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Coalfield Communities (Regeneration)

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

517 c21-45WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2010-1972
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Eric Illsley | 517 c38-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing the debate. I want to ma...

Baroness Keeley | 517 c39-42WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dobbin. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Memb...

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Lord Stunell | 517 c42-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dobbin, as it was to serve under Mr Bone befor...

Baroness Keeley | 517 c43WH (Link to this contribution) A great deal has been said in this debate, including by me, about the difficulties with funding from...

Lord Stunell | 517 c43-4WH (Link to this contribution) I would not want the January meeting to be regarded as the earliest time at which it is possible for...

Joan Walley | 517 c44WH (Link to this contribution) My concern, which I raised earlier, is that the coalfields programme is about more than the Coalfiel...

Lord Stunell | 517 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) I shall correct one detail: the pupil premium is intended to support disadvantaged children, whateve...

Baroness Keeley | 517 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say whether that support includes additional funding? That goes back to the questi...

Ann Clwyd | 517 c38WH (Link to this contribution) I will speak briefly to pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) for securing...

Lord Stunell | 517 c45WH (Link to this contribution) I will pass the right hon. Lady's request on to the relevant person. However, DCLG deals only with E...

Ann Clwyd | 517 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister investigate ways to ask Mick Clapham to do a similar review in Wales and Scotland?...

Joan Walley | 517 c23-4WH (Link to this contribution) Welcome to the Chair, Mr Bone. I am sure that you will keep us all in order and make sure that there...

Speaker | 517 c23WH (Link to this contribution) Order. It is great to see that so many hon. Members are here, but the winding-up speeches will start...

Lisa Nandy | 517 c21-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in my first Westminster Hall debate under your stewardship, Mr Bone. I...

Speaker | 517 c21WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy), the Minister and the Opposition spokesman for being ...

Mark Spencer | 517 c24-5WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I am unique among Conservative Members in this regard, but I still have a work...

Nick Smith | 517 c25-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) for initiating this debate. I support the r...

Ian Lavery | 517 c28-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing today's much-needed deba...

David Hamilton | 517 c29WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that at a time when major cuts are foreseen in the public sector and w...

Ian Lavery | 517 c29WH (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend's comments. The projects that I have just mentioned, and ...

David Anderson | 517 c29WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Bone, and thank my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) for ...

Ian Lavery | 517 c29WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. That is why we must, at all costs, ensure that there is a commitmen...

David Hamilton | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Ian Lavery | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) I will not give way if hon. Members are going to ask me about belly dancing.

Mark Spencer | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) I think that that is an example of something that is nice to have but that is not an essential item ...

Grahame Morris | 517 c26-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing this debate at a very im...

Ian Lavery | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) That is not correct. I am trying to outline what the CRT has provided in terms of grant assistance f...

Speaker | 517 c31WH (Link to this contribution) Order. At least five Members are trying to catch my eye and we will begin the winding-up speeches at...

Ian Lavery | 517 c31WH (Link to this contribution) Yes. Just on that point, I must say that one of the worst things that I have ever experienced in my ...

Wayne David | 517 c33WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is spot on. The recent comments by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions show ...

Wayne David | 517 c32WH (Link to this contribution) I want to say a few words about the comprehensive spending review and its likely impact on the south...

Owen Smith | 517 c32WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the recent statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ...

Lisa Nandy | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that that is precisely the point of the CRT; that it understands that when...

Cathy Jamieson | 517 c35-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The opportunities for people in the more rural coalfield areas i...

Yvonne Fovargue | 517 c36-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing the debate, which is dea...

Ian Mearns | 517 c37WH (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to speak in the debate but, to be honest, it has gripped me. I congratulate my hon....

Dai Havard | 517 c34WH (Link to this contribution) The insult by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was directed specifically at my community...

Wayne David | 517 c34-5WH (Link to this contribution) I agree completely. We have heard a lot about the so-called big society, but I am reminded of what f...

Cathy Jamieson | 517 c35WH (Link to this contribution) In view of the time and the fact that other hon. Members want to speak, I shall keep my remarks brie...

David Hamilton | 517 c35WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that when we talk about travel to work—a point was made about that in rel...

Wayne David | 517 c33-4WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, certainly. I am sure that all of us from coalfield areas are aware of increasing numbers of con...

Owen Smith | 517 c34WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way once more. He might be interested to know that yester...

Wayne David | 517 c34WH (Link to this contribution) That is a useful intervention and it underlines my point. It is a myth that the private sector in ar...

Lord Stunell | 517 c45WH (Link to this contribution) We intend to provide the support needed to enable the contractually committed, physical regeneration...

David Anderson | 517 c31WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way again. Does he not feel simply annoyed when the hon. Member fo...

Ann Clwyd | 517 c33WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend can hear that I am croaking at the moment. Does he agree that the figures for disabil...

Ian Lavery | 517 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course; that is exactly right. It is about encouraging people to participate in life once ag...

Subjects

Community development Coal Capital investment Brownfield sites Mining Regeneration

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