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General matters Christmas Adjournment

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c1391-429 

Session

2010-12

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Valerie Vaz | 520 c1391-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to start this debate, particularly on this day, which is seeing another first for P...

David Amess | 520 c1401-2 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Christmas recess, I wish to raise a number of issues. Although I w...

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Matt Hancock | 520 c1403-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak after such erudite speeches from both sides of the House. I will speak on ...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1397-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with that observation. The other Suffolk MPs and I are building on the strategy tha...

Jonathan Lord | 520 c1416-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable and pertinent point. Woking also has a significant Muslim population...

Jonathan Lord | 520 c1415-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on bringing some festive cheer to this Adjournment debate wit...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1399 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. The factory is not in my constituency but in that of my hon. Friend the ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1398-9 (Link to this contribution) The current chaos on our roads is expensive for individuals, businesses and the country as a whole, ...

Stephen Metcalfe | 520 c1392-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak in what I am sure will be a wide-rangi...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1395-6 (Link to this contribution) May I wish you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the House a happy Christmas and a peaceful new year? As a...

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 520 c1394-5 (Link to this contribution) I take this opportunity to talk about an important issue that affects the economic welfare of my con...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1396-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend very much proves my point. There is a need for local highways authorities to be given...

Duncan Hames | 520 c1406-8 (Link to this contribution) Merry Christmas, Mr Deputy Speaker. I rise to make a plea to the Department for Transport to rescue...

Andrew Selous | 520 c1408 (Link to this contribution) Christmas is a time that parents look forward to celebrating with their children when they can. Howe...

Andrew Selous | 520 c1409 (Link to this contribution) We can learn a lot from countries such as Australia, which has a much more shared parenting approach...

Guy Opperman | 520 c1405-6 (Link to this contribution) I endorse that comment entirely, and I see that my hon. Friend is wearing his royal purple, from the...

Guy Opperman | 520 c1404-5 (Link to this contribution) May I start by wishing everyone here in the House of Commons a very happy Christmas? The staff do an...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1400 (Link to this contribution) That is very true. Having grown up in Germany, I can vouch for the fact that the weather there is mo...

Jack Dromey | 520 c1402-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) on initiating the deb...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1399-400 (Link to this contribution) That is an important question. The issue is not only how much the tyres would cost, but how much peo...

Craig Whittaker | 520 c1414-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I am sure he will agree that it was the previous G...

Elizabeth Truss | 520 c1412 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. If hon. Members are stuck in Norfolk, may I suggest that they will be catered for? Not only ...

Lord Harrington of Watford | 520 c1410-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I speak for everyone in the House in saying that this has been a most interesting and...

Elizabeth Truss | 520 c1411-2 (Link to this contribution) I realise that many colleagues' minds will not be on the business of the House, but on their Christm...

Craig Whittaker | 520 c1413-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me take this opportunity, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to wish you and all Members of the House, as well ...

Elizabeth Truss | 520 c1412-3 (Link to this contribution) It is shocking, particularly given that farming and food production is now Britain's biggest manufac...

Andrew Selous | 520 c1409-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue. He is right. The problem affects every singl...

Speaker | 520 c1417 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of Christmas and acting as Father Christmas, I now intend to extend the time limit fro...

Bob Russell | 520 c1417-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Describing a women's refuge as a ““success”” is a regrettable use of ...

Bob Russell | 520 c1418-9 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend, who has visited the refuge and is working with colleagues...

Neil Parish | 520 c1420 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for your Christmas generosity in allowing us an extra minute...

Stephen Gilbert | 520 c1423 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. It would be remiss of me not to remark on the huge prog...

Neil Parish | 520 c1420-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Furthermore, some oil companies unscrupulously deliver oil at a ...

Stephen Gilbert | 520 c1421-3 (Link to this contribution) I put on the record my thanks to the Backbench Business Committee for how it has handled today's Adj...

Matt Hancock | 520 c1405 (Link to this contribution) I, too, warmly congratulate Tony McCoy on his victory in the sports personality of the year award, a...

Elizabeth Truss | 520 c1416 (Link to this contribution) My constituency has also faced a court closure, at Thetford. Does my hon. Friend agree it is importa...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1399 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention because it takes me back to when I first arrived in this country...

Neil Parish | 520 c1399 (Link to this contribution) Irrespective of whether Goodyear is based in the hon. Lady's constituency, I very much support what ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1400 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely delighted to hear that—[Interruption.] As my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, ...

Matt Hancock | 520 c1404 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend raised that important point. Sorting out the pictures from racing and ...

Guy Opperman | 520 c1400 (Link to this contribution) If I am not mistaken, it has become the law in Germany to use such tyres. If tyres are swapped over ...

Elizabeth Truss | 520 c1397 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the current state of broadband in Norfolk and Suffolk is not acceptab...

Guy Opperman | 520 c1399 (Link to this contribution) A business man from near Hexham has all his employees on winter tyres. He put the issue very simply ...

Andrew Selous | 520 c1399 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady give us a rough idea of how much a set of four winter tyres would cost?

Speaker | 520 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I know that it is the festive season, but it is customary in the Chamber for Members to stand up to ...

Matt Hancock | 520 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The Brandon bypass was mentioned in my predecessor's maiden speech in 1992 as an urgent priority for...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1406 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly endorse the policy that both my hon. Friends espouse. Do they agree that racing int...

Guy Opperman | 520 c1406 (Link to this contribution) There is a diverse set of interests, largely because many individuals work on an individual basis, w...

Matt Hancock | 520 c1409 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend seen the Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office reports into CAFCASS...

John Hemming | 520 c1408 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend see merit in a default position, whereby both parents have a duty to maintain co...

Matt Hancock | 520 c1400 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says that it is a matter of persuasion. After listening to her speech, I have also cha...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1404 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a racing enthusiast who often makes his way across Suffolk to visit the race course in my...

Andrew Selous | 520 c1412 (Link to this contribution) Or because they do not have winter tyres.

Jack Dromey | 520 c1414 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's heart-rending appeal on behalf of landlords is very interesting. Will he join m...

Peter Aldous | 520 c1412 (Link to this contribution) Shocking!

Jonathan Lord | 520 c1416 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more, and I think the Government's proposals tread a fine line in respect of the i...

Neil Parish | 520 c1416 (Link to this contribution) My constituency also faces the problem of a courthouse closing, in Honiton. Does my hon. Friend agre...

Bernard Jenkin | 520 c1418 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for raising this matter on the Adjournment of the House. Does he agree that...

Speaker | 520 c1428-9 (Link to this contribution) Before we move on to the next business and while some people are still here, on behalf of Mr Speaker...

David Heath | 520 c1424-8 (Link to this contribution) But not before I have had a chance to try to respond to the debate. The pre-recess Adjournment deba...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1423 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that in the season of good will the hon. Gentleman will acknowledge the extraordinary, gro...

Craig Whittaker | 520 c1420 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree with my constituents who have contacted me in the past couple of days to e...

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