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2006-07

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Jack Straw | 457 c1065 (Link to this contribution) Before I announce business for the next two weeks, may I wish all my Welsh colleagues and the people...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 457 c1065 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House to give us the forthcoming business?

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Jack Straw | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I do not deny for a second the importance of that issue. There has been one occasion this year when ...

Jim Sheridan | 457 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that we are in the middle of fair trade fortnight. Can we have a ...

John Bercow | 457 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) spoke movingly about the situati...

Andrew Mackinlay | 457 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Next week’s Northern Ireland elections are important not only to the people of Northern Ireland but ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 457 c1065-8 (Link to this contribution) I join the Leader of the House in his best wishes to all Welsh colleagues, and thank him for accedin...

David Drew | 457 c1078 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend explain briefly what he anticipates happening after next Wednesday’s votes...

Clive Betts | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may not be aware that last wee, I had a phone call from Mrs Anne Parker, a cons...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 457 c1071 (Link to this contribution) Three years ago the Government announced that the House’s scrutiny of European legislation was inade...

John Penrose | 457 c1079 (Link to this contribution) In common, I suspect, with many other hon. Members, I am receiving strong representations from peopl...

Jack Straw | 457 c1071 (Link to this contribution) It is correct to say that we have not yet put forward proposals for change. That is a matter of frus...

Andrew MacKay | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Did not Monday's statement by the Defence Secretary deploying further troops to Afghanistan underlin...

Denis MacShane | 457 c1074 (Link to this contribution) In the sayonara period of the Prime Minister's term of office, can the Leader of the House tempt him...

Jack Straw | 457 c1074 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to do so. Of course, the Prime Minister, even if he cannot be tempted into that...

Lord Young of Cookham | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has confirmed that next Wednesday we will vote on Lords reform—again, and at...

Jack Straw | 457 c1074 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman for his consistent concern about Zimbabwe. I agree with him both about ...

Geraldine Smith | 457 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) The chief executive of Royal Mail recently expressed concern that the universal service obligation c...

Jack Straw | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has already made th...

Jack Straw | 457 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept the very great importance of this matter. Although I cannot make a promise about ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1068-70 (Link to this contribution) We are delighted to debate the national health service on any occasion. As the hon. Gentleman is quo...

John Hemming | 457 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) In Birmingham perhaps £1 million a year, and in my constituency perhaps £100,000 a year, is spent on...

Jack Straw | 457 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) The people who say one thing and do another are Scottish National party Members and their allies; th...

Philip Davies | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House for a statement on discrimination in the workplace? The head of th...

Greg Hands | 457 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Can we have an oral statement on the ongoing investigation into the assassination of Alexander Litvi...

Jack Straw | 457 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman what we will have a debate about as soon as possible—Liberal Democrats...

Jack Straw | 457 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I have the early-day motion in front of me. Of course it is correct that we should honour those 98 a...

Jack Straw | 457 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I note my hon. Friend’s concerns and applaud the interest that she shows in the issue. There are opp...

Jack Straw | 457 c1079 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a strong point. My two Scottish colleagues who are currently sitting on the Fro...

Jim McGovern | 457 c1068 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a debate on party finance? Some concerns have been expressed on this side of the House r...

Jack Straw | 457 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Although I have used the inter-city west coast main line for 30 years, I am sorry that I do not have...

Jack Straw | 457 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe for a second that the hon. Gentleman’s final point is correct. I have looked into t...

Jack Straw | 457 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying to garner some green credentials, but I gather that his green credentia...

Gordon Prentice | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) As my friend knows, the consultation ended yesterday on the setting up and regulation of marketing d...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 457 c1082 (Link to this contribution) As we have recently had a debate on buses, can we now have a debate on trains? Perhaps that would en...

Jack Straw | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) That is a complete parody of what Sir Trevor Phillips had to say. It would be helpful if the hon. Ge...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 457 c1072 (Link to this contribution) A debate on integration and cohesion would give the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) a chance t...

Jack Straw | 457 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise his concerns, which are shared by all Members and all parties. ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend’s constituents and I can tell her that there will be a debate in Government...

Diana Johnson | 457 c1076 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that on 25 March we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the aboli...

Jack Straw | 457 c1079 (Link to this contribution) We are all aware of the pressures on the English as a second language service, not least my right ho...

Wayne David | 457 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his best wishes on St. David's day. He will be aware that on 3 May ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am happy that my hon. Friend raises that, because getting to a period of stability in the NHS will...

Philip Hollobone | 457 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a statement from the Minister with responsibility for prisons on the closure of Her Maje...

David Heath | 457 c1068-70 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House said that he was not sure where the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. M...

Jack Straw | 457 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to have a debate on the funding of political parties. I would be very happy ind...

Brian Jenkins | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend find Government time for a debate in this Chamber on the use of privilege? ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that problem, which is particularly serious in the north-west. There are clear legal r...

Jack Straw | 457 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I wish that I could tell my hon. Friend exactly what is going to happen, but that would require clai...

Jack Straw | 457 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend on the first point. I hope that he is successful in securing a debate on the ...

David Anderson | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend, or the appropriate Minister, investigate the recent actions of American tr...

Jack Straw | 457 c1065-8 (Link to this contribution) She did not read it; she made it up—it was entirely spontaneous. That is the problem. The right hon...

Jack Straw | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. I will not vote for a wholly elected Chamber, because I am against that, but I will cert...

Andrew Gwynne | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) Yet again, throughout my constituency residents are receiving bullying letters from ground rent and ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) It was not only me who was committed to diversity—and the Government actually did something about it...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 457 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware of early-day motion 964: [That this House views with concern ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) I commend the work of my hon. Friend on that matter. I hope very much that it will be possible to fi...

Jack Straw | 457 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that issue. There are two aspects to it. One of them is that sometimes information tha...

Chris Bryant | 457 c1080 (Link to this contribution) As is traditional, the Leader of the House has announced the business for the next two weeks, but he...

Jack Straw | 457 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady has concerns about the crime survey, she needs to raise them with the Office for Na...

Nicholas Winterton | 457 c1074 (Link to this contribution) May I make a sincere plea to the Leader of the House for a debate on Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe has the worl...

John Barrett | 457 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House may be aware of the Light Bulb (Regulation) Bill that would allow for the ph...

Pete Wishart | 457 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) Like all other Members, I am very much looking forward to the debate on Trident. Does the Leader of ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly pass on to the Foreign Secretary the concerns raised by my hon. Friend for the trad...

Jack Straw | 457 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important issue, and I am aware of the background. There are opportunit...

Justine Greening | 457 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a debate on the robustness of the British crime survey? It is an annual survey that the ...

Lord Mann | 457 c1071 (Link to this contribution) In September, the all-party group on anti-Semitism produced a report that the Government will respon...

Julian Lewis | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming the 14 March debate on Trident on behalf of the shadow Defence Ministers, may I ask the...

Jack Straw | 457 c1072 (Link to this contribution) The active consideration goes on. I am not being facetious; there is a limited amount of time, but I...

Mark Pritchard | 457 c1078 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent debate on surface coal mining in Shropshire? Is the Leader of the House aware ...

Keith Vaz | 457 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) May we have an urgent statement or a debate on the very serious allegations in today’s The Times by ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1078 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will excuse me if I do not accept his invitation because I assume, although I am ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's first point. Unless there is some emergency, we will do everything we ...

Jack Straw | 457 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) There are plenty of opportunities to question my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General, including ...

Paul Flynn | 457 c1072 (Link to this contribution) When can we have a debate on early-day motion 997? [That this House congratulates the Turner Prize-...

Jack Straw | 457 c1073 (Link to this contribution) No, but there is a problem. Of course we are aware of that clash. When business is discussed by Gove...

Jack Straw | 457 c1073 (Link to this contribution) It is not usual for statements to be made by Ministers while investigations are continuing, but I wi...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 457 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on holding a St. David’s day debate today, and I ask him t...

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