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The Tote

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

479 c26-49WH 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Richard Caborn | 479 c31WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, but I can tell my hon. Friend that in my view the status quo is not an opt...

Alan Meale | 479 c31-2WH (Link to this contribution) May I point out that instability is to be found everywhere in the high street and in business at pre...

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Richard Caborn | 479 c32WH (Link to this contribution) I obviously have not explained myself clearly. We should put the shops into the for sale category an...

Laurence Robertson | 479 c32WH (Link to this contribution) The shops are the more profitable part of the Tote. If they are sold to someone not connected with r...

Richard Caborn | 479 c32-3WH (Link to this contribution) I can see why it would not get past Europe. I shall be honest about this hang-up over Europe. I thin...

Ian McCartney | 479 c33WH (Link to this contribution) Like my right hon. Friend, I am a former Minister of Trade. Some of the companies that may want to b...

Richard Caborn | 479 c33WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. I have been accused from time to time of being a bit cavalier, but first I want to answer t...

Alan Meale | 479 c33WH (Link to this contribution) On the point about giving various countries transitional arrangements, would my right hon. Friend ca...

Richard Caborn | 479 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) That is true, but I believe that aspects of the problems with Turf TV and other issues are symptoms,...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 479 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not think that there are some issues in racing—for instance, the current c...

Alan Meale | 479 c31WH (Link to this contribution) I declare my interest in the Tote, Mr. Hood. I am not connected with its finances, but I have an int...

David Leslie Taylor | 479 c26WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing the debate. The Tote was introduced 80 years ago and...

Richard Caborn | 479 c26-7WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether it is new Labour tosh, but I can tell my hon. Friend what new Labour tosh said...

Richard Caborn | 479 c26WH (Link to this contribution) I put on record our thanks to the staff of the House who have prepared the briefing—Greg Howard and ...

John Grogan | 479 c28-9WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is setting out a very attractive proposal. Does he agree that racing itself is ...

Richard Caborn | 479 c29-30WH (Link to this contribution) Very much so. We all reflect on Robin's interest in—indeed, love of—racing. If we wanted to call the...

Jeff Ennis | 479 c27WH (Link to this contribution) On the point about the racing trust receiving 50 per cent. from the sale, is my right hon. Friend re...

Richard Caborn | 479 c27-8WH (Link to this contribution) Well, to be honest, I do not know how to get a gross and a net figure on that—perhaps my hon. Friend...

Jeff Ennis | 479 c42WH (Link to this contribution) I am trying to draw my remarks to a close, Mr. Gale. I thank my right hon. Friend for his interventi...

Tom Brake | 479 c42-3WH (Link to this contribution) I shall keep my remarks brief in order to allow the Minister to respond, hopefully in some detail. I...

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c43WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to participate in this important debate, and I congratulate the right hon. Member f...

Speaker | 479 c42WH (Link to this contribution) Order. That is not an intervention; it is a speech. Moreover, if hon. Members wish to hear the Minis...

David Leslie Taylor | 479 c35WH (Link to this contribution) The Conservative Government in the 1980s were quick to justify their privatisation mania on the basi...

Jeff Ennis | 479 c39-40WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Hood, for calling me in this important debate. It is always a great pleasure to follo...

Richard Caborn | 479 c41-2WH (Link to this contribution) May I help my hon. Friend? The answer is to take the shops and put them into a package. Mike Smith—a...

Neil Turner | 479 c38-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Central (Mr. Caborn) on securing this ...

Speaker | 479 c39WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker I want to point out that I want the summing-up speeches to beg...

Laurence Robertson | 479 c37-8WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I shall return to Europe in a moment, but I am aware that...

Speaker | 479 c38WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May I point out to hon. Members that I have a few speakers to call? If they can be brief, I a...

Laurence Robertson | 479 c36-7WH (Link to this contribution) I was outside this place at the time, but I certainly supported turning British Steel's £1.5 million...

Richard Caborn | 479 c37WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but may I guide him by saying that the use of the term ““fai...

Laurence Robertson | 479 c34-5WH (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Central on securing this most timely and imp...

Richard Caborn | 479 c33-4WH (Link to this contribution) That is where one can hit the European Union. The European Union has no responsibility at all for ga...

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Owing to the shortage of time, I shall come straight to that. The right hon. Gentleman put forward a...

Ian McCartney | 479 c43WH (Link to this contribution) What about ““Tory toff””?

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to cause even more division among Labour Members. I pay tribute to the horse racing f...

Richard Caborn | 479 c45WH (Link to this contribution) I was responsible then. Will the hon. Gentleman tell us whether he supported my proposition this mor...

Richard Caborn | 479 c45WH (Link to this contribution) I accepted that. I dropped a clanger.

Speaker | 479 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Order.

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c46WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman indeed dropped a clanger. If more former Ministers came forward and admitte...

Richard Caborn | 479 c46WH (Link to this contribution) Did you support it?

Richard Caborn | 479 c46WH (Link to this contribution) Sorry, Mr. Gale.

Speaker | 479 c46WH (Link to this contribution) Order.

Speaker | 479 c49WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that time is up.

Gerry Sutcliffe | 479 c47-8WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Gale, and I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheff...

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c46-7WH (Link to this contribution) The point is that the right hon. Gentleman was the Minister, and the industry has suffered because n...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 479 c48-9WH (Link to this contribution) Well, there are commercial confidentialities to consider, as the hon. Gentleman would expect, but I ...

Tobias Ellwood | 479 c48WH (Link to this contribution) May we see it?

Subjects

Betting Tote Horses

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