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Daylight Saving Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 3 December 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Rebecca Harris. The answering member was Ed Davey.
Daylight Saving Bill. Second reading debate. Closure motion (Standing Order No. 36) agreed to on division (123 votes to 8). Second reading agreed to on division (92 votes to 10). Bill committed to a Public Bill Committee.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
519 c1083-156 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Daylight Saving Bill.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. There are of course the interested parties—the busybodies,...
Alan Reid | 519 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman referred to the earlier debate. The fact is that we have had an...

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Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I have sparred over this issue for a number of years. I think that he inadver...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The forces of darkness are back again.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on being successful in the ba...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) As was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan—the new Madame Ecosse—the stati...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) One thing that I am certainly not trying to do, Mr Deputy Speaker, is talk the Bill out. That is not...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made a very good point. That is also one of my concerns, but I should l...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Although I would support that move, does the hon. Gentleman not realise that one reason it would be ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to say that perhaps people should get up an hour earlier if they are that motivated. Le...
Justin Tomlinson | 519 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that although people who participate in competitive sport are probably...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to an Ipsos MORI poll on changing the clocks, which showed tha...
Alan Reid | 519 c1114 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to keep the hon. Gentleman away from the flight home to Barra, but he is right about the ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1114 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that I would much rather be in the outer Hebrides than in London on this Friday mornin...
David Hamilton | 519 c1117 (Link to this contribution) I understand fully that the hon. Gentleman is making these arguments because of where he comes from....
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand that it has not been debated in the Scottish Parliament, because they think this is one...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1125-6 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that the fact that the temperature does not change much between 6 am ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1154 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
Speaker | 519 c1156 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby. There seems to be another probl...
Alan Reid | 519 c1124 (Link to this contribution) Surely, if we passed the Bill, we would be more active at the coldest hour of the day—the hour befor...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Lady's concerns about carbon emissions. It is important that we take that into acco...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1126 (Link to this contribution) We can trade statistics across the Floor of the House for a great many hours and not become very muc...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1123 (Link to this contribution) It is, but that point has been made already.
Ben Gummer | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) has just raised an important point about capacity, ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1124 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is, as we would expect, making an argument based on the effect of a time change on car...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1124 (Link to this contribution) If it were to be proved that such a change would make carbon emissions worse, I would reconsider my ...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. He has been a passionate supporter of a clock...
Ed Davey | 519 c1148 (Link to this contribution) I should say that I do not intend to speak for too long, if that encourages my hon. Friend to retake...
Ed Davey | 519 c1148 (Link to this contribution) On getting home before it gets dark?
Naomi Long | 519 c1121 (Link to this contribution) I wrote to Translink, the main public transport provider in Northern Ireland, in relation to this de...
Alan Reid | 519 c1149 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will not pay any attention to those who want him to curtail his speech. I...
Ed Davey | 519 c1149 (Link to this contribution) And I am keen to say it. I was saying that we have had two experiments in different countries which...
Ed Davey | 519 c1149-50 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way. I want to make some progress, and then I shall take some interventions. ...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way for now and I shall make some more progress, because Mr Deputy Speaker is giving...
Greg Knight | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend also seen the report by Cambridge university that concludes that home energy cons...
Ed Davey | 519 c1148-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that, but my hon. Friend the Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen)...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quoting evidence very convincingly, so I shall quote some evidence:"““National...
Ben Bradshaw | 519 c1149 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry and surprised that the Minister sounds more negative than the shadow Minister, but may I ...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's point is now on the record. We need to ensure that we do not resort to u...
Ed Davey | 519 c1149 (Link to this contribution) One thought that of the right hon. Gentleman's speeches on many occasions, but, as I thought he woul...
Naomi Long | 519 c1151 (Link to this contribution) On the inconvenience to those who trade with the US, we should remember that the US is one of the bi...
Ed Davey | 519 c1151 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right. I have taken the trouble to speak to the Irish ambassador to Lond...
Ed Davey | 519 c1150-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, because I have an important announcement to make to the House. The Re...
Matthew Offord | 519 c1118 (Link to this contribution) I believe my hon. Friend's constituency contains a community of orthodox Jewish people, as does mine...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1118 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. There are many groups, such as the one he has just mention...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes one of the most powerful points for this argument, and it cannot be refuted by ...
Brandon Lewis | 519 c1152 (Link to this contribution) I do not mean to protract the debate, but does the Minister agree that one benefit in those shoulder...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 519 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I hope my hon. Friend will pay tribute in his brief history of the daylight savings movement to Mr W...
Ed Davey | 519 c1152-4 (Link to this contribution) That is why I am keen to see extra research on the matter. At the moment, the evidence is not absolu...
Denis MacShane | 519 c1152 (Link to this contribution) A Friday morning Bill on this matter came before the 1997 Government and was talked out, and I belie...
Ed Davey | 519 c1152 (Link to this contribution) I do hope to be able to get to my concluding remarks. [Hon. Members: ““Hear, hear!””] It will make m...
Neil Parish | 519 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Forty years after the last experiment, is it not right for the Government to consider the fact that ...
Ed Davey | 519 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) I urge my hon. Friend to be a little patient, but I would say that if he had listened to my remarks,...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1136 (Link to this contribution) If the Bill dealt with no more than the research phase, I would be very happy to support it. It does...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 519 c1135 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on her principled position and would like to ask whether she agrees tha...
Naomi Long | 519 c1135 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, although it was not me who mentioned Penzance—I think i...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and constituency neighbour, the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg), who...
Naomi Long | 519 c1135 (Link to this contribution) I have reached my own conclusion, and I am sure that other right hon. and hon. Members will have don...
Albert Owen | 519 c1134 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a strong argument. On the point about the land border, my constituency is cl...
Naomi Long | 519 c1133-4 (Link to this contribution) The questions about the trial, the commissioners and the report are answered in the Bill. I am less ...
Sarah Newton | 519 c1134 (Link to this contribution) When I heard the hon. Lady say that she wondered what the people of Penzance thought, my ears pricke...
Naomi Long | 519 c1134 (Link to this contribution) I would not wish to stand here and predict what the Irish Government might choose to do, because tha...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1136 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady condemns herself out of her own mouth. She says that the evidence to date does not per...
Naomi Long | 519 c1133 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman misunderstands me—I am in favour of the Bill. It is exactly that kind of response...
Ben Gummer | 519 c1133 (Link to this contribution) These are important local issues, but surely we are dancing on the head of a pin. This is an opportu...
Naomi Long | 519 c1132-3 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I have not given a lot of thought to that, because I wanted specifically to look at t...
David Hamilton | 519 c1132 (Link to this contribution) I have come here today with an open mind, with no view on whether we should accept the proposal or n...
Naomi Long | 519 c1132 (Link to this contribution) Sunrise times are critical. Belfast will be less affected than the north coast of Northern Ireland, ...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1132 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a very important point about northern and western areas. Have the people of ...
Naomi Long | 519 c1131-2 (Link to this contribution) Had the hon. Gentleman waited a few minutes, he would have heard me say that he was one of the few w...
Naomi Long | 519 c1131 (Link to this contribution) No, I wish to make some progress. Those points are not the crux of my argument, because I do not wi...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1133 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has shed some light on why she supports the Bill—to get some analysis and gather infor...
Naomi Long | 519 c1131 (Link to this contribution) I do not entirely agree. Although it was not compulsory to wear a seat belt, they were fitted in car...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1128-9 (Link to this contribution) It was Churchill who recognised that by going on to summer time, we would get more out of our factor...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1129 (Link to this contribution) General polling suggests that the public feel rather differently from that particularly small sample...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1129 (Link to this contribution) One reason why farmers in parts of Scotland are less opposed to the measure than they were 40 years ...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1128 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows, however, that the problem with a private Member's Bill is that it has to g...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, who just reminds me never to trust him again! My giving way was an aberr...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1127 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I have misled the hon. Lady! Why reinvent the wheel? Why not look to other parts of the wor...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I should like to counter the hon. Lady. The issue has been decided on, but some malcontents return t...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1136 (Link to this contribution) I will give way briefly, but the hon. Gentleman has taken up a lot of the House's time today.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1136 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether that is good or bad. The hon. Gentleman is arguing for research, and analysis ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1136 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to change his tune with almost every intervention. Only a few minutes ago, ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1136-7 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. He would do well to read in detail what the Bill says. I ...
Alan Reid | 519 c1137 (Link to this contribution) When my hon. Friend read from the Bill, he failed to point out that the commission is unelected. The...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1137 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who I know is a staunch opponent of any moves in the direction set out in the Bill, ...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1138 (Link to this contribution) If the benefits of these long summer evenings are as great as the proponents of the Bill suggest, wh...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1144 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady had been listening to my remarks, she would have known that we are not going to opp...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1141 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly fair position, but does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that virtually all t...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I think it is important for the Opposition to identify some of the problems that a number of people ...
Albert Owen | 519 c1142 (Link to this contribution) Although I support the Bill, I—like many other Members, including the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavi...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) I would argue that the independent commission's job is to scrutinise both sides of the argument inde...
Naomi Long | 519 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) that we should not wish to be weathervanes. ...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with that. After the commission has reported and trials of a permanent change have...
Mary MacLeod | 519 c1143 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that given that this Bill promises a detailed analysis and a trial...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1142-3 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. I put my faith in the commission's ability to gather evidence from all over ...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1146 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the point made in an earlier intervention that Northern Ireland would...
Ed Davey | 519 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention. I shall assess that issue and put both sides of...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1145 (Link to this contribution) I want to challenge the argument that there would be a carbon saving, because empirical studies show...
Ed Davey | 519 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris), because in my many discussions wit...
Andrew Bridgen | 519 c1148 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister speed up his statement? Many Members on both sides would like to get home before i...
Ed Davey | 519 c1146-8 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will have a little patience, I hope that he will react positively to some of my la...
Andrew Percy | 519 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of the Minister's comments and I have concerns about the Bill, but should it not a...
Ed Davey | 519 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I shall discuss that in more detail, particularly in relation to Galway bay, if my right hon. Friend...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1144 (Link to this contribution) I have already told the House that we are not going to block the progress of the Bill. We look forwa...
Matt Hancock | 519 c1144 (Link to this contribution) Given that the hon. Gentleman has made a strong argument for the need to ask more questions and rece...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to argue or disagree with the hon. Gentleman. If he bears with me, my position will be...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I was waiting for that one. If I remember correctly, the hon. Gentleman said that he had not had a s...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I would be interested to know the view of Opposition Front Benchers on a sensible, symmetrical short...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. There is a lot of conflicting information and the...
Ben Bradshaw | 519 c1139 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my hon. Friend on, I think, his intention to give the Bill a fair wind? He talks ...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1139 (Link to this contribution) Irrespective of the length of the trial—two and a half or three years—it is a substantial period tha...
Alan Reid | 519 c1139 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions the three-year trial. Has he noticed that under clause 3 the success of ...
Gordon Banks | 519 c1138-9 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) for bringing the Bill before us. I hope ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. As someone with a few years' experience in ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The trial period is the dangerous part. A trial period of three years is quite a large percentage of...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady leads me nicely on to the next part of my speech. In this, I am not only a Scottish na...
Naomi Long | 519 c1110 (Link to this contribution) On the point about people wanting to barbecue, for example, at half 11 at night, it is quite possibl...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has neatly completed a picture of which we had probably been given only half. The...
David Nuttall | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) This might already have been mentioned, but is it not more accurate to refer to it as Gibraltar time...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1123-4 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on proposing the Bill and re...
Naomi Long | 519 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I do indeed, and the fervour that I referred to was not hers. However, some of the questions that ha...
Naomi Long | 519 c1130 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on securing the opportunity ...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1141 (Link to this contribution) We went to some lengths to ensure that the Bill benefits not constituencies but the whole of the UK,...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1138 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend begins his question with the word ““If””. That is a move in the right direction...
Speaker | 519 c1154 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1148 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on that point?
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1148 (Link to this contribution) Is not the intervention of the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen) an example...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and, as my hon. Friend will know, I have received an enormous number of representations ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1090 (Link to this contribution) As I said at the outset, one of the strange aspects of every discussion of this measure is the tende...
David Nuttall | 519 c1096 (Link to this contribution) They were actually all out for 245, and England survived the one over, scoring one run.
Annette Brooke | 519 c1100 (Link to this contribution) We have been talking about the changing significance of the proposal since the previous experiment. ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going to indulge in a kamikaze leap.
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for paying tribute to his former constituent. It is also worth menti...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) In responding to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce), surely the hon. Gentlem...
Albert Owen | 519 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I did say ““clean coal””. The hon. Gentleman is always jumping in; he is a bit too keen. I was talki...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1103 (Link to this contribution) If separate time zones were operating across the UK, would the hon. Gentleman be in favour of retain...
Roger Gale | 519 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I think that the BBC will do what it has continued to do for a very long time, and live in the past....
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that he is representing his seat and Scotland by claiming that we are going ...
David Hamilton | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) Is not the fact that very few central Scotland MPs, and no MPs from the borders, are here an indicat...
Damian Collins | 519 c1088 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that another myth that has grown up around the daylight saving issue is th...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) Yes, Reginald Maudling presented evidence to the House to show that a majority of people in the coun...
Albert Owen | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) Poll findings are important. I am uncertain what the polling said in 1970 when the experiment was ab...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend will find that the figures for Scotland show that there was a higher red...
Alan Reid | 519 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I draw my hon. Friend's attention to the Library research paper, which refers to the simulation of t...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I shall return to my speech, having taken many interventions. I ask only that the Government take a...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1087 (Link to this contribution) The issue of Scotland is critical to the debate. Had the experiment of 1968 to 1971 continued until ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) There is strong evidence that increased youth participation in sport, in particular, can reduce anti...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman, because I do not think that it would benefit Scotland,...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 519 c1087 (Link to this contribution) May I say how pleased I am that the hon. Lady has introduced the Bill? I shall be here to support it...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1086 (Link to this contribution) Antisocial behaviour is a great scourge, and I understand and appreciate those concerns. People are ...
Matt Hancock | 519 c1086 (Link to this contribution) In gathering evidence on the issue, will my hon. Friend ensure that the evidence of those who play a...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. There has been some debate about whether I am casting aside tradition by suggesti...
Therese Coffey | 519 c1086 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful case for her Bill, but does she recognise the concerns of constituen...
Albert Owen | 519 c1085 (Link to this contribution) On the German question, as a Welshman who comes from a constituency equidistant from northern Scotla...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should not have taken that intervention at this stage, as I shall cover that issue in grea...
Lord Beith | 519 c1085 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend seems rather dismissive of the concerns of those in a constituency such as mine—where...
Tim Yeo | 519 c1084-5;519 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the Bill, of which I am an unqualified and enthusiastic...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that I have had two representations from amateur astronomers, saying that in the heigh...
Joan Walley | 519 c1083-4;519 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill. In the early days, organisations such as ROSPA did much to support measures on s...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that helpful intervention. I agree. The arguments in favour of the measure...
Graham Stringer | 519 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I am very sympathetic to the hon. Lady's Bill. Has she had representations, as I have, from amateur ...
Ben Bradshaw | 519 c1092-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has just made a point about the history of Governments' attitudes to the proposals. Sh...
Paul Maynard | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree there would be particularly disproportionate benefits to seaside towns, wh...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly see the enormous benefits that the change would bring to towns such as Blackpool and...
Simon Kirby | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Brighton is a very long way from Scotland, but 14,000 jobs there depend on tourism, and nearly 9 mil...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) Cases are being made from around the country, and the tourism case holds true everywhere. The Northe...
Charlotte Leslie | 519 c1092 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for taking so many interventions. I am a great supporter of the Lighter Later...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1092 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely, and as I said earlier, Bills such as this have come around again and again. They a...
Steve Brine | 519 c1092 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her earlier congratulations. She knows that I support the Bill, and I am ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1092 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. Had the experiment coincided with the energy crisis, a very different vie...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point, and I certainly argue that the tourism benefit holds true right across th...
Brandon Lewis | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) When I was examining the tourism issue, I was interested to learn of the importance to Scotland of t...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1091 (Link to this contribution) That is correct. That is the analysis we have, so we can see already the advantages in Scotland. Att...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) The matter would have to come before Parliament again, but such matters could be ironed out in Commi...
Mark Lazarowicz | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I confirm that I had misread the provision regarding the matter coming back to the House. However, i...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) It is clear from the last three polls conducted in Scotland that there is a majority in favour. If o...
Mark Lazarowicz | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I have tried, as best I can, to assess the opinions in my constituency. This is in no sense scientif...
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1090 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady rightly raises the important issue of tourism, which would receive one of the many ben...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1089 (Link to this contribution) It is a specific provision of the Bill that the benefits should be considered in relation to all par...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Lady's arguments as they relate to summer—most of the arguments are much stron...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1094 (Link to this contribution) Of course, that is what the Bill seeks to do, and what my hon. Friend says coincides with the accide...
Robert Buckland | 519 c1094 (Link to this contribution) Is it not self-evident that with increased daylight hours, the fear of crime and of going out among ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1094 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates my next comment. Age UK and Saga have told me how much safer older people...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1094 (Link to this contribution) That issue is very close to my heart. Does the hon. Lady agree that the Bill would lead to savings o...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1094-5 (Link to this contribution) Fuel poverty is another problem that we did not have at the time of the winter-only experiment of '6...
Charlie Elphicke | 519 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I believe that a study by the university of Cambridge says that the change would lead to a saving of...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) The modelling from Dr Garnsey's team at Cambridge suggests that we could cut our carbon emissions by...
Albert Owen | 519 c1096 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris), and I congratula...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman. The urgent need to create new jobs and growth at the moment is ano...
Lord Barwell | 519 c1093 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend perhaps does herself a disservice, because there has been a change. The peak in crime...
Alan Reid | 519 c1100 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's analysis is flawed because he is looking only at electricity. Electricity is us...
Albert Owen | 519 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was listening when I argued that we needed more evidence on gas. H...
Albert Owen | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman one last time.
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I would just like to draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to the evidence from the Building Research ...
Albert Owen | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I responded to the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) about that survey, which looked at o...
Albert Owen | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his help. I will develop the argument that what we are askin...
Damian Collins | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there could also be a benefit from reducing the need to import en...
Albert Owen | 519 c1099 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I did mention energy security. Indeed, we can break that down and talk about microgeneratio...
Albert Owen | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) Well, I was the person asking the questions, and I know that the Library notes are very thick. One s...
Albert Owen | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but that is not the evidence we had most rec...
Albert Owen | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) No, quite the opposite. That is why I pointed out that there would be little difference during Decem...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) The proponents of the Bill are in danger of taking as fact research evidence that is highly qualifie...
Albert Owen | 519 c1096-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for shining light on the situation. I support the Bill. I will ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1098 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not feel, when he talks about the shoulder months, that he is actually argui...
Albert Owen | 519 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that information, and I hope it continues. I am also disappointed about yesterday'...
Andrew Bingham | 519 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I believe that Australia were all out for 275.
Albert Owen | 519 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. I shall finish my speech now so that other people can have the opportunity to s...
David Hamilton | 519 c1103 (Link to this contribution) That is also true of the Soviet Union, or Russia, where there are 11 time zones, often separated by ...
Roger Gale | 519 c1102-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on introducing this very ...
Roger Gale | 519 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I am not necessarily saying that it is desirable; I am saying that it is practicably possible, if th...
Albert Owen | 519 c1101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to put that on the record, but again he is enhancing my argument in favo...
Alan Reid | 519 c1101 (Link to this contribution) It is only fair to put on record the fact that in its response, the National Farmers Union of Scotla...
Albert Owen | 519 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that tourism is increasingly important to the British economy—there is absolutely ...
Albert Owen | 519 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I am sorry that I misread him. He and I do not ag...
Roger Gale | 519 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I am entirely in support of everything that the hon. Gentleman is saying. Setting aside the Daily Ma...
Albert Owen | 519 c1101 (Link to this contribution) —although I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will argue to the contrary.
Albert Owen | 519 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there is an argument about summer football, which the hon. Gentleman is making from a s...
Albert Owen | 519 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to go with the Portuguese example, but it happened because Portugal had extra benefit...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman's argument is for one hour, why does he not extend that logic to two, three, f...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. That is borne out in my next point. The result of the Division on 2 Dece...
Iain Stewart | 519 c1108 (Link to this contribution) I hope that, as a Conservative and Unionist, I will not do the hon. Gentleman's credibility any dama...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the reality is that there is a limited amount of daylight. Children are already dealing ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I am very sympathetic to the concerns of the hon. Lady and her constituents. As she will see, I have...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with the right hon. Gentleman. He has experience, as I do, of getting up in t...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1104 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that hon. Members who represent southern constituencies should realise that...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1104 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to say a great deal, but I want to address a couple of the issues from the perspecti...
Roger Gale | 519 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I am going to conclude now; a lot of other people want to speak. When the hon. Member for the Wester...
Caroline Nokes | 519 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on introducing the Bill. ...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Not just now because I am winding up. We have to think very seriously about the logistics of having...
Ben Bradshaw | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) Is it not time that we scotched the myth about the rate of road accidents in Scotland during the exp...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1112 (Link to this contribution) If we could conduct a trial without going through the inevitable misery and changing back, I would a...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman cited some times, but how long does that situation last in those places?
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He makes a point that I perhaps hav...
Nick de Bois | 519 c1112 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman cites many trials and much evidence in his speech, and he clearly feels passionat...
Speaker | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman mentioned a compromise. He has been speaking for quite a long time, and he...
Lord Beith | 519 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I should hate to leave the hon. Gentleman with that burden unaided. Do his constituents, like mine, ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) In all areas and at all times there is a difference of opinion. The reason many of them are not here...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 519 c1110 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that something significant has changed since 1968, which is that we fa...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1110 (Link to this contribution) A number of things have indeed changed since the 1970s; of course, I have aged 40 years. The hon. La...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) Once again, we have the voice of experience versus the voice of hope. Experience often triumphs over...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 519 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I have been enjoying the hon. Gentleman's speech enormously. I think that he has identified the nub ...
Rebecca Harris | 519 c1114 (Link to this contribution) When it comes to accident statistics, the only evidence that matters is the differential between wha...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1114 (Link to this contribution) I have probably just missed a decent quip in the Chamber, but I am happy to give way to the hon. Gen...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil), and I will address...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1115 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that sensible point from a new Member whom I admire enormously. I want to put on record th...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not very familiar with Mr Peter Hitchens. I believe that he writes in The Times or the Daily Ex...
Ben Gummer | 519 c1115 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is manfully presenting arguments against what seem to be manifestly sensible reas...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1117 (Link to this contribution) I feel the hon. Gentleman is coming on to good territory in that he seems to want to give more power...
Roger Gale | 519 c1116 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go too far off-piste, but I happen to be in favour of four national Parliaments and...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1124-5 (Link to this contribution) That was an early intervention on my speech and if the hon. Gentleman listens to the next bit, some ...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1126 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept and I do not think that that is what the evidence suggests. One of the points th...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I hear the hon. Lady making an argument about what could/will/should/may happen. Can she point to an...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1127 (Link to this contribution) No, the hon. Gentleman has spoken a lot. [Interruption.] Oh, he is going to agree. In that case, I s...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1126 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be obsessed with Indiana. There may well be other reasons why the result...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification. A time change would bring huge benefits for business and over...
Speaker | 519 c1123 (Link to this contribution) There are many speakers, so a little brevity will be helpful.
Lord Foster of Bath | 519 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I apologise because there are those who will get hung up on the European issue, but would not a time...
Eilidh Whiteford | 519 c1120 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that he is simply displacing the problem from one end of the day to t...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on the method and the style with which she is putting her arguments for...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1121 (Link to this contribution) I looked carefully at the statistics for Northern Ireland, because it is important to include all pa...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1122 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point, which is is worth expanding on. All fuel bills would ...
Bob Stewart | 519 c1119 (Link to this contribution) The crucial thing is: will we save lives by changing the hours at which daylight starts and daylight...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by that last contribution. Has the hon. Gentleman uncovered corruption in the Conserv...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I think I will gloss over that and move straight on to some of the other areas that have been mentio...
Alan Reid | 519 c1120 (Link to this contribution) We had an experiment in the 1960s and there was no clear outcome in the studies of the road accident...
Tobias Ellwood | 519 c1120 (Link to this contribution) Let us just focus on that debate for a moment. Reginald Maudling did make those comments, but he als...
Albert Owen | 519 c1131 (Link to this contribution) As a Welsh MP, I am certainly not English-centric. I made the point that we need empirical evidence ...
Marcus Jones | 519 c1131 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not agree that the argument about breathalysers and seat belts in relation to the...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 519 c1129 (Link to this contribution) I, too, was very much involved in that Bill. I took part in ““On the Record””, which had a live stud...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) In a sense, that makes the point that we are moving forward. All those arguments can be put on the t...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I would be very disappointed if the hon. Lady were to get the impression that I do not recognise the...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 519 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps rather than Churchill time, it should be Chamberlain time—appeasement is what is happening.
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point. I was pleased to have a small role in suggesting the good tit...
Claire O'Neill | 519 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I actually think that the measure should be called ““Churchill time””, as my hon. Friend so cleverly...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 519 c1127-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on the Bill, which I am h...
Caroline Lucas | 519 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his remarks. Yes, indeed, there is plenty of empirical evidence to su...
Charlie Elphicke | 519 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on her passion in setting about the Luddites who are against any change...
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Costs
Business
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Environment
Energy
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Republic of Ireland
Safety
Wales
Roads
Tourism
Summertime
Time zones
Time
Carbon emissions
Portugal
Legislation
Daylight Saving Bill 2010-12
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