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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 7 April 2010, in the House of Commons.

Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill

Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill. Report stage. Amendment considered and withdrawn. Third reading debate. Agreed on question and Bill passed.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
508 c1044-56 
Session
2009-10
Department
Committee of Public Accounts
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 508 c1044 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment 3, page 6, line 37, leave out subsection (6).
Edward Leigh | 508 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) These are simple probing amendments. This Bill is clearly important, and it will have to be consider...
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Sally Keeble | 508 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that this Bill has made it into the wash-up. It is a tribute to the business managers a...
William Cash | 508 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Lady knows that I am extremely keen on all help that can give a reasonable f...
Sally Keeble | 508 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I am going to be quite honest about this. Opposition Members have to make up their minds about which...
Sally Keeble | 508 c1046 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman's colleagues on the Front Bench, who have behaved entirely proper...
Sally Keeble | 508 c1046 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. The other side of the argument is that it was important to ensure t...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1046 (Link to this contribution) That is fine, but then why did the hon. Lady put subsection (1) in her Bill?
Sally Keeble | 508 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that. First, I am going to go through the hon. Gentleman's comments on his amendment...
David Gauke | 508 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) We are pleased that the Government have found time to bring the Bill back to the House on Report and...
William Cash | 508 c1049 (Link to this contribution) My question is really only about the accuracy of language. When we use the expression "sunset clause...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) May I ask one other question? Can the hon. Lady assure me that there will not be very expensive laws...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that I tabled amendment 2 because we have had a debate about the law of unintended cons...
David Gauke | 508 c1050 (Link to this contribution) That is possible under the clause as it stands: it gives Ministers in the next Government, whoever t...
Speaker | 508 c1049 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be brief at the best of times—they should not be mini-speeches—but there...
David Gauke | 508 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) I would always take guidance on terminology from my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), but...
Ian Pearson | 508 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the probing spirit in which the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) tabled the ame...
Ian Pearson | 508 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I assume that he listened to the arguments made by my hon...
David Howarth | 508 c1056 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. ... It relates to the motion, Mr. Speaker. To be clear about wha...
Speaker | 508 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) that, as I am sure he appreciates, I intended...
John Battle | 508 c1055-6 (Link to this contribution) Having served for the past 10 years on the Select Committee on International Development, it is a pr...
Speaker | 508 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The question is that leave be given— ... Order. I hope that the point of order relates to the Bill...
Gerald Kaufman | 508 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) If this is the final speech that I make in this Parliament, I cannot think of a more worthy piece of...
Ian Pearson | 508 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member f...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Third Reading
Ian Pearson | 508 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that the Treasury will look at all the available evidence on the potenti...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the whole debate, but I want to know what the nature of the assessment will be. W...
Mark Oaten | 508 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I can speed things up by putting on the record the genuine cross-p...
Speaker | 508 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Order. Three right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. We have only 17 minutes remain...
David Gauke | 508 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, we welcome the fact that the Bill has returned to the House and that time has bee...
David Drew | 508 c1046 (Link to this contribution) If we were to pass the Bill into statute and then, a year later, effectively let it wither on the vi...
Sally Keeble | 508 c1048 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. One problem has been the cost of lawsuits, which is in part ...
Sally Keeble | 508 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, as I know that others also wish to comment. I am proud to have taken responsibilit...
Edward Leigh | 508 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 2, page 6, line 32, leave out subsection (3).
Subjects
Debts Developing countries Debts written off Sunset clauses
Legislation
Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill 2009-10
Link
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