Business of the House

I thank the Leader of the House for his statement. May I add my birthday wishes to my hon. Friend...

May I first associate myself wholeheartedly with the hon. Lady’s words about Her Majesty’s sapphi...

May we have a debate on how local councils review school catchment areas? Is the Leader of the Ho...

In terms of opportunities for a debate, my hon. Friend may wish to seek an Adjournment debate thr...

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

I felt at times from the hon. Gentleman’s paeans of praise to the House of Lords that I could vis...

Local concerns have been raised in Cambridgeshire—not least as a result of the excellent forensic...

Members of LEPs on the whole do a good job in providing a forum for bringing local business and p...

Will the Leader of the House arrange for an urgent debate on social care funding? As part of that...

As I have already made clear, there is no sweetheart deal, and Nottingham is also welcome to appl...

May we have a debate on armed forces charities? I am honoured to be president of the Huddersfield...

No one in the Chamber would dissent from my hon. Friend’s tribute to the late Trevor Burgin. It w...

Order. Over 30 Members are seeking to catch my eye. I advise the House that 36 Members wish to sp...

Last week, I visited the Sanger Institute, just outside Cambridge, where 1,100 people, of whom ov...

The hon. Gentleman makes a reasonable point about his and other scientific institutions. As the P...

I very much agree with my right hon. Friend’s remarks about the recent proceedings on the Europea...

I am more optimistic than my right hon. Friend. I think there is an awareness among Members of th...

May we please have a debate on the legal definition of the word “normally”? Section 2 of the Scot...

I think the ears of every lawyer in the country will have pricked up at the suggestion that we ha...

Last month I hosted a reception to welcome a report published by Rural England, “State of Rural S...

My hon. Friend may have two bites at the cherry after the recess: Communities and Local Governmen...

Although the Department for Work and Pensions office in Cwmbran in my constituency does not face ...

I shall ensure that the hon. Gentleman’s particular concerns about Cwmbran are relayed to the Sec...

This weekend, following an inquiry chaired by my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Moor View (...

As the Prime Minister made clear yesterday, we take this issue very seriously, and I can assure m...

Exactly a month ago I asked the Secretary of State for Transport about the new High Speed 2 spur ...

I know only too well the impact of the HS2 proposals on communities close to the designated route...

The Leader of the House will recall that last week I spoke about the mounting excitement in Cleet...

I cannot offer my hon. Friend a debate in Government time, but I agree that this is an important ...

May we have a statement on the shock and disappointment being felt across Scotland at the failure...

I was not quite sure whether the right hon. Gentleman was speaking on behalf of Mr Beckham or whe...

The Leader of the House will know that I am keen to have another debate on international women’s ...

I am glad that I can provide the reassurance that my hon. Friend seeks. The United Kingdom had a ...

It is currently possible for the widowed parent of a new-born baby to receive up to £119,000 over...

There will be questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on our first day back, Mo...

I do not know whether you have ever attended a speedway meeting, Mr Speaker, but that fast, excit...

I am sure that if my hon. Friend were to draw his concerns to the attention of the Minister for S...

Order. Before we proceed further, I can say to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner), in the ...

May we have a statement from the Leader of the House himself—perhaps he could do it now—on how th...

The programme motion was very clear that there was provision for a Report stage. Whether there wo...

I should like to wish the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) a happy birthday. He has been...

The Government’s position is that we completely respect the constitutional role of the House of L...

I should like to thank you, Mr Speaker, and other Members for your very kind comments; I am less ...

It is rightly a Welshman who highlights the importance of singing. My advice to hon. Members on t...

I am not sure how to follow that question! In the past 10 days, we have heard about Weetabix’s £3...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. The additional investment projects that have been announced in...

I should like to speak on behalf of the Chairman of the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. Me...

On the points about the Backbench Business Committee, as I said earlier, what has happened in reg...

Order. To move on at 12.30 pm, I am afraid that we need one-sentence questions from now on.

Forty-one years ago, 10 Protestants were murdered by the Provisional IRA at Kingsmill. A man was ...

As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made it clear that h...

Residents in my constituency have been badly let down by their house builder, Bellway, which has ...

I will certainly ensure that the Minister is alerted, but I inform the hon. Lady that she will be...

My constituent, Mr Christopher Bronsdon, is a victim of an anomaly in the civil service pension a...

The best advice I can give the hon. Gentleman is to apply for an Adjournment debate. If he wants ...

I was pleased that Surrey County Council spoke out about the social care funding scandal, but if ...

I am tempted to say that the hon. Lady had better make sure that she gets through to the right “N...

Earlier on, the International Trade Secretary told me that US investors are reluctant to invest i...

As I said in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Tom Pursglove), the United Kingdom’s ...

Mr Ali Moezzi, a prominent Iranian political prisoner, was taken to an unknown location by agents...

To the hon. Gentleman’s good fortune, the Minister responsible for the middle east is in his plac...

With industrial action today at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and with its chair advis...

The hon. Gentleman may want to seek an Adjournment debate, but the EHRC rightly operates at arm’s...

May we have a debate in Government time to allow the House to reflect on the full import of what ...

There will be questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland on Wednesday 1 March, at which the...

Given that the Exiting the European Union Committee was told as recently as yesterday that the Jo...

Although Joint Ministerial Committee meetings are important, contact between UK Ministers and the...

At the Scottish Affairs Committee yesterday, the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) cal...

It is a forlorn hope that the hon. Lady and members of her party might actually take some pleasur...

Yesterday, TSB announced the closure of its Cambuslang branch. In less than a year, all three ban...

That might well be a good subject for either a Backbench Business debate or an Adjournment debate...

Not only did the Scottish Parliament vote against article 50, but it managed to deal with all its...

Call me old-fashioned, but it is quite a good idea that people are present in Parliament in order...

May we have an important debate on mobility payments to assist children who require