ConservativeMP for New Forest East
“May I warmly endorse what the minister said about the Falkland Islands, and just ask a question or two about security aspects, Given that we are both in NATO, the reassurances are welcome about the sovereignty of the base. And can he confir…”
“The poisoned chalice. Madam Deputy Speaker, this Secretary of State is leaving for the incoming Prime Minister, but I have a very specific question to put to him. A report in The Times Online on the 18th of June, and in the paper the follow…”
“I thank the Home Secretary for what she said about Ann, whom I first met more than 50 years ago. She was as formidable as an undergraduate as she became in later life as a mature politician. I believe that nobody on the Labour Benches other…”
“Grateful to the Home Secretary, and I congratulate her on not resigning at all from the tough stance that she is trying to take. Has she received any indication that after July the 20th, a Labour Home Secretary, hopefully she herself will b…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and may I apologise to you and to the House that the fact that I have to chair a meeting in a few minutes time prevents me staying, as I would wish to do till the end of the. The statement. When I went up as…”
“I'd like to.…”
“Does the review plan to look into the question of what happens when something goes wrong in the arrangements for a disabled person receiving Pip or indeed Universal Credit. I. This time last week I raised with the leader of the House of bus…”
“Having criticised successive coalition, Conservative and Labour governments for inadequate defence spending, may I yet again remind the Foreign Secretary that during the 1980s we successfully came through the height of the Cold War by spend…”
“I'm grateful to my right honourable Friend, and for once, having spoken on this very subject the week before last, I thought I would sit and listen to what others have to say. And does he agree with me that one of the reasons for the failur…”
“I'm a little puzzled by this excuse that they can always be recalled if they breach the terms. Because presumably, if they breach the terms, that means there's been a fresh victim of a crime. And so otherwise it's rather it's rather pointle…”
“Prime Minister, has done a good deed today and his deservedly getting the United response from the House that he requested. I would like to ask him, because of the admirable idea of putting the documentation online, whether there will be a …”
“At last, we have agreement on a defence expenditure statistic. When the Secretary of State says that what the settlement means is that the proportion of GDP spent on defence by the end of this decade will now be higher than at any time in t…”
“Last Wednesday, and again today, the Secretary of State expressed his shock at the number of senior clinicians who refused to take part in the Nottingham review. May I repeat a suggestion that I made last Wednesday? Those clinicians should …”
“Bearing in mind an item that has appeared in the news reports today, does my honourable Friend agree that either the right honourable Gentleman or the honourable and gallant Gentleman to whom she has just referred would be a far more suitab…”
“One reason that the present Prime Minister has lost the trust of the public is his refusal, time and again, to give straight answers to straight questions. My Front-Bench colleague, my honourable Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Dr…”
“With the impeccable timing of an Olympic medallist and world record beater, the inspirational Fatima Whitbread is in Parliament today in room U in Portcullis House till 4 pm, stressing the importance for people like herself brought up in th…”
“The honourable Lady mentioned the all-important fact that early diagnosis, coupled with the prescribing of a quite common antibiotic —I believe amoxicillin is one of them—can make a crucial difference. In May last year, I asked in a written…”
“When whistleblowers tried to alert society to what was happening, was any action taken against them, and if it was, does that indicate that there needs to be strengthened protection for whistleblowers? At the other end of the spectrum, are …”
“On a similar theme, undoubtedly near the top of the Secretary of State’s to-do list today is to answer written question No. 11584, which is due for answer tomorrow. The question is about the threat posed by the BBC World Service apparently …”
“One of the strong arguments put forward for the legislation is that it will help families to find out the truth of what happened to their loved ones, yet by repealing the Conservative legislation, it makes that less likely rather than more …”
“Like others before me, I pay tribute to the work of the honourable Member for Eltham and Chislehurst (Clive Efford). He is the driving force behind the all-party parliamentary group, which has done so much to highlight this terrible tragedy…”
“The Minister says that the concerns about fabricated steel are being taken into account. Can he be a bit more specific about why other countries have protections for fabricated steel in their economies, but we do not yet have any in ours?…”
“It is tempting to say that there is a particularly bad smell about this company, but that would be a statement of the obvious. Although I am not normally a friend of nationalisation, I have a feeling that this company is on a one-way journe…”
“Does my honourable Friend agree that the British Dental Association, which has supplied an excellent briefing to many right honourable and honourable Members for this debate, is in no doubt at all that it is precisely the 2006 contract that…”
“May I wish the new Secretary of State the best of luck in his new post and express the hope that the appearance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer alongside him on his first outing is not too symbolic of what has perhaps been going on in ba…”
“This has definitely been the Secretary of State’s finest hour. I am only slightly disappointed that, for reasons of his own, the Prime Minister chose to upstage it in Downing Street. Can she tell the House what the main reasons are in Austr…”
“I know the Minister accepts that I have criticised successive Governments for not spending anything like the 4.5% that Margaret Thatcher used to spend on defence at the height of the cold war throughout the 1980s, but does he accept that th…”
“May I offer some advice to Defence Ministers in their bare-knuckle fight with the Treasury for adequate defence funding? They really should move away from this glib spin doctor’s line about defence expenditure rising faster now than at any …”
“Does the Minister share my concern that, irrespective of the personal motivation of the perpetrator, the circumstances by which he came into this country send a signal to those ideological movements abroad that wish us harm that there is a …”
“Does the Foreign Secretary accept that repeatedly saying that a terrorist group must do something does not make it happen? When she says that Hezbollah “must end these dangerous attacks and disarm”, does she expect this to happen voluntaril…”
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