Statement on the draft legislative programme.
Draft Legislative Programme
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The governance of Britain - the government's draft legislative programme.
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Garnier | 462 c1459 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Prime Minister aware that in the century before 1914 there were only 13 criminal justice Bill...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1461 (Link to this contribution)
It is precisely because of what my hon. Friend says that we are publishing our proposals, and the Mi...
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Edward Leigh | 462 c1461 (Link to this contribution)
What proportion of the 240,000 new houses to be built every year are accounted for by the move towar...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1460 (Link to this contribution)
I will write to the hon. Gentleman today. On the other issue that he raises, I am sure that the whol...
Jeremy Corbyn | 462 c1461 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and I welcome the concept of having a discussion about...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1460 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right; I know that he has taken a big interest in those issues. Getting the number...
Elfyn Llwyd | 462 c1460 (Link to this contribution)
May I tell the Prime Minister that the announcement is a good idea, but there is more than a whiff o...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1459 (Link to this contribution)
I hesitate to make a partisan point—but I will. The reason why we have had to legislate more on crim...
Chris Bryant | 462 c1459-60 (Link to this contribution)
One of the biggest issues that faces my constituency continues to be the number of people on incapac...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1461 (Link to this contribution)
The biggest increase will be in respect of housing for single people, where there is clearly a defic...
Graham Allen | 462 c1458 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, which contrasted with the churlish Punch-and-Judy e...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1458 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who takes a huge interest in those constitutional matters and has m...
Michael Fallon | 462 c1458 (Link to this contribution)
Why has it taken so long to develop the housing that was already planned for the Thames Gateway? Was...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1458-9 (Link to this contribution)
I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that planning permission was given for the Ebbsfleet project o...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 462 c1457 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the proposals on affordable housing. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that, unlike the cu...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1457 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. The new housing developments should be for mixed communities and include a ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 462 c1457-8 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome in principle the idea of publishing for consultation at this stage a list of Bills that mi...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1458 (Link to this contribution)
I take on board the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s remarks. I know that he chaired the Conservat...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1459 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to say that microgeneration has an important role to play in future. We set ...
Kali Mountford | 462 c1459 (Link to this contribution)
May I tell my right hon. Friend that for many people, the subject of climate change feels remote and...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1449-51 (Link to this contribution)
For over one and a half centuries—[Interruption.] For over one and a half centuries, the annual Grac...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 462 c1451-4 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. I know that it is meant to be some great constitutiona...
Speaker | 462 c1449 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Hon. Members should leave the Chamber quietly, and those who are in the Chamber should be qui...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1454-5 (Link to this contribution)
The answers to the right hon. Gentleman’s three questions are: first, we will deal with the problems...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 462 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution)
If these proposals represent a genuine attempt by the Government to consult in advance of the Queen’...
Speaker | 462 c1452 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Hon. Members should please allow the right hon. Gentleman to be heard. He is the Leader of th...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1456-7 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for the support that the right hon. and learned Gentleman offers. I hope that it will ...
Speaker | 462 c1455 (Link to this contribution)
Order. There is far too much noise in the Chamber.
Diane Abbott | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
The Prime Minister will be aware that many Members on both sides of the House are alarmed at the pro...
David Clelland | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
When he was in his previous job, I drew my right hon. Friend’s attention to some of the problems fac...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
There has been a great deal of investment, but I shall look at the very specific examples from the h...
Ed Davey | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
If the Prime Minister is to introduce new housing legislation, will he reform the housing revenue ac...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has led the way in her constituency in pushing forward the chil...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
Obviously I will look at that. Proposals have been made over time as to how the baccalaureate could ...
Nick Gibb | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Prime Minister give to state schools the same freedom to adopt the international GCSE exam ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1464-5 (Link to this contribution)
Any argument that comes from my hon. Friend is a persuasive one. We have set up a review into what w...
Judy Mallaber | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
In pursuing the challenge of helping more people into work, will my right hon. Friend encourage and ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
The text of the statement issued after the Brussels summit started by saying that the constitutional...
William Cash | 462 c1463 (Link to this contribution)
On what specific grounds does the Prime Minister rule out legislation authorising a referendum on th...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1462 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, and when the Leader of the House makes a statement to the House tomorrow, the right hon. Gentle...
Lord Young of Cookham | 462 c1462 (Link to this contribution)
Further to the Prime Minister’s reply to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1462 (Link to this contribution)
I hear what my right hon. Friend says.
George Howarth | 462 c1462 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the innovative process that my right hon. Friend described in his statement and I welcome ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1462-3 (Link to this contribution)
I take it that the hon. Gentleman is referring to people who lost their pensions when their companie...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 462 c1462 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the statement on the draft legislative programme. The Prime Minister mentioned a Bill to d...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1463 (Link to this contribution)
One of the great causes of the next decade will be to improve youth facilities and amenities in all ...
Clive Efford | 462 c1463 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and the innovative way in which he has introduced consult...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1461-2 (Link to this contribution)
The tax status of private equity is the subject of a review that the Treasury set up in March. It wi...
Michael Meacher | 462 c1461 (Link to this contribution)
I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s setting out his plans for consultation in this way. What ...
Speaker | 462 c1468 (Link to this contribution)
Order. We must move on. I will keep a note of the names of the Members whom I have not called.
Tom Clarke | 462 c1468 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, as well as yesterday’s statement by my right hon. Friend t...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1467 (Link to this contribution)
I applaud my right hon. Friend’s work as a Housing Minister and as a campaigner for more affordable ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1466 (Link to this contribution)
The country will have this debate. We believe that to provide fairness for families and single peopl...
Speaker | 462 c1466 (Link to this contribution)
Order. This is a statement. There are other occasions on which the hon. Lady can attack whichever pa...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1466 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, a persistent campaigner who has talked to me on many occasions abou...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
On 25 July, the Joint Committee that has been looking at the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill wil...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1468 (Link to this contribution)
No Member has done more to promote legislation in the interests of disabled persons than my right ho...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1467-8 (Link to this contribution)
The first thing the hon. Gentleman should recognise is that the priority after 1997 was to modernise...
Bob Russell | 462 c1467-8 (Link to this contribution)
During the last ten years of the new Labour Government, only 4,000 council houses were built. In the...
Nick Raynsford | 462 c1466-7 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement of the greater priority for housing and his willi...
Emily Thornberry | 462 c1465-6 (Link to this contribution)
May I warmly welcome the Government’s renewed efforts on affordable housing? Will my right hon. Frie...
Damian Green | 462 c1466 (Link to this contribution)
Clearly there is a consensus that we need more affordable housing, but will the Prime Minister expan...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
That is the plan—but it is in the hands not just of the Government but of the House. The hon. Gentle...
Gordon Brown | 462 c1465 (Link to this contribution)
That is what the debate is about. I hope that in dealing with such an important national security is...
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