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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 26 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Shailesh Vara. The answering member was Helen Goodman.

Summer Adjournment

Motion for the summer recess and subsequent debate.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
463 c1087-155 
Session
2006-07
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Horam | 463 c1108-11 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) on a common-sense speech. We all admire her ...
Baroness Browning | 463 c1090-3 (Link to this contribution) I should like to draw attention to yesterday’s written ministerial statement, from column 68WS of th...
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Keith Vaz | 463 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to participate in the summer Adjournment debate—I shall do so briefly in view of the ...
Ann Cryer | 463 c1126-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with comments of the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Davies) about proper workplace appre...
Bob Spink | 463 c1128-31 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that I can, because of the time. I apologise for my voice; I lost it at a party i...
David Amess | 463 c1114-6 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the summer recess, there are a number of points I wish to make. The th...
John Robertson | 463 c1116-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the positive contribution of the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Ames...
Mike Hancock | 463 c1118-21 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the final comments of the hon. Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson). Like him, ...
Celia Barlow | 463 c1121-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) and his comments about im...
Dai Davies | 463 c1123-6 (Link to this contribution) I have three issues to raise and I hope that other hon. Members will recognise them, because after d...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c1105-8 (Link to this contribution) The first issue that I shall raise has already been raised by the hon. Member for North Southwark an...
Peter Bottomley | 463 c1102-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish to raise three subjects, and I shall end with the one on which the Government could act befor...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 463 c1111-3 (Link to this contribution) In this debate, it is customary to raise constituency issues, but I do not want to do that this afte...
Harry Cohen | 463 c1093-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, may I start by offering my humble apologies to you, to the Deputy Leader of the ...
Simon Hughes | 463 c1095-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall limit my remarks to the time recommended by Mr. Deputy Speaker in order to maximise the oppo...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 463 c1144-7 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay). I thought that he...
Lord Beamish | 463 c1136-8 (Link to this contribution) I start by saying how pleasing it is to see my hon. Friend the Deputy Leader of the House, a fellow ...
Bernard Jenkin | 463 c1133-6 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd), I shall concentrate primarily on a local issue...
Andrew Mackinlay | 463 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I will try not to detain you too long, Mr. Deputy Speaker, from the warm embrace of your constituent...
Julia Goldsworthy | 463 c1138-41 (Link to this contribution) I was not intending to touch on the issue of the local government review, but following the hon. Mem...
Mark Todd | 463 c1131-3 (Link to this contribution) As is traditional on these occasions among most hon. Members, I intend to focus on local issues. Di...
Speaker | 463 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I advise the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a 12-minute limit on all speeches by Back Benchers to...
Speaker | 463 c1131 (Link to this contribution) Order. If I heard the hon. Gentleman correctly, I think that he accused the Prime Minister of being ...
Ian Gibson | 463 c1099-102 (Link to this contribution) Even the most fervent or rabid fans of the school academy programme would find it hard to justify th...
Speaker | 463 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have an appalling confession: the assumptions on which the 12-minute time limit were based ...
Helen Goodman | 463 c1152-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara), who has kept to...
Shailesh Vara | 463 c1149-52 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the letter has not arrived. I hope that the Deputy Leader of the House has taken tha...
Lord Garnier | 463 c1147-9 (Link to this contribution) I have sat here all afternoon listening to a catalogue of complaints, and I am now going to add to t...
Keith Vaz | 463 c1088-90 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I will keep the hon. and learned Gentleman informed. He will recall his comments at the ...
Lord Garnier | 463 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and for mentioning the joint meeting that w...
Bob Spink | 463 c1128 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer), who is absolutely right. The c...
Bernard Jenkin | 463 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I was shadow Minister for London at the time that that scheme was being discussed, and it was as cle...
Simon Hughes | 463 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the informed intervention of the hon. Gentleman. What Londoners and the millions w...
Shailesh Vara | 463 c1149 (Link to this contribution) May I start by thanking all the speakers who took part in the summer recess Adjournment debate? Some...
Helen Goodman | 463 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) No. I am very sorry. I had always known the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) as a quiet, ...
Bob Blizzard | 463 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Bob Spink | 463 c1131 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to withdraw that word, and I apologise to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Bring on the election...
Mike Hancock | 463 c1142 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Mackinlay | 463 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind, because it would not be fair to you, Mr. D...
Speaker | 463 c1141 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the two hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Benches share that hope more fervently ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 463 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) Anyway, as I was saying, I want to raise three things with the House before we go. I have raised the...
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