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Debate on the Address

Queen's speech debate on Tuesday, 6 November 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Richard Caborn. The answering member was Gordon Brown.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
467 c7-120 
Session
2007-08
Department
Prime Minister
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Richard Caborn | 467 c7-12 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:""Most Gracious Sovere...
Dawn Butler | 467 c12-5 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour and a privilege, not only for me but for my constituents in Brent, that I have been ...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c15-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by paying tribute to the firefighters who lost their lives in the tragedy in Warwickshi...
Speaker | 467 c20 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House must come to order. The Leader of the Opposition is entitled to his say. The Prime ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c20 (Link to this contribution) They said, ““Don't worry about the vision not being in the conference speech; you'll get it in the c...
Speaker | 467 c18 (Link to this contribution) Order. Allow the Leader of the Opposition to speak.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c18-20 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the subject of our democracy, we look forward to debating the European r...
Tom Levitt | 467 c18 (Link to this contribution) Does not the right hon. Gentleman recognise the difference between a trade union with a legally set ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c18 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should look at the figures. He will find that trade unions spent more in marginal...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c18 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs a Conservative Administration in Wales to improve the hospital, so that his...
Ian Lucas | 467 c18 (Link to this contribution) My constituents are treated in hospitals in Liverpool, Manchester and Cheshire. Will the right hon. ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c16-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I got that far. I did not have to read aloud, either. Page 330 tells us that Tony Blair"““was ...
Gordon Brown | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) All the records will show it, under whatever rule they are released under the Freedom of Information...
Gordon Brown | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) I will give way for the right hon. Gentleman to answer this question: is it not true that the differ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) The difference between our policy and his—[Interruption.]
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) The difference between our policy and the Prime Minister's is that we thought of it and he stole it....
Vincent Cable | 467 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) I start by paying tribute to the dead firemen. Firefighters put their lives on the line every time t...
Gordon Brown | 467 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) Is it not amazing that, when it comes to real policy and discussing the long-term future of this cou...
John Redwood | 467 c31 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, as always, is all charm. Could he tell the House why we should believe that this...
Gordon Brown | 467 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) Because crime is down by 30 per cent., burglary is down by 50 per cent., and there are more police o...
Gordon Brown | 467 c31 (Link to this contribution) Let me hear the authentic voice of the Conservative party.
Gordon Brown | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) The difference between their policy and ours is that under their policy, just over 3,000 of the rich...
Gordon Brown | 467 c32 (Link to this contribution) Ah! He has. I shall give way to the right hon. Gentleman. Are the Conservatives for a referendum aft...
Gordon Brown | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) The answer is yes—unequivocally yes. Every year—[Interruption.]
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) I tell you what, look me in the eye and tell me that you were planning to reform inheritance tax bef...
Gordon Brown | 467 c26 (Link to this contribution) There are 1.5 million more home owners in this country as a result of what we have done. Millions of...
John Butterfill | 467 c26 (Link to this contribution) I was very interested to hear about that proposal, but will the right hon. Gentleman clarify somethi...
Gordon Brown | 467 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) There will be special arrangements for small businesses, but the principle behind the provision is, ...
Speaker | 467 c28 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are so many private conversations going on in the Chamber. That is clearly unfair, and ...
Gordon Brown | 467 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) I just want to remind the hon. Gentleman that only a third of the people of Scotland voted for separ...
Simon Hughes | 467 c26 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Prime Minister to follow up his comment about young people's aspirations? One of the t...
Elfyn Llwyd | 467 c29 (Link to this contribution) With regard to social housing, will the Prime Minister sanction the release of capital receipts to l...
Gordon Brown | 467 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand who wants to listen to the discussion about the serious issues facing our country. As ...
Gordon Brown | 467 c29-31 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that the change in the process of capital receipts happened in 1997 or 1998. I know th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c21 (Link to this contribution) I wondered how long we would go before we got to the Whips' read-out question. I have to say to anyo...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c21 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman will find is that—[Interruption.] Let me answer; it is a very serious point....
Kali Mountford | 467 c21 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman had to do his own Budget proposals on the back of an envelope, ...
Angus Robertson | 467 c25 (Link to this contribution) That proposal, like many others in the Queen's Speech, is an English-only matter. Does not the Prime...
Gordon Brown | 467 c23-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will wish to send, as the Leader of the Opposition did, our condolenc...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 467 c21-3 (Link to this contribution) We want a referendum now, and the hon. Gentleman can help us. He and every one of his colleagues at ...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c21 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. On the question of change, if this House and the ot...
John Redwood | 467 c40 (Link to this contribution) Have the Labour Whips told other Labour Members not to listen to the hon. Gentleman's excellent spee...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's point has some validity. That is why I shall look critically at the Government'...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c42 (Link to this contribution) That may be so. I just welcome the fact that we are going to have a strengthened relationship betwee...
Desmond Swayne | 467 c42 (Link to this contribution) Then there will be a necessity for two Bills: one to approve the treaty, as the hon. Gentleman sugge...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c42 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with the hon. Gentleman. I say that as someone who is unashamedly not just pro-...
Sammy Wilson | 467 c42 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not see a certain irony in the fact that the proposal to strengthen the rela...
Tony Baldry | 467 c40 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Could the monitors in the Palace be checked? I cannot believe that...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c40 (Link to this contribution) To be candid, I did not hear the Queen's Speech, because I find it somewhat unnerving and disquietin...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c40-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very much obliged to you, Mr. Speaker. I know that you know where Thurrock and Tilbury are, bec...
Speaker | 467 c40 (Link to this contribution) The important thing is that the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) is here to listen to the hon. ...
Mike Weir | 467 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly mystified by the hon. Gentleman's lambasting the Labour and Conservative parties, cons...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c39 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's point is correct, but it also draws attention to one of the problems of our pol...
Lembit Opik | 467 c39 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this malaise affects the entire country? Although the matter is ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a few comments about the Gracious Speech. I note the Government's intention to increa...
Vincent Cable | 467 c36-8 (Link to this contribution) We recognise that there is a constitutional anomaly, and that it must be dealt with properly and car...
John Redwood | 467 c36 (Link to this contribution) A large number of people in England think that the big constitutional anomaly is the poor treatment ...
Vincent Cable | 467 c36 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the Conservatives put forward their views in very polite language, but I am afraid th...
Lyn Brown | 467 c36 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman as surprised as I am that we have yet to hear any condemnation from the Leader...
Vincent Cable | 467 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will find that it is the Liberal Democrats who are leading the debate on devoluti...
Desmond Swayne | 467 c39 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the problem is not so much adversarial politics as local communit...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps because of my inadequacy in describing the situation, the hon. Gentleman has missed the poin...
Julian Lewis | 467 c44 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman accepts that we Conservatives are doing our bit for non-adversarial p...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. I recognise that absolutely. I did not want to go down this road, but I fully acknow...
Paul Keetch | 467 c45 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman also please acknowledge, which I do not think has been done of the Floor of ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c43 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Thurrock did not say that. I remember a Liberal Democrat Supply day when the Con...
Nigel Evans | 467 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that the EU has been good for conflict resolution. That has never been the c...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) There is no difficulty; I do not want to be misunderstood on that point. However, I invite people to...
Greg Hands | 467 c46 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening very carefully to the hon. Gentleman's argument, but can he tell us exactly wh...
John Redwood | 467 c49 (Link to this contribution) May I just finish this point, and then I will be happy to receive my right hon. Friend's support and...
John Redwood | 467 c48 (Link to this contribution) I have already dealt with the point. The argument is getting extremely tedious.
Stephen Pound | 467 c48 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman's mellifluous flow, but may I assure him that w...
Angus Robertson | 467 c48 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of the Hansard record, is it not noteworthy that there is not a single Scottish Labour ...
John Redwood | 467 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) It is sad for parliamentary democracy, because one would hope that by and large Government Members s...
Tony Baldry | 467 c47 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a rather sad spectacle that Members such as the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pou...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c49 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend and the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) will have ...
John Redwood | 467 c47 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pity that on today of all days we have lost a sense of occasion. That may be because i...
Nigel Evans | 467 c49 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend goes off that point, does he remember the Queen's Speech on 23 November ...
John Redwood | 467 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I think that that was a much better Queen's Speech remark than the Government's position today, and ...
Angus Robertson | 467 c50 (Link to this contribution) Is it not fair to acknowledge that the current situation falls far short of the most elegant solutio...
John Redwood | 467 c50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made a moderate and sensible point. That is good advice, but I do not think t...
Sammy Wilson | 467 c50 (Link to this contribution) As a staunch Unionist, I find that argument rather disturbing. Although devolution did not apply to ...
John Redwood | 467 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the constitutional argument is moving on. The idea driving Scottish nationalism is...
Angus Robertson | 467 c51 (Link to this contribution) It is the Scottish National party.
John Redwood | 467 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected by the hon. Gentleman, who names his party correctly. I hope that the Government ...
John Redwood | 467 c49 (Link to this contribution) In view of the falling standards in foreign languages, and the falling interest in them, that is ext...
Speaker | 467 c49 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that the debate in this Chamber is conducted in English.
John Redwood | 467 c56-8 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands), I do not welcome a blanket ov...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c58 (Link to this contribution) On that point, is it not the case that, when some of our young people are going to university ill eq...
John Redwood | 467 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Such an artificial target or limit is foolish. I remind the Government that the true aspira...
Stephen Pound | 467 c56 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman is not speaking ex cathedra, but, in his response to the ...
Stephen Pound | 467 c60 (Link to this contribution) Next Sunday morning on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, virtually every Member will ...
John Redwood | 467 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is the tragedy: these proposals are not good for youn...
David Wright | 467 c60 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), who makes a significant contribu...
John Redwood | 467 c52-5 (Link to this contribution) I have already set out my case. I have always been a Unionist—I still think that the Union has a lot...
Russell Brown | 467 c52 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker, for coming in late. [Interruption.] I was at two meetings, one wi...
David Wright | 467 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) I have met the principal of my local college, who is keen to engage with the Government over the nex...
Speaker | 467 c65 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are far too many individual conversations going on in the Chamber.
David Wright | 467 c63 (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent example of the way in which we can restructure the curriculum to enable those w...
John Redwood | 467 c63 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the problem is particularly acute for boys? The gender gap is ver...
David Wright | 467 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) I find myself in agreement with the right hon. Gentleman. I think it important, when we do agree, fo...
Tony Baldry | 467 c64 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is waxing lyrical about further education. If it is so important, why have the Go...
Stephen Pound | 467 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend, whose contribution to local government housing was reco...
David Wright | 467 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I believe that the Government are supporting the armed forces. It is im...
Russell Brown | 467 c63 (Link to this contribution) For the last two or three years in my constituency, students aged 14 or 15 who become disenchanted w...
David Wright | 467 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, but most of the enabling legislation to bring in new towns was an achieveme...
John Redwood | 467 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is rather strange for the Chancellor to make periodic speeches and...
Michael Connarty | 467 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is a thoughtful person and he is making a thoughtful speech, but does...
Michael Fallon | 467 c72 (Link to this contribution) I accept the spirit in which that intervention is made, but the problem is that there is no serious ...
Charles Kennedy | 467 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) Given that a lot of time will be spent on the Floor of the House over the coming months on the detai...
Michael Fallon | 467 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House of the interests recorded in the register. This is a 10th anniversary Queen's Spe...
John Redwood | 467 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that at Maastricht the then Government got an absolutely watert...
Charles Kennedy | 467 c68 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I are not particularly at odds over the need at some stage for a proper plebi...
Nigel Evans | 467 c68 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman was keen on a referendum on Maastricht—like him, I remember those long, bit...
Charles Kennedy | 467 c66-8 (Link to this contribution) Coming in the wake of the rather fanciful circumstances that led to the general election that never ...
David Wright | 467 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) Pensioners in Telford are keen to see an extension of the scheme. They like the off-peak travel sche...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is concerned for friends, relatives and constituents in England, W...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c81 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the poll tax was applied to England. It started in Scotland one year early because...
Michael Connarty | 467 c80 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Blencathra | 467 c80 (Link to this contribution) I want to finish the point, then the hon. Gentleman, who is from Scotland, can have his say. Member...
Michael Connarty | 467 c80 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman can allow his blood pressure to come down while he listens. Is he really su...
Tony Baldry | 467 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) We were told earlier in the summer what was going to be in the Queen's Speech, but we were not given...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c81-2 (Link to this contribution) We are not equal in this House, because the hon. Gentleman has infinitely more rights than me—he can...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) If I try to do so to obey the law—and I am certainly not an anorak—no wonder thousands of my constit...
Michael Fallon | 467 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must be right: there has been lose lending and lose borrowing by the banks in the...
Michael Fallon | 467 c73 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the Chancellor has been too keen to blame the banks for reckless lending, when his system is re...
Michael Connarty | 467 c73 (Link to this contribution) I had the pleasure of studying financial institutions when I studied for my degree, and there were g...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does a great disservice to hairdressers. The country depends on thousands of good...
Lord Beamish | 467 c79 (Link to this contribution) I agree with a great deal of what the right hon. Gentleman has said, but was he not a member of the ...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we need more social and affordable housing. In my con...
Nigel Evans | 467 c78 (Link to this contribution) I represent a north-west constituency, and suffer from those insane housing policies. Does my right ...
Michael Connarty | 467 c91 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a kind and reasonable man. Has he ever thought that we, the Scottish Members o...
Tony Baldry | 467 c84 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's most ingenious special pleading will not persuade my constituents that taxes ar...
Tony Baldry | 467 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman, whose attendance is usually assiduous. However, he is...
David Leslie Taylor | 467 c84 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's courtesy and compliments. Why did the hon. Gentleman omit fr...
Tony Baldry | 467 c86 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who, like many others, has just wandered into the debate, would do rather better...
Tony Baldry | 467 c84-6 (Link to this contribution) Since 1878. So a little more humility from the hon. Gentleman would be appropriate. To add to our w...
Lord Stunell | 467 c86 (Link to this contribution) I think that I heard the hon. Gentleman say that it was the worst local government settlement for a ...
Nigel Evans | 467 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have this opportunity to take part in the Queen's Speech debate. Like other colleag...
Tony Baldry | 467 c86-90 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman again. Counties such as Oxfordshire are getting increasin...
Simon Hughes | 467 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) I respect many of the hon. Gentleman's views, but he is wrong on that point, as he would discover if...
Ben Wallace | 467 c116-8 (Link to this contribution) It is important to remember that many of the men and women who stood duty outside the House for the ...
Roger Williams | 467 c113 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister; I probably did not express it as eloquently as I could. However, it is still d...
Stephen Timms | 467 c113 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the importance of tackling climate change, but in his comment ...
Roger Williams | 467 c114-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Citizens throughout the nation are intent on playing their part in contributing to the contr...
Simon Hughes | 467 c113 (Link to this contribution) We can have party political debates about these things, but out there in normal Britain, where peopl...
Roger Williams | 467 c112 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to contribute to the first day's debate on the Queen's Speech. A ...
Desmond Swayne | 467 c111-2 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, but at what cost? To use a simile, we are in the same position as the leaseholders of a smal...
Roger Williams | 467 c113 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's point. Opinion polls in Scotland and Wales show little desire or appet...
Gregory Campbell | 467 c113 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers accurately to the appetite or lack of it for independence in the various r...
Keith Vaz | 467 c118 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to the Government, they have not actually proposed a new time frame for such detention. T...
Ben Wallace | 467 c118-20 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for pointing that out, but we have already had a debate, a...
Angus Robertson | 467 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises some important points, and no doubt he will take them up with the Scottish...
Michael Connarty | 467 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not mind if I raise two points with him. First, I understand tha...
David Amess | 467 c100-3 (Link to this contribution) This is the Gracious Speech that should never have been. The reason I say that is, as we all know, t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because I want to put a question to him that has...
Nigel Evans | 467 c94 (Link to this contribution) What we need is an honest debate on the subject, which is what I am asking for and what the hon. Gen...
Nigel Evans | 467 c94 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We would need to import the labour to build the houses in th...
Angus Robertson | 467 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) and the fly incident, which...
Nigel Evans | 467 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) made the point about those picking fruit. There are ...
Desmond Swayne | 467 c110;467 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sorry for pre-empting you. We saw some extraordinary effrontery...
Speaker | 467 c109 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is very lucky, as I have not called his name. However, I intended to do so...
James Duddridge | 467 c106 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Paul Burstow | 467 c106 (Link to this contribution) I want to pick up on a couple of the points that the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) has ...
David Amess | 467 c104-6 (Link to this contribution) I have no knowledge of such matters, but I do intend to touch briefly on party-political funding, an...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c103 (Link to this contribution) Throughout the long, tortuous business of cash for honours, I was desperate for someone to ask one q...
Paul Burstow | 467 c107-9 (Link to this contribution) I would agree that we have an arms race and that we should negotiate down spending, rather than spen...
James Duddridge | 467 c106 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the sum is little relative to the large amounts that the trade un...
Paul Burstow | 467 c107;467 c106 (Link to this contribution) Yes, if the hon. Gentleman will tell me how much Lord Ashcroft is giving.
Nigel Evans | 467 c91 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is reasonable but a walking example of the double dipping to which I referred. He...
Nigel Evans | 467 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) I know, but the hon. Gentleman is reasonable and will understand my argument. Let us consider what w...
Nigel Evans | 467 c92 (Link to this contribution) If you do not mind, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall move to another microphone—[Interruption.] The fly i...
Speaker | 467 c92 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps I could encourage the hon. Gentleman to battle on, despite the fly.
Nigel Evans | 467 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your encouragement, Mr. Deputy Speaker. There are flies on me. I thank the hon. Membe...
David Leslie Taylor | 467 c93 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the controversy and the debate among various sections of the food ind...
Nigel Evans | 467 c93 (Link to this contribution) I wish that there was a stronger lead, because confusion leads to people not being absolutely certai...
Speaker | 467 c7 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the mover and seconder, I shall announce the proposed pattern of debate during the rem...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) I have yet to make up my mind. The hon. Gentleman's question relates to the question from the hon. M...
Roger Williams | 467 c92 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can attend to the fly while I am intervening. I can still see it. Does he...
Lord Blencathra | 467 c74-7 (Link to this contribution) I wish to begin my remarks tonight by paying tribute to the four firemen who tragically lost their l...
Michael Connarty | 467 c94 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we have a serious debate about immigration, but one of the factors that the hon...
Gordon Brown | 467 c33 (Link to this contribution) Let me ask the right hon. Gentleman this question—
Speaker | 467 c32 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let the Prime Minister speak.
Chris Bryant | 467 c20 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is talking about change. I wonder whether I can encourage him to change one...
Greg Hands | 467 c43 (Link to this contribution) I am still slightly confused about the hon. Gentleman's position on the treaty. At Foreign Office qu...
John Redwood | 467 c48 (Link to this contribution) That is another good point, and it prefigures something that I was going to say. Her Majesty began t...
Greg Hands | 467 c55 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government may inadvertently be exacerbating the problem by...
David Leslie Taylor | 467 c81 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect in most circumstances, for giving wa...
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