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Higher Education and Research Bill — House of Commons, 2016-07-19
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): I might be able to help a little, as the hon. Lady is hoping to catch my eye next. Mr Lammy, your speech has taken about 14 minutes so far, and I did advise Members to take about 12 minutes. I am sure your contribution will be coming to an end very shortly.
Higher Education and Research Bill — House of Commons, 2016-07-19
Topic: Other
Paul Christopher Blomfield (Labour, Centre-left): I echo the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds (Jo Churchill) in welcoming the fact that the Minister survived the ministerial cull and is still in his place, because I think he has brought a—[Interruption.] He is defying my words at the moment; I was going to say how good he is at listening. I am over here!
Higher Education and Research Bill — House of Commons, 2016-07-19
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Will the Front Benchers take note of this? The hon. Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) is making reference to the Front Benchers, and they appear to be having a conversation. I am sure that everybody wants to hear what the hon. Gentleman wants to say.
Cockling: Dee Estuary — House of Commons, 2016-07-19
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Richard Tami (Labour, Centre-left): My hon. Friend mentioned the 53 licences. Many people worked those beds for years, as did their fathers and grandfathers before them, and were not given licences, unlike many others who had not worked the beds before.
Business Rates — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Daniel Stephen Zeichner (Labour, Centre-left): For business rates to keep flowing, we need our top companies to keep prospering. The Secretary of State might be aware that ARM Technology, a major Cambridge company, has today been acquired by a major Japanese company. What conversations has he had with the former Business Secretary on ensuring that guarantees are maintained and that the jobs involved are retained in the UK?
Homelessness — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Kerry Gillian McCarthy (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Minister for that reply, but Bristol City Council’s budget for preventing homelessness was cut by 20% between 2011 and 2015. What extra funding will the Government make available to local authorities such as Bristol, which has experienced a significant recent rise in homelessness, to cope with the scale of the problem—particularly if their duty of care is extended under the metro mayor model?
Social Housing — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Questions: What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the level of funding available for social housing.
Clive James Charles Betts (Labour, Centre-left): I welcome the Minister to his new role and look forward to seeing him and the Secretary of State at the Select Committee before long. Are the Government still committed to building a million homes in this Parliament? Given that leaving the EU could have a depressing effect on the private house building industry, will he reconsider the Government’s current policy of not providing one single penny towards the building of social housing in their budgets, and recognise that to deliver a million homes, we will have to build some social housing?
High Street Retailers — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Rupa Asha Huq (Labour, Centre-left): West Ealing used to boast high street names, but now it is all bookies, charity shops, fried chicken chains and, most prominently, BrightHouse, which is preying on the vulnerable, with white goods at sky-high annual percentage rates and repossession for defaulters. If the Government really want to put the "local" back into local business, will the Minister tell us when he will end the rip-off of BrightHouse?
High Street Retailers — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Clive Stanley Efford (Labour, Centre-left): Does the Minister accept that our high streets are in decline? We are losing small retail shops at the rate of 16 a day. We are seeing a decline in retail goods being bought on our high streets. He announced a plethora of things this morning, which he has repeated now, and he has said that that will, hopefully, turn things around. How will we measure the success of what he has announced in turning this decline around?
Rough Sleeping/Homelessness — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Barry John Sheerman (Labour, Centre-left): The Minister is a fair-minded chap, and he will know that homelessness is a complex problem. First, as he will admit, there is a link between the lack of affordable housing—both rented and to buy—in our major cities. In addition, many of those we see on the streets of London and in Yorkshire are people on the mental health spectrum who need assistance and help, and cannot get it.
House Building — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. Uncertainty breeds uncertainty, and the problems faced before and after the referendum have resulted in the market value of many building companies falling by as much as 40% because of uncertainty about the future. I welcome the meeting that he is going to have this week with building companies. Will he agree to report back early to this House on what steps we can take to secure confidence on new build in the housing market?
Deprived Communities: Infrastructure Investment — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Lilian Rachel Greenwood (Labour, Centre-left): It is marvellous to welcome the Minister to the Dispatch Box. Nottingham has been allocated £10 million for its sustainable urban development strategy to fund projects that are critical to economic growth within the city and to provide vital public funding to support local businesses to grow and prosper. A further £7.8 million has been allocated for Nottingham and Derby’s metro area biodiversity action plan for restoring, opening up and connecting urban open spaces. What assurance will he give me and our city council that these commitments will be maintained?
Deprived Communities: Infrastructure Investment — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Grahame Mark Morris (Labour, Centre-left): Assurances on EU structural funds—£5.3 billion of funds for local government—is a key issue. With respect to the Minister, whom I welcome to his place, may I, as an MP representing a northern constituency, point out that only one of the top 15 infrastructure projects receiving the most public funding is in the north? What assurances can he give that leaving the EU will not widen the economic divide in our country, and what guarantees can he give that investment from the EU will be maintained up to and after Brexit for the UK?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Teresa Pearce (Labour, Centre-left): I, too, welcome the new Ministers, and particularly the new Housing Minister. We were both elected in 2010, we are both London MPs, and we have probably both seen our postbag grow with the housing crisis in London Last week the National Audit Office reported on the Government’s progress in selling public land for 160,000 new homes. Will the Minister confirm that although the aim was to achieve £5 billion of land and property sales this Parliament, one year in, the Government have delivered only £72 million-worth of sales?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Housing
Teresa Pearce (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Minister for his response; perhaps he will want to write to me about the following question as well. The Department’s forecast shows that to meet the commitment to sell land for more than 160,000 homes, the Government will need to dispose of five times as much land as they did last year. The National Audit Office says that there is no mechanism to monitor the number of houses built. Given those concerns, is the Minister confident that he will meet his target, or will he revise it?
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): Britain, too, currently retains the right to first strike, so I would have thought that the best way forward would be to develop the nuclear non-proliferation treaty into a no first strike situation. That would be a good way forward. I respect my hon. Friend’s wish to live in a nuclear-free world. I know he believes that very strongly. I think we should take our commitments under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty very seriously. In 1968, the Labour Government led by Harold Wilson inaugurated and signed the non-proliferation treaty. In 2007, the then Foreign Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Derby South rightly said that "we must strengthen the NPT in all its aspects" and referred to the judgment made 40 years ago "that the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons was in all of our interests." The then Labour Government committed to reduce our stocks of operationally available warheads by a further 20%. I congratulate our Government on doing that. Indeed, I attended an NPT review conference when those congratulations were spoken. Can the Government say what the Labour Foreign Secretary said in 2007 when she said that her "commitment to the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons is undimmed" Is this Government’s vision of a nuclear-free world undimmed? My right hon. Friend also spoke as Foreign Secretary of the "international community’s clear commitment to a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone".
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Other
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Labour, Centre-left): I am not going to give way any more, because I am up against the clock In case it is not obvious to the House, let me say that I will be voting against the motion tonight. I am sure that will be an enormous surprise to the whole House. I will do that because of my own views and because of the way—
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Before I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I remind hon. Members that there is a five-minute limit on speeches. If too many interventions are taken, then the limit will reduce very rapidly.
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Woodcock (Labour, Centre-left): It is a pleasure to follow that imaginative speech by the hon. Member for Reigate (Crispin Blunt). I only wish he had brought in his fag packet so that we could have better understood the figures he tried to explain, but to no avail I am proud, unlike the people who are acting for our Front Bench today, to speak for the Labour party in this debate. It is the party of Attlee and Bevin, Nye Bevan and Stafford Crips—the men who witnessed the terrible birth of nuclear destruction and understood, with heavy hearts, that they should protect the world by building the capacity to deter others from unleashing it again.
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Jonathan Neil Reynolds (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his speech. He will have heard, as I have done, the case that many people have put to Labour MPs—that they do not back unilateralism, but would prefer an alternative nuclear weapons platform. What consideration did he give to those points when he represented us on the Front Bench?
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. I want to fit everyone in, and there are a great many SNP voices to be heard a little later. Long interventions mean that other Members do not have a chance to speak, and we do not want that to happen.
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stephen Pelham Pound (Labour, Centre-left): I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, like me, will have browsed through the business pages of The Sunday Telegraph yesterday. He will have noticed that there is some concern as to whether BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce can actually deliver the Successor programme on time and on budget. Does he think it would be wise for the Secretary of State to make contingency plans for possible failure in that direction?
UK's Nuclear Deterrent — House of Commons, 2016-07-18
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. There can be only one Member on his feet at one time. The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) is not willing to give way, because he wants other colleagues to be able to get in. Come on through, Drew Hendry.
Security Situation — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Tom Blenkinsop (Labour, Centre-left): Will the Secretary of State join me in praising our security services for helping recently to uncover a cache of paramilitary arms? If she can, will she tell the House whether the armaments found were a historical cache or more modern weaponry?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Gloria De Piero (Labour, Centre-left): (Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on the problems with the gov.uk voter registration website just before the deadline for voter registration for the EU referendum.
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Gloria De Piero (Labour, Centre-left): Last night, tens of thousands of people trying to exercise their democratic right to register to vote were told, "The computer says no." I welcome the announcement today that people should continue to register to vote and that their applications will be valid. However, we are no clearer about exactly how the Government plan to make this happen and what the new deadline for registration is I want to offer the Government Labour’s complete support across both Houses to do whatever it takes to get through any necessary legislation. This should be done today. What legislative options are open to the Government, and is one of the options being considered a statutory instrument, which could be quickly and efficiently scrutinised today? What is the new deadline to register to vote? People need complete clarity on how long they now have left, and it needs to be well advertised. Last night’s chaos was totally unacceptable. What stress testing was done on the website in advance, and what provisions were made for the predictable rise in traffic What will be done about postal votes, given that the deadline for applications is 5 pm today but is available only to those who are on the register? Will the Minister confirm that this will also be extended? People would never expect to be turned away from a polling station despite being in the queue before the close of the polls. Those queuing up online last night must not be turned away. We need clear answers on how they can still make their voices heard.
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
Dennis Edward Skinner (Labour, Centre-left): Without any doubt this is an emergency. We are talking about a few hours of time being made available. If, for instance, the Opposition were prepared to allocate one half of their Opposition-day debate today, would the Minister guarantee that that half-day would be given back?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (Labour, Centre-left): It would be an absolute scandal if people who tried to register before the deadline were deprived of a vote in what is the most important vote in any of our lifetimes. Will the Minister pull out all the stops until the last possible moment to ensure that people can vote? Will he also address the concern raised by my constituents who live and work abroad, and who have heard that there are problems with processing the huge numbers of postal and proxy votes that are coming back in at local level, and ensure that those votes are counted
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Ruth Smeeth (Labour, Centre-left): I am really proud that work by my former employer HOPE not hate has led to so many people registering to vote in the past two weeks. Will the Minister answer the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Gloria De Piero) about what will happen to the postal vote deadline?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
James Ian Mearns (Labour, Centre-left): Clearly we all want as many people as possible to take up the franchise and vote. The news that more than 4 million people registered for the referendum in the spring is not a shock, because we raised that possibility with the Leader of the House and others in the aftermath of debates on the boundary review. Surely the fact that those 4.5 million people registered to vote in the spring calls into question the legitimacy of the foundation data upon which the boundary review is to be conducted.
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Wesley Paul William Streeting (Labour, Centre-left): The Minister must surely accept that the surge in applications to vote reflects not just the interest in the referendum but the number of people who have, in effect, been disfranchised. Why is he content for the boundary review to go ahead on false figures, and why will he not make a commitment to the House today that the Boundary Commission will work on accurate figures rather than the dodgy statistics that we have seen previously?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Louise Margaret Haigh (Labour, Centre-left): The Minister keeps saying that yesterday’s significantly higher numbers were unprecedented. There were 525,000 applications yesterday and 485,000 on deadline day in 2015. Why then was the system not prepared and able to cope, and is it not now time for automatic registration?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): What guidance would the Minister give to those who want to vote by post? I am still not clear what is happening with the 5 pm deadline this evening. If someone registers today and is informed tomorrow that they can vote, but only by post, will the Government not be open to judicial challenge?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Andrew John Gwynne (Labour, Centre-left): It is absolutely right that anybody who last night wanted to but could not register to vote be given the opportunity to do so, but given that the referendum result might be close, what legalities surround an extension of the deadline, and what advice has the Minister taken in case a close result, whether a yes or a no vote, is challenged legally?
Voter Registration — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
Christopher John Bryant (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful, Mr Speaker. The Minister has said he thinks that emergency legislation will be necessary if we are to deal with the problem now facing us. I think the whole House has said it wants the matter dealt with, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Gloria De Piero) made clear, the Opposition want to be as helpful as possible. It would be difficult to bring forward legislation and carry it through today. If it is primary legislation, it would have to come to the Floor of the House, so I presume the earliest would be tomorrow. If it is secondary legislation, it would be difficult because a Committee would have to be set up before Monday. It would obviously be better to deal with it tomorrow. My mere suggestion is that if the Leader of the House could come to us later today with a business statement to make it clear what will happen tomorrow, it would be in the best interests of the House and voters, as well as the other House, which will have to deal with the legislation as well.
BBC White Paper — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Eight Members are wishing to catch my eye to speak in this debate, and we are hoping to finish at about 4.30 pm, so if everybody sticks to about 10 minutes, then I think we will come in on perfect time.
BBC White Paper — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
Stephen Pelham Pound (Labour, Centre-left): In view of what the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (John Nicolson) said earlier, if there is a place for a lefty luvvie on the board, may I just say I am certainly one of those things?
BBC White Paper — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Graham Peter Jones (Labour, Centre-left): I want to take the hon. Gentleman back one sentence to the issue of distinctiveness. What would he say about the BBC’s distinctiveness in the provision of sport? If it is not distinctive, should the BBC provide for sport or not? I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman’s views on that.
Disability Employment Gap — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
Owen Smith (Labour, Centre-left): That was a slip of the tongue, and I regret making it. In this of all areas, we should be extremely careful with the language that we use. I did not mean to imply what the hon. Lady suggests that I was implying.
Disability Employment Gap — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Civil Rights
James McMahon (Labour, Centre-left): Does my hon. Friend agree that the real problem is the fact that the assessment process is so dehumanising for a lot of people? This is not about human beings or about realising their full potential; it is about treating people as numbers.
Disability Employment Gap — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Owen Smith (Labour, Centre-left): I will give way in a moment. I just want to make a few more points about universal credit, then I will happily give way to the former Minister for disabled people Let us move on to the work allowance under universal credit. This is another way in which the Government are penalising disabled people in work. One million low-paid disabled people will be on universal credit when it is fully rolled out, and thanks to the cuts to work allowances that this Secretary of State has introduced, they will all be about £2,000 a year worse off than they are at present. What does the Secretary of State think that cut will do for the life chances of those people? What does he think it will do to help him achieve his mission of halving the disability employment gap? Does he think that earning less will make people more or less likely to stay in work? I think I know the answers to those questions, which is why Labour is clear that we will reverse those cuts.
Disability Employment Gap — House of Commons, 2016-06-08
Topic: Other
James McMahon (Labour, Centre-left): I appreciate the fact that the hon. Gentleman has given way. Inadvertently, that will give him an extra minute, which he will be very grateful for. With all due respect, he will not have seen from where he is sitting that, during the opening speech in this debate, his Front Benchers were making the same running commentary against Labour Members. That is perfectly reasonable as part of the debates that take place, but I do not think it is reasonable for him to offer to take outside a Member of the official Opposition.