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Debate on Thursday, 25 February 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hain. The answering member was Cheryl Gillan.

Welsh Affairs

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of Welsh affairs.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
506 c468-550 
Session
2009-10
Department
Wales Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 506 c550 (Link to this contribution) At this, the conclusion of the debate on Welsh affairs, I should report that I have received a lette...
Lord Hain | 506 c472 (Link to this contribution) I know that there is concern about business rates and the changes in Wales, but 60 per cent. of busi...
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Philip Dunne | 506 c472 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of business collapse, does the Secretary of State appreciate what has happened in the...
Lord Hain | 506 c472 (Link to this contribution) The planned Tory cutbacks would be nasty in their effect on Wales. The difference between a Tory Go...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because it gives me the opportunity to congr...
Roger Williams | 506 c472 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State claims credit for his Government for the fact that this recession is not as a...
Lord Hain | 506 c471 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman rose, because it is a matter of record what the Tory party's ...
Lord Hain | 506 c471 (Link to this contribution) May I finish this point? Our record speaks for itself. There are still 95,000 more people in work in...
Lord Hain | 506 c471 (Link to this contribution) First, may I congratulate my hon. Friend on an excellent 27 years of marriage? He is right to say th...
Albert Owen | 506 c471 (Link to this contribution) This September, my wife and I will be celebrating our 27th anniversary. In the 1980s, we bought our ...
Kim Howells | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend and hope that he can now get on with the substantive part of his speech...
Lord Hain | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) That is what the Conservatives have said. They have said that we spent too much money on business su...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c474 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hain | 506 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot agree more with my right hon. Friend. May I take this opportunity to pay tribute to him for...
Mark Pritchard | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hain | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to do so. I was openly arguing tha...
Mark Pritchard | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State, who is being very generous in giving way. I think that I mi...
Lord Hain | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) I shall take one final point from the hon. Gentleman.
Lord Hain | 506 c473 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will find in the official record, as everyone else in the House will have noticed...
Lord Hain | 506 c469 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to those points in due course. Our Government and the Welsh Assembly Government have p...
Lord Hain | 506 c468 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to make the comparison with other parts of the United Kingdom. As I shall describe l...
Mark Pritchard | 506 c468 (Link to this contribution) The Deputy First Minister of Wales, Ieuan Wyn Jones, has said that there is "no room for complacency...
Lord Hain | 506 c468 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of Welsh Affairs." As we take this opportu...
Speaker | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) Order. What is a point of order is that when the occupant of the Chair rises any other hon. Member s...
Lord Hain | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) It was because we are concerned about the numbers on poverty that we set a target for abolishing chi...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) While the right hon. Gentleman is painting such a rosy picture of Labour's time in office, could he ...
Mark Pritchard | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. [Hon. Members: "A point of order?"] I know that this seems ...
Lord Hain | 506 c469 (Link to this contribution) It is not often that we get thanked from across the Floor of the House, so I am grateful to the hon....
Lembit Opik | 506 c469 (Link to this contribution) May I put on record my gratitude to the Secretary of State and his fellow Ministers for the help tha...
Lord Hain | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) Nobody, let alone members of the Cabinet, such as myself, is being complacent. My point is that if w...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c470 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has tried to make some reassuring remarks about the size of our deficit. Our ...
Lord Hain | 506 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) We have asked universities to make efficiency savings, and I do not think that "a brutal cut" is a p...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c481 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman sits in a Cabinet that approved a brutal cut of almost £1 billion to the hi...
Lord Hain | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) I have replied to that letter, and on Monday I put a copy of the First Minister's letter and my repl...
Lembit Opik | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) On broadband, I am heartened by the Government's apparent commitment to address "not spots". Many of...
Lord Hain | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has got me on that one. I always admire his energy as a parliamentarian, but this Gov...
Adam Price | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) In response to the question about governance raised by the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinla...
Lord Hain | 506 c480 (Link to this contribution) What is the hon. Lady suggesting—that paying a UK-wide levy of only 50p extra a month should encoura...
Lord Hain | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) Indeed we are committed to that. It is precisely to address the future needs of the Welsh economy th...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c479 (Link to this contribution) Many pensioners—perhaps especially those who live on their own—are not familiar with the iPhones and...
Lord Hain | 506 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) I can take my own mother as an example. She is a Welsh pensioner, and is quite happy to pay the rent...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c482-4 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by paying tribute to our Welsh servicemen and women, who so bravely put their lives on t...
Albert Owen | 506 c484 (Link to this contribution) There is a myth perpetuated by the Conservatives that that issue is to do uniquely with energy price...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c484 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman fought hard for Anglesey Aluminium, but it is fair to say that the Government are...
Lord Hain | 506 c484 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Lady's regret—deep regret, in my case—that Anglesey Aluminium closed. As my hon. Fr...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c484 (Link to this contribution) I, too, met Rio Tinto representatives, and all I can say to the right hon. Gentleman is that there w...
Julie Morgan | 506 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady aware of the expansion of private companies in my constituency? Last week, I visite...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely delighted to hear that, particularly as GE Healthcare is headquartered in my constit...
Albert Owen | 506 c485 (Link to this contribution) You didn't mention the new jobs.
Ann Clwyd | 506 c474 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend supports the idea, as does the Prime Minister, of a Robin Hood tax ...
Lord Hain | 506 c475 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that question. She is absolutely right to say that I have ...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c474 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but I want to give him the opportunity to ...
Lord Hain | 506 c474 (Link to this contribution) What I said—I shall read again to the hon. Lady from my speech—was that in the early 1990s recession...
Lord Hain | 506 c474 (Link to this contribution) I think I need to make a bit of progress.
Lembit Opik | 506 c476 (Link to this contribution) I know that it is not fashionable to do so, but I have to report two bits of good news. HSBC and the...
Elfyn Llwyd | 506 c475 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Secretary of State's comments on this issue. We are all struggling with businesses ...
Lord Hain | 506 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) We have been pressing the banks. We have done so since the beginning and during negotiations that le...
Andrew Mackinlay | 506 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and I apologise for interrupting. I asked ...
Lord Hain | 506 c477 (Link to this contribution) I have given way a lot up to now, and I want to make some progress. That is why we celebrate, not a...
Lord Hain | 506 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady nods her head in satisfaction. Then, wages of as little as £1.20 an hour were common a...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c478 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows that that sort of rhetoric is rather cheap, and that I do care about ...
Lord Hain | 506 c476 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and speaks the truth. At that really difficult moment ...
Hywel Williams | 506 c476 (Link to this contribution) While the Secretary of State is in a happy and optimistic mood, will he tell us whether he is happy ...
Lord Hain | 506 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) I think that bankers have made themselves even more unpopular than politicians in recent times, and ...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c477 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Mark Tami | 506 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady did not argue for that.
Lord Hain | 506 c478 (Link to this contribution) She certainly did not argue for that. Is she now saying that she was wrong on the minimum wage, just...
David Jones | 506 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) The St. David's day debate this year has been something of a bittersweet occasion: sweet because it ...
Adam Price | 506 c541-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) for his very kind remarks, and I wish him well pe...
Wayne David | 506 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but time is short. [Interruption.] No, I am quoting accurately from Conservative policy ...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c549 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Wayne David | 506 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) We have had a good debate this afternoon. A wide range of issues has been discussed. My hon. Friend ...
David Jones | 506 c545-8 (Link to this contribution) The fact of the matter is that in this country we had a tripartite system that did not work. There w...
Nick Ainger | 506 c545 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is doing the Governor a disservice. The Treasury Committee looked at these matter...
David Jones | 506 c545 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene, but I have very little time. The tripartite syst...
Albert Owen | 506 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) That is a very churlish remark. It shows that the hon. Lady does not appreciate the amount of effort...
Albert Owen | 506 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware that the port of Holyhead is now linked via the A55 all the way to Ches...
Mark Williams | 506 c536-9 (Link to this contribution) Given the time and the fact that a neighbouring hon. Member and friend, the hon. Member for Ynys Môn...
Nick Ainger | 506 c534-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that we should take the axe to the financial ...
Albert Owen | 506 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams). I am grateful for his wor...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c534 (Link to this contribution) According to the Lobby briefing.
Nick Ainger | 506 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend makes his point very well. We can be incredibly proud of what we have achiev...
David Jones | 506 c534 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to the real economy to distinguish it from the banking and financial secto...
Nick Ainger | 506 c534 (Link to this contribution) Well, the Lobby briefing was wrong then. Those earning less than £39,000 will receive their bonus in...
Nick Ainger | 506 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy) referred to his first contribution to the W...
Lembit Opik | 506 c531 (Link to this contribution) With the exception of the fact that I always highlight party contradictions as I go along.
Lembit Opik | 506 c528 (Link to this contribution) There is a contradiction in the hon. Gentleman's comment. First, he implies that we do not need the ...
David TC Davies | 506 c529 (Link to this contribution) We have only to look at the hospitals in London to know that we have been building hospitals for peo...
Lembit Opik | 506 c528 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that YouTube will get a spike this evening. The idea that the national health service is ...
Lembit Opik | 506 c529-31 (Link to this contribution) I have problems with TAN 8 as well. The first is the presumption that the hon. Gentleman has describ...
Nick Ainger | 506 c531 (Link to this contribution) It is always interesting to follow the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik), who always aim...
Lembit Opik | 506 c529 (Link to this contribution) We did not have an NHS in the 14th century. If we look not at the 14th century but at the early 20th...
David Jones | 506 c529 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the problem with onshore wind farms is the Welsh Assembly's techn...
Lembit Opik | 506 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) We need to go back to the evidence. About two decades ago, the pound started falling in the exchange...
Lembit Opik | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) I will, as the hon. Lady seems very keen to respond.
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) May I recommend that the hon. Gentleman reads my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor's Mais lect...
David Wright | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) It will only take a few seconds.
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) Actually, it will take a little longer, as it is a very worthy document. It proposes a""new system o...
Lembit Opik | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) It is my birthday next week, so perhaps the hon. Lady will send me a bound copy. If she does, I assu...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lembit Opik | 506 c527 (Link to this contribution) I am willing to give way if I have misunderstood what Conservative policy was at the time, but I dou...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) Read the Select Committee evidence.
Roger Williams | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Secretary of State—
Lord Hain | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will agree that any proper reading of the legislative competence o...
Roger Williams | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) That is a strange and illogical argument, because if powers were transferred to the Welsh Assembly, ...
David Jones | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the opposition of the Conservatives on the Select Committee was fou...
Roger Williams | 506 c490-2 (Link to this contribution) As always, it is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy)...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 506 c490 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important aspiration. However, given that the great bulk of the population of south W...
Lembit Opik | 506 c490 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that we have not so much as a dual carriageway in Montgomerys...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 506 c487-90 (Link to this contribution) I have been trying to work out the first time that I spoke in a Welsh affairs debate. I think that i...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c487 (Link to this contribution) There we have it—answer came there none. A Conservative Secretary of State for Wales would make her...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c487 (Link to this contribution) I have read those letters, and they are pretty thin on the ground—they say absolutely nothing. I am ...
Lord Hain | 506 c487 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady knows what the Government of Wales Act stipulates, I assume, and my officials are work...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c486 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had been paying attention, he would know that we were talking about events tha...
Lord Hain | 506 c486 (Link to this contribution) As I explained, I have placed the letters in the Library, and they are very clear that my officials ...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c486 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress. The relationship between the Government in Whitehall and the Wels...
Albert Owen | 506 c485 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady made the important point that any future Conservative Government would help business. ...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c485 (Link to this contribution) I have certainly read about them. However, I am also concerned about all those who have lost their j...
Lembit Opik | 506 c486 (Link to this contribution) Earlier on, the hon. Lady said that she was against the minimum wage and in favour of a minimum inco...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to look backwards at hypothetical questions, because I have had to listen to nearly a...
Hywel Williams | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) I was wondering whether the right hon. Lady would refer to the fact that the UK economy is overly de...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) I find it quite amusing to be lectured on regulation by a party that has constantly argued against r...
David Jones | 506 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady mentions the failure of the banks. Does she share the view of the Governor of th...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c497 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish my argument, please. Then I will happily give way. What most people think, and w...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for making that point. In my original answer, I said that I could not tak...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) I had finished my argument on that point and did not expect to expand on it further. I just make the...
David Jones | 506 c497 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Ann Clwyd | 506 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) No, let me continue. I saw the effect of being out of work on those people in the Cynon Valley. It w...
Lord Hain | 506 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again; he is being generous. It would be interest...
Roger Williams | 506 c493 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point—it is the point that I am trying to make—but there is also a ...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that daffodils are in short supply at the moment. Very few of us have been able to get t...
Roger Williams | 506 c493-5 (Link to this contribution) From the Liberal Democrat Benches, I certainly cannot answer on behalf of the Conservative party—we ...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c496 (Link to this contribution) The leaders of the miners' strike at that time predicted that the coal mines were going to shut. The...
David TC Davies | 506 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is making some interesting comments, but does she not also accept that the strik...
Lembit Opik | 506 c493 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend whose constituency is very similar to mine in geography and social profi...
Roger Williams | 506 c492 (Link to this contribution) I will read it, but it is incredible to me—when I became a Member of Parliament in 2001, I did not t...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way again?
Lembit Opik | 506 c525 (Link to this contribution) I have never got very excited about discussions on the Boundary Commission, but the Leader of the Op...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 506 c525 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman wonders what the impact of a Conservative Government would be on his constituency...
Lembit Opik | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House is grateful for that clarification, but I am slightly disappointed, a...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c526 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening to the hon. Gentleman and want to put him out of his agony. The leader of my p...
David TC Davies | 506 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to returning to that piece of history on another occasion, but now I want to talk abo...
Lembit Opik | 506 c520 (Link to this contribution) I hold the hon. Gentleman in high regard, and I am grateful to him for giving way. I should say, how...
Lembit Opik | 506 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) I echo the observations that have just been made regarding our retiring friends. If people did not ...
Hywel Francis | 506 c521-4 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by paying tribute to all the Welsh members of our armed forces in Afghanistan, particula...
David TC Davies | 506 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) What I will acknowledge is this. Beveridge's report was published in, I believe, 1942. It was certai...
Albert Owen | 506 c519 (Link to this contribution) The social policies devised by Beveridge, which were introduced by the Labour Government in the NHS ...
David TC Davies | 506 c517-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to say a few words. I should like to follow up on points raised b...
Julie Morgan | 506 c517 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for those comments. I hope that he will be able to do something, or at ...
Lord Hain | 506 c517 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and allowing me to respond briefly. I am well aware o...
Julie Morgan | 506 c514-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate held on St. David'...
Hywel Williams | 506 c514 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman now has the headline for his next press release. Idris Davies was often viewed a...
David TC Davies | 506 c514 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am fond of Idris Davies's poems, and one of his more famous ones was "When we walked to Mert...
Hywel Williams | 506 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed it would, but the public debate so often seems to be on features of the NHS in England. Perha...
David TC Davies | 506 c520 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment, because I am not afraid to debate the real history of this country with...
Lord Hain | 506 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I agree that the A40 should be upgraded. I argued that as a Welsh Transport Minister ...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c503 (Link to this contribution) I do not paint any dismal picture of life in Pembrokeshire. Pembrokeshire remains the best place in ...
Lord Hain | 506 c503 (Link to this contribution) Because of the Labour Government.
Stephen Crabb | 506 c503 (Link to this contribution) It always has been. We have spoken before about the unemployment figures, and I welcome the drop in ...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c502 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The great paradox that people in my constituency do not und...
Lord Touhig | 506 c504 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that is important to compare records on the NHS. The Labour party founded the NHS—re...
Lord Touhig | 506 c503 (Link to this contribution) I am probably the only Member on the Government Benches seeking to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Spea...
Lord Hain | 506 c503 (Link to this contribution) I join my right hon. Friend in paying tribute to all our colleagues who are retiring, but may I pay ...
Lord Touhig | 506 c504 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend. When I came and stood at the Bar of the House he stood on one side and...
David TC Davies | 506 c504 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows that I hold him in the highest esteem, but does he really think it wi...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd). She is a powerful voi...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c500 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend has had an opportunity yet to read the text of the excellent lecture...
Hywel Williams | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady asked for a response on what is now called the Robin Hood tax. That has been a p...
Ann Clwyd | 506 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) At least we have support from one section of the Opposition. We should also explore the idea of a h...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman's constituency is the only one in Wales that has been immune from the nea...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c502 (Link to this contribution) I remember visiting local employees of HMRC with my hon. Friend several years ago and complaining ab...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c501 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, as ever. This Government are so desperate to cling on t...
Stephen Crabb | 506 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I am very alarmed at those statistics; in fact, I find them horrifying. The true state of the public...
Mark Williams | 506 c501 (Link to this contribution) I wish to reinforce that point. The knock-on effect to which the hon. Gentleman refers means that th...
Roger Williams | 506 c510 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has the advantage of me, as I have not seen that briefing. However, the fact remains t...
Lembit Opik | 506 c510 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lembit Opik | 506 c510 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to prolong the debate about the British banking system, but I gently highlight to the ...
Roger Williams | 506 c510 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point. There have already been increases in unemployment in Wales and,...
Albert Owen | 506 c511 (Link to this contribution) I shared the hon. Gentleman's disappointment when the Caernarfon project did not go ahead, and I bac...
Hywel Williams | 506 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) I certainly support the prosperity that would come from such a project, which would spill over into ...
Julie Morgan | 506 c512 (Link to this contribution) In view of the points that the hon. Gentleman has just made, does he agree that it is important to r...
David Jones | 506 c512 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that preserving the NHS budget would also benefit Wales through the Barnett formu...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c504 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman therefore share my despair regarding the report that has emerged today...
Lord Touhig | 506 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Lady's concern about budget difficulties in the health service, which are inevitabl...
David Jones | 506 c507 (Link to this contribution) I share the right hon. Gentleman's concern about the attitude of the nationalists, but, given his co...
Lord Touhig | 506 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) The Labour party leads the Welsh Assembly, and the policies that the Assembly implements are those o...
Lord Touhig | 506 c505-7 (Link to this contribution) The point is that we have continued to invest to reduce poverty and improve communities. That invest...
Hywel Williams | 506 c509 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman in that respect, but I would look at the whole piece and go...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I am not disagreeing with the hon. Gentleman, but in the lobby briefing this morning—we all receive ...
Hywel Williams | 506 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig). We might not always see ey...
Albert Owen | 506 c509 (Link to this contribution) Like me, the hon. Gentleman is really disappointed to see those large bonuses being paid out, partic...
David Jones | 506 c505 (Link to this contribution) If tackling poverty is indeed the Government's principal aim, will the right hon. Gentleman concede ...
Lembit Opik | 506 c498 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady share with me a sense of wonderment at the cheek of the Conservative party ...
David TC Davies | 506 c528 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that I would be quickly ruled out of order if I were to follow the line that I want to. Th...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c540 (Link to this contribution) Given that the £48 million was forthcoming from the hon. Gentleman's party and his party is still in...
Cheryl Gillan | 506 c527 (Link to this contribution) What I want to say is simply that my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer suppor...
Lord Hain | 506 c493 (Link to this contribution) Yes, he says! Well, that is very serious. It shows the Conservative's intolerance of devolution and ...
Hywel Williams | 506 c512 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Lady and I am very glad that there was co-operation on both sides of ...
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Children Broadcasting Banks Devolution Credit Broadband Incentives Internet Economic situation NHS Pensioners Poverty Minimum wage Public expenditure Public service Telecommunications Small businesses Wales Welsh language Taxation Unemployment Welsh Government Economic recession
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