Business statement on Thursday, 20 April 2017, in the House of Commons, led by David Lidington. The answering member was Valerie Vaz.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 624 cc790-812
Session: 2016-17
Department: Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Valerie Vaz | 624 c791 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?; David Lidington | 624 c791 (Link to this contribution)
The business for next week will be as follows:
Monday 24 April—Consideration of a business ...; Valerie Vaz | 624 cc791-3 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business for the very last week of this short a...; Cheryl Gillan | 624 c793 (Link to this contribution)
And me!; Valerie Vaz | 624 c793 (Link to this contribution)
Oh, it is the right hon. Lady’s birthday as well! I will not say what her age is. [Interruption.]...; David Lidington | 624 c793 (Link to this contribution)
I associate myself with the hon. Lady’s final gracious words, and with her tributes to those who ...; Chris Bryant | 624 c793 (Link to this contribution)
Did you vote for him?; David Lidington | 624 cc793-4 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman peruses Mr Speaker’s previous election material, he might find the answer t...; 624 c794 (Link to this contribution); John Bercow | 624 c794 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Pursuant to what the Leader of the House said about our late and esteemed colleague, Jo Co...; Cheryl Gillan | 624 c794 (Link to this contribution)
Notwithstanding my advanced years, I appear to have gained no more wisdom, because I wish to ask ...; David Lidington | 624 c794 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is right to pursue this matter of great importance to her constituents and m...; Pete Wishart | 624 c795 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the business for next week and the abrupt and prem...; Chris Bryant | 624 c795 (Link to this contribution)
It is on Sunday.; Pete Wishart | 624 c795 (Link to this contribution)
It is at some time over the weekend. My hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Hannah Bardell) ha...; David Lidington | 624 cc795-6 (Link to this contribution)
I join the hon. Gentleman in wishing every success both to his colleague the hon. Member for Livi...; Bernard Jenkin | 624 c796 (Link to this contribution)
May I commend my right hon. Friend for being an exemplary Leader of the House? He is widely regar...; David Lidington | 624 c796 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. Clearly, there is a balance to be struck be...; Ian Mearns | 624 cc796-7 (Link to this contribution)
The Backbench Business Committee has concluded its business for this Parliament, and I am gratefu...; David Lidington | 624 c797 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman and the members of his Committee for their sterling work during this P...; Charles Walker | 624 c797 (Link to this contribution)
Today I will desist from eviscerating Veolia, but I hope, electorate willing, to be returned on 8...; David Lidington | 624 c797 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me notice of his question, which gave me the unexpecte...; Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 624 cc797-8 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Speaker, I thank you and the Leader of the House for making it clear that we will remember Jo ...; David Lidington | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady is characteristically gracious and self-deprecating in her remarks. Those of ...; Henry Smith | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate that we have very little time left in this Parliament but, nevertheless, I request t...; David Lidington | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this point, and I join him in welcoming these new uni...; Lord Coaker | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
Let me try again with the Leader of the House: is it possible in the next few days to have an urg...; David Lidington | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
The Government set aside £23 billion for infrastructure in the autumn statement and we are invest...; Mark Pritchard | 624 c798 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on hospital services in Shropshire? Will the Leader of the House join me in ...; David Lidington | 624 c799 (Link to this contribution)
I very much welcome that news from Telford and Shrewsbury. It is important that these detailed de...; Paul Flynn | 624 c799 (Link to this contribution)
The reputation of politics was rock bottom, but now it is subterranean, as we have done nothing t...; David Lidington | 624 c799 (Link to this contribution)
As always, the hon. Gentleman speaks with passion, and in this case on behalf of the 25% or so of...; David Amess | 624 c799 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) is wrong: she will be missed by the H...; David Lidington | 624 c799 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot offer my hon. Friend an immediate debate, but every single Member of the House will have...; Gavin Newlands | 624 c800 (Link to this contribution)
One month ago, I asked the Leader of the House for a debate on female representation in politics....; David Lidington | 624 c800 (Link to this contribution)
The Government could not have been clearer about our wish to encourage more women to take part in...; Philip Davies | 624 c800 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) has been an outstanding Member of Par...; David Lidington | 624 c800 (Link to this contribution)
The Bills that were introduced to this House quite late in the current parliamentary Session and ...; Barry Sheerman | 624 c800 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Speaker, may I thank you and the Leader of the House for your kind remarks about my neighbour ...; David Lidington | 624 c801 (Link to this contribution)
I simply do not see the connection between there being a general election and this House being in...; Andrew Selous | 624 c801 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Government make time for a statement on North Korea? Although security concerns there ar...; David Lidington | 624 c801 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a very cogent point. The Government are concerned that China continues to re...; Karin Smyth | 624 c801 (Link to this contribution)
I recently met the father of toddler, Harry Studley, whom hon. Members may remember was shot in t...; David Lidington | 624 c801 (Link to this contribution)
First of all, may I wish Harry a full recovery and express my best wishes to those caring for him...; Nigel Evans | 624 c802 (Link to this contribution)
I am sometimes asked by constituents who have watched our proceedings on television whether we re...; Chris Bryant | 624 c802 (Link to this contribution)
Name names!; Nigel Evans | 624 c802 (Link to this contribution)
You know who they are, and they know who they are.
The reality, of course, is that we build...; David Lidington | 624 c802 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes the point that it is sometimes quite difficult for people outside this House...; Danny Kinahan | 624 cc802-3 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House did not clarify the point about 2 May, so perhaps we could have some more...; David Lidington | 624 c803 (Link to this contribution)
I think the whole House warmed to the hon. Gentleman’s concluding comments. I join him in his sal...; Wendy Morton | 624 c803 (Link to this contribution)
I was somewhat disappointed and dismayed to hear that Walsall Borough Council has declined to tak...; David Lidington | 624 c803 (Link to this contribution)
The Electoral Commission does provide such guidance to returning officers and their staff, includ...; Greg Mulholland | 624 c803 (Link to this contribution)
The coalition Government introduced a £173.5 million fund for a modern public mass transit system...; David Lidington | 624 c804 (Link to this contribution)
First, there will be elections in Yorkshire—certainly, in the Greater Leeds area—this year. The p...; Peter Heaton-Jones | 624 c804 (Link to this contribution)
May I echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) said in welcoming the Governm...; David Lidington | 624 c804 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I can assure him that the next House of Commons—in this Chamber,...; Natalie McGarry | 624 cc804-5 (Link to this contribution)
With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, before I ask my question I would like to put on record my since...; David Lidington | 624 c805 (Link to this contribution)
No, I cannot promise that, because once a general election has been announced the normal rules on...; Chuka Umunna | 624 c805 (Link to this contribution)
We all know that to ensure that constituents can get better paid, better quality jobs and that ou...; David Lidington | 624 c805 (Link to this contribution)
First, I point out to the hon. Gentleman that the number of pupils attending schools that are rat...; Chris Bryant | 624 cc805-6 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House referred to Gibraltar. May I remind him that Gibraltar has a Labour Gover...; David Lidington | 624 c806 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman knows that an election has been called, and that makes a difference to the all...; Stephen Doughty | 624 c806 (Link to this contribution)
May I echo the comments made about our colleague and friend, Jo Cox? Of course, Jo was a huge cha...; David Lidington | 624 cc806-7 (Link to this contribution)
It will be important, as we leave the European Union, that the United Kingdom is even more outwar...; Kirsten Oswald | 624 c807 (Link to this contribution)
Six innocent UK military veterans, including Billy Irving, remain in jail in India. The Foreign S...; David Lidington | 624 c807 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady has raised that case before, so she knows that the Prime Minister has raised the ca...; Anna Turley | 624 c807 (Link to this contribution)
South Tees clinical commissioning group announced a fortnight ago that the Marske medical centre,...; David Lidington | 624 c807 (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly refer the particular case to the Secretary of State for Health and his team. In ...; Brendan O'Hara | 624 cc807-8 (Link to this contribution)
I return once again to the national shipbuilding strategy. We have been told since last summer th...; David Lidington | 624 c808 (Link to this contribution)
We are not going to be shy of publishing the national shipbuilding strategy, but I refer the hon....; Bill Esterson | 624 c808 (Link to this contribution)
The Conservative Government in London spent £7 per person on transport projects in the south-east...; David Lidington | 624 c808 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman looks back to as recently as the autumn statement he will find that £13 bil...; Chris Stephens | 624 c808 (Link to this contribution)
On a point similar to that made by my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O’Hara)...; David Lidington | 624 c808 (Link to this contribution)
I will draw the hon. Gentleman’s concern to the attention of Defence Ministers. As I think I have...; Kate Green | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
Following the official opening last month of Carrington power station in my constituency, which w...; David Lidington | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
It is clearly important that businesses, particularly small businesses, are paid in full and on t...; Diana Johnson | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
In the remaining days of this Parliament, can we please have a debate about the northern powerhou...; David Lidington | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Lady looks at the record, she will see that large sums of money—I have already mentio...; Steven Paterson | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday, the Prime Minister said that in the coming election she would be
“out there camp...; David Lidington | 624 c809 (Link to this contribution)
I know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is looking forward with relish to coming to S...; Hannah Bardell | 624 c810 (Link to this contribution)
I am proud to be part of a final Caledonian flush in this, the last business questions of this Pa...; David Lidington | 624 c810 (Link to this contribution)
I reiterate the good wishes I expressed earlier to the hon. Lady and others who are competing in ...; Margaret Ferrier | 624 c810 (Link to this contribution)
Many of my constituents will be affected by recent changes to welfare policy brought about by the...; David Lidington | 624 c810 (Link to this contribution)
No. The Government’s changes to welfare policies have contributed towards a significant growth in...; Patrick Grady | 624 c810 (Link to this contribution)
May I first echo the comments of the convenor of the Backbench Business Committee and ask for cla...; David Lidington | 624 c811 (Link to this contribution)
The mandate given by the people of Scotland in 2014 was for Scotland to remain in the United King...; Martin Docherty-Hughes | 624 c811 (Link to this contribution)
Our families sacrifice a lot for all of us to be in this House. Over this Parliament, the family ...; David Lidington | 624 c811 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman knows that the 0.7% target is calculated by reference to the OECD’s definition...; Stewart Malcolm McDonald | 624 c812 (Link to this contribution)
It is good to follow our answer to Arthur Scargill, Mr Speaker—with a bit of Glasgow finesse no l...; David Lidington | 624 c812 (Link to this contribution)
Since the hon. Gentleman is wishing for a change in Government, he is confirming that his party w...
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