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Library Services

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

522 c1-26WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I will just finish my review, if the right hon. Lady does not mind. My hon. Friend the Member for A...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c23-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to serve under your chairmanship for what I think is the first time, Mr Turner. I cong...

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Diane Abbott | 522 c21WH (Link to this contribution) We have heard about libraries as a leisure activity for people in their later years and as places ho...

Gloria De Piero | 522 c21-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point about social progress, social mobility and advancement. Some of th...

Gloria De Piero | 522 c20-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing this important and timel...

Iain Wright | 522 c19-20WH (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Membe...

Anne Marie Morris | 522 c19WH (Link to this contribution) I will be brief, because I am sure that you will want to start the winding-up speeches fairly soon, ...

Alison McGovern | 522 c18WH (Link to this contribution) Of course, volunteers are important. In fact, last Friday in my constituency, I met a volunteer arch...

Anne Marie Morris | 522 c18WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that although the professional librarian is clearly a very important part o...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c25WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c25-6WH (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, because I have only five minutes left. The number of visitors to libraries...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I will certainly give my hon. Friend that commitment. I will explain exactly what the Government are...

Alison McGovern | 522 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I feel driven to intervene because the Minister mentioned Wirral, which is where my constituency is ...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c25WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will have to ask him—first, because this is all politics and, secondly, because I aske...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c24WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I will finish my opening remarks.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c25WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has had a chance to speak. I have been sitting here, but I have not had a chance to sp...

Mel Stride | 522 c1WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the hon. Lady has secured the debate, because like her I believe that librar...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c1-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do not welcome the future libraries programme when the libraries in my area have, it seems, no fut...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c1WH (Link to this contribution) I initiated the debate because libraries are under threat. In the Wigan borough where I live, the li...

Yvonne Fovargue | 522 c4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. In the borough of Wigan, which I also represe...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c4WH (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the campaign that my hon. Friend has mentioned, and she is a passionate supporter of i...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c4WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady have a specific reference to someone saying that volunteers should take the place...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c3-4WH (Link to this contribution) That is also the case in my constituency. Those people are all united in a desire to protect their l...

Andrew Smith | 522 c3WH (Link to this contribution) To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb), does my hon. Friend agree ...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c4WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to learn that, if not surprised. I am sure that the people of Bromborough are extreme...

Alison McGovern | 522 c4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. On the question of library usage, i...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c2-3WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend and know, having worked with many disadvantaged young people in th...

Andrew Smith | 522 c2WH (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this enormously important debate. Further to her la...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c3WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is upset that my remarks are partisan, but this is politics, and ...

Guto Bebb | 522 c3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing an important debate, although I am slightly disappointed th...

Justin Tomlinson | 522 c8-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady must have spectacular mind-reading abilities, because that is my very next point. By e...

Speaker | 522 c9WH (Link to this contribution) I think that there are eight Members who are trying to catch my eye to speak. I am looking at their ...

Yvonne Fovargue | 522 c8WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that his view of libraries, where the librarians are actually in the l...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c5WH (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

Lisa Nandy | 522 c5WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that. I expect that the Minister will go back and have strong words...

Andrew Smith | 522 c5WH (Link to this contribution) I know that in the Minister's own county, the leadership has suggested that volunteers could provide...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c5WH (Link to this contribution) I have heard a great deal of talk in this debate about the use of volunteers. I am interested to kno...

Alison McGovern | 522 c7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a compelling case for a good future for libraries, and I am pleased to ...

Justin Tomlinson | 522 c5-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing this 90-minute debate. She referre...

Lisa Nandy | 522 c5WH (Link to this contribution) In conclusion, this is a test of whether this Government value not just libraries but communities. I...

Joan Ruddock | 522 c14-5WH (Link to this contribution) Of course. There is no doubt about it. One of the new libraries that I mentioned does exactly that. ...

Guto Bebb | 522 c15-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I will be brief. I note that I am the ...

Julian Smith | 522 c16WH (Link to this contribution) I know from my experience in north Yorkshire that local communities are coming together and are exci...

Guto Bebb | 522 c16WH (Link to this contribution) I concur with those comments. I recently attended a town council meeting in Llanfairfechan that was ...

Alison McGovern | 522 c16-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on securing this debate. I have been...

Mel Stride | 522 c11WH (Link to this contribution) I realise our economic inheritance has been skated around very diplomatically in this debate, but it...

Glenda Jackson | 522 c9-11WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak, Mr. Turner. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for...

Glenda Jackson | 522 c11WH (Link to this contribution) First, I would nail this gothic novel that runs through the Conservative-Lib Dem Government and has ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c14WH (Link to this contribution) My library service faces severe cuts; eight libraries will be largely turned over to volunteers. The...

Joan Ruddock | 522 c13-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on obtaining this extremely importan...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 522 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend.

Justin Tomlinson | 522 c7-8WH (Link to this contribution) The obvious answer is that it is a challenge, not only for libraries but for any service. However, w...

Annette Brooke | 522 c12-3WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy), and I agree entirely that libraries are...

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Children Disadvantaged Closures Adult education Internet Local government Local government finance Public libraries Unemployment Voluntary work

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