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Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating IPSA—[Hon. Members: “No.”] Sarcasm alert—not only on concocting a generous tax avoidance scheme for its acting chief executive, Paula Higson, but on trying to protect our staff from those unwanted and pesky tax bills? That is the excuse it gives...

Member
Tom Harris (Labour)
Type
Business questions
Date
20 December 2012
Reference
555 c1002
House
House of Commons

If I may, I will draw what the hon. Gentleman has said to the attention of the chairman of IPSA so that IPSA can respond to him. I know that the Speaker’s Committee on IPSA takes very seriously the views of Members on the administration of IPSA’s responsibilities, so I...

Member
Lord Lansley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
20 December 2012
Reference
555 c1003
House
House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes), who spoke so eloquently about issues relating to the Border Agency.

I would like, if I may, to raise four issues before the House rises. The first is about a constituent who was recently...

Member
Thomas Docherty (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
20 December 2012
Reference
555 cc1061-3
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Communities and Local Government Committee
Date
17 December 2012
Reference
HC 432 2012-13
House
House of Commons
Laid by
Greg Clark
Department
Treasury
Type
House of Commons papers
Date
13 December 2012
Reference
HC 608 2012-13
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

The armed forces covenant is the expression of the moral obligation the Government and the nation owe to the armed forces community—those who serve, whether regular or reserve, their families; and veterans and their families. The Armed Forces Act 2011 enshrines the principles of the covenant in law, and places...

Member
Lord Hammond of Runnymede (Conservative)
Department
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written statements
Date
6 December 2012
Reference
554 cc72-3WS
House
House of Commons

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Philip Hammond) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

The Armed Forces covenant is the expression of the moral obligation the Government and the nation owe to the Armed Forces community—those who serve, whether regular or reserve, their families; and veterans...

Member
Lord Astor of Hever (Conservative)
Department
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written statements
Date
6 December 2012
Reference
741 cc73-4WS
House
House of Lords

The "21st Report of the School Teachers’ Review Body" (STRB) is being published today. Its recommendations cover the issues that were referred to it in February 2012. These were about reforming teachers’ pay in order to raise the status of the profession and contribute to improving the standard of teaching...

Member
Lord Gove (Conservative)
Department
Department for Education
Type
Written statements
Date
5 December 2012
Reference
554 cc58-60WS
House
House of Commons

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Michael Gove) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

The 21st Report of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) is being published today. Its recommendations cover the issues that were referred to it in February 2012. These were about reforming teachers’...

Member
Lord Hill of Oareford (Conservative)
Department
Department for Education
Type
Written statements
Date
5 December 2012
Reference
741 cc68-72WS
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what his policy is on the payment of school governor's expenses from public funds.

[129762]

Asked by
Phillip Lee (Conservative)
Answering body
Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 November 2012
Reference
129762; 554 c333W
House
House of Commons

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their Statebuilding and Service Delivery Grant, whether they have received any information on the proportion of the Palestinian Authority's annual budget for 2011 spent on allowances for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.[HL3379]

Asked by
Lord Hoyle (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 November 2012
Reference
741 c45WA; HL3379
House
House of Lords

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the affordability to the public purse of paying school governor's expenses.

[129763]

Asked by
Phillip Lee (Conservative)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 November 2012
Reference
129763; 554 cc75-6W
House
House of Commons

(2) if he will take steps to ensure that employers who operate travel and subsistence expenses schemes do so in full compliance with the provisions of legislation on the national minimum wage.

[129527]

Michael Connarty:

Asked by
Michael Connarty (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 November 2012
Reference
129527; 554 c77W
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Committee for Privileges and Conduct
Date
26 November 2012
Reference
HL 72 2012-13
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will review the disturbance allowance to ensure that extra costs for overseas moves are adequately reflected.

[128452]

Asked by
Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party)
Answering body
Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 2012
Reference
128452; 553 c492W
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Ministry of Defence
Type
Deposited papers
Date
13 November 2012
Reference
DEP2012-1669
House
House of Lords

I beg to move,

That this House

(1) approves the Second Report from the Committee on Standards and Privileges (House of Commons Paper No. 635);

(2) endorses the recommendation in paragraph 62; and

(3) notes that Mr Denis MacShane has been disqualified as a Member of this House.

The report by the Standards and Privileges...

Member
Lord Lansley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
6 November 2012
Reference
552 cc754-5
House
House of Commons

May I add my thanks to my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr Barron), the Chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee, and to the other members of the Committee for the work that they have done on the report?

I rise following the speech made by the...

Member
Angela Eagle (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
6 November 2012
Reference
552 c755
House
House of Commons

I will be very brief. The Committee’s report sets out the circumstances of the case clearly. The inquiry related to claims made between 2005 and 2008 under the old expenses system. I cannot be certain that this is the last of the expenses scandal, but I hope that it is.

On...

Member
Kevin Barron (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
6 November 2012
Reference
552 cc755-6
House
House of Commons

Clearly, as a member of the Committee I support the findings and I support the motion. I do not want to go through the report, but I just want to raise an issue that comes from it. The commissioner’s inquiry was in two parts. The first included a measure of...

Member
Paul Beresford (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
6 November 2012
Reference
552 cc756-7
House
House of Commons