Local Government (Disqualification) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 2—Members of local aut...

This is an important Bill, and I think everyone supports it in principle, because it is designed ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak for the Opposition on this important Bill. I commend t...

The hon. Lady has just made a ridiculous assertion that is not backed up by anything I have said ...

I may be new to this place, and particularly new to the spot I am standing in, but having watched...

Just as a matter of record, because the hon. Lady obviously has not read the record, I supported ...

The hon. Member supported them so much that he managed to talk them out so they could not be pass...

I rise to speak to the amendments all together. Before I came to this place, I was a councillor f...

I have known my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope), as he said, for ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I have listened to my hon. Friend, so I would rather not.

The measure, in my view, only und...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for taking the time to...

Does that provision apply to people who stand as police and crime commissioners but already have ...

This is not retrospective, so it will apply from now onwards. I hope that is helpful.

I hop...

This has been a useful debate. When we hear from the Minister that the Bill will apply to 100,000...

My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. I am not a Home Office Minister, so I cannot speak to...

That was a helpful and constructive contribution. I look forward to seeing the Government’s respo...

I beg to move, That the Bill be read the Third time.

I will be very succinct, because havin...

I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am still a council...

When my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips) spoke about the Bill in Co...

I join colleagues in what I think is unanimous support for the Bill, and I congratulate my hon. F...

My speech will be very short. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul ...

Like colleagues, I will not speak for long—no doubt, they will be surprised and delighted to hear...

I rise to support the Bill in its aims and in its practice. I speak as a former councillor and a ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford) on his outstanding ...

I will be very succinct. I have mentioned the taxi cab, and I can hear it behind me—

Order. The hon. Gentleman might like to ask the leave of the House.

My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. After all this time, I should have remembered that. I ask the...