Summer Adjournment

I, too, rise to speak about the Safe and Sustainable review of children’s heart surgery. The join...

If my hon. Friend is correct—and I am sure he is—in saying that his local authority OSC has refer...

I thank the Minister. I said earlier that the decision would go to the Secretary of State via the...

The evidence clearly shows that Newcastle will not hit the magic number of 400, making the point ...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. There is an assumption that all the patients who have been goi...

On 4 July, a committee of primary care trust chief executives made the extraordinary decision to ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a passionate case for the Royal Brompton unit. The chief executive of Li...

I am grateful for that intervention, because, in case my comments are seen as special pleading fr...

I am very fortunate never to have been in a situation where I have continuously required alcohol ...

This is a very serious issue. Does my hon. Friend agree that the silent majority are very much th...

I agree entirely. We should remember that a significant number of people in this country do not d...

Does the hon. Lady agree that providing calorific information, as opposed to just the unit conten...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Labelling of alcohol has improved significantly over the p...

Like many other Members, I should like to say a few words about the outcome of the Safe and Susta...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but the decision was not made by clinicians but by c...

Indeed. Many of the hon. Gentleman’s constituents would have been welcome in Leicester. He is qui...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for accepting my intervention, as I cannot speak in the debate be...

My hon. Friend is right, and she makes the point with her usual eloquence and insight. I pay trib...

I wish to raise the issue of neuroblastoma. I do so as someone who is proud of this Government’s ...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and particularly to follow the remarks of the hon. Membe...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her work on, and support for, this important issue. Does she a...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady; she is absolutely right. The hon. Member for Leicester South refe...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I offer you my ...

May I reassure my hon. Friend that the Independent Reconfiguration Panel is nothing to do with th...

I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for that clarification. I hope that the independe...

It is very convenient that the 25% figure gets Newcastle just over the 400 mark. However, my cons...

My hon. Friend is right. I am sure that that is the case for constituents across Yorkshire and th...

I am happy to be working so closely with my hon. Friend on this matter. When all the evidence is ...

I could not agree with my hon. Friend more.

The decision flies in the face of a fundamental...

I wish to raise the issue of wet age-related macular degeneration and the treatments that are ava...

My comments will focus on the treatment of one GP in my constituency and his patients in Kelvedon...

This has been an interesting and diverse debate, giving hon. Members an opportunity to raise a ra...

I am afraid other duties in the House prevented me from being at the meeting. Had I been there, I...

I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Not only am I sure he would agree with every...

Will the Minister clarify the time scale of the procedure he has described and also tell us who h...

It is difficult to give a time scale for this reason: as soon as my right hon. Friend receives re...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way once more, but then I will have to make progress, because I only have 10 minutes ...

Will the independent panel have the power to request all the documentation that the Safe and Sust...

The IRP?

Yes.

I think I can assure my hon. Friend that the IRP will have available to it all the evidence, in a...

Absolutely.

I thought she would say that. That is very good. After the consultation, the due processes of rec...

I thank the Minister. I wish him and those Members not staying for the other debates a happy and ...

Once again I wish to raise the issue of human rights and the death penalty in India. I pay tribut...

The professionalism, valour and courage of our soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and those ...

I had hoped that, after the election of President Hadi in Yemen, I would no longer need to raise ...

I thank the three colleagues who have spoken briefly and succinctly, but equally powerfully, in e...

Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker, on a subject—the British dairy industry—hug...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on raising what is a vital issue to the dairy industry. I recently ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is undoubtedly true that it is the average-sized...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising this important issue, which is dear to both our hearts. Does h...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, as he makes a point that I was intending to deal wit...

I support the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies) in his request to the Minister today....

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and agree with much of his speech. Does he share ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue and the key is to have a code of condu...

I wonder whether my right hon. Friend can help me. Was it not a previous Conservative Government ...

My hon. Friend and I have both been in the House since 1992 and I vividly remember the Mark Marqu...

Does the right hon. Gentleman feel the same concern as many of us about the large investments tha...

The key point is that whatever challenges farmers face in their investment and their businesses, ...

I, too, value the opportunity to bring the issue before the House. I attended the meeting of 3,50...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. In my County Durham constituency, many milk producers are suffer...

The hon. Lady makes a fair point. People who are powerful in the marketplace, such as the process...

I should like to raise the subject of dangerous dogs, as I was unable to participate in the recen...

This is a very important subject. Does my hon. Friend agree with my wife, who has studied animal ...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and I know that he is acutely aware of the subject, give...

I return to an issue that colleagues raised a little earlier: the dairy sector, its critical impo...

Asda has said today that it will put its prices up by 3p for direct sales for farmers, but in 201...

My hon. Friend graphically illustrates the inconsistent role of some supermarkets. Along with the...

Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that there is a problem with milk imports from countries with l...

The hon. Lady served in the previous Parliament when, to be fair, the issue of labelling rose to ...

I was expecting at least one further subject to be brought up during the debate. [Interruption.] ...

I have been listening to the debate and, although I do not know much about this subject, it seems...

My hon. Friend’s point is properly made and is an important one.

I will concentrate on the ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, I am sorry, I need to press on.

Hon. Members also raised the issue of supermarket power...

Name them.

Iceland.

It is on the record, and I did not move my lips.

The reality is that such a price is comple...

We now come to the debate on general matters. I will start off with a six-minute limit on speeche...

There is a strong and growing sense of anger in Salford and across Greater Manchester about the G...

My uncle served in the Lancashire Fusiliers and I am very proud of that fact. Does the hon. Lady ...

I very much agree with hon. Gentleman. I am today asking for such a rethink.

The decision t...

A good education is the best start that a child can be given, so I am pleased that the Isle of Wi...

Apprenticeships are dear to my heart, but not enough is being done. Is the college that the hon. ...

It is necessary that apprenticeships be expanded at all levels, which is why I am glad that my ho...

I want to use this afternoon’s debate to put down a marker of my concern about the changes in Gov...

Does my hon. Friend agree that much more emphasis should be placed on apprenticeships, which I me...

My hon. Friend makes a useful point. We need apprenticeships, but it is important that people—esp...

It is a pleasure to follow my near namesake, the hon. Member for City of Durham (Roberta Blackman...

Briefly, was this a police decision or a decision by someone else?

It is currently a proposal across London to close certain custody suites. I am obviously concentr...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

It is too late.

5.15 pm

I thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to participate in the debate.