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Betting, Gaming and Lotteries

Legislative debate on Wednesday, 28 March 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Jowell. The answering member was Lord Swire.
Draft SI on Gambling (Geographical Distribution of Casino Premises Licences). Motion to approve. Agreed to on division (274 votes to 250).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
458 c1553-1602 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Gambling (Geographical Distribution of Casino Premises Licences) Order 2007
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Richard Caborn | 458 c1595 (Link to this contribution) I think it is outrageous to attack their integrity. Professor Crow’s integrity has been attacked thi...
Ben Wallace | 458 c1595 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

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Richard Caborn | 458 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron), the Leader of the Opposition, chime...
Lord Swire | 458 c1597 (Link to this contribution) If we are revealing conversations between a Minister and a shadow Minister, I think that it is only ...
John Leech | 458 c1596 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that some of us in this Chamber expressed concern about the decision that w...
Richard Caborn | 458 c1596 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman simply does not understand what the casino panel was doing. Contrary to what the ...
Richard Caborn | 458 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. Let me go back to what happened eight weeks ago, when we heard three of the most se...
Anne Milton | 458 c1592-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been at times a passionate debate, with heartfelt contributions from both sides of the Hous...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1594 (Link to this contribution) To dispel once and for all the charge of opportunism, will the hon. Lady tell the House why the shad...
Anne Milton | 458 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the shadow Chancellor recommending anything. None of us are recommending anything....
Ben Wallace | 458 c1593 (Link to this contribution) A charge has been made that we are taking opportunistic action tonight. Many Conservative and Libera...
Anne Milton | 458 c1594 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is easy for Ministers to point the finger and say that w...
Anne Milton | 458 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green poi...
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1601 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The order has been carried in this elected House...
Richard Caborn | 458 c1597 (Link to this contribution) There are many things that the hon. Gentleman can accuse my right hon. Friend of, but running away f...
Speaker | 458 c1598 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
Lord Foster of Bath | 458 c1602 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The amendment that was successful in another place was ...
Speaker | 458 c1602 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot have a debate on a matter that has just been debated in this House. This House has ...
Speaker | 458 c1602 (Link to this contribution) I will allow a point of order from the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) as he has some connection w...
Ben Wallace | 458 c1567 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will take some advice from a fellow north-west MP, who knows the area’s e...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1567 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is wrong on most counts and on this one as well. His interv...
Lynne Jones | 458 c1567 (Link to this contribution) I have visited the area in question on numerous occasions to go to Sports City and the velodrome, so...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1566 (Link to this contribution) People come to the Manchester tourist destination for many reasons. Of course they come for the foot...
Joan Humble | 458 c1566 (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute the poverty figures that my hon. Friend mentions for his constituency, but Manchest...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1565 (Link to this contribution) I say to the hon. Member for East Devon (Mr. Swire) that if it looks like opportunism and smells lik...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1565-6 (Link to this contribution) I am confident that the hon. Gentleman will join others in voting for Manchester at some stage but n...
Ben Wallace | 458 c1565 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman concede that we could vote against the order today, the panel could be r...
Ben Wallace | 458 c1564 (Link to this contribution) On 28 February, I received a letter from the Secretary of State saying that there was no need to hav...
Lord Swire | 458 c1564-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that there have been more U-turns than a driving instructor encounters in a lifetime. It is ...
Speaker | 458 c1562 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, who is an experienced Member of this House, knows that that is no...
Lord Swire | 458 c1562-4 (Link to this contribution) Not only that, but it is not a very good point, because I happen to know that although the casino is...
Graham Stringer | 458 c1562 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is saying that the casino is to be in ...
Lord Swire | 458 c1562 (Link to this contribution) I must make some progress. Not only was that the view of the Committee, but it was backed by the st...
Lord Swire | 458 c1561 (Link to this contribution) I must make some progress. I have given way far more—in fact, 100 per cent. more—than the Secretary ...
Joan Humble | 458 c1561 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Swire | 458 c1561 (Link to this contribution) I am about to tell the hon. Gentleman all my doubts. If he had allowed me to proceed, our exchange m...
Gordon Marsden | 458 c1588-92 (Link to this contribution) When I was a child in the 1960s, my parents used to take me to Blackpool, where trains arrived at th...
Nigel Evans | 458 c1577 (Link to this contribution) One of the odd things about this debate is that the vast majority of MPs have been to Manchester and...
Joan Humble | 458 c1576-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend highlights how difficult it is for us in the brief time available to try to analyse i...
John Whittingdale | 458 c1578-81 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble), who mad...
Joan Humble | 458 c1577-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly valid point. What depressed me about the report was that on wha...
Iain Duncan Smith | 458 c1582-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to keep my comments brief. Over the past few years, I have found myself coming down firmly ag...
Jeff Ennis | 458 c1581-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this important debate. Like every other speaker ...
John Greenway | 458 c1586-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Mr. Wright), who was a distingu...
Anthony D Wright | 458 c1584-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to the order before us today. This is not just about Manchester and Blackpool; it i...
Speaker | 458 c1574 (Link to this contribution) Order. A number of right hon. and hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye. May I make a plea for bri...
Joan Humble | 458 c1574-6 (Link to this contribution) We cannot underestimate the shock, anger and disappointment in Blackpool when the casino advisory pa...
Lord Foster of Bath | 458 c1569-72 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for East Devon (Mr. Swire) and his colleagues, we will vote against the order. ...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1568-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me go this far with the right hon. Gentleman: it is important to use the Manchester experiment a...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1567-8 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that it depends on the exact nature of my hon. Friend’s difficulty. Like my right hon. Fri...
Lord Foster of Bath | 458 c1573-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman is not entirely correct. Although I accept the integrity of the c...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1573 (Link to this contribution) Manchester is bound by the legislation; it was not Manchester’s choice. The leader and the chief exe...
Lord Foster of Bath | 458 c1572-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly give the matter some thought. Like the hon. Member for East Devon, I am well aware...
Iain Duncan Smith | 458 c1572 (Link to this contribution) I am not in favour of any of these things, but the hon. Gentleman touches on an important point abou...
Nigel Evans | 458 c1554 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1554-5 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress. We approached the matter in such a way because we wanted to be su...
Nigel Evans | 458 c1555 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State of State has said that the package is being presented to us today because it ...
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1555-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I had full exchanges on precisely that point at the Select Committee, where I...
Speaker | 458 c1556 (Link to this contribution) Order. We will not have sedentary comments.
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1556-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On the evidence, the panel concluded that Manchester offered a"““g...
Lord Swire | 458 c1557 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1557-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have plenty of opportunity to address the House. At the moment, there is no...
Lord Swire | 458 c1558 (Link to this contribution) The first word that springs to mind is ““astonishment””. It must be almost unprecedented for a Secre...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1558 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Swire | 458 c1558-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I will take my lead from the Secretary of State. If the hon. Gentleman will just allow me to com...
Anthony D Wright | 458 c1559 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he supported one regional casino and no more. Why, then, in 2005, did h...
Lord Swire | 458 c1558 (Link to this contribution) Not yet. The Secretary of State needs to clarify matters at the outset of the debate; that is absolu...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1558 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Swire | 458 c1559-60 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I have quite a long speech to make. He can intervene, but if he...
Bob Spink | 458 c1560 (Link to this contribution) The House of Lords Statutory Instruments Committee found that the panel did not take proper account ...
Lord Swire | 458 c1559 (Link to this contribution) If we had more time, perhaps we could go back over the legislation. [Interruption.] Hon. Members sho...
Lord Swire | 458 c1560 (Link to this contribution) That is a reasonable reason for the House to reject the order and for a proper Joint Scrutiny Commit...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1560-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is being nice—but only after a time. When he ...
Joan Humble | 458 c1553 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend well knows the strength of feeling in Blackpool, and it links the two issues th...
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1553 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I have had a discussion with my hon. Friend about precisely this point. Having carefully studie...
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1553 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Gambling (Geographical Distribution of Casino Premises Licences) Order...
Ben Wallace | 458 c1554 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1554 (Link to this contribution) This is a short debate and many hon. Members wish to speak. In fairness to the House, I will take a ...
Gordon Marsden | 458 c1553 (Link to this contribution) I accept the distinction that my right hon. Friend makes. However, does she not think it rather perv...
Baroness Jowell | 458 c1554 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made that point several times. Let me make it clear that Professor Crow was asked...
Speaker | 458 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Lady, but the sedentary comments that are being made across ...
Richard Caborn | 458 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friends and Opposition Members for their contributions. Many of my hon. Friends at l...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1566 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a real issue. It is almost beyond belief that other disappointed local authori...
Phyllis Starkey | 458 c1566 (Link to this contribution) If, as appears to be the wish of the Conservative party, the order is not passed, and the panel’s co...
Tony Lloyd | 458 c1559 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Swire | 458 c1601 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We have just had news from the other place that the Lib Dem...
Graham Stringer | 458 c1576 (Link to this contribution) In this debate I have tried to avoid any direct competition between Manchester and Blackpool, and I ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 458 c1568 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Gentleman’s point, but does not he accept that, when people are bombarded by thos...
Subjects
Casinos
Licensing
Gambling
Greater Manchester
Great Yarmouth
Low incomes
Regeneration
Blackpool
Legislation
Gambling (Geographical Distribution of Casino Premises Licences) Order 2007
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