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Christmas Adjournment

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 18 December 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Gwyneth Dunwoody. The answering member was Helen Goodman.
Motion for the Christmas recess and subsequent debate.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
469 c745-823 
Session
2007-08
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2008-0231
Monday, 28 January 2008
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Deposited Paper DEP2008-0232
Monday, 28 January 2008
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Proceeding contributions
Nigel Evans | 469 c788-9;469 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The Government should be doing more, and so should the financial institutions. Every sta...
Sammy Wilson | 469 c789;469 c787 (Link to this contribution) The frightening thing is that they usually are true.

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Nigel Evans | 469 c788;469 c786 (Link to this contribution) That is part of the problem. I am not saying that people give those details because they are foolish...
Robert Smith | 469 c788;469 c786 (Link to this contribution) I am a customer of the Royal Bank of Scotland, but not through online banking. When I got one of tho...
John Hayes | 469 c796;469 c794 (Link to this contribution) While my hon. Friend is on the subject of health, I wonder whether he would add his voice to the cam...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 469 c795-6;469 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and it is indeed strange that the Open university should have been one of the principal ...
John Hayes | 469 c795;469 c793 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a strong and spirited case for the Open university. He mentions the early-d...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 469 c792-5;469 c790-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Madam Deputy Speaker, to have caught your eye and to have an opportunity to raise ...
Jon Cruddas | 469 c790-2;469 c788-90 (Link to this contribution) I will try to follow that. In fact, I want to discuss the issue of financial irregularities, which t...
Nigel Evans | 469 c789-90;469 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) That is why I thought I would throw just a few at the Minister. She can reassure us as we go into th...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 469 c797-800;469 c795-8 (Link to this contribution) I wish to talk today about the changing role and status of women, and the role of Government in addr...
David Amess | 469 c800-3;469 c798-800 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Christmas recess I want to raise a number of points. A lot has hap...
Shona McIsaac | 469 c803-5;469 c801-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to speak in this year's Christmas Adjournmen...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 469 c796-7;469 c794-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable point and I know that he has been a champion of that worthy cause. I...
Rob Wilson | 469 c810-2;469 c808-10 (Link to this contribution) It feels like this has been a long time coming, so I had better make the most of it, but it is alway...
Anne Milton | 469 c807-10;469 c805-8 (Link to this contribution) My time is constrained, so in case I run out, I start by wishing you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the other ...
Bob Spink | 469 c812;469 c810 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent point and showing what a compassionate and caring Member he is...
Shona McIsaac | 469 c788;469 c786 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this issue. In the past couple of weeks, I had such an e-mail...
Gordon Prentice | 469 c787;469 c785 (Link to this contribution) He does not suit the Tories. When the Conservatives select their candidates for the European parliam...
Nigel Evans | 469 c787-8;469 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) It is always interesting to follow the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice). All I know is that I a...
Gordon Prentice | 469 c784-7;469 c782-5 (Link to this contribution) I have only one issue to raise this afternoon, but it goes to the very heart of our representative d...
Roger Williams | 469 c784;469 c782 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's point about Scottish MPs, and perhaps even Welsh MPs, not voting on English iss...
Stewart Hosie | 469 c784;469 c782 (Link to this contribution) Yes, they have an impact. Because of the way in which the formula works, if budgets for an English D...
Stewart Hosie | 469 c781-4;469 c779-82 (Link to this contribution) The Barnett formula concerns funding for the Scottish Parliament, Wales and Northern Ireland, and it...
Ian Gibson | 469 c778-81;469 c776-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the last point made by the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) and disagree with almos...
Lord Robathan | 469 c778;469 c776 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman asks anyone in the Chancelleries of Europe he will discover that everybody thi...
Lord McLoughlin | 469 c765-6;469 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) On the first issue, I am waiting for the Government's guidance, as opposed to regulations, because g...
Jim Dowd | 469 c766-9;469 c764-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise a couple of matters of particular concern to my cons...
Sammy Wilson | 469 c769-72;469 c767-70 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, may I wish you and the staff here in Parliament a very happy Christmas—not win...
Mike Hall | 469 c772-5;469 c770-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a shame that my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) is not in her pl...
Lord Robathan | 469 c775-6;469 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) I was most interested in what the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mr. Hall) had to say. I shall not fol...
Nigel Evans | 469 c776;469 c774 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that he is astonished that the Government have reneged on the police pay deal. H...
Lord Robathan | 469 c776-8;469 c774-6 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I shall come to that issue, but I do indeed see a theme emerging. My constituents ar...
Mike Hall | 469 c778;469 c776 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for his generous words about my contribution....
Lord Robathan | 469 c778;469 c776 (Link to this contribution) I should most certainly vote against the constitution, but that is not the point. The point is that ...
Robert Smith | 469 c747-51;469 c745-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody). The Secretary of ...
Joan Ryan | 469 c751-4;469 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to raise a matter of huge importance to my constituents. It is pr...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 469 c745-7;469 c743-5 (Link to this contribution) The business of government in a democratic country is a delicate balance between the needs of the po...
Andrew Turner | 469 c760-1;469 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) On Friday, I met Mr. and Mrs. John Burrell of Godshill, who came to my advice centre with a matter o...
Fraser Kemp | 469 c761;469 c759 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak in this Christmas Adjournment debate, Mr. Deputy Sp...
Baroness Browning | 469 c754-7;469 c752-4 (Link to this contribution) The Christmas pantomime at the Northcott theatre in Exeter this year is ““Cinderella””. We can all p...
Lord McLoughlin | 469 c764-5;469 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that observation with which I agree. He is right to emphasise th...
John Bercow | 469 c765;469 c763 (Link to this contribution) I am following the thrust of my right hon. Friend's argument. Is he suggesting that the Government h...
Lord McLoughlin | 469 c763-4;469 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Turner), who, as we all k...
Nigel Evans | 469 c764;469 c762 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many postmasters and mistresses feel so browbeaten that their morale ...
Lord Beamish | 469 c761;469 c759 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that Mark Gilbert Morse has form when it comes to persecuting former miners?...
Fraser Kemp | 469 c761-3;469 c759-61 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I am aware of the work that he has done to get compensa...
Shailesh Vara | 469 c813-5;469 c811-3 (Link to this contribution) First, I wish to thank all the Members who have spoken in the debate and to compliment them on their...
Rob Wilson | 469 c812-3;469 c810-1 (Link to this contribution) I have heard about the problems with Essex county council. My hon. Friend makes a valid point. As he...
Lord Robathan | 469 c815;469 c813 (Link to this contribution) Let me help my hon. Friend and those on the Labour Benches who have very short memories. It was the ...
Shailesh Vara | 469 c815-6;469 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for specifying which authority it was, but I am sure that he wi...
Helen Goodman | 469 c817-9;469 c815-7 (Link to this contribution) I will take that as a suggestion for a topical debate. My right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield,...
Helen Goodman | 469 c816-7;469 c814-5 (Link to this contribution) It is nice to be able to respond to an afternoon of debate that has been so lively and marked by so ...
Bob Spink | 469 c817;469 c815 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Government on the £27 million stop-gap funding for children's hospices this year ...
Helen Goodman | 469 c820;469 c818 (Link to this contribution) No; the hon. Gentleman will have plenty of time in the new year. I felt that the hon. Gentleman mad...
Helen Goodman | 469 c819-20;469 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) It is not. The hon. Gentleman may be uncomfortable with them, but those are the facts. My hon. Frie...
Lord Robathan | 469 c820;469 c818 (Link to this contribution) May I take the hon. Lady back to the referendum? Did she endorse and support the Labour party manife...
Helen Goodman | 469 c820-1;469 c818-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is under a misapprehension. It is not that the Government have changed their mind...
Helen Goodman | 469 c821;469 c819 (Link to this contribution) Let me tell the hon. Gentleman one thing before he intervenes: I understand that £100 million is bei...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 469 c822;469 c820 (Link to this contribution) May I take the hon. Lady back to her comment that spending on education has doubled in recent years?...
Helen Goodman | 469 c822;469 c820 (Link to this contribution) I would advise them to vote Labour, because the fact is that the hon. Gentleman's Front-Bench collea...
Helen Goodman | 469 c822-4;469 c820-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will report to the Home Office what hon. Members have said. The point that I was making ...
Keith Vaz | 469 c822;469 c820 (Link to this contribution) I find that an odd answer to the question of police pay. The reason why we are catching more crimina...
Alan Campbell | 469 c824;469 c822 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Keith Vaz | 469 c757-60;469 c755-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning). She us...
Angela Watkinson | 469 c805-7;469 c803-5 (Link to this contribution) I begin by endorsing the Christmas message of the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), who de...
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