To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what support he has provided the Edge Foundation and its partners for VQ Day 2012.

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what support he has provided the Edge Foundation and its partners for VQ Day 2012.

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It is always useful to be able to raise one’s own constituency items in such debates, and there are a few of those to which I particularly want the attention of the House to be drawn before the House rises for its Christmas Adjournment. In October I secured an Adjournment...

It is always useful to be able to raise one’s own constituency items in such debates, and there are a few of those to which I particularly want the attention of the House to be drawn before the House rises for its Christmas Adjournment. In October I secured an Adjournment...

(in the Chair): Order. We must move on to the next debate.

(in the Chair): Order. We must move on to the next debate.

We have been doubly treated today. It is rare for members of the Whips Office in either party to speak; but today a senior Opposition Whip has been able to speak not only with great authority but with great passion on an extremely important subject, one that pertains not only...

We have been doubly treated today. It is rare for members of the Whips Office in either party to speak; but today a senior Opposition Whip has been able to speak not only with great authority but with great passion on an extremely important subject, one that pertains not only...

Is the Minister saying that that could be done by regulation and does not need primary legislation?

Is the Minister saying that that could be done by regulation and does not need primary legislation?

This is the second debate on the subject in which I have spoken. I was going to say it is the second in which I have had the honour of speaking, but I would much prefer not to have to speak on the subject again. The last time such a...

This is the second debate on the subject in which I have spoken. I was going to say it is the second in which I have had the honour of speaking, but I would much prefer not to have to speak on the subject again. The last time such a...

At the moment, colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government are trying to put a system in place by introducing regulations. I cannot speak for the outcome of those investigations, but that is what they are attempting to do. We have heard today about other planning problems relating...

At the moment, colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government are trying to put a system in place by introducing regulations. I cannot speak for the outcome of those investigations, but that is what they are attempting to do. We have heard today about other planning problems relating...

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on Backdale Quarry and Longstone Edge in the Peak District national park.

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on Backdale Quarry and Longstone Edge in the Peak District national park.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the future funding of the Alderley Edge bypass.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the future funding of the Alderley Edge bypass.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when construction of the A34 Alderley Edge bypass will begin.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when construction of the A34 Alderley Edge bypass will begin.

Wednesday adjournment debate on future of Longstone Edge.

Wednesday adjournment debate on future of Longstone Edge.

If he will obtain for his departmental library a copy of the transcript and a video cassette of the programme, The Two-Edged Sword, on international arms trading, broadcast on BBC2 on 13th December. - No. (Holding answer 19 Dec 91).

If he will obtain for his departmental library a copy of the transcript and a video cassette of the programme, The Two-Edged Sword, on international arms trading, broadcast on BBC2 on 13th December. - No. (Holding answer 19 Dec 91).