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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 26 May 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Nigel Griffiths. The answering member was Lord Grayling.

Adjournment (Whitsun)

Motion for the Whitsun recess adjournment and subsequent debate.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
434 c881-964 
Session
2005-06
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Grant Shapps | 434 c893-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to make my maiden spe...
Mark Pritchard | 434 c904-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak so early. I appreciate that. I rise with...
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Greg Hands | 434 c906-8 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak about the threat to our local hospital in Hammersmith and Fulham: the Charing Cross....
Justine Greening | 434 c914-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to deliver my maiden speech before the Whitsun reces...
Greg Mulholland | 434 c925-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker for calling me to make my maiden speech. I pay tribute to the hon. Mem...
Christopher Fraser | 434 c909-11 (Link to this contribution) I have not spoken in the House for some time and it gives me great pleasure to make a contribution. ...
Jenny Willott | 434 c912-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all those who have made their maiden speeches before me, and particular credit goes t...
Christopher Fraser | 434 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) If my voice holds out, I will agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. I believe that the best way ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) A fellow Scot speaks from the Back Benches. Other new Members made equally trenchant and interestin...
Jo Swinson | 434 c917-20 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. I begin by congratulating my...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c920 (Link to this contribution) May I first say how much I enjoyed the speech by the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson...
Shona McIsaac | 434 c883-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr. MacNeil)...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 434 c881-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope that hon. Members will be patient and kind for a few moments while I quote from the language ...
David Heath | 434 c885 (Link to this contribution) This opportunity to raise matters of importance to our constituents recurs at regular intervals thro...
Charles Walker | 434 c890-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) for putting me out of my misery. I have h...
David Heath | 434 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. One of the greatest compliments that I was ever paid came from a teller in a blue rosett...
David Heath | 434 c885-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that Canvey Island might be included in that group. Remote though it may...
Simon Burns | 434 c898-901 (Link to this contribution) It is a particular pleasure to be able to congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Broxbourne (M...
Jeremy Browne | 434 c902-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my first speech in this Parliament. I congratulate other h...
Simon Burns | 434 c901 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue and I am pleased to see so many of ...
Vera Baird | 434 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. It seems to me imperative that, rather than lookin...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c923-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not think so, but I might have a debate with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor about it. We s...
Patrick Hall | 434 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all the Members who have spoken in the debate, especially those who gave their maiden...
Patrick Hall | 434 c930-2 (Link to this contribution) It would be difficult for a centrally determined level of business rates to take account of the vary...
Patrick Hall | 434 c929-30 (Link to this contribution) As a former member of Bedfordshire county council, I confess to some sadness when Luton took that st...
Patrick Hall | 434 c930 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I am just about to come to that, because it follows logically from what I have just said. My...
Andrew Love | 434 c944-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall), who is now leaving the Chamber, for the b...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 434 c941-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to be able to take part in this debate and especially to follow my hon. Friend the M...
Bob Spink | 434 c938-41 (Link to this contribution) Stunning, staggering and spectacular—that is how local papers will report the 11 maiden speeches tha...
David Amess | 434 c935-8 (Link to this contribution) I quite agree with my hon. Friend. The Government’s strategy is to have many people in uniform, and ...
David Amess | 434 c932-5 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Whitsun recess, I wish to raise a number of points. First, however...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 434 c951-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have been able to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to Radio Glo...
Andrew Love | 434 c946-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. To conclude the point that I was making, the number of doors knocked on rose as t...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c922 (Link to this contribution) Even before 1997, the rate of house building was too low. Over decades, Conservative Governments pro...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c921 (Link to this contribution) I largely agree with that, and I and other Labour Members who belong to the parliamentary council ho...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c922 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, whose constituency is in the same county as mine. I am aware o...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) Borrowing for investment is separate from borrowing to finance the economic cycle, which goes to pay...
David Heath | 434 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and applaud him for intervening so soon after making his maiden ...
David Heath | 434 c887-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s first point, as I have already said that the link between the Memb...
Lord Grayling | 434 c953 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) made a powerful contribution to the debat...
Lord Grayling | 434 c954 (Link to this contribution) Some of us would say that in a debate where there were five, six, seven or eight Opposition speakers...
Lord Grayling | 434 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware that the hon. Gentleman’s contribution was shorter than his normal rhetoric. The de...
Lord Grayling | 434 c955 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will well know, if schools had the kind of freedom that we would wish them to have,...
Lord Grayling | 434 c955-9 (Link to this contribution) Well, we will not test that this afternoon. We heard a powerful maiden speech from my hon. Friend t...
Nigel Griffiths | 434 c959-62 (Link to this contribution) As Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, it is a pleasure to be able to respond to the excellent co...
Nigel Griffiths | 434 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) The community charge; indeed. There are no easy solutions to this issue; if there were, they would h...
Nigel Griffiths | 434 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me the chance to reinforce his message. I praise...
Lord Mann | 434 c948-51 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak about something that needs to be a key theme for the Government over the next three,...
Bob Spink | 434 c911 (Link to this contribution) : Speaking as someone who was himself a retread, I welcome my hon. Friend back to the Chamber. Is no...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 434 c889 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s analysis of the first-past-the-post electoral system, which theore...
Lord Grayling | 434 c887 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point and I am personally experiencing the frustration that follow...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 434 c901 (Link to this contribution) Both of the anti-competitive practices that my hon. Friend is outlining apply to my constituency in ...
Bob Spink | 434 c897 (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. and learned Lady give way, as she has mentioned my constituency?
Bob Spink | 434 c897 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. and learned Lady carefully and she is speaking a lot of sense. Shellhaven is...
Vera Baird | 434 c894-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I take the opportunity to praise both new Members who have made excellent maiden speeches. Th...
Andrew Love | 434 c953 (Link to this contribution) If my arithmetic is correct, if there are enough Opposition speakers the debate will continue until ...
Lord Mann | 434 c954 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman has directed disparaging remarks at Labour Members, perhaps he would like to h...
Shona McIsaac | 434 c955 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. However, my main concern was the Liberal Democrat-Conservative ...
Patrick Hall | 434 c962 (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend agree that we should not let it go unnoticed that today is learning at work da...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c929 (Link to this contribution) As I am from the same county, my hon. Friend’s remarks are of interest. Does he agree that Luton was...
Andrew Love | 434 c923 (Link to this contribution) The reputation of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor is built on his fiscal rules. The sustainable ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 434 c930 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the gearing problem could, to some extent, be overcome if the Governm...
Andrew Love | 434 c930 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend’s argument is a little inconsistent. Surely the problem with the business rate is t...
Christopher Fraser | 434 c935 (Link to this contribution) : I do not think that any Opposition Member would disagree with my hon. Friend. We want to ensure th...
Shona McIsaac | 434 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what my hon. Friend is saying. Indeed, from work I have done in my constituency I...
Lord Grayling | 434 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point, but I am sure that he will agree that the rate of c...
Lembit Opik | 434 c921 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the main consequences of the incredible inflation of house...
Andrew Love | 434 c922 (Link to this contribution) : Will my hon. Friend give way?
Patrick Hall | 434 c922 (Link to this contribution) The only way to make houses more affordable is to build more, so that people have more choice. Does ...
Andrew Love | 434 c922 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, as I want to sidetrack him in a slightly different direction....
Lord Grayling | 434 c888 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to press the hon. Gentleman on that. I gain the biggest buzz of al...
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