Business statement on Thursday, 23 February 2017, in the House of Commons, led by David Lidington. The answering member was Valerie Vaz.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 621 cc1163-1182
Session: 2016-17
Department: Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Valerie Vaz | 621 c1164 (Link to this contribution)
Could the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?; David Lidington | 621 cc1164-5 (Link to this contribution)
The business for next week is as follows:
Monday 27 February—Estimates day (2nd allotted da...; Valerie Vaz | 621 cc1165-7 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for confirming that he will still be here for business questions,...; David Lidington | 621 cc1167-8 (Link to this contribution)
I am afraid that I cannot yet give the hon. Lady a date for the summer recess. In my experience, ...; David Amess | 621 c1168 (Link to this contribution)
Notwithstanding the debate in Westminster Hall next Thursday, will my right hon. Friend find time...; David Lidington | 621 c1169 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an important point. As he will know, the current arrangements mean that peop...; Pete Wishart | 621 c1169 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the business for next week.
I suppose the Le...; David Lidington | 621 cc1169-1170 (Link to this contribution)
On the hon. Gentleman’s first point about the House of Lords, I do not know any detail beyond the...; Ian Liddell-Grainger | 621 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend will agree that corruption in local government is totally unacceptable. May ...; David Lidington | 621 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has made some serious allegations. He has told the House that the Serious Fraud Of...; 621 c1170 (Link to this contribution); John Bercow | 621 c1170 (Link to this contribution)
Order. As usual, I would like to accommodate the very large number of Members who are seeking to ...; Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 621 cc1170-1 (Link to this contribution)
I absolutely agree with what was said by the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wis...; David Lidington | 621 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
I can assure the right hon. Lady that there will be plenty of opportunities for the House to deba...; Bob Blackman | 621 c1171 (Link to this contribution)
In the absence of the hon. Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns)—we wish him well and a speedy recove...; David Lidington | 621 cc1171-2 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot offer an immediate debate or statement on that last issue. However, my hon. Friend is ri...; Chris Bryant | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
The Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority will meet next Tues...; David Lidington | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
The Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority will be one of the ...; David Nuttall | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
May we please have a debate on the ease of registering to use Government websites? If someone doe...; David Lidington | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot offer an immediate debate. The great majority of people do have digital access and expec...; Ann Clwyd | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
The all-party group on human rights held a screening last night of the Ross Kemp documentary, “Li...; David Lidington | 621 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady has a long history of championing the cause of refugees and others in dire ne...; Julian Knight | 621 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
Andy Street, our party candidate for west midlands mayor, has pledged, if elected, a special fund...; David Lidington | 621 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
I am delighted to hear about the creative thinking that Andy Street is characteristically bringin...; Alex Salmond | 621 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Leader of the House, or indeed any other member of the Government, know roughly what the...; David Lidington | 621 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
We know that the exit negotiations have to be conducted under the process set out in article 50 o...; Andrew Selous | 621 c1173 (Link to this contribution)
May we have an early debate, followed by legislation, to prevent the unacceptable practice of lar...; David Lidington | 621 cc1173-4 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this issue today. Developers should be building homes...; Danny Kinahan | 621 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
Two weeks ago, I raised the matter of a colleague having made a freedom of information request in...; David Lidington | 621 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
I certainly do not know anything about the renewable heat initiative, other than what I have read...; Tom Tugendhat | 621 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Leader of the House encourage the Government to give some time to talk about not only th...; David Lidington | 621 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. In a world where everyday lives and the nature of businesses a...; Diana Johnson | 621 c1174 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister for the Northern Powerhouse has a big job of work to do, and I imagine that he was d...; David Lidington | 621 c1175 (Link to this contribution)
As I would expect, the hon. Lady champions the cause of Hull, but the Government are investing £1...; Philip Davies | 621 c1175 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Leader of the House give us the anticipated timetable for the Prisons and Courts Bill? In...; David Lidington | 621 c1175 (Link to this contribution)
When my hon. Friend gets the chance to study the Prisons and Courts Bill, he will find that it co...; Ian Jnr Paisley | 621 c1175 (Link to this contribution)
The revelations from the former Lord Speaker about the peer and the taxi call that House into com...; David Lidington | 621 c1175 (Link to this contribution)
Like this House, the House of Lords is self-governing when it comes to the conduct of its Members...; James Berry | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing me a hat trick of questions this morning. In my speech on the...; David Lidington | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot offer an immediate debate in Government time, but it strikes me that this would be an ex...; Julie Cooper | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Leader of the House aware that the mechanism to introduce an elected mayor is open to abus...; David Lidington | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
I am certainly aware—the Tower Hamlets case is a conspicuous demonstration—of the possibility of ...; Chris Davies | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
I commend the Leader of the House for announcing that this House will have the opportunity to vot...; David Lidington | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his words. If I attempted to address the House in Welsh, I wo...; Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh | 621 c1176 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday, Perth and Kinross Council passed a budget that guarantees local services will invest i...; David Lidington | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
One would have to look at the variations in council tax levels and in central Government grants t...; Lord Brennan of Canton | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on the case of Juhel Miah, the Welsh maths teacher who was removed from a pl...; David Lidington | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
It is perfectly fair for the hon. Gentleman to raise that case, which is disturbing because it is...; Jim Shannon | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
On 22 April 2013, in the outskirts of Aleppo, Metropolitan Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Metr...; David Lidington | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
I will make sure that FCO Ministers are aware of this, but the reality, as the hon. Gentleman kno...; Simon Danczuk | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing has mismanaged College Bank flats for years and now, instead of deal...; David Lidington | 621 c1177 (Link to this contribution)
There will be questions to that Minister and other Communities and Local Government Ministers nex...; Kirsten Oswald | 621 c1178 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House will have seen headlines about armed drones operating from RAF Waddington...; David Lidington | 621 c1178 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary has been clear about this. Of course the House did vot...; Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 621 c1178 (Link to this contribution)
May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to my early-day motion 938?
[That this ...; David Lidington | 621 c1178 (Link to this contribution)
I encourage the hon. Lady to attend Treasury questions next Tuesday—28 February—when she can put ...; Kirsty Blackman | 621 c1178 (Link to this contribution)
In January, the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institu...; David Lidington | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
It would, of course, primarily be for Treasury Ministers to consider their response to the recomm...; Brendan O'Hara | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
On Saturday, I will be in Campbeltown to meet the management and workers of CSWind, a manufacture...; David Lidington | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
Despite the hon. Gentleman’s strictures, the facts are that the United Kingdom is the world’s lea...; Lisa Cameron | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
Small businesses are vital to our economy, so I congratulate Cake Stuff and DNDP couriers, the wi...; David Lidington | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
First, I unreservedly congratulate the businesses in the hon. Lady’s constituency on what they ha...; Alison Thewliss | 621 c1179 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on UK visa policy and its negative contribution to the UK economy? In 2014, ...; David Lidington | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
If the application was rejected on a technicality—clearly I do not know any of the details of the...; Angela Crawley | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House will be aware of his Government’s policy of taxing victims of domestic ab...; David Lidington | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
As the hon. Lady will know, the Government have demonstrated their commitment to trying to help p...; Sammy Wilson | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House will be aware that there will be Assembly elections in Northern Ireland n...; David Lidington | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has made his point powerfully. The BBC in Northern Ireland, as in everywhere e...; Steven Paterson | 621 c1180 (Link to this contribution)
Last week I was part of a delegation that visited Cyprus, where we met the President, Members of ...; David Lidington | 621 c1181 (Link to this contribution)
I know from my previous ministerial experience that the Government are utterly committed to doing...; Gavin Newlands | 621 c1181 (Link to this contribution)
The Scottish Huntington’s Association is based in my constituency. It is concerned that no legisl...; David Lidington | 621 c1181 (Link to this contribution)
That might be a good topic for a Westminster Hall debate. The hon. Gentleman has identified what ...; Patrick Grady | 621 c1181 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on the definition of new money? On Wednesday, the Department for Internation...; David Lidington | 621 c1181 (Link to this contribution)
Nobody in any part of the House would wish to underplay the gravity of the crisis in South Sudan....; Drew Hendry | 621 c1182 (Link to this contribution)
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has lost a court case in which it wrongly sued one of my consti...; David Lidington | 621 c1182 (Link to this contribution)
I would say two things. First, as the hon. Gentleman probably knows, HMRC operates independently ...; Peter Grant | 621 c1182 (Link to this contribution)
Have the Government any plans to copy the excellent initiative of the Scottish Cabinet to hold re...; David Lidington | 621 c1182 (Link to this contribution)
The answer to the hon. Gentleman’s first question is yes. The Cabinet met in the north-west of En...
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