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Business statement on Thursday, 3 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Young of Cookham. The answering member was Hilary Benn.

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2010-12

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Leader of the House of Commons

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House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Hilary Benn | 524 c461 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House gives us the forthcoming business?

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c461 (Link to this contribution) The business for the week commencing 7 March will be: Monday 7 March—Consideration in Committee of ...

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Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) There will be an opportunity later this month to debate matters relating to taxation when we conside...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern. He may have seen that a case ended, I think, on Monday, and t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman has got that absolutely right. There were safeguards, and they...

Alun Cairns | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House arrange a debate on the bank levy before the Budget statement? Current ...

Priti Patel | 524 c473 (Link to this contribution) This afternoon I shall meet a group of pig farmers from the great county of Essex. They are concerne...

Emma Reynolds | 524 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) On 7 February, the Department for Education refused to put up a Minister on the ““Today”” programme ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c461-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions, and congratulate him on his new appointment as L...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c466 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. He may have seen our response, in a written ministerial st...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's support for manufacturing. Earlier this week, he might have seen some imp...

Jo Swinson | 524 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) I concur with the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) when he said that many MPs cherish the thr...

Paul Uppal | 524 c466 (Link to this contribution) In view of a report this morning that many vocational training courses are not fit for purpose, and ...

Thomas Docherty | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome, as I am sure the whole House does, the fact we now have a timetable for the Sco...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c470 (Link to this contribution) The statement relates to a commercially sensitive announcement made by the Secretary of State for Cu...

Neil Carmichael | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) My constituency contains a large number of road haulage companies, all of which are interested in so...

Barry Sheerman | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) May we have an early debate on the relationship between democracy and the media? Is the Leader of th...

Hilary Benn | 524 c461-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Leader of the House for that reply. Given that the Government must have known t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern. He will have heard what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minist...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c466 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises a fair point: those who are continuing their education will want to know h...

Peter Bone | 524 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) May I return my right hon. Friend to the question of who is in charge? Obviously, the response to th...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is entitled to an answer to her written parliamentary question, and I will pursue that...

Lord Watts | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) Given that hospital waiting lists are increasing as a result of the abolition of a maximum waiting t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c474 (Link to this contribution) The Government share my hon. Friend's disappointment at the recent decision. We have made absolutely...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may have an opportunity later to ask questions about the Secretary of State's dec...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) That is primarily a matter for the House rather than the Government, and you, Mr Speaker, will have ...

Kevin Brennan | 524 c470 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give a specific answer to the question from my right hon. Friend the Me...

Lord Barwell | 524 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) My local authority, Croydon council, has published a wealth of information about its spending and se...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend raises a key point. Many British consumers want to support British farmers, but...

Bob Blackman | 524 c467 (Link to this contribution) This week I learned that Ashiana, a charitable voluntary organisation in my constituency is having i...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c469 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to a callous murder of a democratically elected Government Minister, and the F...

Marcus Jones | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) UK manufacturing is vital to the rebalancing of our economy, and that is important to my constituent...

Tom Clarke | 524 c467 (Link to this contribution) On the ongoing discussions about the Government's proposals on disability living allowance, may I in...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c474 (Link to this contribution) I announced in the business statement that there is to be an Opposition day the week after next, and...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) The Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, who is responsible for arranging the sequence of deba...

David Tredinnick | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend update the House on the situation in Parliament square? Does he expect the...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) I am anxious that my hon. Friend should not lose any sleep over this issue. I do not want to give an...

Brandon Lewis | 524 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition and his shadow Chancellor were both part of the Treasury team that deci...

Christopher Pincher | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) Given this week's welcome news that £1.5 million is to be made available to introduce ex-military pe...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure to what the hon. Lady is referring. If there has been any petty party political point ...

Andrew Bridgen | 524 c474 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very bad week indeed for Labour-run councils, as their excesses and spending habits ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point, which I will take as a bid for my right hon. Friend the Chancell...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport made a very welcome statement on Tuesday a...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) I do not remember that, although my hon. Friend may do. It is important to put our proceedings in co...

Fiona Mactaggart | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) What has happened since last Thursday to cause the order of next Thursday's two debates to be revers...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) A debate on the Health Bill will take place in due course on Report, but the Conservative party and ...

Kris Hopkins | 524 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement in which a Minister can condemn the outrageous targeting of vulnerable elder...

Denis MacShane | 524 c469 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Leader of the House for being an attentive reader of The House magazine and the a...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c467 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that the consultation has just ended on the reform of DLA, and th...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that any local authority or mayor who has to balance the books will look very hard at the opt...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c469 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Indeed, our response was partly because of the question t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) The Government are anxious to ensure that there is adequate time to debate important constitutional ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c467 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concerns of voluntary organisations in my hon. Friend's constituency about the deci...

Nicholas Dakin | 524 c466 (Link to this contribution) We are now in March, yet we have had no clarity about how the enhanced discretionary learner support...

Peter Tapsell | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of prayers, since we have a coalition Government, I am sure that my right hon. Friend...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to my hon. Friend's contribution to the Budget debate. He makes a good point. The ban...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c470 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern, although I am not sure I would go quite as far as he did in d...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 524 c471 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on the welfare benefits system? Ordinary decent people in Dudley and el...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) The Select Committee on International Development might wish to consider the well-received statement...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's concern. As we run down the service to which he refers and look to...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the £1.5 million that has been donated to SkillForce to...

Lilian Greenwood | 524 c464 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House think that, at a time of major international crisis, it is appropriate ...

Robert Halfon | 524 c470 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend read my early-day motion 1515? That this House expresses grave concerns ab...

Jonathan Reynolds | 524 c468 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the future of the Forensic Science Service? I recently the visited the north...

Philip Hollobone | 524 c474 (Link to this contribution) We all know that women are better drivers than men. Is not the recent decision by the European court...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) I repeat my earlier plea to the shadow Leader of the House to persuade Nottingham city council to be...

Lord Young of Cookham | 524 c473 (Link to this contribution) The constituencies of many Members on both sides of the House contain pig farmers—certainly there ar...

Harriett Baldwin | 524 c472 (Link to this contribution) On Tuesday we heard a welcome statement from the Secretary of State for International Development ab...

Tony Baldry | 524 c469 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will have seen early-day motion 1518 about the terrible murder in Pakistan o...

Mark Pawsey | 524 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) Micro-businesses, which employ up to five people and have a turnover of less than £250,000, constitu...

Owen Smith | 524 c465 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House please have a word with the millionaire Transport Secretary about his d...

Greg Knight | 524 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the mislabelling of food? Is my right hon. Friend aware that a recent survey...

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