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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 25 January 2007, in the House of Commons, led by John Whittingdale. The answering member was David Lammy.

Heritage

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on protecting and preserving our heritage.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
455 c529-80WH 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
John Whittingdale | 455 c531WH (Link to this contribution) I can fully understand why my hon. Friend should say that. Obviously, we have to go by what we have ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 455 c531-2WH (Link to this contribution) Like many hon. Members in the Chamber, my constituency includes a world heritage site—in my case, Ed...
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John Whittingdale | 455 c529-31WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to debate the report of the Select Committee on protecting and pre...
Robert Key | 455 c531WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that such is the disrepute into which the selection of a new chairman of E...
John Whittingdale | 455 c532-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct. I was going to touch on that matter in due course, since this issue p...
Mark Field | 455 c533WH (Link to this contribution) I fear that I would have to give 103 examples from my constituency, which I suspect gets more from t...
John Whittingdale | 455 c533-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. That is the exact subject that I want to come on to and the Commit...
Speaker | 455 c536WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We have two and a half hours left, and an awful lot of right hon. and hon. Members wish to co...
John Whittingdale | 455 c536WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That would be extremely helpful. I hope that the Minister will give...
Peter Bottomley | 455 c536WH (Link to this contribution) Clearly, in their response to the report the Government did not have the chance to deal with everyth...
John Whittingdale | 455 c535-6WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Sir John. I concur with my hon. Friend. Local authorities have the job of delivering at t...
Speaker | 455 c535WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions must be brief, and we do not have a great of time.
Mark Field | 455 c535WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for generously giving way a second time. He appreciates, as we all do, the ma...
John Whittingdale | 455 c534WH (Link to this contribution) In return, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who was assiduous in drawing our attention to the partic...
Philip Davies | 455 c534WH (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for the excellent way in which he chairs the Select Committee. Would he agr...
Janet Anderson | 455 c537WH (Link to this contribution) I shall attempt to be brief. There has already been some discussion of the role of local authoritie...
Lord Beith | 455 c537-9WH (Link to this contribution) First, I declare an interest as the chairman of the Historic Chapels Trust—it is a non-financial int...
David Drew | 455 c539-40WH (Link to this contribution) Should the wider community not regard it as an obligation regardless of religious affiliation to loo...
Robert Key | 455 c544-7WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, such gardens are indeed listed gardens. They are protected, and the criteria for looking after ...
Derek Wyatt | 455 c543WH (Link to this contribution) Forgive my ignorance, but are such gardens not listed gardens? Can the hon. Gentleman explain how th...
Robert Key | 455 c547-8WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely concur. The Scottish Parliament should pay far more attention to the metrical psalms. As ...
Lord Beith | 455 c547WH (Link to this contribution) I really cannot let the hon. Gentleman get away with his remarks, lest the Minister think that there...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 455 c541-2WH (Link to this contribution) I wish to make one point and in doing so I thank and congratulate the Committee on its report. The p...
Lord Beith | 455 c540-1WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right. That is the basis of English Heritage’s Inspired campaign for pla...
Robert Key | 455 c543WH (Link to this contribution) I start by congratulating the Committee on its excellent report. In my remarks, I should like to ref...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 455 c542-3WH (Link to this contribution) As I was saying before the Divisions, I have one message, and it is for the Minister. Although those...
Derek Wyatt | 455 c548-9WH (Link to this contribution) Any hon. Member who speaks in this debate could say that their constituency has a rich and varied he...
Robert Key | 455 c549WH (Link to this contribution) The Act was, in fact, in 1993, and I was the Minister who had to negotiate with the Treasury. If I t...
Speaker | 455 c548WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that we are short of time. If they limit themselves to 10 minutes, if p...
Lord Cormack | 455 c552-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend if he starts barracking like that. I should like to concentrate on our cathedrals. T...
Lord Cormack | 455 c550-1WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale) not...
Derek Wyatt | 455 c550WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for correcting me on the dates, but still the idea makes no sense. There ...
Sharon Hodgson | 455 c553-5WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Committee on undertaking this vital inquiry in order to raise the profile o...
Sharon Hodgson | 455 c555WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way first to the hon. Gentleman and then to my hon. Friend.
Tim Loughton | 455 c555-6WH (Link to this contribution) I think that we might be about to say different things. I fully acknowledge the plea made by the hon...
Sharon Hodgson | 455 c556WH (Link to this contribution) That is a valid point, but all we are asking initially is for the Lindisfarne gospels to visit the n...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 455 c556WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that in the north-east we do accept that the Lindisfarne gospels are a nat...
Tim Loughton | 455 c561WH (Link to this contribution) I shall finish in just a few sentences, to let others get in. I want to make a plea to the Minister....
David Anderson | 455 c566-7WH (Link to this contribution) This is a very welcome report, Sir John. I was going to give you a tour of my constituency and the n...
Ian Gibson | 455 c563-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a credit to the Committee and its Chairman that so many people have expressed an interest and ...
Paul Farrelly | 455 c561-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chairman of the Select Committee, of which I am a member, on securing the debate....
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 455 c567-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale) on securing the deb...
Paul Robert Holmes | 455 c568-70WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Committee Chairman, the hon. Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingd...
Paul Robert Holmes | 455 c570-1WH (Link to this contribution) I finish with three brief points that the report deals with. It recommends that the merger and repla...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 455 c572-6WH (Link to this contribution) I was born; I was three years old. I pay tribute, too, to the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and W...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 455 c572WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Sir John, for guiding the debate through such tempestuous waters. The fact that such an i...
David Lammy | 455 c577-80WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right in relation to English Heritage, but he may recall that in the previous ...
Lord Cormack | 455 c577WH (Link to this contribution) Sir Neil Cossons himself has put it on record that"““English Heritage’s grant in aid from Government...
David Lammy | 455 c576-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my good friend, the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey). We were togethe...
Tim Loughton | 455 c556-8WH (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingda...
Sharon Hodgson | 455 c556WH (Link to this contribution) I also point out that the colours used to create the gospels were extracted from local plants and mi...
Tim Loughton | 455 c558-9WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend obviously has a great deal more experience, having been at the Department at its ince...
Robert Key | 455 c558WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire will recall that back in the 1980s and the early 1...
Tim Loughton | 455 c559-61WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. We owe Sir Neil Cossons a great debt of gratitude, not l...
Lord Cormack | 455 c559WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly paid a tribute to Dr. Simon Thurley, which is richly deserved. However, does ...
Subjects
Cultural heritage Churches Cathedrals Finance Historic buildings English Heritage Libraries Local government Olympic Games Museums and galleries Listed buildings VAT Wrecks Tourism Department for Culture, Media and Sport Heritage Lottery Fund World Heritage sites
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