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Independent Retailers

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 24 November 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Geoffrey Cox. The answering member was Mark Prisk.
Westminster Hall adjournment debate on independent retailers.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
519 c108-31WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c114WH (Link to this contribution) Not now. I will come back to that.
Chris Ruane | 519 c114WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

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Chris Ruane | 519 c114WH (Link to this contribution) It was going to be about starvation.
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c114-5WH (Link to this contribution) This is not meant to be a partisan point. I am not, on this occasion, having a jab at the previous L...
Luciana Berger | 519 c116WH (Link to this contribution) On that important point, is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware that more than half of small busine...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c115-6WH (Link to this contribution) He does not have the hair to be Lady Godiva, although he has a fine head of hair none the less. Pict...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c114WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, I would go further and place in the hands of local councils th...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c116WH (Link to this contribution) We can join across the House in the nicest possible way and agree that that is a critical issue for ...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c111WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's experience is, I think, replicated in dozens of constituencies around the country, ...
Jo Swinson | 519 c111WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. and learned Gentleman with great interest, and I congratulate him on secu...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c111WH (Link to this contribution) I, as ever, regard my hon. Friend's points in this, an area of expertise for him, as compelling and ...
Chris Ruane | 519 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. and learned Gentleman on securing this debate. I share many of his concerns....
Andrew George | 519 c112WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend not also agree that on the non-regulatory side there are things that...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c112WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, to a large extent. The main issue that I have heard is that charity...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want this debate to appear a depressing, gloomy litany of problems for the high street. I p...
Paul Uppal | 519 c114WH (Link to this contribution) May I thank my hon. and learned Friend for securing this debate? The gist of his speech is specifica...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c108-10WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Weir, and to have secured this debate on so im...
Brian Binley | 519 c110WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Weir. Does my hon. and learned Friend a...
Speaker | 519 c116WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Several hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. I hope to start the wind-up speeches no lat...
Chris Ruane | 519 c116-7WH (Link to this contribution) Apologies for my late arrival to this important debate, Mr Weir. As I said in my intervention, I sha...
Guto Bebb | 519 c121-2WH (Link to this contribution) Many retailers, especially in my constituency, which is very dependent on small businesses and retai...
Rehman Chishti | 519 c121WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Weir, and congratulate my hon. and learned Friend ...
Anne Marie Morris | 519 c119-20WH (Link to this contribution) After such a bravura performance by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torridge and West Devo...
Jim Shannon | 519 c120WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that of all the six critical factors that she is speaking about, parking is...
Chris Ruane | 519 c117-8WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. One reason is that local government faces a 40% cut to its budget. Many issues that need...
Mike Weatherley | 519 c122-4WH (Link to this contribution) The Opposition may disagree about who said it first, but I assure them it was indeed Adam Smith. It...
Anne Marie Morris | 519 c122WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which follows on from one I made in the House yesterda...
Mike Weatherley | 519 c122WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr Cox) on s...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 519 c125WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman. The point of local government is to show...
Speaker | 519 c125WH (Link to this contribution) I now call Justin Tomlinson, but remind him of the need to allow time for the winding-up speeches.
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 519 c124WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief because another hon. Member wishes to speak before the start of the winding-up spee...
Simon Danczuk | 519 c124-5WH (Link to this contribution) I want to make the point about local government in relation to Rochdale. About two years ago, I sugg...
Justin Tomlinson | 519 c125WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Weir; I will be on time. I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torr...
Ian Lucas | 519 c126-9WH (Link to this contribution) Welcome to the Chair, Mr Weir. I congratulate the hon. and learned Member for Torridge and West Devo...
Mark Prisk | 519 c129-31WH (Link to this contribution) May I begin by congratulating my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr ...
Mark Prisk | 519 c131WH (Link to this contribution) I will canter on, if I may, because I feel honour bound to mention a couple of questions asked by ot...
Justin Tomlinson | 519 c125-6WH (Link to this contribution) That is right. As has been said, small shops provide diversity but also character and interest to th...
Simon Danczuk | 519 c111-2WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. and learned Gentleman on securing this very important debate. I also c...
Geoffrey Cox | 519 c112-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has, with uncanny empathy, predicted my next set of points, although he did not expre...
Anne Marie Morris | 519 c121WH (Link to this contribution) That is a valuable contribution on an important issue, and I am sure the Minister and his Treasury c...
Anne Marie Morris | 519 c120-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I think that that is an issue, but it is not the mo...
Subjects
Charities
Devon
Broadband
Empty property
Parking
Planning
Markets
Business rates
Small businesses
Shops
Retail trade
Tobacco
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