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Debate on Thursday, 18 December 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Shailesh Vara. The answering member was Chris Bryant.

Christmas Adjournment

Motion for the Christmas recess and subsequent debate.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
485 c1263-342 
Session
2008-09
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 485 c1298 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am hoping that everybody who wishes to contribute to the debate will be able to do so. I ha...
Mark Williams | 485 c1318-20 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess). I shall not go into the f...
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David Amess | 485 c1316-8 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Christmas recess, I wish to raise many issues. I do not expect the...
Mark Williams | 485 c1320-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is of course right. His constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire, like my constituency ...
Roger Williams | 485 c1320 (Link to this contribution) That comes at a time when the Government are saying that small businesses must be supported. Small b...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 485 c1309-10 (Link to this contribution) I will not follow the hon. Gentleman down that line, although, as he knows, I have promised to stand...
John McDonnell | 485 c1309 (Link to this contribution) They will also be undertaking direct action training, just in case.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 485 c1313-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be able to catch your eye in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. Christmas and new ...
Kerry McCarthy | 485 c1310-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to say a few words about welfare reform. I had hoped to deliver this speech during Monday's d...
Paul Burstow | 485 c1267-70 (Link to this contribution) Over the years, the House has undoubtedly ceded to the Government more and more of its former contro...
Meg Munn | 485 c1264-7 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, that is a difficult question because there are confidentiality issues f...
David Howarth | 485 c1267 (Link to this contribution) May I draw my hon. Friend's attention to another, rather more immediate possibility? During the next...
Paul Burstow | 485 c1267 (Link to this contribution) First, I wish you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and other hon. Members the compliments of the season, but I f...
Baroness Browning | 485 c1295 (Link to this contribution) Although the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) is no longer in the Chamber, I do not...
Speaker | 485 c1291 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman's time is up.
Shona McIsaac | 485 c1291-4 (Link to this contribution) I wish to begin by putting on the record the fact that this week marks the 90th anniversary of women...
Keith Vaz | 485 c1288 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to raise these points. May I tell him that both the Home Secretary...
Andrew MacKay | 485 c1288-91 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that. We will all follow his inquiry very closely. On...
Andrew MacKay | 485 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) I thought the right hon. Gentleman was going to spoil my next remarks by drawing Members' attention ...
Keith Vaz | 485 c1284-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Turner), who raised some important...
Andrew MacKay | 485 c1287 (Link to this contribution) As this is the season of good will, let me join the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz...
John Grogan | 485 c1281-2 (Link to this contribution) I have always been an assiduous reader of the Select Committee reports that my right hon. Friend pro...
Andrew Turner | 485 c1282-4 (Link to this contribution) First, I should like to talk about the difficulty that local councils face in providing evidence to ...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 485 c1307-9 (Link to this contribution) As always, it is a great privilege to follow my neighbour, the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ...
John McDonnell | 485 c1304-7 (Link to this contribution) In these debates, Madam Deputy Speaker, our whole life almost passes in front of us, but I want to c...
Jo Swinson | 485 c1301-4 (Link to this contribution) Like many hon. Members, I had the experience of attending a school nativity play last week. It was a...
Ian Gibson | 485 c1298-300 (Link to this contribution) I will support the cause and be very brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to weave my talk around a d...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 485 c1300 (Link to this contribution) Let me inform the hon. Gentleman and the House that my sister, who, like him, is a GP, has fed me so...
Ian Gibson | 485 c1300-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will now be invited to interact with the people there. Who knows? ...
Baroness Browning | 485 c1295-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall not talk about the trains because I want to talk about a problem we have with the M5, which ...
Baroness Browning | 485 c1297-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if the hon. Lady does not mind, because I realise that not everybody will get to contrib...
Mike Hall | 485 c1273-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to. I am going to ask the Deputy Leader of the House whether he will use his good off...
Mike Hall | 485 c1273 (Link to this contribution) It might be a ““her””.
Paul Burstow | 485 c1270-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but that is not what has happened, and that is why we seem to be in a never-ending cycle of chi...
Speaker | 485 c1272 (Link to this contribution) Order. Every speech can be extended by such Christmas greetings, although we do appreciate them.
Mike Hall | 485 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) I start on a point that I have raised in previous Adjournment debates; it was also raised by my hon....
Paul Burstow | 485 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I wish everyone a happy Christmas.
Philip Davies | 485 c1281 (Link to this contribution) May I commend to the hon. Gentleman the article on this very subject in the Racing Post by Peter O'S...
John Grogan | 485 c1281 (Link to this contribution) As always, the hon. Gentleman gives me a good tip; he is particularly good at doing that. He has als...
Keith Vaz | 485 c1281 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the reason why pubs are threatened with closure is that super...
Mike Hall | 485 c1276 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that is so, because this week at Daresbury we have had a European first. There is a p...
Speaker | 485 c1276 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to hon. Members that they do not have to take 15 minutes? If each succeeding speake...
Lord McLoughlin | 485 c1277-8 (Link to this contribution) I will try to abide by your hint, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Let me start by welcoming the Deputy Leader o...
Chris Bryant | 485 c1278 (Link to this contribution) It was the right hon. Gentleman.
Lord McLoughlin | 485 c1278-9 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy Leader of the House is correct—it was me. The Prime Minister said:"““There will be a stat...
John Grogan | 485 c1279-81 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin), who mad...
Eric Joyce | 485 c1333-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Glasgow, East (John Mason) for making a short speech and giving me the c...
Shailesh Vara | 485 c1334-7 (Link to this contribution) May I join in with the plaudits for the Deputy Leader of the House, and wish him well on his first o...
Richard Bacon | 485 c1324-8 (Link to this contribution) I wish to raise my concerns over allegations that institutionalised fraud took place at the former M...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 485 c1322-4 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise a very important matter in the House—the worsening sec...
Andrew Pelling | 485 c1321-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly follow your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Like my colleagues, I should like to wis...
Speaker | 485 c1321 (Link to this contribution) Order. I should like to try to give everybody the opportunity to speak, so it would be helpful if ho...
Paul Robert Holmes | 485 c1329-32 (Link to this contribution) I shall wish everyone a happy Christmas and new year now, because I shall end my speech by talking a...
John Mason | 485 c1329 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. One of the disappointments that I have had in coming here is that there are no Green politic...
Andrew Pelling | 485 c1329 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the hon. Gentleman's comments and share experience with regard to the London Assembly, whi...
John Mason | 485 c1328-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I can speak quite as fast as the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Mr. Bacon). Many subj...
Chris Bryant | 485 c1337-8 (Link to this contribution) My predecessor warned me that these debates were slightly odd events, to put it mildly. I have taken...
Chris Bryant | 485 c1338-42 (Link to this contribution) Well, I think she used to get rather worried about the knobs at the end of her bed. We started off ...
Baroness Browning | 485 c1338 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful that I was not cast as Grandma.
Meg Munn | 485 c1263-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to take this opportunity to speak in the recess Adjournment debate. I intend to deal ...
Philip Davies | 485 c1264 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that a key way of ensuring that problems do not happen again, whether they ...
Meg Munn | 485 c1270 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman believe that a properly conducted serious case review should be able to ...
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