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Whitsun Adjournment

Adjournment debate on Thursday, 21 May 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Horam. The answering member was Chris Bryant.
Motion for the Whitsun recess and subsequent debate.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
492 c1661-702 
Session
2008-09
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Bob Russell | 492 c1673-6 (Link to this contribution) I have just praised the hon. Member for North Essex. We are united in opposition to Essex county cou...
David Heath | 492 c1668 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely sure that that is true. I used to be the leader of a county council, and I can point...

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Graham Allen | 492 c1664-5 (Link to this contribution) MPs have deluded themselves that they have power. We swallowed the mythology of parliamentary sovere...
Lord Horam | 492 c1663-4 (Link to this contribution) It is, and the hospital in question is a long way from the areas of greatest need in my constituency...
Graham Allen | 492 c1666 (Link to this contribution) If that is indeed the case, it is extremely misguided. Such opportunities for MPs do not even come o...
David Heath | 492 c1666-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen). He expresses the...
David Heath | 492 c1667-8 (Link to this contribution) I accept that entirely. I am simply identifying the agents of reaction—the ones we sometimes see gla...
David Heath | 492 c1668-9 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to refer to the hon. Gentleman. I shall do so first, and then give way to him. Earl...
Bob Russell | 492 c1672-3 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of Her Majesty's official Opposition, the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron), cam...
Andrew Turner | 492 c1670-1 (Link to this contribution) Before we break up for the recess, I should like to highlight some of the issues in my constituency,...
Lord Horam | 492 c1661-3 (Link to this contribution) May I take the opportunity presented by this traditional recess Adjournment to say a few words about...
Chris Huhne | 492 c1687-91 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and other hon. Members, particularly those on the Government...
David Amess | 492 c1687 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the hon. Gentleman for that initiative. It is not silly to do such things in summer. Each ...
David Amess | 492 c1682-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but I think that the Most Reverend Vincent Gerard Nichols wi...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1680 (Link to this contribution) That is what he tells me, and I believe him. I shall turn to the middle east, because the heart of ...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1681 (Link to this contribution) Okay, sorry. Last but not least, I shall turn to beer tax. I simply want to say that we all like goi...
David Amess | 492 c1681-2 (Link to this contribution) Before the House adjourns for the Whitsun recess, I wish to raise a number of points. When I spoke i...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1681 (Link to this contribution) Did he? Well, anyway, the British Beer and Pub Association said that 2,000 pubs closed last year. Ta...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1681 (Link to this contribution) Both. The above-inflation increases in duty on beer are crippling local pubs, but they are the hear...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1676-80 (Link to this contribution) There are a few matters relating to my constituency that I wish to address. Before I do so, however,...
David Heath | 492 c1669-70 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has heard me speak at length about the roads in my constituency, and I will not g...
Andrew Turner | 492 c1663 (Link to this contribution) Even when people use buses, they have to change frequently to get to hospital, and that is equally u...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1665 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with everything that the hon. Gentleman is saying. Is he aware that there are...
Graham Allen | 492 c1667 (Link to this contribution) We need to be a little careful about blaming the Whips. On the Government side, they are the paid se...
Bob Russell | 492 c1668 (Link to this contribution) Both my hon. Friend and I were leaders of local councils before we came to this place. Does he agree...
Lord Horam | 492 c1668 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Heath | 492 c1669 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman gives another very good example of such increasing faithlessness and increasing l...
Lord Horam | 492 c1669 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that there is great lack of consultation in the health service, but the ...
Lord Robathan | 492 c1673 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has told my hon. Friend the Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) th...
Chris Bryant | 492 c1697 (Link to this contribution) Of course I have no desire to misrepresent my hon. Friend. I have two points to make. First, strange...
Shailesh Vara | 492 c1697 (Link to this contribution) I wish to clarify a point. Clearly, I recognise that the Government would initiate any reduction in ...
Chris Bryant | 492 c1697-8 (Link to this contribution) Well, I am trying to appreciate it, but I am not getting any closer, I am afraid. Perhaps we will ha...
David Heath | 492 c1696 (Link to this contribution) There would not have been a war.
Chris Bryant | 492 c1696 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that there would not have been a war, but I do not think that that is an arg...
Graham Allen | 492 c1696-7 (Link to this contribution) I have two points of clarification to make, because I know that my hon. Friend is not trying to misr...
Shailesh Vara | 492 c1693-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that my hon. Friend is in a position to bless us. We were, however, certainly privileg...
Bob Russell | 492 c1693 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Shailesh Vara | 492 c1693 (Link to this contribution) I have a reputation for being very willing to give way to many people, but on this occasion I shall ...
Chris Bryant | 492 c1691 (Link to this contribution) That has nothing to do with the Speaker.
Shailesh Vara | 492 c1691-2 (Link to this contribution) It has everything to do with the Speaker, because it is the Speaker who presides over the House, and...
Shailesh Vara | 492 c1691 (Link to this contribution) I thank all hon. Members who have participated in the debate. There were perhaps not quite as many s...
Paul Burstow | 492 c1687 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point about fuel poverty. He is absolutely right that one ...
Chris Bryant | 492 c1701-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not take any more from the hon. Gentleman, because he knows that he has got it wrong. My...
Claire Ward | 492 c1702 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Chris Bryant | 492 c1699-701 (Link to this contribution) Well, as an area, it cannot be growing—it must still be the same size that it always was. I presume ...
Chris Bryant | 492 c1681 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) gave you rubbish advice.
Chris Bryant | 492 c1682 (Link to this contribution) I hate to correct the hon. Gentleman, but the Most Reverend Vincent Gerard Nichols is not the new ca...
Bob Russell | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) I have not done so, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I am reading from official records.
Speaker | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has informed the Member of the other place what he is abo...
Bob Russell | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) I have not done so, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was aware only of the fact that we have to inform Member...
Speaker | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt where the information has been obtained, but I wonder whether, in fact, the hon. Gent...
Bob Russell | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) I accept your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will seek an Adjournment debate so that I can pu...
Speaker | 492 c1676 (Link to this contribution) I do understand that the hon. Gentleman is quoting information on the record, but in reflecting on t...
Baroness Featherstone | 492 c1680 (Link to this contribution) He knows everything. I go to him for advice; he is very wise Member.
Chris Bryant | 492 c1694-6 (Link to this contribution) The debates that we have before recesses are very bizarre. They are a potpourri, a smorgasbord, an a...
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