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Christmas Adjournment

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 19 December 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Wills. The answering member was Nigel Griffiths.
Motion for the Christmas recess and subsequent debate.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
454 c1283-377 
Session
2006-07
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord McLoughlin | 454 c1308-11 (Link to this contribution) It is always useful to be able to raise one’s own constituency items in such debates, and there are ...
Mike Gapes | 454 c1311-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish every hon. Member, all the staff and all those who provide us with our security and food in t...

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David Anderson | 454 c1318-21 (Link to this contribution) I start by wishing a merry Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, the Speaker, the staff and the Me...
Sarah Teather | 454 c1358-61 (Link to this contribution) I wish to raise two pressing constituency issues today. The first is about the financial crisis in B...
Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1305-7 (Link to this contribution) I have a cunning plan, Madam Deputy Speaker, that might appeal to the rest of the House. I suggest t...
Ann Cryer | 454 c1299-302 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. The amendments that should be made in the circumstances that I have me...
Andrew Selous | 454 c1302-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a great pleasure to listen to and follow the hon. Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer), who...
Andrew MacKay | 454 c1316-8 (Link to this contribution) I would have thought that the passionate pleas of the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes) for...
Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1308 (Link to this contribution) It is kind of the hon. Gentleman to say that. I have been pursuing the question of the tipping of wa...
David Heath | 454 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I respect those who took a different view at the time of the...
David Heath | 454 c1291-2 (Link to this contribution) There are a great number of things for which the Prime Minister needs to be accountable. A full inqu...
Adrian Bailey | 454 c1292-4 (Link to this contribution) I join others in wishing everybody—the staff of the House and you, Mr. Speaker—a happy Christmas and...
Adrian Bailey | 454 c1294-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. It is a matter of people who have never felt comfortable with the delivery of publ...
Baroness Browning | 454 c1295-7 (Link to this contribution) I wish you, Mr. Speaker, and all members of staff of the House a very happy Christmas. I thought tha...
Ann Cryer | 454 c1299 (Link to this contribution) I wish you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and Mr. Heal a very happy Christmas, and I extend the season’s gre...
Baroness Browning | 454 c1298 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I know that he takes a special interest in the subject. The ...
David Heath | 454 c1288 (Link to this contribution) It is transparently the case that I would not have been happy to see the loss of those jobs, but nor...
David Heath | 454 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) Having been upbraided by the Leader of the House on Thursday for not offering Christmas wishes, may ...
David Heath | 454 c1289-90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The constitutional position of the Attorney-General and the...
David Heath | 454 c1289 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He has pre-empted my third and last point on this subject, which...
David Heath | 454 c1288 (Link to this contribution) No. I want to make progress. The second consideration is the continuation of other prosecutions and...
Lord Wills | 454 c1283 (Link to this contribution) I would like to take this opportunity to raise a couple of issues of accountability that have arisen...
Lord Wills | 454 c1284-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that contribution, and I bow to her great experience and knowled...
Lord Wills | 454 c1286-7 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for her knowledgeable and wise contribution. I wish...
Lord Wills | 454 c1284 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and I entirely agree with his last sentimen...
Lord Wills | 454 c1284 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention. I was going to conclude my remar...
Christopher Fraser | 454 c1333-4 (Link to this contribution) No, no. Who could forget either Judy Garland’s extraordinary rendition of ““Have Yourself a Merry Li...
Lindsay Hoyle | 454 c1328-32 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree. I cannot disagree. I do not shy away from the fact that when television licences ...
Christopher Fraser | 454 c1333 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle), who always makes a wide-r...
Lindsay Hoyle | 454 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) because we share a gre...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 454 c1324-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) and also the hon. Member for Bla...
John Pugh | 454 c1322-4 (Link to this contribution) May I start by wishing you a happy Christmas, and season’s greetings, Madam Deputy Speaker? I should...
David Anderson | 454 c1321-2 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. As a result of the process, I have learned that, month after month, the contracto...
Andrew Rosindell | 454 c1368-70 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman’s patriotism, but it was the Labour council in Romford at the time...
Andrew Rosindell | 454 c1367 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way any more, because I want to cover a lot of other subjects. Unfortunately, we ar...
Lord Benyon | 454 c1354-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, but I want to refer to two matters in connection with the railways that the hon. M...
Bob Spink | 454 c1353-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is an expert in this area, for that intervention. I am talking ...
Greg Clark | 454 c1361-3 (Link to this contribution) I add my good wishes to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to hon. Members and to the staff who support us in ...
Andrew Rosindell | 454 c1366 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this Christmas Adjournment debate. I extend warm ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 454 c1363-6 (Link to this contribution) We are fated, Mr. Deputy Speaker, always to rendezvous at the fag-end of any debate, but I am deligh...
Andrew Rosindell | 454 c1367 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman raises that point. As an MP who represents a constituency outside ...
John Hemming | 454 c1349 (Link to this contribution) I checked, and the GMC is not covered by the rules on sub judice. Other proceedings would be if they...
John Hemming | 454 c1346-8 (Link to this contribution) The best Christmas present that I can give hon. Members is to stick to 10 minutes, so I shall talk a...
Nadine Dorries | 454 c1345-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support; that is fantastic. I do not know whether hon. Members s...
Nadine Dorries | 454 c1344-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, extend my good wishes to everyone for Christmas and hope everyone has a wonderful new year, ...
David Amess | 454 c1343-4 (Link to this contribution) I refer to an Iranian movement which is concerned about the President of Iran and everything that go...
John Hemming | 454 c1349-50 (Link to this contribution) The rules in the Nuremberg convention were clear some 50 years ago. The changing of rules is no excu...
Bob Spink | 454 c1350-2 (Link to this contribution) The emblem of a benevolent and sympathetic society is that we care for vulnerable people and protect...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 454 c1334-9 (Link to this contribution) In this important debate, I want to concentrate on the role of communities in international developm...
Christopher Fraser | 454 c1334 (Link to this contribution) It may also prejudice any repeat performance—although I assure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the pet...
Sammy Wilson | 454 c1339-41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Crosby (Mrs. Curtis-Thomas) highlighted in her speech one of the roles that perh...
Christopher Fraser | 454 c1334 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I say, without lifting the petition again—[Interruption.]
Sammy Wilson | 454 c1341 (Link to this contribution) I got my hair cut. I will cut my speech as short as my hair, and I now conclude.
David Amess | 454 c1341-3 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Christmas recess there are a number of points that I want to raise...
Nigel Griffiths | 454 c1374-7 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the 24 right hon. and hon. Members who have taken part in this thoughtful Adjourn...
Shailesh Vara | 454 c1370-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure for me to respond on behalf of the Opposition to what has been a very lively ...
Fraser Kemp | 454 c1299 (Link to this contribution) On employer contribution, does my hon. Friend agree that one of the added pressures on many local au...
John Bercow | 454 c1307 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the offending waste management company knew when it hatched its plan that it w...
John Hemming | 454 c1291 (Link to this contribution) On the original decision to go to war in Iraq, does my hon. Friend agree that the Prime Minister nee...
Lord Wills | 454 c1294 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in my hon. Friend’s comments because I have a similar experience in parts of my cons...
John Bercow | 454 c1297-8 (Link to this contribution) Is not an additional problem a lack of co-ordination and a ready preference for unproductive ping-po...
Andrew Selous | 454 c1288 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman have been happy to see the loss of 50,000 British jobs if the investigation...
John Bercow | 454 c1290 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the demand for a dedicated debate and for regular statements on ...
Simon Hughes | 454 c1289 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that we have similar concerns about this matter. Given what the Prime Minister ...
John Pugh | 454 c1288-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be timely and would help to clear the air if the National Au...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 454 c1284 (Link to this contribution) I am immensely interested in the construction industry, as my hon. Friend may be aware, particularly...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 454 c1286 (Link to this contribution) On that point, I am immensely concerned about the way in which companies, particularly utility compa...
John Bercow | 454 c1283-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very interested in what the hon. Gentleman is saying because I have had a similar experience in...
Lindsay Hoyle | 454 c1284 (Link to this contribution) We have had similar incidents in the village of Adlington, where a large housing company is showing ...
Bob Spink | 454 c1328 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way with characteristic generosity. He is making some excellen...
Lindsay Hoyle | 454 c1321 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct, and the sympathy of the House is with him on the issue, becaus...
Speaker | 454 c1377 (Link to this contribution) The Minister’s good wishes and those expressed by all other hon. Members are reciprocated by the occ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1368 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman’s diatribe, but outside my office in Tilbury, which he knows qu...
Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1367 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman. Is he really saying that he would return to governme...
Nadine Dorries | 454 c1352 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is doubtless aware, I recently wrote a minority report on children with special ed...
Speaker | 454 c1349 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that explanation.
Speaker | 454 c1349 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure of the precise situation with regard to the case that the hon. Gentleman is dis...
Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1345 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is entitled to some cross-party support on MRSA. There is no doubt that the Department...
Speaker | 454 c1334 (Link to this contribution) Order. Even though it is nearly Christmas, if the hon. Gentleman does lift it again, that may seriou...
Speaker | 454 c1343 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am loth to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but it would be helpful, not least to me and no do...
Speaker | 454 c1334 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am loth to intervene on the hon. Gentleman’s lyrical remarks, but visual aids are not encou...
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