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Whitsun Adjournment

Adjournment debate on Thursday, 22 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Helen Goodman. The answering member was Shailesh Vara.
Motion for the Whitsun recess and subsequent debate.

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Reference

476 c415-67 

Session

2007-08

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Leader of the House of Commons

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House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) I have two serious points that I want to share with the House, the first of which I referred to in q...
Lord Robathan | 476 c436-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, there are 66,000 breed...

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Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c433 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go down that road. Although it is a legitimate point, I am in the middle of making ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not naive about the security and intelligence services around the world. I guess that they moni...
Lord Robathan | 476 c434-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay). When he stood up with th...
Dai Davies | 476 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to raise a couple of issues that concern my constituents. The mov...
Julian Lewis | 476 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to take up the House's time by further referring to the issue of Members' private home ad...
Julian Lewis | 476 c427 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I do not want to interrupt his flow when he gets...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c427 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Gentleman is yes, I do accept that, but it is not the issue. The issue is tha...
Lord Beamish | 476 c415-20 (Link to this contribution) I have no detailed knowledge of NACODS, but I know that it is involved in a similar scam. The situa...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) Before I come to the main issues on which I want to detain the House, I want to associate myself wit...
Paul Burstow | 476 c421-5 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by associating myself and my hon. Friends, many of whom will have known Lord Burlison an...
Lord Beamish | 476 c427 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the idea that Members of Parliament cannot be trusted with what is ca...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c427 (Link to this contribution) I had not realised that I was going to rattle so many cages today, but I should like to finish my th...
Julian Lewis | 476 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a very valuable contribution. One reason why he has never heard that is...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c430 (Link to this contribution) No, but I have a parliamentary question down to that effect, and I want to know the parliamentary pr...
Lord Beamish | 476 c415 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to contribute to the debate. It is an opportunity for Back Benchers to raise issues of ...
David Evennett | 476 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to participate in this Adjournment debate and to raise several issues that greatly conc...
David Evennett | 476 c450-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point, with which I agree. I passionately believe that we should go ...
Julian Lewis | 476 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman agrees. To my amazement, Mr. Richard Thomas, the Information...
Julian Lewis | 476 c448 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I have taken up too much of the House's time, but I want to mention a final...
David Evennett | 476 c452 (Link to this contribution) We are always cautiously optimistic; we do not take anything for granted. I want also to deal with ...
Nigel Evans | 476 c452-7 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Evenne...
Richard Bacon | 476 c457-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I want to raise concerns about managem...
Tom Brake | 476 c462 (Link to this contribution) Will the Deputy Leader of the House ask the Minister for Housing whether she will allow SFTRA—the So...
Helen Goodman | 476 c462 (Link to this contribution) It is of course a great pleasure to take part in this afternoon's Adjournment debate. It is a partic...
Julian Lewis | 476 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that response, which takes me nicely on in my line of argument. I am sure that only a mome...
Julian Lewis | 476 c441-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall jump on a bit in what I was going to say as a result of that excellent intervention; I hope ...
Julian Lewis | 476 c443 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Have any words appeared in that particular tabloid putting our side of the case? Not at all....
Richard Bacon | 476 c443 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is being very generous. Another issue that occurs to me is this...
Julian Lewis | 476 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) That is why we can see that not a moment's real thought has been given to the security implications....
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c444 (Link to this contribution) I have not signed that EDM so far—I am a bit of a loner in this place—but I will consider doing so. ...
Julian Lewis | 476 c444 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is irrepressible and, as usual, he is not only irrepressible, but unanswerable. T...
Julian Lewis | 476 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I should put that sedentary intervention on the record or not, but I fear that...
Nigel Evans | 476 c445 (Link to this contribution) We know how much he earns, but I said to him, ““Do tell me how much Jeremy Paxman earns.”” He said, ...
Julian Lewis | 476 c445 (Link to this contribution) I see that the hon. Gentleman agrees. It was certainly the case that someone would not be able to id...
Julian Lewis | 476 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) That does not surprise me at all. As my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) said, w...
Julian Lewis | 476 c445 (Link to this contribution) This is where I have another confession to make. I am not a very religious man, but in so far as I h...
Richard Bacon | 476 c446 (Link to this contribution) I have just been reminded of a case from the Public Accounts Committee. We spent months, if not year...
Helen Goodman | 476 c463 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Whip assures me that the Whips Office has nothing to do with my hon. Friend's dis...
Helen Goodman | 476 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) Well, I cannot possibly answer that question because, as the hon. Gentleman is well aware, there is ...
Julian Lewis | 476 c465 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to take up more time, but a number of hon. Members have raised an additional point: the p...
Helen Goodman | 476 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is not correct about fuel poverty. There is less fuel poverty now than there was ...
Helen Goodman | 476 c465-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a valid point. The other people who will be affected by the measure are ...
Helen Goodman | 476 c467 (Link to this contribution) They could indeed. My hon. Friend the Member for North Durham also talked about the development of ...
Lord Beamish | 476 c433 (Link to this contribution) I hate to accuse my hon. Friend of being a bit naive, but does he not live in some sort of utopia an...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c434 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is poised to intervene. Obviously, he agrees with me, and I hope that hon. Member...
Richard Bacon | 476 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I enjoy the hon. Gentleman's robust contributions. He is a credit to this House, but will he acknowl...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c427 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to hear it. I do not mean to be disrespectful as I think that that is good, but it is ...
Lord Beamish | 476 c421 (Link to this contribution) As a friend of Lord Burlison, I think I can say that his family will greatly welcome the hon. Gentle...
Nigel Evans | 476 c421 (Link to this contribution) May I also pay tribute to Tom from the Opposition Benches? He was a fellow member of the Council of ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) Okay. First of all, it should be a parliamentary committee. No doubt, there would always be discussi...
Lord Beamish | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) That means that you would not be on it!
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that in a moment, but appointments to the committee would be a matter for Parliament...
Nigel Evans | 476 c429 (Link to this contribution) I do not want the hon. Gentleman to move too far away from this point, but has he been given any ind...
Nigel Evans | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) I was going to save the story that I am about to tell for my memoirs. They will be the mother and fa...
Nigel Evans | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I encourage him to bring out his autobiography—everybody else s...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c428 (Link to this contribution) My goodness! I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Nigel Evans | 476 c433 (Link to this contribution) In the hon. Gentleman's next discussions with the Russian embassy, will he get some advice on how th...
Lord Beamish | 476 c431 (Link to this contribution) All that I was going to say is that my hon. Friend's file is going to get rather larger after this a...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c431 (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Gentleman says, but may I take the opportunity, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to emphas...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c430 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting and valid point but in any event, the existing law places a duty in relat...
Nigel Evans | 476 c430 (Link to this contribution) I find it a bit perverse that the same man responsible for FOI is responsible for the Data Protectio...
Chris Bryant | 476 c415 (Link to this contribution) Or by the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers in south Wales.
Nigel Evans | 476 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) I also raised this issue in an intervention on the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), but ...
Nigel Evans | 476 c448 (Link to this contribution) There is a problem of privacy with that. Private mail could come in here to be screened. I suspect t...
Helen Goodman | 476 c462 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, it is—
Helen Goodman | 476 c462 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, ensure that the Minister for Housing is made aware of that representation. My ho...
Shailesh Vara | 476 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely: my hon. Friend is right to say that transparency is of the utmost importance—we al...
Shailesh Vara | 476 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank all the speakers who have taken part in today's debate. There were not as many Members as th...
Richard Bacon | 476 c461 (Link to this contribution) It is right and proper to urge transparency when public money such as the additional cost allowance ...
Nigel Evans | 476 c463 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) said and the fact that he is al...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c440 (Link to this contribution) I want to tell the House and the hon. Gentleman that as a result of one of my parliamentary activiti...
Richard Bacon | 476 c441 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an extremely interesting speech. Is not his revelation of the failures to t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c443 (Link to this contribution) It is the barking mad that we have to worry about.
Andrew Mackinlay | 476 c444 (Link to this contribution) They also charge the taxpayer for their ridiculous clothes.
Nigel Evans | 476 c445 (Link to this contribution) I sit on the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport where I once asked Mark Thompson—
Lord Robathan | 476 c463 (Link to this contribution) I am perfectly well aware of the changing lifestyles of the British people. However, I should like t...
Lord Robathan | 476 c464 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister, who is delivering her speech with great good humour. First, I do not ...
Richard Bacon | 476 c467 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest that if people were unable to get as far as County Durham, they might come to my const...
Sadiq Khan | 476 c467 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.

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