That this House supports the protests made by Liverpool Football Club supporters in response to ticket prices showing little regard to or respect for the club's loyal fanbase; recognises that football clubs are not simply large businesses intent on maximising shareholder value but are part of the life and soul of their community; and urges hon. Members to seek further engagement with all stakeholders including supporters' groups across the land to see what can be done to prevent professional football outcomes being entirely determined by money and economic interest.

That this House supports the protests made by Liverpool Football Club supporters in response to ticket prices showing little regard to or respect for the club's loyal fanbase; recognises that football clubs are not simply large businesses intent on maximising shareholder value but are part of the life and soul...

That this House notes with concern the possible abolition of the coalition Government's free school meals programme in November's spending review; is aware of the Government's demanded cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent from unprotected budgets and views with deep disquiet speculation that free school meals are at risk; is very proud of the introduction of free school meals for all pupils in the first three years of schooling in England; recognises the importance of universal infant free school meals for nutritional standards and for the purposes of bonding over a hot meal; further recognises and supports the call of 40 leading health professionals for free school meals to be protected to avoid harm to children's health; urges the Government not to indulge in short-term thinking; and therefore calls on the Government decisively to protect free school meals for infant pupils.

That this House notes with concern the possible abolition of the coalition Government's free school meals programme in November's spending review; is aware of the Government's demanded cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent from unprotected budgets and views with deep disquiet speculation that free school meals are at...

That this House notes with concern that antiquated rolling stock, including Class 142 Pacer railbuses, is continuing to be used along Northern rail routes; recognises that these models fail to meet the safety, comfort and capacity standards applied to newer rolling stock, offering particularly inadequate protection in the event of a collision; believes that all passengers are entitled to expect a minimum level of quality for their rail fares; further notes that Pacer modification will not address the fundamental problems with these outdated carriage models; and, following the encouraging remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Autumn Statement 2014, calls on the Government to make the replacement of Pacer trains a requirement of all invitations to tender for the next Northern and Trans-Pennine Express rail franchises.

That this House notes with concern that antiquated rolling stock, including Class 142 Pacer railbuses, is continuing to be used along Northern rail routes; recognises that these models fail to meet the safety, comfort and capacity standards applied to newer rolling stock, offering particularly inadequate protection in the event of...

That this House welcomes the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement that "one of the experiences of people in the North is the feeling that the carriages are not as good as those in the South of England"; notes his willingness to address that issue in the new franchise agreements but views with concern suggestions from other quarters of Government that the near obsolete and unpopular Pacer carriages may survive with modifications into the next franchise period; and urges the Government and Angel Trains to consider them as scrap and surplus to requirements.

That this House welcomes the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement that "one of the experiences of people in the North is the feeling that the carriages are not as good as those in the South of England"; notes his willingness to address that issue in the new franchise agreements but...

That this House acknowledges the positive contribution plastic packaging makes to reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions; recognises the efforts made by the plastic packaging industry to reduce packaging volumes through the WRAP programme; notes the work done by the industry to divert plastic from landfill, including the industry-led Plastics 2020 Challenge; further recognises that many English councils lag behind their Welsh counterparts in terms of plastic collection; furtheracknowledges the need for many local authorities to collect and sort a wider range of plastic products; calls for the introduction of material-specific recycling targets at the local level to encourage investment in plastic recycling infrastructure; and furthercalls on the Government to adopt the targets recommended by the Advisory Committee on Packaging, which worked with industry to define a suitable recycling roadmap.

That this House acknowledges the positive contribution plastic packaging makes to reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions; recognises the efforts made by the plastic packaging industry to reduce packaging volumes through the WRAP programme; notes the work done by the industry to divert plastic from landfill, including the industry-led Plastics...

That this House is disappointed by the collective decision-making of Network Rail and the Football Association, which through the planning of engineering works and the arranging of a late kick-off for what must be solely commercial reasons, have together managed to ensure that Liverpool supporters travelling to London for the FA Cup Final will be forced to endure slow and heavily crowded train or replacement services back to Liverpool or will have to remain in London until after the weekend; believes that this is grossly unfair to those many thousands of fans paying good money to go and watch their team play; and calls on all involved to take the action necessary to ensure that disruption is minimised as much as possible.

That this House is disappointed by the collective decision-making of Network Rail and the Football Association, which through the planning of engineering works and the arranging of a late kick-off for what must be solely commercial reasons, have together managed to ensure that Liverpool supporters travelling to London for the...

That this House, while recognising that some regions of high unemployment are overly dependent on the public sector, struggles to understand how paying public servants less in those regions will fuel demand in those regions, help to attract the best talent to public service in those areas or reward fairly comparable effort; but believes that those hon. Members persuaded of the dubious theory that public sector remuneration crowds out private investment should draw the logical conclusion and lobby forthwith for lower pay for those representing constituencies in such regions.

That this House, while recognising that some regions of high unemployment are overly dependent on the public sector, struggles to understand how paying public servants less in those regions will fuel demand in those regions, help to attract the best talent to public service in those areas or reward fairly...

That this House notes that the success of any non-Government or Opposition amendment to proposed legislation, if pressed to a vote, is regarded as a likely occasion for lamentation, gnashing of teeth and media glee, and that this applies even if the amendment is constructive and consistent with the aims of the legislation; and further notes that this attitude contrasts with the excellent initiatives on backbench business, makes scrutiny a more futile process, leads not to the sovereignty of Parliament but the sovereignty of the Queen's Ministers, and accentuates the pointless tribalism that sadly still characterises a Parliament without a majority party.

That this House notes that the success of any non-Government or Opposition amendment to proposed legislation, if pressed to a vote, is regarded as a likely occasion for lamentation, gnashing of teeth and media glee, and that this applies even if the amendment is constructive and consistent with the aims...

That this House welcomes the Patients Association's report, Public Attitudes to Pain; applauds its efforts to bring the issue of chronic pain to the attention of parliamentarians, employers and healthcare professionals; strongly urges that there be established a clear care pathway on chronic pain; welcomes the report's call to ensure patients have access to robust information on pain; further welcomes the report's call for chronic pain to be recognised as a disease in its own right; urges that there be further training for healthcare professionals on the subject of chronic pain; and supports the Patients Association's work to improve access to information for patients.

That this House welcomes the Patients Association's report, Public Attitudes to Pain; applauds its efforts to bring the issue of chronic pain to the attention of parliamentarians, employers and healthcare professionals; strongly urges that there be established a clear care pathway on chronic pain; welcomes the report's call to ensure...

That this House notes the organised efforts of citizens to draw attention to tax avoidance behaviour by corporate bodies; believes that no person or corporate body advantaged by location in the UK should, by seeking loopholes or by convoluted means, endeavour to avoid paying their allotted tax share; and regrets that the Taxpayers' Alliance hascriticised such peaceful protests and has thus given succour to the view that concern over tax rates is sufficient moral justification to engage in tax avoidance, thereby potentially rendering the branding of the Taxpayers' Alliance a misnomer.

That this House notes the organised efforts of citizens to draw attention to tax avoidance behaviour by corporate bodies; believes that no person or corporate body advantaged by location in the UK should, by seeking loopholes or by convoluted means, endeavour to avoid paying their allotted tax share; and regrets...

That this House sends its best wishes to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who will spend her 65th birthday in detention on 19 June 2010; calls for the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma; rejects the elections planned by Burma's generals later this year which, due to election laws and ongoing repression in Burma, cannot be free and fair; condemns Burma's new constitution which is designed to maintain dictatorship in civilian guise and does not grant rights or protection to Burma's ethnic minorities; notes that all diplomatic efforts to reform the dictatorship's sham roadmap to democracy have failed; recalls that the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Secretary General and Human Rights Council have all stated that the solution to the problems in Burma lies in dialogue between the dictatorship, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, and ethnic representatives; and calls on the Government to support a United Nations-led effort to pressure the dictatorship to enter into such dialogue.

That this House sends its best wishes to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who will spend her 65th birthday in detention on 19 June 2010; calls for the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma; rejects the elections planned by Burma's generals later...

That this House while recognising the enormous benefits of the modern smartphone and the interest it generates, regrets the growing tendency of hon. Members to interact with these devices during select committee meetings and short debates when active engagement with the topic under consideration might be assumed, and the seeming, if at times quite understandable, greater interest shown in e-mails and messages than in the contribution of parliamentary colleagues; and encourages all hon. Members to limit their use of smartphones during proceedings of the House as part of the evolving courtesies and traditions of the House, helping to keep the proceedings of the House as genuinely interactive as the devices themselves.

That this House while recognising the enormous benefits of the modern smartphone and the interest it generates, regrets the growing tendency of hon. Members to interact with these devices during select committee meetings and short debates when active engagement with the topic under consideration might be assumed, and the seeming,...

That this House believes that, notwithstanding the very serious problems confronting the British economy, confidence, jobs and livelihoods of real people are affected by the reporting of events by mass media; notes the readiness of the BBC, with its significant global reach to further dramatise, accentuate and underline economic woes; further notes also the public's awareness of this tendency; contrasts this approach with that of local, community-based media; and urges the commissioning of academic research on the influence of media reporting on the fragile psychology of the City and, more importantly, on the real jobs of ordinary people.

That this House believes that, notwithstanding the very serious problems confronting the British economy, confidence, jobs and livelihoods of real people are affected by the reporting of events by mass media; notes the readiness of the BBC, with its significant global reach to further dramatise, accentuate and underline economic woes;...

That this House congratulates Travelodge on its campaign for the great British seaside holiday; applauds its ??150 million investment programme in seaside venues; notes the revival of interest in British coastal towns and the increase in visitor numbers; and calls upon public bodies and private concerns to seize the opportunity imaginatively to develop further the recreational, economic and leisure potential of the UK's seaside towns.

That this House congratulates Travelodge on its campaign for the great British seaside holiday; applauds its ??150 million investment programme in seaside venues; notes the revival of interest in British coastal towns and the increase in visitor numbers; and calls upon public bodies and private concerns to seize the opportunity...

That this House recognises the additional financial strain put on patients and their friends and relatives by increased parking charges at hospitals in the North West of England including Southport Hospital and Leighton Hospital near Crewe and Nantwich amongst others; notes that regular patients, and the friends and families of inpatients, face particular hardship in the face of the 50 per cent. increases brought in; notes that the Welsh Assembly Government has cut all hospital parking charges; and calls on hospital trusts in the North West to listen to the concerns of local people and consider schemes to ensure that patients and their friends and relatives do not face exorbitant costs when visiting hospitals.

That this House recognises the additional financial strain put on patients and their friends and relatives by increased parking charges at hospitals in the North West of England including Southport Hospital and Leighton Hospital near Crewe and Nantwich amongst others; notes that regular patients, and the friends and families of...

That this House notes the imperative to maximise turnout at general elections and address the issues behind instances of low turnout, particularly among young people; believes that the public's engagement with politics would be improved by wider viewing of proceedings in Parliament; notes that there is currently a ban on the posting of parliamentary video clips on websites described by the relevant authorities as `third party hosting websites'; believes that video footage of parliamentary proceedings should be made available to the public on video hosting websites such as YouTube; notes that online viewing is increasing in popularity, with a 2006 ICM survey finding that 43 per cent. of people in the UK are watching less television as a result of increased online viewing; and calls for parliamentary authorities to review current broadcasting arrangements so that footage of parliament can be widely viewed by the electorate using the internet.

That this House notes the imperative to maximise turnout at general elections and address the issues behind instances of low turnout, particularly among young people; believes that the public's engagement with politics would be improved by wider viewing of proceedings in Parliament; notes that there is currently a ban on...

That this House is aware of the policy of Post Office Counters to close 2,500 post offices and that branches are apparently chosen by reference to published criteria; records that all but a tiny number of consultations result in closure leaving the public and respondents viewing the process as cosmetic and futile; notes that the Select Committee for Business and Enterprise was unable to identify whether national criteria were being adhered to in local closure plans; and calls on the National Audit Office to conduct a full review of the process.

That this House is aware of the policy of Post Office Counters to close 2,500 post offices and that branches are apparently chosen by reference to published criteria; records that all but a tiny number of consultations result in closure leaving the public and respondents viewing the process as cosmetic...

That this House believes that the growth of websites like YouTube which allows uncontrolled uploading of video material represents a significant challenge to civilised society since it can feature acts of bullying, animal cruelty, sadism and activities of an illegal nature hidden behind a cloak of anonymity; thinks that the willingness of site owners to remove such material only when reported is a feeble response to such abuse of the media; calls on site owners to establish volunteer moderators who subsequent to uploading of material can assess whether any content breaches any code of publication defined for the site; notes that such collective moderation is preferable to the type of filtering technology used by Google in China and Taiwan; and observes that allowing a public platform for anonymous, aggressive and undesirable activity, however temporarily, is incompatible with responsible corporate behaviour.

That this House believes that the growth of websites like YouTube which allows uncontrolled uploading of video material represents a significant challenge to civilised society since it can feature acts of bullying, animal cruelty, sadism and activities of an illegal nature hidden behind a cloak of anonymity; thinks that the...

That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own institutions but also the wider community; and expresses concern that Becta and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of outdated purchasing frameworks, are effectively denying schools the option of benefiting from both free and open source software and the value and experience small and medium ICT companies could bring to the schools market.

That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own institutions but also the wider community; and expresses concern that Becta and the Department for Education and Skills, through the...

That this House challenges the Government to produce evidence from Ofsted or elsewhere that under performance in schools is directly attributable to a lack of independence from local education authorities; notes that the success of state schools unattached to local education authorities is often coincident with the receipt of significant additional funds; deplores the departure from evidence-led policy shown by the drive to disconnect schools from local education authorities; and believes that only those in thrall to media clich??s and social Darwinism and devoid of a sense of irony would make the promotion of such an obvious oxymoron as state independent schools a priority.

That this House challenges the Government to produce evidence from Ofsted or elsewhere that under performance in schools is directly attributable to a lack of independence from local education authorities; notes that the success of state schools unattached to local education authorities is often coincident with the receipt of significant...