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Debate on Wednesday, 6 January 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Peter Bone. The answering member was Baroness Keeley.

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Motion made that- (1) Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business) shall have effect for this Session with the following modifications, namely: In paragraph (4) the word 'eight' shall be substituted for the word 'thirteen' in line 42 and in paragraph (5) the word 'fifth' shall be substituted for the word 'eighth' in line 44; (2) Standing Order No. 90 (Second reading committees) shall have effect for this Session with the following modification, namely: In paragraph (2) the word 'fifth' shall be substituted for the word 'eighth' in line 21; and (3) Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 29 January; 5 and 26 February; 5 and 12 March; 23 and 30 April; and 7 May. Amendment negatived on division (78 votes to 254). Main Question put and agreed to.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
503 c212-34 
Session
2009-10
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Leader of the House of Commons
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Business motions
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House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Keeley | 503 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) The motion in the name of my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House provides for priv...
David Heath | 503 c229 (Link to this contribution) The amendment and the motion, I think, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Of course, the motion sets out the Friday...
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Speaker | 503 c229 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure the hon. Gentleman is not being deliberately difficult, but he is now talking about...
Lord Young of Cookham | 503 c227 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Government have finally allowed us to debate the matter—the motion and the amendm...
David Heath | 503 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) said that the hon. Member for Well...
Peter Bone | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) I want to be very clear that my amendment does not seek to change the precedent of discussing privat...
Speaker | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) will not be distracted by the disti...
Greg Knight | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm what he was saying earlier about his willingness to withdraw his amendme...
David Heath | 503 c230 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of repeating myself and incurring the wrath of Mr. Deputy Speaker, it is the School Tran...
Peter Bottomley | 503 c231 (Link to this contribution) I will not deviate from what I intended to say, which is not as extensive as it would be if I follow...
David Heath | 503 c231 (Link to this contribution) If the amendment standing in the name of the hon. Member for Wellingborough were passed today, one o...
Peter Bottomley | 503 c231 (Link to this contribution) I certainly think it right that such Bills should be discussed, and I admire the way in which my hon...
Christopher Chope | 503 c231 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is not suggesting, is he, that he does not think it a good idea that such Bills shoul...
Christopher Chope | 503 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, I should like to put on record my admiration for my hon. Friend the Member for Welling...
Peter Bone | 503 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) If I stood up and said that my Front-Bench team agreed with me and that I had the approval of the Wh...
Peter Bone | 503 c222 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, and that is exactly the point. Standing Orders are ...
Peter Bone | 503 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. Because of her ability, I just assumed that she was Leader. As Deputy Leader of the Hou...
Peter Bone | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend is slightly quicker at maths than I am. I would certainly consider withdrawi...
Peter Bone | 503 c224 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an issue that I touched on earlier, although in a slightly different way, when...
Christopher Chope | 503 c224 (Link to this contribution) Again, I apologise for not being here at the beginning of the debate. Has my hon. Friend received an...
Peter Bone | 503 c224 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether this will encourage my right hon. Friend to vote for my amendment, but I would...
David Wilshire | 503 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to hear that my hon. Friend wants to put the matter to a vote. In reply to an inte...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c217 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman seems to feel so strongly about this allocation of time, can he tell us whethe...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c213 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Gentleman was elected in 2005, as was I, so he may not remember that it h...
Peter Bone | 503 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government are deliberately and unnecessarily restricting the voice of individual Members of thi...
Peter Bottomley | 503 c215 (Link to this contribution) Just to make the situation clear to those who will read this debate, my hon. Friend is suggesting th...
Peter Bone | 503 c215 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right—and that was the behind-the-scenes skulduggery. That was the Executive exerti...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c219 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is challenging the principle of having some non-sitting Fridays. On ...
Peter Bone | 503 c218 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, with which I agree entirely. The Government wo...
Peter Bone | 503 c217 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to criticise people who were in Parliament when I was not if I have no idea about what...
Andrew Pelling | 503 c230 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman briefly remind me of the Bill for which he thinks it so important to provide...
David Heath | 503 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for being inadvertently obtuse by not responding more prompt...
Christopher Chope | 503 c228 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Can he, on behalf of Her Majesty's loyal Oppositi...
Lord Young of Cookham | 503 c228 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is no and the longer answer is probably also no because the House has yet to debate...
Andrew Pelling | 503 c226 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman and to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for not being in the Chamber earli...
Peter Bone | 503 c226 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making his point and that is on the record, but I do not wan...
Peter Bone | 503 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not tempted down that line, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My amendment does not break Standing...
Speaker | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman, by his own admission, was unable to be here for a large part of the debat...
David Wilshire | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) I am mindful of what you said about Wednesdays, Mr. Deputy Speaker, which is quite right, but can my...
Peter Bone | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was, in fact, coming to my conclusion.
Speaker | 503 c225 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is repeating himself. He has done so twice while I have been in the Chair,...
Peter Bottomley | 503 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Liberal Democrat spokesman for anticipating a possible result of the certain ge...
Peter Bone | 503 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment (a), line 1, leave out from 'That' to end and add—"'Private Members' Bills s...
Peter Bone | 503 c223 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not going to go over what I have said, because that would be to unfair on other hon. ...
David Wilshire | 503 c222 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend and to the House for having been at a Transport Committee sitting, but...
Christopher Chope | 503 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend for not having been present at the beginning of his contribution; I wa...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c221 (Link to this contribution) I come back to the question that I have already put to the hon. Gentleman. Are members of his Front-...
Greg Knight | 503 c224 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems we currently have with Fridays is the abysmal attendance. I am not quite sure ho...
Peter Bone | 503 c224 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, in which he makes a valid point. All the Front-Bench t...
Peter Bone | 503 c215-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention. Let me address this issue in a little dept...
Peter Bone | 503 c217 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not criticising any past Executive or any past political party. This is not about whe...
Peter Bone | 503 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) I anticipated that that would be the only reasoned objection put forward by the Government. Of cours...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c215 (Link to this contribution) The Members who presented their Bills may have had some idea, because they had seen the dates in the...
Peter Bottomley | 503 c217 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has dealt with the Deputy Leader of the House's point in a very fair way. What we hav...
Baroness Keeley | 503 c217 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can tell me what the difference is between reducing, on a pro rata basis,...
Peter Bone | 503 c219 (Link to this contribution) It will be very embarrassing for the Liberal Democrats and it will be interesting for those on my Fr...
Peter Bone | 503 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention. I will not be led down the path of arg...
Peter Bone | 503 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) Fridays are important for constituency work, but I do constituency work every day of the week. We ar...
Speaker | 503 c229 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have to say to the hon. Member that although he said he did not wish to have a wider debate...
Lord Young of Cookham | 503 c220 (Link to this contribution) She is the Deputy Leader of the House.
Philip Davies | 503 c218 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend wholeheartedly, and he is doing a tremendous job, as ever, of defending ...
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