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Communications Allowance

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

506 c282-307WH 

Session

2009-10

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Graham Stuart | 506 c284WH (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Cook. My understanding is that critical reference, and certainly...

Speaker | 506 c284WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I have the point. [Interruption.] Order. I will not allow this sitting to descend to the leve...

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David TC Davies | 506 c283-4WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Cook. May I establish whether that British citizen was warned that such a d...

Keith Hill | 506 c284WH (Link to this contribution) I was about to remind the House that I make my case for the communications allowance on entirely dis...

Speaker | 506 c284WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I have your point. It would appear that my rationale has not been understood. I stated that i...

Keith Hill | 506 c283WH (Link to this contribution) No. I think that the decision to scrap the communications allowance is wrong, and I want to explain ...

Bob Spink | 506 c283WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Hill | 506 c283WH (Link to this contribution) I find that to be a somewhat predictable intervention. I shall deal with the points raised by the ho...

Graham Stuart | 506 c283WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that the communications allowance could not be seen as being in the fi...

Graham Stuart | 506 c282WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Hill | 506 c282WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Cook, as I have on a number of other occasion...

Keith Hill | 506 c282-3WH (Link to this contribution) Not at this early stage. I have plenty to say, and I shall yield the Floor to Opposition Members onc...

Brian Binley | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) I have some considerable sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, but there are ways i...

Keith Hill | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Let the hon. Member for Cities of London ...

Mark Field | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Hill | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Binley), but I hope that he will be b...

Keith Hill | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) I have to draw a line under accepting further interventions, at least at this early stage. I have pl...

Brian Binley | 506 c286WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Speaker | 506 c288WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that this is the third time that I have said this—there is too much chuntering. I nee...

Keith Hill | 506 c288-9WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Cook. Let me reprise that quotation from Lord Rennard:""Between 1883 and 2000, effec...

Mark Field | 506 c287WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I entirely endorse what he has said about repre...

Keith Hill | 506 c287-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has made a reasonable intervention, as I would expect from ...

Keith Hill | 506 c284-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I allowed the hon. Gentleman to intervene at that point. I mentioned that the commun...

Greg Hands | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Hill | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I served with the hon. Gentleman on the European Scrutiny Committee, which was of course an enormous...

Greg Hands | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. His principle that Members of Parliament should be ...

Bob Spink | 506 c284WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am grateful to him also for bringing thi...

Keith Hill | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I concede that a small number of colleagues have overstepped the mark. However, I am sure that in 20...

Greg Hands | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to answer that?

Keith Hill | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I will, because I have actually made a charge.

Greg Hands | 506 c285WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman again. He mentioned that more than 600 Members have made use of the...

Graham Stuart | 506 c292WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Gordon Prentice | 506 c292-3WH (Link to this contribution) I have my own speech to make, and if the hon. Gentleman catches your eye, Mr. Cook, he will be able ...

Gordon Prentice | 506 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I have a lot to say, but I shall compress it because I know that so many colleagues on both sides of...

Brian Binley | 506 c293WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Gordon Prentice | 506 c293-4WH (Link to this contribution) I will not. I have a lot of ground to cover, and the Member can make his own speech. My fifth parli...

Speaker | 506 c289WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I am following what the right hon. Gentleman is saying and I must remind the House that we ar...

Keith Hill | 506 c289WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that advice, Mr. Cook. I want to go on immediately to the communications allowance and...

Speaker | 506 c289WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I must explain that what I am seeking is a clear distinction between parliamentary funding an...

Keith Hill | 506 c289-91WH (Link to this contribution) I want point out, Mr. Cook, that during that three-year period, when my constituents have been subje...

Speaker | 506 c291WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I need to make one or two points clear. I have been very tolerant with the opening speech, al...

Lord Tyrie | 506 c291WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Cook. I had been given to understand from documents that were provided to u...

Speaker | 506 c291WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seeks an explanation from me of my decision. Normally, the Chair would refuse to ...

Lord Tyrie | 506 c291WH (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Cook. ... Mr. Cook, will you clarify whether this now sets a pr...

Speaker | 506 c291WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that hon. Members realise that this is, of course, taking up time for debate. I call Andrew T...

David Heath | 506 c301-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad the extra time the hon. Member for Battersea (Martin Linton) took came out of my allocatio...

Speaker | 506 c301WH (Link to this contribution) Six minutes, David Heath.

David Heath | 506 c302-3WH (Link to this contribution) I have not got time—I have only six minutes. It is also right that we should be able to write proac...

Graham Stuart | 506 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Graham Stuart | 506 c304WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Shailesh Vara | 506 c303-4WH (Link to this contribution) May I start by giving my condolences to the family of Michael Foot? He was a distinguished Member of...

Graham Stuart | 506 c304WH (Link to this contribution) The point is that communication was not impossible before. There was a very modest amount that could...

Shailesh Vara | 506 c304WH (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, because I have a lot to get through.

Shailesh Vara | 506 c304-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that. In fact, his intervention leads me on to my next point. Th...

Baroness Keeley | 506 c305WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Cook, and I join in the tributes paid to Mich...

Baroness Keeley | 506 c305-7WH (Link to this contribution) No, there is not time. Proactive communication, such as the letter I sent to my constituents, is not...

Lord Tyrie | 506 c305WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Brian Binley | 506 c294WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Cook. May I ask a simple question? Are we allowed to use such props in the ...

Speaker | 506 c294WH (Link to this contribution) There is a convention on the Floor of the House that visual aids are not allowed. I cannot see what ...

Gordon Prentice | 506 c294WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to test the patience of colleagues, so let me just say that I have too many leaflets t...

Lord Tyrie | 506 c294-5WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Streatham (Keith Hill), who obtained the debate, has made a huge contribut...

Martin Linton | 506 c295WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Greg Hands | 506 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to clarify. My point was that one has no choice about something like a website. In 2007, ...

Martin Salter | 506 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that non-clarification, but I note that he did not clarify whether he...

Martin Salter | 506 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in two seconds. Perhaps he had to take that money to fund a we...

Martin Linton | 506 c298WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Martin Salter | 506 c297-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie), who made an intelligent contr...

Speaker | 506 c297WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I am happy to inform the House that the three main Front-Bench spokespeople have agreed to re...

Lord Tyrie | 506 c295-7WH (Link to this contribution) I will not. If the hon. Gentleman will permit me, I will carry on, although that is purely for reaso...

Martin Salter | 506 c298-9WH (Link to this contribution) No I will not. I reject Sir Christopher Kelly's analysis. I wrote to the Members Estimate Committee...

Greg Hands | 506 c298WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Martin Salter | 506 c298WH (Link to this contribution) No, I want to be very brief. The communications allowance was brought in—no one has mentioned this—...

Brian Binley | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) I will make two quick and simple points, but first I congratulate the right hon. Member for Streatha...

Speaker | 506 c299WH (Link to this contribution) There are only five minutes remaining.

Brian Binley | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Of course, I shall come straight to the communications allowance. I agree with the remarks of the h...

Speaker | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Communications allowance.

Brian Binley | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Finally, non-doms have been mentioned and they do have an impact on this matter. Between 2001 and 20...

Speaker | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you.

Martin Linton | 506 c300-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is important to distinguish two issues in the debate. The first is the tsunami of party propagand...

Speaker | 506 c300WH (Link to this contribution) There are two minutes remaining. I call Martin Linton.

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