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and will try to do so. This is why the new into regions to end have

customary expedience right at the heart of them. Business question,

Chris Bryant. I wonder whether the leader of the house could give as

the business for next week. The leader of the house. The business

for next week, on Monday second November we will have the second

reading of the Housing and planning Bill, on Tuesday November, second

reading of the European approvals will Lord's. All by the remaining

stages of the national insurance contributions Bill followed by a

motion to improve the money resolution for access to medical

treatments innovation bill. On Wednesday 4th of November will be

the ninth opposition day including a debate on policing. Thursday fifth

November a debate on the stake in the bank of Scotland and the future

of UK banking followed by a debate on the motion relating to the dog

meat trade as determined by the backbench business committee. Friday

7th of November will be private members bills. The provisional

business for the week commencing 9th of November will include, on Monday

the ninth, the remaining stages of the Scotland Bill and on Tuesday the

remaining stages of the trade unions bill. The business for Thursday

fifth November will be a general debate on funding for schools. Mr

Speaker will wish to be reminded as well colleagues that the house will

rise for the end of business on Tuesday ten November and return on

Monday 16th November. I should add that hearing that need we are

expecting a visit from the Indian PM to this house and I hope those

colleagues who are around and able to be soap will be part of that

visit. Mr Chris Bryant. Yesterday set latter admitted the award of the

World Cup to Russia had been decided long before England had in its bed

and yesterday the select committee will World Cup sponsors on that

complicity in blatter's kleptocratic rule. Can we have a debate on the

sink of corruption that is a fact? British taxpayers and football fans

have been diddled out of millions. - Fifa. Talking of stitch up jobs, can

these eco-explain something he said yesterday, the review from the

second Baron of Strathclyde into the privileges of we the Commons, the

reader club members that is absolutely essential we do not rush

into this and for that matter we should not rush headlong into

change. Lord Strathclyde, unfortunately, undermine the leader

of the house by telling the world that one yesterday all of this could

be done and dusted white Christmas. How can this be right? If the risen

issue shouldn't this house a debasing it? It is not a review at

all, it is a Fifa style stitch up. I am not sure the government has got

over its tantrum of losing in the Lord's on Monday. He has said

several times now he will make substantial changes to his plan in

the Autumn Statement on November 25. The reader will know the Autumn

Statement is precisely that, a statement and no more, it does not

actually do anything legislatively. I asked the reader again, will he

allow a three-day debate on the effects of the Autumn Statement this

year? On Tuesday the chairman of the National Cleese chief counsel and

the Deputy Commissioner of the Met police said if the Home Secretary or

Chancellor of the Exchequer get their way with the police budget it

will be the end of the year of bobbies on the beat. Is that

something to be proud of? Officers have already gone and it looks

likely more than 20,000 more officers will be lost by the end of

this Parliament. We should be devoting our opposition day next

week to this. Can the Home Secretary herself answered this debate so we

can take her to task? Can we have a debate on the ministerial code of

conduct? Deviously this has made clear that there was an overarching

duty on ministers to comply with law including international law and

treaty obligations. Last week it was revealed that the GM has insisted it

should be ditched. The former Attorney General and conservative

Attorney General says it is impossible to understand how this

change has been carried out and cover was broken as the head of the

legal service accused number ten of legal service accused number ten of

contempt for international law. Surely to goodness a minister's word

is still his wand when he signs a duty. Does he still crosses fingers

behind his back when he signs treaties? Why on earth was the Ford

of conduct issued any ministerial statement to the Lords and still not

to the House of Commons? Mr Speaker, many parts of this country as many

members have said still have terrible mobile telephone coverage.

Last year the government had to withdraw its hourly drafted

telecommunications code which was intended to deal with these spots

around the country. He promised to bring any new electronic code as a

matter of urgency but they've is still no sign of it so can the

reader tell us when this will appear? Mobile phone coverage is

every bit as much a public utility as water and electricity so will be

government get a move on? Mr Speaker I confess I am worried about the

state of health of the Chancellor, he looked really appeal earlier this

year and I thought. He has, did I see it, something of the night about

him. With Halloween upon him can the reader as sure as he will be staying

at home on Saturday night when it is dark. It is one thing to scream

along with order but quite another to encounter the Chancellor in a

dark alley and his form of trick or treat is to suck family finances

dry. Talking of Halloween, in Scotland it is the time for guising

when people go around in fancy dress but has the member for South

Cambridgeshire will expose the fact that however hard the PM has tried

to dress the Tory party up, hugging the gays and marrying huskies,

conservatism is dead, all that is left is a fake skeleton costume. We

should be debating a motion next Thursday on the dog meat trade, I

wondered whether this was the debate of the dogs wrecked first the

Chancellor has made of the tax credit fiasco but today is award the

award the Westminster dog of the year. I wish my deputy's badly

behaved Rottweilers well in the competition but I gather that the

member for helmet and Rockwell has two dogs called Boris and Maggie. A

found bodices behaviour improved significantly when he was castrated.

Well this advice be passed on to the Chancellor, Home Secretary and other

candidates for the Conservative Party leadership? Leader of the

house, Mr Chris Grayling. Can I start by delivering some good news

to my honourable friend the member for Kettering who sadly is not in

his ways today. I shall also informed the house that you, after

receiving positive feedback, have authorised that the new alphabetical

meetings will be kept in place for the rest of Parliament. The new warm

relationship that exists between the Fs and Gs is getting on well. In all

the old terms it has worked well and we will be continuing it. Can I

associate myself with the remarks of the honourable gentleman about Fifa?

He works hard on the brief and I am reliably informed he was

disappointed to move away from that. He knows very well how

shocking the developed and sat Fifa have been. It is no excuse

whatsoever for what has taken place. I would commend all of those who

have been involved in pursuing the investigation to the stage we have

reached no. It does look likely that prosecutions will fall and rightly

so. It is of absolute importance in a game that is seen around the world

as a region for young people that it should be absolutely clean. Those

who have left it in a position with it has been this marched by

corruption should be dealt with by the full force of the law and

changes essential, I completely agree with him on that.

Regarding the Strathclyde review into the House of Lords, there will

be a full statement about the terms of reference when he is ready to

publish those details, which is right and proper. He will take the

time necessary, given the scope of the work he intends to do, and he

will make clear how that will work. On the tax credits point, I will

remind the honourable gentleman that we will be using for the Autumn

Statement the same procedure is that operated in 13 years of Labour

Government. Now they are in opposition they seem to want to

change how the House works. We will continue to operate the way we have,

debating issues fully. We have already had extensive debates on the

tax credits issue, and no doubt we will have more. Under Conservative

leadership of government and Coalition, and under this

government, crime has fallen. We have had to take some difficult

decisions, and they are challenges facing the police. He made a point

about the ministerial code. I would simply say that under the new

ministerial code, listers are still required to uphold the law. We would

expect that. -- ministers are still required. We spoke about the

Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Just to remind them that the

former Secretary of State, now the Business Secretary, secured a deal

to secure five Ilion pounds of investment in mobile telephony. We

do not just a published. -- published documents, we do things.

We have watched with interest the pale faces on the side of the House,

the huddles of pallid people asking the huddles of pallid people asking

how we get ourselves out of this mess. My worry is for the health of

him and his colleagues, not for the Chancellor, who I can assure him is

in great form. He made reference to the point that this weekend as

Halloween. My sympathies today are with the children of the Rhondda. It

is my hope that he is not planning to go trick or treating, because can

you imagine the horror of a small you imagine the horror of a small

child seeing the honourable child seeing the honourable

gentleman is out trick or treating? 76-year-old joint Iranians citizen

has been held in Iran's notorious has been held in Iran's notorious

where his health deteriorates. -- where his health deteriorates. --

Sun and grandchildren are in the Sun and grandchildren are in the

gallery today with a simple message, please let grandpa come

home. Can I extend my good wishes to his constituent's family and for

work he is doing. Given the obvious work he is doing. Given the obvious

urgency of this, I will make a point of ensuring this is communicated

immediately after the session to my immediately after the session to my

I will ask them to ensure that they I will ask them to ensure that they

respond as quickly as possible. Can I thank the Leader of the House

announcing business for next week. announcing business for next week.

Our thoughts are very much this morning with the school community

their pupils in Aberdeenshire. One their pupils in Aberdeenshire. One

of my honourable friends was a pupil at this school. This was an

yesterday. It is Dave four of The yesterday. It is Dave four of The

Great War of the nobles, and it is starting to get ugly. -- day for.

They have released their not so secret weapon, codenamed big boy, to

go to the House and sort them out. He is going down there to emasculate

the House of Lords and ensure that they never do anything like this

again. Of course they can. The House of Lords is without a shred of

democratic legitimacy, it represents absolutely no one. I am certain the

Tories will get their way when it comes to these issues. But what I am

sensing is a real desire amongst the Conservative benches to deal

decisively with the House of Lords. I get the sense they have had enough

of that unelected chamber with the Lords, baronets, earls, dancing

around like Santa Claus, having a stake in this democracy. I appeal to

the Conservative members to join us to ensure that we deal decisively.

Let us have a proper enquiry into the role of that place. We get the

Scotland Bill back in a couple of weeks, and there is only one day set

aside for the remaining stages and third reading. We had four days were

not one amendment was made, even though they were backed by every

member of Parliament who represented a Scottish constituency. The

Secretary of State said he would spend the summer reflecting, and

said he would try to bring back amendments which kept the Scotland

Bill in line with what was promised in the Smith Commission. Surely we

need more than one day looking at this. This is the first is in his

questions I have had an opportunity to speak of a second-class member of

this House. Groaning I am certain the Leader of the House

has recognised the sheer anger put forward in Scotland about

Scotland's member of -- members of Parliament being told not to leave

the union, but as soon as we get here things change. Is this going to

be subject to an English veto, and if it is, how will it work out? We

are grateful to you, Mr Speaker, for backing the call we have been making

about getting rid of the ridiculous conference recess. It is ridiculous

that we abandon business for participating in a voluntary

organisations association. I would ask you to use your considerable

authority to make sure the summer recess covers all parts of the UK,

there school holidays. A new there school holidays. A new

tradition has been taken up by the children of Scotland, where the goal

they are so unusual Andre. The only they are so unusual Andre. The only

problem is when they turn up to the door, there is real fear that this

people who open the doors that they people who open the doors that they

will get any treats because they are Conservatives. I have a confession

to make. Until last week I had not previously heard any of the work of

that distinguished band MP four, of which he is a great part. I did not

realise what great showman he was. He does bring a bit of that showbiz

to this House. A little bit of fake outrage on some theatre. He showed a

chink a couple of weeks ago when he said nice things about the House of

form. I know where he is coming form. I know where he is coming

from, I am confident that we will be able to find a resolution under the

guidance of Lord Strathclyde. The guidance of Lord Strathclyde. The

fake outrage has been there on the Scotland Bill as well. The Law

Society of Scotland emphasised we are delivering what we committed to.

I would not expect a group of politicians whose mission is to

secure independence for Scotland to do anything else but have fake

outrage. We are delivering what we promised. If ever there was an

example of that little bit of showbiz that he brings, it is over

the issue of English votes. He describes himself as a second-class

citizen, which he will never be anywhere. Having listened to all of

his arguments, I would remind them about what he said on the 14th of

October last year, which is I sympathise totally with English

members. Of course they should have English votes for English laws. They

English-only legislation. I admire English-only legislation. I admire

him for this, but on occasion he has a habit of delivering slightly mixed

messages. Regarding Conservatives in Scotland, I think people have the

reason to be skewered this autumn, come Halloween and the weeks ahead,

-- to be frightened. Are the Labour Party. They have been done over by

the SNP colleagues, and we intend to do them over as well. The nice

quality standard of autism calls for waiting times between referral and

initial appointment for assessment to be no longer than three months.

not being met. Could we have a not being met. Could we have a

debate on research from the National Autistic Society, which has shown

that on average the wait for that on average the wait for

children is 3.5 years and adults five years from the initial time of

every member of this House has every member of this House has

constituency suffering from autism, constituency suffering from autism,

these long waiting times are important, they are pushing people

to crisis point. She makes a very important point. As constituency MPs

all of us have experience of the all of us have experience of the

challenges that families with an challenges that families with

autistic child face and the autistic child face and the

importance of doing everything we importance of doing everything we

can to give those children the best opportunities in life. I am sure

members across the House she her interest in this area, sheer concern

to do the best possible. Our concern is shared by the Secretary of

and I will raise the concerns with. and I will raise the concerns with.

I would ask her to continue bringing I would ask her to continue bringing

House and government think that once House and government think that

again, just looking at the House of again, just looking at the House of

Lords, is like looking at one wheel Lords, is like looking at one wheel

other wheel and not looking at the other wheel and not looking at the

person driving. Should we have a comprehensive review to bring this

into the 21st century? There are many ways about how the whole of the

constitutional arrangements should work. The constitutional committee

is engaged in this at the moment. is engaged in this at the moment.

The chair of the committee is hard at work looking at the

constitutional arrangements and I'm sure they will come forward with

interesting ideas. As you know the credentials of the current UK

delegation to the parliamentary assembly to the Council of Europe

expire next week. As the membership of the new delegation is the

responsibility of Parliament and not the government, will he make time

next week for this House to express its opinion? I am aware of the

motion down on his order paper -- the order paper. This is a matter

that I have no doubt the House will give careful consideration to, and

the point of a backbench business committee is to ensure there is time

available to members of the host to allocate time to debate. -- the

Leader of the House to allocate time to debate. Can I thank the Leader of

the House for the business statement. For the avoidance of

doubt, next Thursday we have two debates from the backbench business

committee. One on this taken because Bank of Scotland, and the other is

the trade in dog flesh. Could the Leader of the House gives the

backbench business committee and early indication if there is any

possibility for time in the week beginning 16th November? I cannot

give that undertaking, but my expectation is there will be time. I

have no reason to believe it will not be available. He is picking

interesting subject for debate which will command great attention, and I

think particularly the debate on dog meat happening as it is. It is a

sign of how much concerned there is across the House about the welfare

of dogs. Also the fact this is a trade that most people in this

country do not support at all. Steve eco. Communications this week

seemed to suggest some members of the public might have even confused

about the finance will weave aborted on on Monday. Could we have a

statement from the reader that makes clear what the true position is and

can we also understand from him what keep hands to do to counter the

occasional misrepresentation of business of this House? - voted on.

There is no clarification of the nature of a division on the website.

I have listened to colleagues and do intend to write to that website

asking them to write some degree of explanation on issues of this kind.

Given this was a debate about and civil, not substance, it is not

possible under the current treaty arrangements for this House to cut

VAT to zero. That decision had to be taken in Brussels. There is strong

interest in securing change. It is utterly unacceptable to have a

situation where party groups are misrepresenting the vote as a 0 rate

for tampons, it is completely unacceptable. There should be a 0

rate for a product that is clearly not a luxury. The minister gave a

commitment he would raise that has in Euro and he has done so. The

Cannes of the House has promised to negotiate at European level to

achieve a 0 rate of the 80 on women's products. This should go

alongside the court demands in the forthcoming Wii negotiation.

Women's rights are not a second-class issue, can he confirm

that? Women's rights will never be a second-class issue. The party in

power opposite for 13 years and never secured anything of this sort.

Since the debate on Tuesday we have already seen the vice chairman of

the mission say this is an issue that are willing to consider. We are

taking a step in the right direction. If a minister gives a

commitment to this has the will do so, they will find it through.

Devolution is something we all expire to and my county in Somerset

wish to embrace revolution. We wish to embrace it so that the money

follows the devolution coming from the centre which is fantastic, we

want to do it. In this House can be debate this so there is a clear

message going out to district and unity is for how they can get

involved in maximising their return for taxpayers? This is what the

government is seeking to do and there will be no one size fits all

for different settlements in different parts of the country, it

depends on the circumstances and different geography and nature of

the economy. I would encourage my honourable men to make this point to

other ministers. It is a great opportunity for counties like

Somerset to be involved in defamation to give them greater

control over matters that affect their area. There is a real

opportunity for local authorities and local communities. Given the

difficult financial circumstances that the NHS finds itself in, is it

not time for a debate on a national tariff for the treatment of IVF

given that CCG 's are paying fees as varied as ?2500 to ?6,000 per cycle?

We have a choice in the NHS, we can either devolved responsibilities to

local lactation is keep everything at the centre. The moment we start

to say we do not like different areas where different CCG 's make

different decisions we start to be centralised again. I want decisions

taken by local doctors. I would eat reluctant to reverse that. With my

honourable friend consider having a debate on the future of the House of

lords in the near future purely and simply because of the events of this

week and also I have been doing some work and had a successful debate in

West and start all on a particular oppose all that was met and welcomed

on all sides of the House. Part Westminster Hall. I have no doubt be

will have such a debate in future but can I encourage him to talk to

Lord Strathclyde as well as he dubbed his review? The scope of the

review will be out shortly but I suggest he takes any ideas for

change to the noble lord who will wish to hear the views of people in

this House? The approach of another Parliamentary recess and no

indication whatsoever that the government intends to seek a mandate

for military intervention in Syria. Isn't it he can play obviously there

is no appetite across this chamber for a second goal through military

venture. Can we look at the financial initiatives which might

actually contribute to bringing peace and stability to that country?

I would simply say to the right honourable gentleman, there will be

no statement or debate about military intervention in Syria

unless we have an intention to intervene voluntarily in Syria. The

reason we do not have another statement about that is because no

decision has been taken to intervene militarily in Syria and should that

happen we will come to this House and discuss it fully. We have

debated this extensively in we said weeks, the Foreign Secretary was

before this House regularly. They will be plenty opportunities to

debate what is an difficult situation, something we all of us

wish to see the resolution but it is difficult to see a path to that

resolution given how complex the situation is. I feel sure he reader

of the House is a Downton at the fan and will have been as alarmed as me

by what happened two weeks ago. Fortunately Lord Grantham is

recovering well what it is pointed out that survival from upper

gastrointestinal bleeding in this country lags behind those countries

with which we could reasonably be compared. I wonder if we could have

a debate on how we could configure endoscopy services in this country

to bring us up among the best in Europe rather than the worst? She

makes a very important point in his customer Blake light-hearted but

also serious weight. I did not see the particular scene in Downton

Abbey but I believe it was eye-catching to say the least

comment he makes today I think are important ones and I will make sure

they are forwarded to my colleagues in the Department of Health. My

honourable friend from the front bench quite rightly lead on the

issue of Fifa which he described as a sink of corruption but football is

still the beautiful game and will be readers of the House on behalf of

the government join me in paying tribute to a happy birthday to a

former Derbyshire player who was the first black professional footballer

in the world. We are very proud of him. Years and adopted son of

Darlington and will be Cannes what the House join me with say happy

birthday to him? The beautiful game is tarnished because of the penalty

shoot out at all Trafford last night. I will join her and also pay

tribute to all of the black leaders Huebner Pathfinders in the game and

young people. I would like to see young people. I would like to see

more black coaches in this country as well and I think that should be a

minority for the game. I congratulate him for all he has done

to contribute to the sport. My hard-working constituents who use

Kingston and Surbiton station 's art forced to pay for zone six tickets

when logic and fairness dictates they should be in zone five. 26

stations are in zone five yet further from their London terminus.

I know there are other reasoning campaigns in London yet houses

certainly the most compelling. We make time for a debate on the zoning

of stations in London? I would not go as far to say... He may be the

most campaigning campaign in London but the campaign to get Epsom in

zone six which is outside London may be a great important. There are

zoning concerns and I have drawn this to the Department for Transport

was my attention. I hope we can make regressing what we are doing and our

constituents can see that. It is something I know people in still are

looking forward to him succeeding in due course in. A cross-party support

for a series of appeals. Open up family courts is something a

succession of governments have promised to reform. Will there be a

debate on how we can break open the cartels that surround the family

courts system? Having been Secretary Of State for just as I am aware of

this and sympathetic. We have two be careful there are some deeply

distressing stories take place within the family courts and we must

not open them up in a way that exposes family heartache to the

tabloid media. He is right to say there is no reason for the agree of

closed environment that exists around those family courts. I know

this is a matter of concern to my colleague the Secretary Of State

today. He will be here again on Tuesday and I would encourage him to

re-raised this point. As my right honourable friend knows, I am

running a campaign to save the hedgehog. Will my right honourable

friend 's urge every member and right on rubble member to ensure

there are safety measures in place within one fires next Thursday which

is Guy Fawkes night? Thank you. I share his concern about the

hedgehog. We have seen a really distressing fall in our hedgehog

population in the last few decades. When I was a child you would find

one in every garden, it will would feed them outside the door and it

now does not happen to any degree like it used to. I would say to

members on all sides of the House and anyone listening to this debate,

bonfire night is a period of great danger to hedgehogs. If you drive

around the country you will already see large piles of wood setup. It is

all too common that a hedgehog finds refuge in those bonfires in the next

few days. I would ask anyone to double-check before they like them

to make sure there is not a hedgehog nesting inside, we cannot afford to

lose any more. Young people are being killed on our streets.

Tragically, in my constituency, there have been two youth deaths in

as many months. This is not isolated. A boy stabbed to death in

Aberdeen, shooting in Hackney, Alford, even machine-gun fire in

Willesden. This had to stop. With the government continuing to cut

front line services, young people are turning to crime and violence in

bigger and bigger numbers. Is it not time to call an urgent debate

looking at how all parties can work together to stop the rise of youth

violence? Mr Speaker, firstly, let us be clear, knife crime is a blight

on our society as our knife murders and I would endorse the comments

made earlier about the tragic events in Aberdeen yesterday. They are

fortunately rare in this country that makes them even more shocking

when they do happen. I send my condolences and good wishes not only

to the family but also those in the school for whom it would have aimed

a deeply traumatic experience. On the streets of London any death

through knife crime is too much, we have taken measures to toughen the

law around carrying knives but it is important to support those

organisations that try to take young people away from crime and carrying

by a couple who set it up after the by a couple who set it up after the

death of their son. The number of young people entering the criminal

justice system for the first time is balding and has continued to fall

for a number of years. That is a great step forward. The challenge of

the offending is a good news story that fewer people are entering the

justice system for the first time, long may that continue.

British farmers who successfully applied for environmental

improvement grants are being told improvement grants are being told

that unless they put up all boards indicating the money came from the

EU, they could lose part or all of the grant. Since the United Kingdom

isn't it akin to me taking my money isn't it akin to me taking my money

from my bank to do a home from my bank to do a home

billboard saying, thank you, billboard saying, thank you,

Barclays? Could we have a statement from an agricultural Minister

we will resist the desecration of we will resist the desecration of

the British countryside by this propaganda? The countryside here is

around the most -- among the most beautiful anywhere in the world. I

have some sympathy with him, and I do not want to see anything

detracting from its natural beauty full stop DEFRA questions are next

Thursday, so he can put it to him directly. But keep the countryside

pure and natural. Will the government make a statement on the

situation of employees pensions and the Commonwealth War Graves

Commission? He will not allow them to make a decision on closing...

Does he agree that staff working harder than ever due to the

centenary commemorations at cutting committee staff pensions while the

Director-General gets a 50% pay rise is utterly inappropriate? I

understand the point he is making. A range of organisations have had to

make decisions about final salary pensions. I will make sure they

concerns he has raised will be concerns he has raised will be

passed on to my ministerial colleagues. Following the comments

from the honourable member for Perth and your excellent article this week

a debate on whether this House a debate on whether this House

recess, or whether the political recess, or whether the political

party should sort themselves out and arrange their confidence at

weekend, like the SNP do. We would weekend, like the SNP do. We would

be able to work out which MPs are able to do the job in their -- their

job in this House and hold the job in this House and hold the

government to account. There is growing interest in this area.

Particularly given the fact that there are perhaps fewer Liberal

Democrats than there used to be for the confidence week. This has been

raised through the usual channels. raised through the usual channels.

Confidence became take place some years in advance. This is something

carefully. I am pleased to hear carefully. I am pleased to hear

but I am concerned at the lack of but I am concerned at the lack of

reality in the Leader of the House's responses on police

questions. In Enfield we have lost 150 plus uniformed presence from the

street and seen a 22% increase in violent crime in the last year. It

is a connection between these things. Will the Leader of the House

ensure that when the government come to this House to pretend there --

present the debate on policing, that they face the facts as we do in our

communities? I can only reactivate that the crime survey shows that

notwithstanding some of the difficult challenges the police

force has had to face up to, crime has continued to fall. There is

scope for police officers and police forces to deliver new ways of

working, bringing down cost without affecting front line support to the

community 's. Labour run Kirklees Council have written off ?850,000 in

section 106 cash which was allocated section 106 cash which was allocated

to improve local infrastructure by house-builders and developers. Can

be debate how appalling situations like this is seeing local

communities lose confidence in planning opportunities? I am aware

of the issue. Begs questions about credit control and bringing money

when it is due. Local authorities have the power to set timelines even

to get money in advance for the payments they receive. Can I suggest

to him, it is a matter of concern, to him, it is a matter of concern,

that he raises this with the department concerned, perhaps

through an adjournment debate or the next time they are in this House for

questions? Can he share his current understanding of when legislation

regarding the Stormont House agreement may be brought forward?

With the government continue a draft Bill for scrutiny by a joint

committee from both houses, dealing with the sensitive issue of legacy,

which there has not been due consultation with victims for a

variety of reasons and excuses, and this Parliament has been asked to

legislate in lieu of the assembly. With the government give that period

of special legislative scrutiny? I of special legislative scrutiny? I

will discuss that with the Secretary of State. We have been involved in

discussions with all parties in Northern Ireland, and those are

continuing. We will bring it to this House as soon as we can. But I will

make the Secretary of State of the issue he has raised. I was delighted

to hear that others it will be taking place on the 12th to 14th of

November, and there will be an opportunity for Parliament to

receive him properly. That takes place between the November recess of

this place and during Hindu New Year. Can I take the opportunity to

invite the Leader of the House to wish a happy, peaceful and

prosperous New Year, but equally can we have a statement as to the trade

Guilds and educational arrangements and other arrangement is taking

place during that visit? I echo the happy New Year wishes he has made

reference to, and I hope everyone reference to, and I hope everyone

has an enjoyable, relaxing, successful set of New Year festival

's. No doubt we will all wish you, Mr Speaker, and I will make the

House aware of the details of the visit shortly. India is one of the

biggest allies and it is a great democracy. This is a great

opportunity. We were guests last night for the club the London

Tigers, a sports club which does amazing work with young people from

all different communities, and it would be appropriate to place on

record our appreciation for the club. Can I associate myself with a

call for the debate on families who call for the debate on families who

have autism in the family? I'm sure have autism in the family? I'm sure

recent news of more diversity in the recent news of more diversity in the

boardroom, it is welcome but needs to go further. Could we have an

early debate on diversity, and shouldn't this House be an exemplar?

If you look at the photograph in the corridor, it has 64 photographs of

senior level. Everyone is white and senior level. Everyone is white and

absolutely agree, and I would say absolutely agree, and I would say

that notwithstanding what he says that notwithstanding what he says

about the photographs out the back, we have made great progress over

years. If I think what this looked years. If I think what this looked

like in 2001 when I was elected, and what it looks like today, there is

world of difference. We need to world of difference. We need to

recruitment process. I want a recruitment process. I want a

society that is reflected in this House, and it has two reflect the

society outside in all aspects of its working. The plans for the

station in Torbay, the first one for decades, is progressing well,

therefore can we have a statement on when the next tranche of station

funding will be available to bid for the complete this project?

Unfortunately we have just had transport questions, so he will have

to wait before the Secretary of State is back again, but his

comments will have been noted. But if you look around this country, 20

years after the privatisation of railways, we have new railway lines

opening, the start of a new service from Oxford to London, something

the days of British Rail. We have a the days of British Rail. We have a

party opposite who think we would be better off renationalising

everything. It would be disastrous. everything. It would be disastrous.

The way we have it now, we are seeing innovations and long may that

continue. Last week the Prime Minister said he did not want anyone

relying on food banks, but this week the Work and Pensions Secretary told

the select committee that he planned to station job advisers and food

banks. Is it right that extreme food poverty should become an accepted

element of GWP National planning? Could we have a debate on this? She

has got this plain wrong. If we have people who are in need of food

banks, and I would remind her that we have a lower use of food banks in

this country than in countries like Germany, so it is simply not true

that you can lead it to government -- link it to public policy. That we

should be helping these people into work and out of poverty. Making sure

the Jobcentre is aware of what is going on in food banks seem

sensible. It was an honour to present certificates recently to

some of the 1500 graduates of the National Citizen Service scheme.

Does he agree with me that this is a real government success story

will he allow time for a debate on will he allow time for a debate on

how we can roll out this to more people every year? This has been a

huge success story, this is one of the things that will have the most

lasting impact on the country. It is lasting impact on the country. It is

growing and developing and proving a great success. It is changing the

lives of young people in different parts of the countries, bringing

together people from different backgrounds in a way that can only

be positive for the future. Long may it continue. The shadow leader of

the House was right to raise the ministerial code. Could we have an

urgent statement on who made the decision on changing the code, the

reasons for doing so? The honour of the ministerial code is the Prime

Minister, so there will be plenty opportunities for the honourable

lady to ask. On page 29 of the day's order paper there is a motion

about the UK dedication to the alimentary assembly of the Council

of Europe. It goes on to page 30 because it is signed by 58 members

of this House from all the major political parties. It commends the

work of the honourable member work of the honourable member

Christchurch, his years there, and I wonder if the Leader of the House

would not only welcome this motion but put it on the order paper next

week. There is not a business of the House committee, so we're relying on

the government to bring this motion forward. Would he bring this

forward? I have spotted the degree of support for this motion. I am

aware of the desire to debate it. What I would say is that there is

quite a lot of time allocated through backbench business committee

to debate in this House. He will to debate in this House. He will

return to the issue shortly, but return to the issue shortly, but

there is a simple allocation there is a simple allocation

available to debate this. The chair is sitting over there. The Minister

may be aware of the case of 26 you will transmit and who been sentenced

to serve her prison sentence in a men's prison. The good news I heard

today is that she is to be transferred to a women's prison. --

a 26-year-old trans-women. Decisions in detail of this tend to be out

with the metal ministers, but the Ministry of Justice will always want

decisions of this nature to be taken sensitively and carefully. There are

questions for the House on Tuesday, and they will listen to her concerns

then. Can we have a debate on how to then. Can we have a debate on how to

complaints from constituents in the complaints from constituents in the

past, and there is another report in past, and there is another report in

constituents having received a constituents having received a

convincing and genuine looking e-mail purporting to come from a

high street bank asking for personal details which could lead to

being defrauded. There have been a being defrauded. There have been a

highlighted in recent weeks and highlighted in recent weeks and

of life savings to some pretty of life savings to some pretty

message we should give out is to be message we should give out is to be

messages to the people we represent messages to the people we represent

that they are criminal groups out there who are trying to rip you off

honourable friend, keep bringing up honourable friend, keep bringing up

the issue, it is important to do so. I hear the usual chuntering from a

sedentary position from the shadow leader. This is a really serious

issue. On television this week there was a woman who had been swindled

for ?35,000 by a gang who persuaded for ?35,000 by a gang who persuaded

her money to a different account. It her money to a different account. It

Leader of the House understand the Leader of the House understand the

concern being expressed in concern being expressed in

Post and mail over the threat to Post and mail over the threat to

Freedom of Information and will he agree to an urgent debate on what is

a threat to the cornerstone of our democracy?

The irony is that the person who said they regretted the Freedom of

Information Act most was Jack Straw who introduced it and looked upon it

as one of the things he got wrong. The Freedom of Information Act is

something this government is committed to. We want to make sure

it works fairly and cannot be misused but it is misused by people

who use it as EV search tool to generate stories for the media. It

is a legitimate tool for those who understand how this government has

taken decisions. It is not the intention of this government to

change that. I know from my family's on experience just how

devastating pancreatic cancer can be and whether November being

pancreatic awareness month can we see what is being done to help those

suffering from this disease? My honourable friend makes an important

point and of course all forms of cancer, particularly pancreatic

cancer, are deeply distressing for the families of those involved and

those who suffered from the different varieties of cancer. One

of the things that is encouraging at the moment is that we really seemed

to be making some significant steps forward in treatment and research

for treatment in future. One of the things I am pleased we have done as

the government is not withstanding the financial pressures we face. We

have continued to keep up our budgets going into the search which

open up a better future for those who are sufferers and I hope that

what continues. Since the session started this morning welcome news

has emerged from China that they are to end their one child policy. Will

the leader of the house for a debate on the government's to child policy

with particular reference to the Greek clause? The boot them please

fill details and I am a wee of the issue she has raised and the fact

she has continued to make this concern will be conveyed to my

colleagues. -- rape clause. Anti-Muslim rape right --

anti-Muslim hate crime will be recorded separately. Can we

therefore have a debate on heat crime in all of its forms and what

we can do to eradicate this from our society? Mr Speaker, heat crime in

any form is unacceptable. I am very much aware that although we have

seen he's beat of anti-Semitic attacks in recent months the also

see in this country regularly attacks on mosques and Muslims. The

steps the government are taking is right. We should not tolerate heat

crime against any of our communities in this country. We should be dealt

with with the full force of the law wherever that occurs. This House

should remind us of obligations in that direction. Can we have the

debate on defence attunement and buying British? Why are the three

new royal navy ships and the 500 last armed vehicles from the army

not been built with British Steel? On occasions when the Lizzie

specialist metal requirement we have two source the specialist metal from

wherever it comes from. 90s percent of the steel being put into

Crossrail is coming from British sources. It is disappointing in

Scotland the Scottish Government has not done the same. The steel going

into our aircraft carriers is also British Steel. The question I would

ask him, he talks about defence procurement and the question I would

ask about defence procurement and British jobs, if he is so concerned

about the use of British Steel and jobs in Britain, why does his party

now support a policy that would scrap the plans for Trident

submarines to be built in Barrow in Furness? When can we debate the

convention that serving time ministers are not invited to give

evidence to select committees? There is compelling evidence now that

three prime ministers were unwittingly but directly involved in

an enterprise that cost the taxpayers many millions of pounds.

Isn't it important, too, that we understand why three prime ministers

were infatuated by the delusional fraudsters of Kicks Company dinar

two points to make. Everyone on both sides of the House are concerned

about what happened with Kicks Company understanding what went

wrong in that charity was not the fault of some people involved in it.

In my view the Beagle he is looking for is already in existence. Three

years ago the caravan manufacturers of Hull had to fight off the caravan

tax that would like their industry. Now the government is buying steel

from abroad and I wonder if it is time we had a debate about an

industrial policy for our country and not every other country in the

world? Let me tell her about industrial policy. The industrial

policy which leads to the dramatic drop in level feel I boot in the

UK, and industrial policy that leads to the near halving of manufacturing

is a policy we had under the last Labour government. We have been

working to restore manufacturing and steel development and production is

now at the same level or slightly higher than when he took office.

Just on occasions, they are the opposition and can ask questions

without remembering there on record in government. When it came to

manufacturing in this country they made a right royal mess up. Concern

about the illegal wildlife trade is growing and the Duke of Cambridge

spoke out about this last week. Responsibility in government lies

between DEFRA, the Commonwealth and government office. Can we look at

how we can better coordinate a UK Government response to end this vile

trade? I wholeheartedly agree with him. To see a return to the poaching

of elephants in southern Africa is something I find completely

distressing. The threat facing the Rhino I find profoundly distressing.

I would commend Prince Harry and Prince William for the work they

have done on this over the years. I commend everyone in this House who

works to work on this challenge. People should be able to CDs great

animals in the wild and not look at on the history books about their

death. The department that has the biggest role in all of this it is

really ought Porto we do everything we can to stem what is a vile

trade. -- see these great animals. Gentry and contractor is a

debilitating disease of the hands caused by manual Labour. The

industrial injuries advisory Council made recommendations to the DWP last

year as to why they should make this a prescribed occupational disease

yet there has not been any official announcement. With the leader of the

house make a statement about why there has been such a delay which

has impacted on many disabled people in the UK? She raises an important

issue. I do not know the answer to his question but we will have the

DWP minister is here on Monday and I will make sure they are briefed in

advance of that so they can give the proper response if he raises it

then. Point of order, Mr Alex Salmond. At the same time as

business questions it was announced nicer John Chilcott why means of a

letter to the tri- Minister that it would be a further nine months

before the Iraq enquiry is to be published which will mean it is

seven years since it was established and the full 13 years since the war

was started. Would it not just be an order but a mark of respect to the

179 families of dead servicemen at the government had come to the House

to explore reasons of delay in the enquiry and the possible legal

consequences that might fall on certain individuals if that