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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 28 February 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Murphy of Torfaen. The answering member was Cheryl Gillan.

Welsh Affairs

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on Welsh affairs.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
472 c1256-342 
Session
2007-08
Department
Wales Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 472 c1274 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 15-minute limit o...
David TC Davies | 472 c1294 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I shall talk about that issue at greater length on another occasion. The Secretary of S...
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Nick Ainger | 472 c1294 (Link to this contribution) I shall begin by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain), although he is...
David TC Davies | 472 c1291-3 (Link to this contribution) Well, I certainly would not increase them; that is a straight answer. There has recently been much ...
David TC Davies | 472 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. Following on from that, we must consider what happens to people who are ...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1295 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about feed-in tariffs, but he should know that the Gover...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1298 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's support. If someone has a fortnight's holiday, they should fi...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1297-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. I do not want to be partisan in this debate because I am a fan ...
Nick Ainger | 472 c1296-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not argue with the hon. Gentleman on that point. Let me turn to energy prices and their impact ...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1296 (Link to this contribution) On that point, I tend to agree that rejecting feed-in tariffs was a mistake by the Government, but i...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1298-301 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Some say that the Romans did not get past the western borders of...
Nick Ainger | 472 c1295 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I agree that they ought seriously to reconsider. Feed-in tariffs are a way to incent...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1303 (Link to this contribution) Who has been in charge of the programme for the past six years?
Hywel Williams | 472 c1305 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Touhig | 472 c1304-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is aware of my views on those matters. Those responsible in the Assembly have tak...
Lord Touhig | 472 c1306 (Link to this contribution) I was not suggesting for one moment that it was a complete waste. I said I was concerned that it had...
Hywel Williams | 472 c1302 (Link to this contribution) Would the right hon. Gentleman describe free prescriptions as a barrier to radical policies in Wales...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1309 (Link to this contribution) I have little time, but I will give way briefly.
Albert Owen | 472 c1309 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1309 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken to the Secretary of State about the matter, and I know that the Minister has been to s...
Roger Williams | 472 c1308 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my speech, the outbreak can be attributed directly to the Government because they were ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1309-10 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. I also think that, as some council offices are having to close, a small amount cou...
Albert Owen | 472 c1307 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that there is much cross-party opposition to the closure of DWP offices in ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1306-7 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I agree fully with the right hon. Gentleman and I apologise for misinterpreting what h...
David Jones | 472 c1336-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the time, but I am sure that it was going to be a good joke. The right hon. Member fo...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 472 c1338-42 (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to speak as a Front Bencher in the Wales day debate for the first time. I...
David Jones | 472 c1311 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has mentioned the Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Assembly G...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1311 (Link to this contribution) I understand why a separatist party would require services that are currently delivered from England...
Hywel Williams | 472 c1311 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman identify anybody, anywhere who has said that services in Shropshire should b...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1315 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the reasons why people go on to incapacity benefit...
Dai Davies | 472 c1315-6 (Link to this contribution) There is great concern about such misunderstanding by general practitioners. They do not know the be...
Dai Davies | 472 c1314-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to make a contribution to this debate on behalf of my constituents. I thank ...
Dai Davies | 472 c1316-7 (Link to this contribution) The important thing about that is how we promote those types of activity through schools. We do not ...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1319 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to identify a growing drugs problem in Wales, but I must disagree with h...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1316 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Government could do far more to support existing youth servic...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1324 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman well knows, cross-party support for winning the training contract and bringing...
Anne Main | 472 c1321-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to follow the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn), whom I congratulate on hav...
Anne Main | 472 c1322-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. As a Conservative Member, I hope to see the shadow Secretary of State for W...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1324 (Link to this contribution) I hope that what the hon. Gentleman is saying is absolutely correct. I understand, not least because...
Speaker | 472 c1327 (Link to this contribution) Order. I see that three hon. Members are trying to catch my eye. The wind-ups are due to start at 5....
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1325 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned 1,000 trainers. Is he aware of a recent PCS survey, which revealed that...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1328-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman may be pleased to hear about another piece of progress. Tomorrow, in...
Hywel Williams | 472 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I think that everyone enjoyed the service. My subject this afternoon is the need for new We...
Hywel Williams | 472 c1329 (Link to this contribution) I certainly welcome that. It is an innovation that other parties could follow. It should not be left...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1330 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State looks enthused.
Nia Griffith | 472 c1330-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I apologise for not being...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly look into that for my hon. Friend and be in touch with him. Wales is small in geo...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1262-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that it is. So many Bills pass through this House that affect England and Wales t...
David TC Davies | 472 c1263 (Link to this contribution) In that case, does he agree that Welsh Members of Parliament should be able to ask questions about h...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1263 (Link to this contribution) Leaving aside the point about rural constituencies, there are not huge discrepancies between England...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1267 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, the hon. Lady would like to be the Secretary of State for Wales instead of his shadow. Wi...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that, regardless of the constitutional arrangemen...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1264-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that issue has exercised me in the past few weeks. Proper cross-border arrangements are importa...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I always like to assist the Conservative party whenever I can. I am aware of the close relationship ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1264 (Link to this contribution) It is not for me to intervene in family quarrels; that is a matter for other people. People say tha...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1256 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Secretary of State for Wales on his return to the Dispatch Box? He mentioned ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. I hope that in three or four weeks, when we win the final match against France, that...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a good point: it is important that when the Olympics finish, Wales should ben...
Roger Williams | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Before we go off the subject of the Olympics, nobody doubts that community sport and community arts ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about the underspend of lottery money.
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes. My hon. Friend makes an important point. I come now to the changes in our economy in rural and...
Betty Williams | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves the subject of the Olympics, does he agree that we should direct ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) I can remember the Empire swimming pool—it was an awfully long time ago. I agree that we need to con...
Anne Main | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) I was born and brought up in Cardiff, as were my parents. My mother will tell you, Madam Deputy Spea...
Albert Owen | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) On the topic of the Olympics, the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) makes a good po...
Roger Williams | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. I am well aware of the important work going on in that centr...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) As a member of this esteemed joint committee with the Labour party—I see some of the relevant Labour...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) Is not the hon. Gentleman's real problem the fact that whenever the Liberal Democrats are in a posit...
Paul Flynn | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Scotland has advanced further down the road of renewable energy t...
Roger Williams | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes a very good point. It is all about building up partnerships rather ...
Lord Hain | 472 c1278-9 (Link to this contribution) That would be partly due to my hon. Friend's excellent work. There is also a potential for growth i...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I should like to praise him on his tim...
John P Smith | 472 c1278 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's remarks about the Severn tidal barrage. Is he aware that, should th...
Lord Hain | 472 c1278 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, local wishes need to be listened to, but what we do not want is local nimbyism paralysing...
David TC Davies | 472 c1277 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1273-4 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for that positive intervention. To conclude, I see Wales as poised at a crossroa...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I should be happy to meet the hon. Lady to discuss what seems to be a very important issue.
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. On an optimistic note, I recently had the great pleasure of...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1272 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may be interested to learn that average gross weekly earnings in Wales are £472, compa...
Speaker | 472 c1288 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are debating Welsh affairs.
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1290 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an important point on national parks. Does he agree that one way to help th...
David TC Davies | 472 c1289-90 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to the new Secretary of State for Wales, who will do his utmost to help peo...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1291 (Link to this contribution) I have just had the privilege of spending some time in Afghanistan, and the armed forces there told ...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1291 (Link to this contribution) I infer from the hon. Gentleman's comment that he does not want to see more devolution. If he were t...
David TC Davies | 472 c1291 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. Another group of people who put on the unif...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1288 (Link to this contribution) On supporting the marginalised and achieving justice, will the Welsh Affairs Committee Chairman expl...
Roger Williams | 472 c1287 (Link to this contribution) Everyone in the Chamber values the work of the Committee but does my hon. Friend feel that the Commi...
Roger Williams | 472 c1284-5 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Then people would know that the system was fair, and not an arbitrary process. Welsh qu...
Roger Williams | 472 c1284 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker. Perhaps the leaders of all the Welsh parties at Westminster would...
Roger Williams | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Secretary of State is now engaging in the discussion. We have seen no such engage...
Roger Williams | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) We know that. What we are trying to do is tease out a bit of information. It seems to be in a black ...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Roger Williams | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear it, even if the convention is not involved.
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) I should be surprised if it did, but one point of agreement between us and the Labour party is that ...
Roger Williams | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and the Secretary of State are very distinguished politicians and very highly tho...
Roger Williams | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I still think that the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy is changing his mind a lit...
Roger Williams | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) I am all for making the present system work, but I am also all for changing it. We must make it work...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1270 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I am not intimately familiar with the specific case of the hon. Gentleman's constitue...
Julie Morgan | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady said that there is no women's prison in Wales. Does she support Baroness Corston's rec...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I was very vocal on that subject at the time. I thought it was a compl...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. People can start a cognitive behavioural therapy course but they do not...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may know that the Welsh Affairs Committee visited Eastwood Park, the women's prison i...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) It is precisely because this party is the party of the Union—[Hon. Members: ““Hear, hear!””] Hang on...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1269 (Link to this contribution) If it is on this point, and the hon. Gentleman has more information, I shall give way to him.
Paul Flynn | 472 c1269 (Link to this contribution) The sad fact is that Y Byd is no longer a practical proposition because of the collapse in circulati...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1269 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Perhaps it is apposite, therefore, to ask...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1293 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that as well as providing humane conditions for prisoners, we need reasona...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1294 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be interested to learn that while average unemployment in the UK is 5.2 per c...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1293 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. This is not a devolved responsibility, and I echo his comments because ...
Nick Ainger | 472 c1295 (Link to this contribution) I refer specifically to my own constituency, where the fall in unemployment—according to the latest ...
Anne Main | 472 c1298 (Link to this contribution) I concur with the comments of the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik). As I have said, I w...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1298 (Link to this contribution) I lend my support to the hon. Gentleman's observation about the importance of tourism for Wales. Mon...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1297 (Link to this contribution) Manufacturing is alive, well and prospering in Wrexham, my constituency, and throughout north-east W...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1297 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to speak in my inaugural St. David's day debate. As a recent member of the W...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1306 (Link to this contribution) I should like to add my voice to those of hon. Members who have welcomed the re-appointment of the S...
Lord Touhig | 472 c1305-6 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I am short of time, as I am sure the hon. Gentleman will understand. Those who ...
Lord Touhig | 472 c1301-2 (Link to this contribution) Aneurin Bevan stood up in this Chamber on 17 October 1944, in the first ever Welsh day debate, and b...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1310-1 (Link to this contribution) May I take the opportunity, like many others today, to pay tribute to the work of the former Secreta...
Albert Owen | 472 c1309 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, I am a co-sponsor—with my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1307-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman and make no bones about that, but I am addressing another ...
Speaker | 472 c1342 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise that I can say that only in English. It being Six o'clock, the motion lapsed, wi...
David Jones | 472 c1334-6 (Link to this contribution) This has been a typically stimulating, diverse and wide-ranging St. David's day debate. We have hear...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1311-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister denies that she ever said that. Intervention by Labour Assembly Members and Members of ...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1313-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on the working arrangements of institutions that are some distance apart. I will le...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1313 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this might provide as many opportunities as challenges? He will k...
Paul Flynn | 472 c1317-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure for me to follow, for the first time, the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Davies...
Paul Flynn | 472 c1320 (Link to this contribution) Trying to deal with the source of supply is utterly futile. The Columbian authorities have been tryi...
John P Smith | 472 c1323-4 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour and a privilege to follow an Ely girl and to take part in our traditional Welsh affa...
John P Smith | 472 c1324 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. That is why I wanted to make this point today. It is important that we in Wales know...
John P Smith | 472 c1325 (Link to this contribution) I would love to do that and I shall do so immediately. I qualify my remarks by saying that the final...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1325 (Link to this contribution) In the light of package 2 having been kicked into the long grass, will the hon. Gentleman revise the...
John P Smith | 472 c1324 (Link to this contribution) That is not so. The timetable for the transformation under the defence training review, which was ar...
Hywel Williams | 472 c1327 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called to speak in the debate. I was unable to be here at the start as I was see...
John P Smith | 472 c1325-7 (Link to this contribution) I am fully aware of that. We must consider the age profile of existing trainers, excellent though th...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1329 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Hywel Williams | 472 c1329 (Link to this contribution) In view of the time constraints, no. I would like to draw hon. Members' attention to a report that...
Stephen Crabb | 472 c1331-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to provide the final Back-Bench contribution to this afternoon's St. David's day d...
David TC Davies | 472 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that some of the right hon. Gentleman's views on these matters are closer to mine than it ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1261 (Link to this contribution) That is a great development, which has occurred alongside a growing self-confidence among Welsh peop...
Martyn Jones | 472 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves the economy, particularly that of north-east Wales, which is doin...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1265-7 (Link to this contribution) I join the Secretary of State in saying how moving the service in the Crypt was. It was truly inclus...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is leading me down a path well in advance of any policy announcements that will b...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1267 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, but our aim as Conservatives has been clear—it is to ensure that the Ass...
Roger Williams | 472 c1267 (Link to this contribution) What proposals for further devolution would the hon. Lady put to the Welsh people for their consider...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1264 (Link to this contribution) We have developed a pretty good compromise on how we deal with such issues in the House; it is certa...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. With the Olympics coming to our country, there is an opportunity for We...
Ann Clwyd | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) On the point about the Olympics, my right hon. Friend will know that there is considerable concern i...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1257 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the approach that he is taking to the debate. Does he share my co...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1257 (Link to this contribution) Of course I share the concern that if schools are not performing, they should improve. There is alwa...
Simon Hughes | 472 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State back to the Front Bench, and I join him in paying tribute to his pr...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1257 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) raised the same issue yesterday, and I mentioned th...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1256 (Link to this contribution) Before I begin my contribution, I should like to pay tribute to my predecessor, my right hon. Friend...
Julie Morgan | 472 c1261 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. Friend see the results of the survey announced by the Minister for Education, Cult...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is being extremely generous. On the lottery point, it is fair to point out that...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1261 (Link to this contribution) That is hugely important, and I could not agree more. It is also important that we all look forward ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. My hon. Friend the Minister is to meet my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Oly...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. I learned to swim in the Empire pool in Cardiff. More impor...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) I share the concern expressed by the right hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd). When it was ann...
Speaker | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) Order. With great respect, that is going a little far for an intervention.
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is being very generous. Does he accept that there is a link between sport in ...
Roger Williams | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) We have been in partnership in government in Wales on one occasion and we are also leading three loc...
Roger Williams | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) I know. Exactly; that is my point: some are dragging their feet on this, while the people of Wales a...
Roger Williams | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) That is really welcome news. I was going to say that they appear to be kicking the issue into the lo...
Simon Hughes | 472 c1280 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the environmental agenda. Does he agree that one disappointing aspect of the...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) On the environment and devolution, does my hon. Friend agree with what my hon. Friend the Member for...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1280 (Link to this contribution) I always listen very carefully to what the hon. Gentleman has to say and I know that he is a committ...
Roger Williams | 472 c1280 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman has a different view of devolution from me. As far as I am concerned...
Roger Williams | 472 c1279-80 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to debate Welsh issues in this Chamber—an opportunity that we too rarely have...
Lord Hain | 472 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. She was one of those who most articulately persuaded me to extend t...
Lord Hain | 472 c1277 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I will give way to Members on both sides of the House...
Betty Williams | 472 c1277 (Link to this contribution) Would my right hon. Friend acknowledge that, as part of the equation on which he is focusing, Europe...
Lord Hain | 472 c1274-7 (Link to this contribution) May I say how delighted I am to see you, Madam Deputy Speaker, as a great Welsh woman presiding over...
Albert Owen | 472 c1272 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady paints a black picture of crime and justice in Wales. There are some good news stories...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I was about to move on and cut out part of my speech because of the limited time available and the i...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point. Care in sentencing and considering what needs to be done with an...
Hywel Francis | 472 c1288-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (...
David TC Davies | 472 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. That is an excellent idea, and I hope we might look into it—perhaps the...
Hywel Francis | 472 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) As someone said of the effects of the French revolution, ““It is too early to say.”” That is all I w...
Speaker | 472 c1284 (Link to this contribution) Order. Could the debate be conducted in the correct manner?
Roger Williams | 472 c1284 (Link to this contribution) Yes. We want fairness across the United Kingdom, not just fairness for Wales. [Interruption.] We sha...
Roger Williams | 472 c1284 (Link to this contribution) No, but we are committed to a fair process for the distribution of public money.
Hywel Francis | 472 c1285-7 (Link to this contribution) May I first pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain), who was at one time...
Simon Hughes | 472 c1284 (Link to this contribution) Just to wrap up the issue, will my hon. Friend confirm that the Liberal Democrats agree that colleag...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is so determined to embark on a needs-based formula, can he give us his calcul...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) Whatever the pros and cons of the Barnett system, does the hon. Gentleman not agree that a system th...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) Does not the piece of information that my hon. Friend has managed to tease out merely confound our u...
Roger Williams | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) No doubt the Under-Secretary of State will devote a large proportion of his speech to the Barnett fo...
Ian Lucas | 472 c1283 (Link to this contribution) In fact, the agreement is between the Labour Assembly group and the Plaid Cymru Assembly group.
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not realise how offensive I find this!
Roger Williams | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. I am trying to be as offensive as possible. This development is probably a symptom of the...
Roger Williams | 472 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was talking about the budgets of the four police authorities. Does she agree that one ...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that I used to speak about that subject in our Home Office team and that I felt...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1270 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the prisons crisis could be tackled if the 11,000 foreign pri...
Mark Williams | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) A fundamental pressure on the prison system—overcrowding—puts pressure on the education system in th...
Lembit Opik | 472 c1270 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the other scandal with regard to justice in Wales is the fact that lar...
Lord Touhig | 472 c1268 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was not able to articulate any Conservative policies just now, but her leader said he ...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my right hon. Friend says and I know that the same points have been made in the Na...
Roger Williams | 472 c1281 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. Scotland has huge potential for hydroelectricity and has ...
Lord Touhig | 472 c1303 (Link to this contribution) They were introduced by the Labour party in Wales, as the hon. Gentleman knows. We in Wales will fa...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1263 (Link to this contribution) I did not notice any lack of questions on those issues yesterday. There are plenty of ways for such ...
Mark Williams | 472 c1261 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, does he agree that there is a particular r...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1258 (Link to this contribution) I will take up the hon. Gentleman's point with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Cultu...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 472 c1259 (Link to this contribution) The debate is becoming a topical debate on rugby. I was not very good at it, either. I was so bad th...
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1322 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend will want to give credit to the Government where it is due, so does she j...
Simon Hughes | 472 c1263 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that I am as passionate a devotee of devolution as he; indeed, I ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 472 c1282 (Link to this contribution) No, no. If I am to be misquoted, I think I should correct the misquotation. What I said was that I w...
Cheryl Gillan | 472 c1271 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is pandering to my personal prejudices and views. There are too many women in prison, ...
David TC Davies | 472 c1268 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in expressing happiness at the deeply gratifying sight of so many Member...
John P Smith | 472 c1336 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Pritchard | 472 c1263-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State, who is being generous in taking interventions. The Secreta...
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Armed forces Climate change Devolution Housing Education Environment protection Public expenditure Parliamentary scrutiny Universities Schools Training Wales Sports Unemployment Students Olympic Games 2012
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