Business of the House

I thank the Leader of the House for the information he gave, particularly on the Strathclyde repo...

I join the hon. Lady in welcoming and celebrating the sitting of the UK Youth Parliament in this ...

Like the shadow Leader of the House, I believe in the freedom of the media to report, but the BBC...

My hon. Friend is right to say that there is active participation by a number of non-member state...

I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the business for next week.

Well, well—it lo...

The hon. Gentleman will have the opportunity to put questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

I read with interest today in the Telegraph an article by the Secretary of State for Environment,...

There will be questions to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and ...

I thank the Leader of the House for the welcome development of giving the Backbench Business Comm...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments about my efforts to try to give greater noti...

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the system of testing at key stage 1 and key ...

I ought to declare an interest, as my wife is a primary school teacher who teaches key stage 1 an...

Fourteen-year-old Nasar Ahmed, who lived in my constituency, died on Monday this week after falli...

First, may I express my sorrow and deep sympathy for the family of Nasar Ahmed? What has happened...

Last weekend, we commemorated those who sacrificed their lives in service to this country to enab...

I cannot promise my hon. Friend a debate in Government time—this might well be a suitable subject...

Will the Leader of the House facilitate a statement from the Home Secretary regarding the positio...

Having visited Kilkeel a few years ago, I am aware of the importance of the fishing industry in t...

The House of Commons briefing paper on the northern powerhouse, issued on 1 November, states that...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. When we look at how to encourage a revival of the civic dy...

Will the Leader of the House assure us that next week’s debate on Europe will be broad enough to ...

Business questions are about understanding—that is the only slight difference.

I remind the right hon. Gentleman that, as the Prime Minister repeated yesterday, her declared ob...

My right hon. Friend may not be aware that Walsall Council is proposing to close all the librarie...

My hon. Friend is right to challenge some of the decisions that Walsall Council is proposing to t...

Following the publication of the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS sustainability and transformation pl...

As the sustainability and transformation plans are published, it is important that they are exami...

With today’s news that Boeing is planning to open a new aviation maintenance facility at Gatwick ...

I shall take my hon. Friend’s last comment as a late bid to the Chancellor of the Exchequer prior...

This building is one of the most iconic in the world, and millions of people take photographs of ...

Both the Leader of the House of Lords and I want Parliament to have an opportunity to debate this...

Voting in my shop competition closes in a couple of weeks’ time, on 1 December, and I shall be an...

My hon. Friend is right to speak up for importance of high streets as a focus of both civic ident...

May I press the Leader of the House a little further on his response to the earlier question abou...

I am not yet in a position to announce a firm date. I am, however, as aware as anyone else of the...

As we approach the winter months, it is essential to ensure that people have access to the best p...

That is an important point, especially as winter is now approaching. We have a more competitive d...

May I remind the Leader of the House that our constituents will be deeply affected by the decisio...

I have just announced the second in a series of debates in Government time about aspects of the p...

Will my right hon. Friend assist in securing a debate on the preservation of ancient woodland and...

My hon. Friend’s point will strike a chord with many Members on both sides of the House. She may ...

Yesterday the Exiting the European Union Committee heard evidence from Dr Hannah White, director ...

The Government have made it clear again and again that we are committed to engaging in detail and...

May we have a debate on responsibility for repairing damaged culverts? They result in flooding in...

I will draw my hon. Friend’s concern to the attention of the relevant Minister at the Department ...

Is the Leader of the House excited by today’s news of a unique parliamentary series of events nex...

I can barely contain my excitement. I look forward to the Chairman of the Public Administration a...

Order. Let’s hear from a man who should be able to deliver well: Conor McGinn.

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. My Bill to introduce Helen’s law would deny parole to mur...

I will ask the relevant Minister in the Justice Department to make contact with the hon. Gentlema...

It has now emerged that the person appointed to the quasi-judicial role of Pubs Code Adjudicator ...

I am not familiar with every detail of this case, but my understanding is that the regulator in q...

On 15 September, the rail Minister, the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Mayna...

As the hon. Lady knows, the Government are investing large sums of taxpayers’ money in improvemen...

The city of Dundee has spent years and hundreds of thousands of pounds preparing a bid to become ...

Cities of culture will be one aspect of the forthcoming negotiations between the United Kingdom G...

Four months have passed since the end of the Government’s consultation on tips, gratuities and se...

If that commitment was given in the past, I will ensure that the Secretary of State for Business,...

Twice visitors from the diocese of Hyderabad have been refused visas to visit the Church of Scotl...

I know from my constituency experience that decisions by immigration officers about individual vi...

Yesterday, the National Assembly for Wales unanimously supported a motion led by my colleague Ste...

Treasury questions on 29 November may well provide the hon. Gentleman with that opportunity.

Can I check with the Leader of the House whether the Government will publish Sir John Parker’s na...

I will ensure that the shipping Minister knows about the hon. Gentleman’s wish for the strategy t...

I recently spoke to the CEO of Pernod Ricard, who informed me that the Chivas Brothers site in Pa...

As the hon. Gentleman will acknowledge, this is a clearly a commercial decision for the company c...

My youngest son is doing an accountancy course. He explained to me that if I want to spend 2% of ...

The 0.7% target refers to official development assistance expenditure, as defined by the OECD. Th...

In February, Department for Culture, Media and Sport Ministers froze rather than cut their contri...

I completely understand why Welsh-language broadcasting is important to the hon. Gentleman’s cons...

Pakistan’s poverty rate is some 39%. It has weak governance and political institutions. It has be...

The hon. Gentleman is a formidable champion of religious rights in parts of the world where those...

Following inquiries from constituents who are serving prison officers, I tabled written parliamen...

The Government not only set expected standards for replies to parliamentary questions, but publis...

Earlier, the Leader of the House waxed positive about the Government’s commitments to city deals ...

It may well be that either a long debate in Westminster Hall or a Backbench Business Committee de...

The business statement gives us no indication of when the Brexit Secretary will come to the Dispa...

The position is that CETA has to be ratified by all 28 member states of the European Union. Under...

How many more times do the Government expect to end up in court? Not only have they been taken to...

We welcome the clarity that the recent court judgment on PrEP provided. As the hon. Gentleman kno...