Parliamentary search - London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill

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527 c363-418

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2010-12

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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Second reading

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London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 165-EN also published. (Vote)
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
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Hugh Robertson | 527 c363 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Since 2006, when the London Olympic Games a...

Edward Timpson | 527 c363 (Link to this contribution) A concern that has been raised about other sporting events is that, despite high ticket sales, the s...

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Hugh Robertson | 527 c364 (Link to this contribution) Given the almost unparalleled level of interest in ticket applications, it is pretty unlikely that a...

Mark Field | 527 c364 (Link to this contribution) To pick up on that point, will the Minister make clear what arrangements there will be for a seconda...

Mark Field | 527 c366 (Link to this contribution) Although I accept, as the Minister says, that the Bill makes minor amendments to the legislation tha...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an extremely good point, which I will answer peripherally before coming on...

Bob Stewart | 527 c365 (Link to this contribution) Is there an allocation of tickets for disabled ex-servicemen and women, perhaps through the Royal Br...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c365 (Link to this contribution) I have not made those concerns public, and that is, rightly, a matter for Tottenham Hotspur. I am co...

Andrew Love | 527 c364 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise this issue before the Minister moves on to the terms of the Bill. It relates to the ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c364 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. There is the quid pro quo that if one has tough anti-touting...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) I think the best way of answering that is to say that I note the concerns. There is a fine line, and...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c375 (Link to this contribution) There is no such measure in the Bill. I would need to take the advice of the drafting clerks, but my...

Bob Blackman | 527 c375 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend came to Stanmore and Queensbury when Wembley station was in operation, he would fi...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. I know that the Mayor has for obvious reaso...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 527 c376 (Link to this contribution) I seek some reassurance. While we are on the question of reputations and the Jubilee line, will the ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c376 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that part of the commitment on the Olympic route network is that there will be no road...

Mike Freer | 527 c376 (Link to this contribution) On the general point about the extent of the Olympic route network, especially the alternative netwo...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 527 c379 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to ask, but does my right hon. Friend think that one of the mayoral candidates is more fa...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c377 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention—I nearly got through, didn’t I? I am glad to say that t...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c377 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening during the Minister’s conclusion, but I wanted to catch him before he sa...

Baroness Jowell | 527 c379-81 (Link to this contribution) The passion of our former hon. Friend, the former Member for Brent, East and former Mayor of London,...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c383 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I explained the position very badly in my speech. Not all enforcement officers will come f...

Lyn Brown | 527 c385-7 (Link to this contribution) This is not my first speech on the Olympics. I remember being in the House on the day that London wo...

David Burrowes | 527 c384-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification. Certainly all available expertise should be used, but I hope t...

Lyn Brown | 527 c387-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that clarification. I agree that there was substantial debate on t...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c387 (Link to this contribution) I can immediately set the hon. Lady’s mind at rest on this point. There is a very tight exclusion zo...

Gloria De Piero | 527 c389 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Earlier today, the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Oly...

Speaker | 527 c389 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am allowing a bit of latitude and I hope that Members will still remember to refer to the B...

Speaker | 527 c389 (Link to this contribution) It is not a matter for the Chair to do that. The hon. Lady has rightly put this on the record and I ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c396 (Link to this contribution) I made an undertaking on Second Reading of the hon. Lady’s Bill to look at that issue again, notwith...

Sharon Hodgson | 527 c394-6 (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to expand on that point, but if I had responded, without your intervention, Mr Depu...

Speaker | 527 c394 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have allowed latitude but I do not want us to get into a political row. This has been a goo...

Lord Foster of Bath | 527 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that response. I apologise to the hon. Member for Washington and S...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c393 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I can see the hon. Member for Washington and Sunder...

Lord Foster of Bath | 527 c389-93 (Link to this contribution) I am not only particularly grateful to you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I am particularly ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c397 (Link to this contribution) Specific high-profile events.

Sharon Hodgson | 527 c396-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to get into an argument with the Minister—heaven forbid—but when I met officers from O...

Bob Blackman | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend tell the House the extent to which the ODA will have control? Olympic venues are ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a very good question. The key thing in dealing with people in that respect is ap...

Lord Barwell | 527 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) In answering my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr Field), the Minister...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting one. I think it is pretty much a fact of public record who has built the vari...

Lord Beamish | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) Local authorities are having their budgets slashed by this Government. Will the Minister therefore m...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) Provision has been made in the budget for extra support to be given to local authorities for a varie...

Lord Beamish | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that local authorities will have an enforcement role. Has he estimated what additi...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) I apologise if I did not make that clear. The enforcement officers will, if possible, be drawn from ...

Mark Field | 527 c367 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the 1908 and 1948 Olympics were nothing like as commercialised as next year’s will be....

Hugh Robertson | 527 c367 (Link to this contribution) There is no sense at all that the requirements of the London Olympics are any more draconian than ha...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) The answer to that is, ““Not quite.”” The powers would normally be exercised by the police. Obviousl...

Mike Freer | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) The Minister spoke of the ODA being the enforcing authority in respect of ambush marketing, but then...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) If I understand my hon. Friend correctly—he can ask again if I do not answer him—the venues are not ...

Mike Freer | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) To clarify, is it true that there will be no further enforcement outside those clean areas?

Hugh Robertson | 527 c370-1 (Link to this contribution) Correct—yes. Infringing articles seized will be dealt with in accordance with clause 1, which sets ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) Two things come to mind. During my time as a Minister, I have become aware that some of these sites ...

Lord Beamish | 527 c369 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the Mayor controls the budget for London, but also referred to authorities ou...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) There is a distinction between the costs that the hon. Gentleman originally asked about—the costs fo...

Mark Field | 527 c370 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify the situation in respect of powers of seizure over individuals, rather tha...

Christopher Chope | 527 c373 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps before the end of the debate the Minister of State, Department for Transport, who is in her ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect, my hon. Friend has been in Parliament long enough to know that other Ministers...

Christopher Chope | 527 c373 (Link to this contribution) The A31, which is the main route to the Weymouth venue, has a bottleneck at the Canford Bottom round...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c373 (Link to this contribution) After some six years with this brief, I thought that I had come across almost everything, but the Ca...

Andrew Love | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Minister on the illegal use of the internet? Although some sites may have been close...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c372-3 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is that that is what the Bill is intended to do. The advice from the police is that...

Simon Hughes | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for missing the beginning of the Minister’s speech, but this is the issue on which I wan...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely give my right hon. Friend those assurances. The firm conducting the ticketing opera...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, and I thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. As he says, Operation Po...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c375 (Link to this contribution) No such provisions are proposed in the Bill. I could see that being quite a controversial power to g...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and for the initial work he did on this issue. I can...

Lord Barwell | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend give the House an idea of the level of those penalty charge notices? Has the ODA ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c375 (Link to this contribution) No final decision has been taken, but I can assure my hon. Friend—if this is what is worrying him—th...

Bob Blackman | 527 c375 (Link to this contribution) One of the principal concerns of residents in my constituency is that the whole of Harrow and Brent ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend can have another go, but he will not get a different answer.

Christopher Chope | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) On the wider issue of the route network, games officials and competitors will not need to travel 24 ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) Yes. There will not be a blanket restriction in force throughout the games. It will only be in force...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his kind words. When we launched the Olympic network consultation some year...

Christopher Chope | 527 c374 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could have one more go—

Speaker | 527 c401 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am going to help reassure the hon. Lady. We are dealing with the Bill and I have allowed a ...

Rushanara Ali | 527 c401 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that response, but he should consider visiting my constituency and some of ...

Andrew Bingham | 527 c400 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether my hon. Friend is a football supporter, but does he remember the similarly goo...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c400 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is a risk involved in this. If we get it right, it enhance...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c399 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Sharon Hodgson | 527 c397 (Link to this contribution) ““Specific high-profile events””: that recognises that the problem could go beyond the Olympic games...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c397-9 (Link to this contribution) One of the noticeable features of today’s debate is the largely all-party spirit in which it has bee...

Andrew Bingham | 527 c404 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does my hon. Friend hope to emulate the Manchester Commonwealth games of a few years ...

Mary MacLeod | 527 c404-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. Although London is the best city in the world, Manchest...

Bob Blackman | 527 c406-8 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Mary Macleod) in sp...

Rushanara Ali | 527 c401 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I hope that I will not stray beyond the Bill, but I would like to turn...

Speaker | 527 c402 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the Minister is going to wait, and that if he wishes to intervene, he will do ...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c401 (Link to this contribution) That is not in the Bill. It is an amending Bill.

Justin Tomlinson | 527 c403 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady can help on legacy by championing the school Olympics principle locally, which I have ...

Rushanara Ali | 527 c402-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. There is great concern in my constituency about the need to ensure th...

Mary MacLeod | 527 c403-4 (Link to this contribution) The Olympic and Paralympic games are events like no other. To have them happening here in London is ...

Rushanara Ali | 527 c403 (Link to this contribution) Colleagues and I are working with LOCOG on that, and a number of schools have engaged, which is welc...

Christopher Chope | 527 c410-2 (Link to this contribution) I wish that I could. When asked to describe it at the meeting, the officials said that they preferre...

Lord Foster of Bath | 527 c410 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is teasing the House to distraction. Would he be kind enough to give a clear desc...

Christopher Chope | 527 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) I wish to address my relatively brief remarks to clause 4, which deals with traffic and is entitled ...

Andrew Bingham | 527 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make just a few brief remarks about the ticket tout element of the Bill, which I fully sup...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c413-8 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I will close the debate, which has been interesting. I am extremely gra...

Baroness Jowell | 527 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to contribute to the c...

Baroness Jowell | 527 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by saying that the Opposition are delighted to support the legislation. I thank the Min...

David Burrowes | 527 c381-3 (Link to this contribution) As a London Member of Parliament, as a mad sports fan and, indeed, as an owner and friend of newts—t...

Lord Foster of Bath | 527 c372 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in praising those in the police who are involved in Operation Podium and w...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c401 (Link to this contribution) Just to be absolutely clear, there are no cuts to elite facility funding. The money that the previou...

Rushanara Ali | 527 c400-1 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to speak in this debate as a Member of Parliament from one of the host boroughs, the ...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is nodding, so there is no need for him to deal with that when he winds up. Let me dra...

Andrew Love | 527 c365 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that reply. Tottenham Hotspur has raised concerns about transparency in rel...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c364-5 (Link to this contribution) I have to tread a little carefully in answering that question because we are under threat of judicia...

Hugh Robertson | 527 c394 (Link to this contribution) I am going to take this only so far, as this has been a consensual debate thus far and I do not want...

Sharon Hodgson | 527 c394 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Bath (Mr Foster), who I wish had been able to ...

Bob Blackman | 527 c371-2 (Link to this contribution) This is a key issue for the large numbers of people who have purchased tickets in the proper way. Du...

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