and the p...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1102 (Link to this contribution) The Government have taken a number of steps to encourage charitable giving. We have made changes to ...
Julian Smith | 543 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) Colin Brannigan of Ripon is having his sleep badly disturbed by unsolicited marketing fax calls to h...
Brandon Lewis | 543 c1112 (Link to this contribution) Companies such as E-Tech in Great Yarmouth have offered apprenticeships to young people which can gi...
Bill Esterson | 543 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The most important issue for my constituents is the double-dip recession, which was made in Downing ...
Bob Blackman | 543 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) During the Easter recess, the Government released £600 million for new primary places across England...
John McDonnell | 543 c1107 (Link to this contribution) I raised this matter on a point of order, Mr Speaker, and you suggested that it would be best raised...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, this is an unacceptable risk to other road users, and of course we want to take any steps...
Kate Green | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House arrange for us to be updated on electricity market reform? A delay in g...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1102 (Link to this contribution) As a Member with a rural constituency, I understand how important it is that people in such constitu...
Julian Lewis | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) The specialised Ministry of Defence police protect our bases and other sensitive installations again...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) We have no plans to amend the ministerial code in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests. It makes...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) I commend what DCA has done. This is exactly the sort of rebalancing we want to see, and I applaud t...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at the green screen of the annunciator, he will see that there is shortl...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1102-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady reminds the House, very aptly, that at a time when there is still a water shortage, it...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I would be misleading the hon. Gentleman if I said that we could get a statement on this very import...
John Glen | 543 c1116 (Link to this contribution) At least three of my constituents had their final divorce settlements agreed on the basis of their M...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1107 (Link to this contribution) That is a helpful suggestion from my hon. Friend, which I would like to share with the Home Secretar...
Baroness Coffey | 543 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I have constituents who are suffering from phone scams where companies acting as third parties are s...
Mark Spencer | 543 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware that it is illegal to grow cannabis but perfectly legal to pur...
Diana Johnson | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) In a double-dip recession, drugs education is even more important, so may we please have a debate on...
Tony Baldry | 543 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has today published a Green Paper on parliamentary privilege with some perfe...
Andrew Bridgen | 543 c1110 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate about the correlation between the size of the state and economic growth? Eviden...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who complements the point made by another of my hon. Friends about ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I read the Hansard Society report, which I thought was more about engagement in the political proces...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1099-101 (Link to this contribution) Let me respond to what the shadow Leader of the House has said. The business statement was, indeed, ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) One of the things we have done is to enable mortgage interest rates to stay at a much lower level th...
Karen Bradley | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) Leek further education college in my constituency has received an additional £2 million from the Ski...
Andrew Selous | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on the injustice faced by a number of my constituents, and indeed by peo...
Andrew Stephenson | 543 c1104 (Link to this contribution) In February, I organised a jobs and apprenticeships fair in Colne, working closely with students fro...
Jonathan Reynolds | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) How can we not have an urgent debate about the state of the economy before we prorogue? If the GDP f...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) The principle of a cap on housing benefit was supported by the hon. Lady's party as well as by mine....
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1107 (Link to this contribution) I was in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman raised that point. In my view, the time that the Govern...
Paul Flynn | 543 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) When can we have a debate on this country following the examples of Canada, the Netherlands and now ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern and I applaud the work of the National Autistic Society, what ...
Mike Gapes | 543 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) Overnight, we have heard yet more reports of acts of violence against civilians undertaken by the Sy...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the work of the Harlow food bank. My hon. Friend asks me to vote for it. There is an Andov...
Julian Sturdy | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, tethered horses are frequently escaping on to the highways and causing serious a...
Madeleine Moon | 543 c1112 (Link to this contribution) Tempers are starting to fray in parliamentary offices following an e-mail from the Independent Parli...
Barry Gardiner | 543 c1108 (Link to this contribution) The estimable Hansard Society released a report earlier this week that said that the number of peopl...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) One of the decisions that the Government made on taking office was to preserve the capital programme...
Alison McGovern | 543 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House consider granting an early debate on giving to the arts and culture? No...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) This is an important matter which, of course, I will raise with my right hon. Friend the Home Secret...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important issue. Like him, I have received correspondence from the Defence ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I would be surprised if that had disappeared. I would expect it to be reinvested in the NHS, but I a...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1105 (Link to this contribution) This is an important matter. I cannot anticipate the Loyal Address, but there may be an opportunity ...
Michael McCann | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) As chair of the all-party group on the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, may I ask...
Denis MacShane | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) In ancient times, the most dishonourable act was for a senior officer or official to sacrifice a jun...
Lilian Greenwood | 543 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) The Government's double-dip recession has made life hard for hard-working families in Nottingham Sou...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) I say to the right hon. Gentleman that we did have a long statement and exchange of questions and an...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) I cannot offer a statement, but I commend my hon. Friend's energy in seeking to ensure that the chil...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to say to my hon. Friend that the answer, exceptionally, is yes. Today's Adjournment deba...
Marcus Jones | 543 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The Nuneaton-Coventry rail upgrade, A5 improvements at Nuneaton, the A45 toll-bar island upgrade, an...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear of the confusion experienced by the hon. Lady's staff. From memory, I think that ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my noble Friend Lord Henley would want to respond to any representations from any Member o...
Derek Twigg | 543 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) In 2009, the Labour Government reduced the qualifying period and increased the cash limit for suppor...
Chris Bryant | 543 c1104 (Link to this contribution) In 1628, the Government were in the midst of a ““clustershambles”” and they decided to prorogue Parl...
Nick Smith | 543 c1111 (Link to this contribution) In the summer, the Department for Transport will decide its programme for capital investment in our ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that if one registers with the telephone preference service it is then an offenc...
Kris Hopkins | 543 c1109 (Link to this contribution) On Friday 18 May, I am looking forward to taking part in the launch of the Keighley and Worth valley...
Harriett Baldwin | 543 c1103 (Link to this contribution) Staff at the Worcestershire Health and Care Trust have been working very hard to reduce waiting time...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear that a number of my hon. Friend's constituents are being confronted with very hig...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1104 (Link to this contribution) Again, I would welcome such a debate, perhaps at the beginning of the next Session and in the debate...
Martin Vickers | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) There is widespread concern in my constituency following the debate about VAT on static caravans, wh...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1106 (Link to this contribution) This is potentially quite a complicated legal matter, and I will raise it with my ministerial collea...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1116 (Link to this contribution) It so happens that there are three Defence Ministers sitting on the Front Bench, all of whom heard t...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what is happening in my hon. Friend's constituency, which shows that it is possible to mak...
Valerie Vaz | 543 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for his help over this Session. Perhaps he could help me once more i...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to learn of the death of my hon. Friend's constituent. I would welcome such a debate. As ...
James Morris | 543 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to Councillor Angus Adams of Dudley council, who was also chairman of Centro, who ...
Chris White | 543 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) Last week, DCA Design International, a business based in my constituency, won the Queen's award for ...
Tom Harris | 543 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) I respectfully remind the Leader of the House that Government Ministers are accountable not to the L...
Robert Halfon | 543 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the work of food banks? The Leader of the House may have seen early-day moti...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1114 (Link to this contribution) There was a written ministerial statement on—I think—16 April which summarised the outcome of the Br...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear of the increase in apprenticeships in my hon. Friend's constituency. We are c...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1111 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that we have made a commitment to electrify the line to Cardiff, and he...
Lord Young of Cookham | 543 c1104 (Link to this contribution) The previous Prime Minister was absent at Prime Minister's questions roughly twice as often as the c...
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