Business statement on Thursday, 8 October 2020, in the House of Commons, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg. The answering member was Valerie Vaz.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 681 cc1023-1043
Session: 2019-21
Department: Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Valerie Vaz | 681 c1023 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1023 (Link to this contribution)
The business for next week will include:
Monday 12 October—Consideration of Lords amendment...; Valerie Vaz | 681 cc1023-5 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for both the Opposition days, but I am concerned about the conseq...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 cc1025-6 (Link to this contribution)
Today is not only Gift Aid Awareness Day; it is also Octopus Day. We will be getting our tentacle...; Valerie Vaz | 681 c1026 (Link to this contribution)
Only when asked.; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1026 (Link to this contribution)
Not only when asked. He has made statements. He has volunteered to make statements.
I am ve...; Rob Roberts | 681 c1026 (Link to this contribution)
In my constituency, we have light industry and retail to the east and tourism to the west, so tra...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1026 (Link to this contribution)
There is a massive upgrading of roads programme, with £8.6 billion of infrastructure spending. Si...; Tommy Sheppard | 681 c1027 (Link to this contribution)
I begin by commending you, Mr Speaker, and in particular the Doorkeepers, for demonstrating by ex...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 cc1027-8 (Link to this contribution)
There was a vote in 2014 of the people of Scotland, who decided to remain in the United Kingdom. ...; Fiona Bruce | 681 c1028 (Link to this contribution)
Leah Sharibu is the only teenage girl of her group not yet released after Boko Haram terrorists k...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1028 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend for raising a grave and important point and for her continued efforts to c...; Ian Mearns | 681 cc1028-9 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for notice of the time on Tuesday 20 October, and the Backbench B...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1029 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he said about facilitating the debate on 20 October ...; Scott Benton | 681 c1029 (Link to this contribution)
Several weeks ago, a number of Football League clubs demonstrated that they could safely welcome ...; Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1029 (Link to this contribution)
I have a big list to get through. We are really going to have to speed up questions and answers.<...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1029 (Link to this contribution)
I would like to commend the Football League clubs to which my hon. Friend refers, which have show...; Justin Madders | 681 c1030 (Link to this contribution)
Last month, Nationwide Building Society announced that it was closing its branch in Little Sutton...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1030 (Link to this contribution)
First, I commend the hon. Gentleman for bringing that matter to the attention of the House, becau...; Lord Grayling | 681 c1030 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend will be aware that I have argued strongly for the aviation industry to get G...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1030 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is right that this crisis has thrown up many problems that continue to devel...; Matt Western | 681 c1031 (Link to this contribution)
May I ask the Leader of the House for a debate to review the progress and work of HS2 and its pha...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1031 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right to raise those issues and bring them to the attention of the House. I...; Karen Bradley | 681 c1031 (Link to this contribution)
The Kniveden Project offers tailored mental health services to people in the Staffordshire Moorla...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1031 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Mental health is an issue taken seriously by all the parti...; Jason McCartney | 681 c1122 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on the scourge of fly-tipping and littering, which has sadly increased in my...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1031 (Link to this contribution)
Absolutely I will thank the community groups, including Pride in Linthwaite, Holmepride, the Hade...; Alyn Smith | 681 c1032 (Link to this contribution)
We really need another debate on, to my mind, the inadequacy of the UK Government’s job support m...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1032 (Link to this contribution)
That question is fundamentally flawed. The Government have provided a huge amount of taxpayers’ m...; Martin Vickers | 681 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made an excellent speech earlier this week, when he refer...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1032 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is such an effective campaigner for Cleethorpes that almost every Government polic...; Daniel Zeichner | 681 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
It is almost a month since fire engulfed the refugee camp at Moria on Lesbos, leaving 13,000 refu...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1033 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right to raise this concerning issue and to congratulate Becky’s Bathhouse ...; Rob Butler | 681 c1033 (Link to this contribution)
Last weekend, my constituency suffered one of the wettest October days since records began. Homes...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1033 (Link to this contribution)
I deeply sympathise with all those affected by flooding. It is a terrible thing to happen and whe...; Caroline Ansell | 681 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
Now more than ever, when we are promoting all the positive benefits of walking for our mental and...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1033 (Link to this contribution)
Obviously, that is a matter for local councils, which have responsibility for pavements, but my h...; Wera Hobhouse | 681 c1033 (Link to this contribution)
My city of Bath has two successful universities, which the Leader of the House and I share, and s...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1034 (Link to this contribution)
The Government have taken many steps, which are clear across the country. The rule of six is in p...; Tom Hunt | 681 c1034 (Link to this contribution)
I will touch on the same issue covered by my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool South (Scott Be...; Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1034 (Link to this contribution)
We have got the message—I call the Leader of the House.; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1034 (Link to this contribution)
I did not much like the beginning of the message, about Essex and Somerset. The match was pretty ...; Judith Cummins | 681 c1125 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Leader of the House join me in supporting World Osteoporosis Day on 20 October and encou...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1035 (Link to this contribution)
I am more grateful for that question than the hon. Lady may realise, because the Royal Osteoporos...; Desmond Swayne | 681 c1035 (Link to this contribution)
On Tuesday, instead of the Minister filling the time with newspeak designed to obscure the blindi...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1035 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend reminds me of a 1979 Conservative election sticker that said, “If Labour’s t...; Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1035 (Link to this contribution)
May I congratulate the next Member, who ran a virtual marathon and raised over £1,000 for charity...; Ruth Cadbury | 681 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
This House will be more covid-safe now that Mr Speaker has required ...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1035 (Link to this contribution)
The House has adapted. If you seek a monument, look around—look at this half-empty or quarter-emp...; Jonathan Gullis | 681 c1036 (Link to this contribution)
One of the great successes of levelling up under this Government is the towns fund. I am left bem...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1036 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with my hon. Friend that the £3.6 billion towns fund is central to this Government’s ambi...; Caroline Nokes | 681 c1127 (Link to this contribution)
Every October in this place, there is a fantastic photo call to celebrate breast cancer awareness...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1036 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is so right to raise this important issue. Although over 200,000 people were...; Peter Kyle | 681 c1127 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Leader of the House find time when we can scrutinise the lamentable performance of the De...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1037 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Speaker, I heard your response to a point of order yesterday, and I endorse your comments enti...; Lee Anderson | 681 c1037 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday, the World Trade Organisation agreed that the UK will be able to join the agreement on ...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1037 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is quite right to stand up for businesses in Ashfield. The whole country will bene...; Stuart C McDonald | 681 c1037 (Link to this contribution)
We mark Challenge Poverty Week this week, but Save the Children reports today that more than one ...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1038 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to say that I reject the whole premise of the question. This Government have a proud r...; Robert Halfon | 681 c1130 (Link to this contribution)
Has my right hon. Friend seen early-day motion 972 about tackling child food insecurity, which is...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 cc1038-9 (Link to this contribution)
I had indeed come across early-day motion 972, because my right hon. Friend had the courtesy to t...; Richard Burgon | 681 c1039 (Link to this contribution)
Some £12 billion has been allocated for test and trace. Much of that has been squandered on outso...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1039 (Link to this contribution)
No.; James Sunderland | 681 c1039 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Speaker, you will be the first to acknowledge that life here in Westminster has been a bit dif...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1039 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that really important question. We do have an obligation...; Jonathan Edwards | 681 c1039 (Link to this contribution)
This week, the National Audit Office released a highly worrying report indicating that taxpayer e...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution)
It is too early to say, I think, how the various schemes have been allocated, but the Government ...; Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution)
We can now unite Somerset—I call Ian Liddell-Grainger.; Ian Liddell-Grainger | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution)
Will my right hon. Friend join me in celebrating the anniversary of the battle of Carhampton, whi...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution)
Egbert is one of the great kings of Wessex who extended the borders of Wessex and became the bret...; Jake Berry | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution); Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution)
You are absolutely correct. From out of my window I look at Darwen tower and Winter hill in the c...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1040 (Link to this contribution); Emma Lewell | 681 c1041 (Link to this contribution)
Safe and covid-secure pubs, bars and restaurants in South Shields found out from the press last n...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1041 (Link to this contribution)
I reiterate what my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary said in answer to a question from my h...; Christian Wakeford | 681 c1041 (Link to this contribution)
As the pandemic continues, the mental health of our nation is of particular concern. As a father,...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1041 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. Early education lays the foundation for lifelong lea...; Jeff Smith | 681 c1137 (Link to this contribution)
On Clean Air Day, may I raise an issue that the Leader of the House may have seen reported in the...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1041 (Link to this contribution)
I am personally extremely sympathetic to what the hon. Gentleman is saying. I had the most touchi...; Nick Fletcher | 681 c1042 (Link to this contribution)
With more children conducting their studies online, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether the Go...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 c1042 (Link to this contribution)
I assure my hon. Friend that tackling online harms is a main priority for the Secretary of State ...; Gareth Davies | 681 c1042 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday morning, in Grantham in my constituency, a Lincolnshire police officer was struck and i...; Jacob Rees-Mogg | 681 cc1042-3 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, of course, I will send my best wishes. I think the whole House would also wish to send their...; Lindsay Hoyle | 681 c1043 (Link to this contribution)
Four more years.
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