Business of the House
Business statement on Thursday, 13 November 2008,
in the House of Commons,
led by Baroness Harman.
The answering
member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.
About these Parliamentary proceedings
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Baroness Harman | 482 c949 (Link to this contribution)
The business for next week will be as follows:
Monday 17 November—Motion to approve a Ways and Mean...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 482 c949 (Link to this contribution)
May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?
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Baroness Harman | 482 c955-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am not aware of the specific case that the hon. Gentleman mentions. However, the purpose of naming...
Andrew Miller | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
In my right hon. and learned Friend’s opening statement, she said that we were all in a learning env...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
Returning to the theme of being in a learning environment, several of my constituents are having dif...
Baroness Harman | 482 c955 (Link to this contribution)
I know that this is a concern and, as a number of hon. Members have raised it, perhaps it would be a...
Baroness Harman | 482 c962 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. and learned Gentleman has made a substantial point about a situation that is both ver...
Baroness Harman | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right that the credit crunch has provided an imperative to think afresh about the ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c955 (Link to this contribution)
Is the hon. Gentleman referring to the Members Estimate Committee, the House of Commons Commission o...
Baroness Harman | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
Just as elms were part of and defined the landscape of England, Wales and Scotland, so, too, do hors...
Baroness Harman | 482 c959 (Link to this contribution)
I would certainly like to pay tribute to and welcome the new Member for Glenrothes, who was introduc...
Ian Cawsey | 482 c957 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. and learned Friend will be aware of the concern among companies that operate in many o...
Lee Scott | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Leader of the House make time for a debate on the amount of compensation being paid by the ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
We have increased the regulation of bailiffs. This is a case in which what is sometimes derided as r...
Lord Garnier | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
May I ask the Leader of the House for an early debate on work in prisons. She will know that one of ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c949-52 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady asked about the Energy Secretary’s meeting with the energy companies, and just a...
Simon Hughes | 482 c952-4 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for assisting in ensuring that we have a statement today from the Se...
Baroness Harman | 482 c963-4 (Link to this contribution)
There is no lessening of the work done by not only the Metropolitan police, but police authorities t...
Baroness Harman | 482 c952 (Link to this contribution)
I will raise my hon. Friend’s point with my colleagues in the Foreign Office and in the Department f...
David Heath | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
This is going to sound very trivial, but it is actually quite important to our landscape and country...
Baroness Harman | 482 c962 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to the search and rescue organisations and the p...
Baroness Harman | 482 c957 (Link to this contribution)
I know that the hon. Gentleman, and other hon. Members, have raised this matter on behalf of their c...
Andrew Murrison | 482 c963 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House will be as concerned as I am to learn that troops who are being deployed wit...
Baroness Harman | 482 c963 (Link to this contribution)
As I have just told the House, the Chancellor will present his pre-Budget report on Monday week. I a...
Lord Spicer | 482 c955 (Link to this contribution)
Will the right hon. and learned Lady make the Speaker’s advisory committee a formal Committee of the...
Albert Owen | 482 c962 (Link to this contribution)
Last Tuesday I had the honour of opening the new search and rescue force headquarters at RAF Valley ...
Viscount Hailsham | 482 c962 (Link to this contribution)
May we have an early debate, in Government time, on the losses of depositors in the Isle of Man bank...
Baroness Harman | 482 c956 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is important for public bodies to have people who have b...
Jim Sheridan | 482 c959 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on adequate funding for public services? If we have learned anything from the r...
Baroness Harman | 482 c957-8 (Link to this contribution)
We are very concerned about the protection of financial services, and ensuring that there is lending...
Andrew Pelling | 482 c963 (Link to this contribution)
Treasury Ministers have been extraordinarily generous with their time in allowing themselves to be h...
Sammy Wilson | 482 c955-6 (Link to this contribution)
This week the Serious Organised Crime Agency shelved plans to name drug barons, people traffickers a...
Lord Young of Cookham | 482 c956-7 (Link to this contribution)
The Leader of the House has announced that there will be a statement by the Chancellor on the pre-Bu...
David Drew | 482 c955 (Link to this contribution)
Today’s news that there are problems with money transfers through MoneyGram and Western Union is giv...
Baroness Harman | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
May I suggest that the hon. Gentleman seeks an Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall or the House o...
Baroness Harman | 482 c962-3 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome what the hon. Lady has said, and will draw it to the attention of relevant Ministers.
Onc...
Baroness Harman | 482 c964 (Link to this contribution)
I shall raise the hon. Gentleman’s important point with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State ...
Peter Bone | 482 c963-4 (Link to this contribution)
In September 2006, a 16-year-old child came to this country from eastern Europe expecting to be give...
Barry Gardiner | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday, a group of all-party MPs met senior staffers from the Senate offices in Washington to dis...
Baroness Harman | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
As my hon. Friend will know, that is very much a matter for the Speaker.
Baroness Harman | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
At this time, public authorities should not be making people unemployed. We want all public authorit...
Anne Main | 482 c962-3 (Link to this contribution)
Along with many other hon. Members, I met firefighters yesterday. May we have a debate on the Floor ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families will answer questions on Monday. The hon. ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c952-4 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman raised the defeat in one of the votes yesterday. That was because the vote was on...
Stewart Hosie | 482 c957-8 (Link to this contribution)
As we move into this recession, we have seen unemployment rise massively in the past three months, a...
Jo Swinson | 482 c958-9 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a statement from the Leader of the House on progress towards publishing MPs’ expenses? I...
Baroness Harman | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
I recognise the hon. and learned Member’s long-standing interest in these issues and the sophisticat...
Anne Moffat | 482 c952 (Link to this contribution)
I wonder whether my right hon. and learned Friend had time to view the ““Dispatches”” programme on C...
Mark Fisher | 482 c958 (Link to this contribution)
Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time for a debate on the work of bailiffs? In the present...
Baroness Harman | 482 c963 (Link to this contribution)
A priority for us in Government is the support and protection of our troops in theatre. I will raise...
Baroness Harman | 482 c954-5 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. Along with our hon. Friend the Member for Regent's Pa...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 482 c949-52 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business.
Following on from this morning’s Energy...
Philip Hollobone | 482 c964 (Link to this contribution)
This week the independent monitoring board for prisons highlighted the problems caused by the use of...
Anne Snelgrove | 482 c956 (Link to this contribution)
Yesterday, after a rather fractious afternoon in the Chamber, it was wonderful to see the House come...
Emily Thornberry | 482 c954-5 (Link to this contribution)
May we have a debate on the effect of the credit crunch and the lowering of house prices on leasehol...
Gwyn Prosser | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
Will my right hon. and learned Friend find time to debate the behaviour of Dover Harbour Board, whos...
Baroness Harman | 482 c960 (Link to this contribution)
I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change recognises, as...
Baroness Harman | 482 c956-7 (Link to this contribution)
I take the right hon. Gentleman’s points seriously. Obviously, he is saying that there needs to be a...
Baroness Harman | 482 c959-60 (Link to this contribution)
I reassure the hon. Gentleman that we remain very concerned about the position of retired people in ...
David Chaytor | 482 c961 (Link to this contribution)
For the best part of 40 years, since the Government of Harold Wilson established the excellent Girob...
Brian Binley | 482 c959-60 (Link to this contribution)
As you will know, Mr. Speaker, many pensioners are in dire straits, as about 1.8 million are judged ...
Baroness Harman | 482 c958-9 (Link to this contribution)
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