03/12/2015 Business Questions

to be totally transparent in the House when that report comes out and

to answer the questions on the subject in any lady has desires.

Business questions, Chris Bryant. Could the leader of the house give

us the business for next week and before he does so, if he could

straighten his tie? ! The leader of the house, Chris

Grayling. The business for next week. On

Monday the 7th of December there will be the remaining stages of the

cities and devolution bill. On Tuesday the 8th of December we will

consider the Lords animals to the European Union Referendum Bill

followed by a debate and emotion on the cross-border cooperation is to

tackle serious and I is. Wednesday the 9th of October will be an

Opposition Day with a debate on mental health and debate on the

statements regarding women. On Thursday the 10th of December there

will be a debate on the motion of the Transatlantic Trade and

Investment Partnership followed by a general debate on International

human rights Day, the subject of these debates determined by the

Backbench Business Committee. On Friday the 11th of December the

holes is not sitting. On Monday the 14th of December, the provisional

business for that week, the 14th of December we will consider the

committee at the reigning stages of the European approvals bill,

followed by a motion to improve European documents related to

migration, followed if necessary, Mr Speaker, by the consideration of the

Lords amendments. I should inform the House, Mr Speaker, that the

business for Thursday the 15th of December will be looking at the

protection of ancient woodland trees.

The Mr Speaker, you sat in that chair yesterday from 11:30am until

10:54pm, as I am sure you are aware! By my accounting, that is 11 hours

and 24 minutes or 684 minutes without a break, which is quite a

test of injuries and some of us are wondering what like Davos in Doctor

Who, you have had some secret for creation and feeding system fitted

into the chair, Hiddink tubes or something like that! Or perhaps it

is down to drugs, I wonder? ! Know that the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer

and its colleague company have come together, perhaps they have invented

a new drug that you have been imprimatur -- impregnated with which

means you can keep a stiff upper lip all-day! Mr Speaker, many people

have over the last few days hold a great deal of abuse at members for

their views on whether or not that he has should support extending air

strikes to Syria, some have been called moderates, terrorist

sympathisers, whatever. I hope the reader would agree that whilst all

members expect a certain degree of hurly-burly in political life, it is

a fundamental principle that all members are sent, not as delegates,

but as representatives with the full power to exercise their judgment and

conscience and his peak and fought without fear or favour and actual MP

should ever be intimidated. Sadly, some of the abuse, we would all

agree, for all members of this House has been beyond the pale. Several

members have had their offices barricaded. One member had a house

surrounded, many had photos of dead babies put through their front door

at home. I gather to date some have received photos of severed heads.

MPs have broad shoulders, of course we do, but could I ask the reader to

review the arrangements regarding security of members' homes and

offices? It is not just about them, it is about their families and

indeed staff, as several members have pointed out. Can he looked at

whether the responsibility for funding these matters should now be

taken away from IPSA and restored to the House authorities? And can I

express, I hope the flags of the whole house, for the way that the

police and the staff of the Sergeant at Arms dealt with the legitimate

demonstrations in Parliament Square yesterday evening, it is important

that people should be able to demonstrate that MPs and the public

should go about their business. Most importantly of all, I am sure we all

wish the men and women of our Armed Forces a safe and successful return.

Mr Speaker, yesterday we lost Cabinet Office questions, so can the

leader clarify what has happened to them? Will be no bite next

Wednesday, what I presume, and will international development questions

be shunted onto the beach after and so on? And when will the deadlines

for these various questions now be? I have asked the leader twice about

the recess dates for next year and he has done 50 shades of grey ring

about it. On Tuesday morning he told the security session it was about

getting through the legislation before Easter. Can I tell him, this

House does not meet for the convenience of the government, the

government is accountable to this House, so it would be good for us to

know as soon as possible, and not least so that committees can make

the dates for their settings available to the public, that we

were given the dates for the recess next year. The leader has said that

we will consider Lords amendments to the EU Referendum Bill next Tuesday,

how long will the leader give for that specific debate? The most

important of the Americans for the Lords is to the decision to others

16 and 17-year-olds to Ford. The government has said this is the most

important decision the country will face in a generation, so why on

earth does the government wants to exclude from the vote the very

generation that will be most affected by it? After all, at the

age of 16, cute and have consensual sex, moved out of the family home,

red accommodation, refuse consent to medical treatment, drink alcohol,

join the army and so on and even the three Crown dependencies about votes

at 16, so why on earth just not give in now and others 16 and

17-year-olds the vote so that returning officers can get on with

the job of signing them as soon as possible? Apart from anything else,

the only way that the government will get this bill on the statute

book leisure is if they gave in now at their Lordships are voted by 293

to 211 and I bet they will vote the same way again! The tax credit shoot

on several Thursdays ago, I predicted that junior doctors a

U-turn and I predict the votes at 16 U-turn as well. Can the Prime

Minister updaters on his so-called renegotiation of the UK's membership

of the European Union? As I understand it, Mr Speaker, he wants

this all to be signed off at the December meeting of the European

Council. That meets on the 17th and 18th of December, but this House

prices on the 17th of December, so, how on earth does the leader of the

house expect us to be able to question the Prime Minister on the

outcome of the council which is meant to be one of the most

important renegotiations of our membership we will have ever seen?

Some of us think that the Prime Minister is playing Russian roulette

with our economic and political destiny but this motion, hounded by

his Eurosceptic party will be in dogs on the backbenches, he keeps on

doing the wrong thing! Last year the government opted out of the

Convention on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation,

particularly in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal

migration. We are now the only EU country to be excluded from this,

the only one. We on the site said that was a ludicrous decision last

year, but now the Home Office has finally woken up and has said that

there is a clear and compelling case for signing up to the agreements. To

write, Mr Speaker! That this kind of Haughey called the seriously

undermines our national-security, surely that depends on us being an

active member of the union, sharing information with our close allies

and partners in Europe to prevent dangerous crimes and bringing

criminals swiftly to justice. The weakness of the Prime Minister is

standing up to his backbenchers and has reduced our security. Only now

after Paris does the government recognised that fact, so, how long

will we have for the debate on that as well? Mr Speaker, you will have

seen that Tyson Fury won the world heavyweight boxing title last

weekend and has now been nominated for the BBC's Sports Personality of

the Year, I hope he does not win. You may also have seen his comments.

There are only three things, he has said, that need to be accomplished

before the Devil comes home, one of them is homosexuality being legal in

countries, one of them is abortion and the other one is paedophilia.

Being aside the bizarre rather heterodox did ology, this equates

homosexuality with paedophilia. I would hope that the reader would

agree that that is profoundly offensive and the kind of line which

that leads to more young people committing suicide. I gather that

Tyson Fury has subsequently said some of his best friends are gay.

So, and can I suggest that they invite him to Parliament sometime in

the near future, because frankly, I am happy to go head-to-head with

him. The leader of the house, Chris

Grayling. Can I start by a green with the

comments of the Shadow Leader about the events this week. Can I pay

tribute to him for his brave stand yesterday. -- can I start by

agreeing. I mentioned the security of Members of Parliament and

rejecting them against criminal activity. We are subject to

legitimate public scrutiny but it will never be acceptable for

members' personal safety to be put in jeopardy, it will never be

acceptable for members to be the victim of activities that the court

would judge illegal. Mr Speaker, in the south we would never discuss

security arrangements for members but suffice to say that you and I

would both agree that it is and will be continuing as a priority for the

mission, it day A40 has authorities, we must do everything we possibly

can to protect the rights of members to express their views on a free and

unfettered way and to protect them when they do so. -- the House. I

would echo the comments of the police and not just those who were

on duty yesterday but those who provide protection for members of

these house or in their constituencies.

And following yesterday's debate when honourable members on both

sides said they would wish to have a tax on Syria, I hope both sides will

join me in sending our best wishes to the aircrews. The first measure

covered by our English votes for English laws CDs passed through this

House on Tuesday evening. I would like to thank the clerk and

assistance. I am sure the shadow leader and whole counsel will want

to join me in sending our congratulations to the Prime

Minister to mark the 10th anniversary this weekend of his

election as Conservative Party leader. Reading your party for a

decade is a considerable achievement, one that others might

perhaps aspire to achieve but at the moment look unlikely to do so. It is

also this week the anniversary of the stand that Rosa Parks took on a

bus in the United States to is a cure race equality in that society.

I am sure we would all agree that the changes to our society since

then and the work to stand out race discrimination is of necessary and

something we should all be proud of and committed to. The honourable

gentleman has asked questions about what will happen to question Time

sessions. You will remember I addressed this on Tuesday to

indicate questions would simply move back one week. The session will

simply take Lee's next Wednesday, the same will be the same for

Cabinet Office questions. -- take place. There will be a debate on the

issue of 16 and 17-year-olds, the separate issue. This House will vote

on the issue of 16 and 17-year-olds. As this is an elected House if he

expresses his will again that 16 and seven team -year-olds will not be

given the vote that view will be expected in the other place. He used

the phrase and I am sure he cannot simply go on what he reads in the

papers. There are a lot of rumours and counter rumours, when the Prime

Minister is ready to make a statement he will do so. The House

decided one year or 18 months ago not to opt out into a number of

measures. If the government is, as it is bringing forward a proposal on

Tuesday, the House will be able to decide whether to do that or not. It

is right and proper that should be the case. On the question of Tyson

Fury, homophobia is not acceptable in sport. He should work hard to

encourage more people in sport to be open and accepting of the people in

sport. It is right and proper that change happens. As the Formula 1

fan, my vote is for Lewis Hamilton! On small business Saturday I will be

announcing the winners of Canning chases local shop and market stall

competition. Well my right honourable friend join me in wishing

good luck to the nominees and can we have a debate about the contribution

of independent shops and features to our local economies? I think it is

an innovation and I wish all constituencies well for the awards

this weekend. If I might pay tribute to the senior care that had awards

last week. I have been asked by the deputy leader and my private sector

treat to make reference to try give even in Golders Green and wish it

well and Fishers Home Hardware in well and Fishers Home Hardware in

markets at bra. -- Market Harborough. Can I thank the speaker

for announcing next week's efforts. It is not for nothing you have

cheered the title of old bladder for the way you chaired this series. It

was very well how you structured yesterday's debate but let's never

have another debate like this ever again in the House, such was the

demand to speak in yesterday's debate about 50 members never got

the opportunity to contribute and of those who did so many where only a

loaded few minutes at the end of the day. Such is democracy that MPs are

communicated with in such a means that has never been the case.

Constituents expect to see members in this House expressing their

opinions especially on massive issues of state like yesterday and I

am disappointed people could not contribute from all around the

House, from all around the country, to have the proper structured debate

from everyone who wanted to contribute. Let's hope we never have

that again. If we do have debates such as important as this hopefully

we will find the time to contribute. You constituents have the right to

hear from their MPs. One of the consequences we have of trying to

shoehorn this two-day debate into one day is the impact on

departmental questions and the reader is quite right, I listened

carefully to what will happen about this. What this means for others we

will not have Scottish office questions until next year now. It

will be two months since the last Scottish office questions and we

have the lying Scottish bill just now. Huge questions to be asked. The

question of military impact on Scotland. Scottish members of

Parliament did not vote for military action last night, the 22% of Scots

oppose military action. I now we hear about shaving but Scotland

rejected this military action and it will not matter a jot to this

government but it is massively important to us. Mr Speaker, the ink

was barely dry on the voting clerks gesture when these aircraft went out

last night. We particularly want to hear what will happen to the

refugees because all this is going to do is increase the demand for

this country to deal with refugees. Warming that nation the natural

consequence is for more refugees to come here. This has been a week

characterised why finding targets, friendly fire and Civil War. But I

think that is enough about the Labour Party. Every government needs

an effective opposition, especially one for a callous Conservative

government, brittle Conservative government, such as this. If the

Labour Party cannot get its act together and they cannot agree with

something as important as going to war, will the get out the way and

let the Scottish National party will this government to account for what

they are doing just now? I am afraid, as is often the case, the

honourable gentleman and I do not agree. I have two say heaving

speeches on all sides of the House, on both sides of the argument

yesterday, some really impassioned and empowered speeches which will be

important to this House. We tried our best and having heard from 104

members, after more than ten days dumping like 20 hours of questions

in this House. I think yesterday this House got it right. I also

think it got the decision right and I accept he does not agree. We heard

impassioned contributions from both sides. That is democracy. He asked

questions about hoping the government to account and it is very

important we provide regular updates to this House. You will be a

statement before the Christmas recess to update the House. It is

right and proper that is the case. I thought long and hard about the

issue of Scotland questions but he asked the question about how will

people be government to account over the question yesterday that the

answer will be there will be eight statement in this House for United

Kingdom members to have an input on questions concerning the UK. In my

judgment the question session that might have been delayed until after

Christmas was international development and given his comments

about refugees I think it is right and proper this House has the right

to question the Secretary Of State on the work we are doing as part of

our strategy on Syria to make sure we provide proper support for

refugees and prepare for what we hope will be a period of

reconstruction and redevelopment in that country as soon as we can

possibly achieve a lasting peace. I accept that yesterday this House to

egg challenging decisions and we know, as the administration, will

make sure this houses informed properly and appropriately but given

the passions that where expressed from his benches yesterday, I am

sure he will understand I think it is a greater priority to have these

date went on what happened in Syria and an international development

questions before Christmas. He will carry on working on questions over

Scotland and will do so in the New Year. The shadow leader was

absolutely right to condemn the Weill behaviour of a Cabinet

minority in respect of Cabinet members acting according to their

conscience but his argument was not advanced by his reference to

Eurosceptics on this site as dogs, however Pavlovian. Many of our

constituents most anguished questions relate to cancellation at

short notice of procedures at hospital. It seems that is on the

increase. Can we have a debate on government time on the provision of

step-down care in the National Health Service and in particular he

disappeared and then many parts of our country of community hospitals?

The state of our local health services a continuing matter of

concern for constituents and ourselves and we will always be

champions of those facilities. I always believe that although

emergencies happen and sometimes it is unavoidable, unless there are

unforeseen circumstances in cancelling operations is something

that should really only be done in extreme circumstances as it causes

disruption to individuals. He has been an advocate for local community

hospitals in his own county and I am certain he will take advantage of

the opportunities provided to make sure he is a champion for the health

service in Wiltshire. The backbench business committee would really like

early confirmation that we will be allocated the last day before the

Christmas recess on 17 December, we had been given notice that was

likely but have yet to have it confirmed. And I also referred back

to the point made by another member that have, on occasion, backbench

business time allocated which is then severely squeezed by statements

or urgent questions in terms of the allocation of time? Two weeks ago on

the Monday we had three others protected time which was a welcome

departure and that I think is what the honourable member for Kettering

was referring to, the protected time for a particular debate, we would

like to see more of that effort all possible. I am happy to look at

that, it was discussed in the last Parliament and his predecessor

thought it was necessary. I am happy to have the discussion on whether we

do need to protect it. It depends how many urgent questions there are

but I've accept the question and perhaps we can have a conversation

about it. Can we have a debate and review of section 16 eight of the

criminal Justice and Public order act of 1994 about the winning of

masks and face coverings in demonstrations? Surely on public

demonstrations on public land the police should not have two apply for

a special order but we should have statutory legislation that allows

people if they really have the courage of the convictions, whether

the National front or stop the War coalition, to remove all masks and

face coverings on public demonstrations? I have a lot of

sympathy with what he says, it is the matter that the Home Office

should give careful consideration to. The reality is that these

coverings are used to intimidate and in our society there is room for

legitimate protest but not for intimidation. I think anything that

allows protesters to intimidate rather than protest is something

that should be looked at carefully on whether it should be permitted.

E-reader rock the House will be a way of the bizarre decision by the

Chancellor to axe the funding for the cap your and storage projects of

carbon in the UK. The first industrial project with the

potential to create thousands of jobs in an alien that has been

devastated by job losses in steel, mining and production, can we have a

debate to discuss the implications of the decision to strike at the

industry as disastrous? And to take difficult decisions in a

Spending Review and we have not ruled out Carbon capture in the

future but we have added a difficult decisions to provide value for the

taxpayer. He knows that is our duty in office. We will look carefully at

carbon capture and we hope it will be a sound and viable approach in

the future but the government has added it a difficult decision at the

moment. I would remind him that in the northern half of the country,

the economy has been going further than the south, the best way of

securing jobs in his constituency and the surrounding area is to get

consistent growth and investment into that area. On Remembrance

Sunday projection onto the House of Commons of a swastika with the

message of the Indian Prime Minister not been welcome was put forward by

an organisation. The cold ever when they had done

that. We have photographic evidence and witness statements of those who

saw and took those of those responsible. We know that the

message was completely wrong, because you made the ending crime is

the most welcome on his historic visit to Parliament. But could we

have a statement on what measures we will take to combat this particular

incident, but future incidents that could happen on a much more serious

skill? -- you made the Indian Prime Minister most welcome.

It is the same for any organisation and wrong for them to make the sort

of links with the swastika. We have close relations with India and I

would condemn such action. I would say to my honourable friend I am

aware of to which he refers and it is not yet clear that that was an

actual incident as opposed to a creative use of computer

technologies to create the sense that it did take place. As he has

information that suggests it really did take place, we would be glad to

see it. Can we have a debate on the cuts to

the police? The Metropolitan Police are currently making clerical staff

redundant and filling those posts with warranted officers, that fight

in the face of the policy of the government of making police more

visible to the public. I assume they met will adopt a policy of moving

desks closer to windows so that they can fill that requirement! Can we

have a debate on this because this series the degree is in the number

of officers available in our communities?

You are a couple of weeks late on this. If you listened to the Autumn

Statement, we are not cutting police budgets. It is a matter of the mayor

and the Commissioner to decide how they spend their budgets most

effectively in London and I would not seek to tell them how to do so.

We have not cut budgets but protected them.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, there was an incredibly well attended debate in

Westminster Hall to speak about temporary post office closures and

make one local one has been closed temporarily supposedly for six weeks

now. Could we have a statement on these temporary closures of post-PCs

which many communities there might be a long-term, they are much needed

assets in rural deprived communities.

I understand your concern, there has been cases of temporary closures

leading to permanent closures and I understand the anxiety. When Mrs --

when Ms -- when Ms -- when ministers met, he might want to raise that

with them. Sometimes change is sadly unavoidable.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Later I will host the inaugural meeting of the

all-party parliamentary group for the philosophy and religion and

cultural identity. Sadly, neither the order religion are recognised in

Turkey, the country of origin. I would ask the Leader of the House if

we could have a debate on government time on the very positive

contribution over 300,000 of these religious people have made to this

country, continue to me to this country and also the situation under

which they live in Turkey. I think one of the fundamentals that

characterises our society is the right to defend the interests of

religious minorities, we are a liberal democracy that believes in

freedom of speech and freedom of expression and worship, so I commend

her for the work that he is doing and I am sure that she will use one

of the occasional available to or in this House to provide a greater

platform for the what she is doing on that all-party group and the

committees that he seeks to represent.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. As my right honourable friend knows, I have been

campaigning to save the hedgehog, which declined by over one third in

the last ten years and whilst hedgehogs are not fully protected

species, badgers which have risen significantly are. Could we please

have a debate or statement on protected species so they can have

greater flexibility? Can I commend my honourable friend

for the work that he is doing? He is too well aware as I am of the

decline in hedgehog numbers in this country and it is only have our

society works together to try and rectify that situation will be

provide an opportunity for those figures to be restored. There are a

variety of challenges but could I pay tribute to the Times newspaper,

Mr Speaker, which has launched a campaign in defence of our

hedgehogs, encouraging all of us to make holes in our garden fences for

a superhighway for hedgehogs? Whilst I have such a hole in my garden, Mr

Speaker, sadly, I do not have any hedgehogs!

On the subject of protected species, I should point out to the House that

the honourable gentleman for Mid Sussex who is not in his place at

this time was for a considerable period as he has often pointed out

to the House, president of the rare breeds survival trust. Colleagues

may wish to reflect upon the appropriateness of the right

honourable gentleman holding that particular post, Mister Jim Shannon.

In the last week, we have had a discussion about a tax on cigarettes

products and the intention of the government to do that. Many of us

feel that other things must be looked at. Will you agree to a

debate, if there is a tax, that that could be used directly for the

health service? We did have a debate last Monday on

the issue of the sugar tax following a petition, it is an example of how

we are using the system to debate matters of public concern. I must

tell you I have some doubts about such an approach. The danger, it

seems to me, as people have said, all things are good in moderation,

but not in excess. We are better off explain to people what is good for

them and what is not and letting them take their own decisions

otherwise we will become a nanny state.

Philip Davies. Could we have a debate on fixed term recourse? When

people are convinced of serious offences and release from prison

before their term is up, when they either re-offence or break the

licence conditions, most people would expect them to be returned to

prison to serve the rest of their sentence in full, when commonly,

they only go back to prison for 28 days. By Stuart that apply to 546

offender is up, when they either re-offence or break the licence

conditions, most people would expect them to be returned to prison to

serve the rest of their sentence in full, when commonly, they only go

back to prison for 28 days. By Stuart that apply to 546

manslaughter and assault. Can we have a debate to make sure that

these people go back to prison for the member of their sentence rather

than aid arrives 328 days? As Justice Secretary I did the deed

to provide additional powers for those on remand and I have to say,

he shares my view that we must be willing to respond to such

situations when they arise. My right honourable friend, the Chancellor,

will be in the south on Tuesday and I am sure my right on but will take

advantage of making that point to him at that time.

Mr Speaker, despite the comments of the Leader of the House and the

Foreign Secretary yesterday, yesterday was great for democracy to

see it in action. As my honourable friend from Perthshire said, have as

many where against as came forward. I was one of those frustrated

backbenchers. My constituents expect me to be able to put my views on

record in this House and they are disappointed that I do not get to do

that. They make the decision as to whether the Prime Minister's

comments were a slap on my voters record in terms of being a terrorist

so-called sympathiser. These are important for future debates.

I do not think anyone was in doubt of his views or those of his

colleagues, they made their point very articulately yesterday even

though I do not agree with them. Of course, over the past few days there

have been many opportunities to question the Prime Minister and

raise these matters in debate. My view is that this has handled the

matter in the right way and took the correct decision. I do not agree on

that point. The Leader of the House will be

aware that the reservoir of bovine TB has the attention to devastate

dairy herds in my constituency given the worldwide shortage of the

vaccine and the withdrawal of the Welsh Government's vaccine programme

against badgers, I wonder if we could have a debate in government

time on the impact of that? This is a very real issue for the

agricultural community in this country. I read those reports with

concern as well. It is absolutely right and proper that we take

measures to protect our farming industry. It is crucial to this

country. I will make sure that the concerns are passed on to my right

honourable friend, the Secretary of State, who will be in this House

shortly before the Christmas recess and be able to look at that in

greater detail. Mister Douglas Carswell. Yesterday,

this has 44 a military response against ISAs extremists in Syria,

Candy government find time to agree a Sangin bass response against the

barbaric Saudi regime which has for too long promoted and exported a

similar extremist creed. -- Isis. I know that you feel strongly about

this but I would tell him that this country has had a long relationship

with Saudi Arabia and have worked collaboratively with them to try and

improve their society as well. We have got the right balance.

Thank you. Can I pay tribute to your Olympic gold winning performance

yesterday as well? When I was sure deputy I had to sit in that chair

for six hours ones, halfway through I had a call of emergency and left

the chair and you replace me for a couple of minutes, how'd you did

that yesterday, I will never know and I pay tribute to you. Tourism is

vital to my constituency. It is great that London attracts more

visitors than any other city on but we want to get them out to places

like my constituency. England will be put under Visit Britain, so

England will not have its own voice. England and Northern Ireland and

Wales have their own voice, could we have a statement from the government

ministers or that we can ensure that England will have a distinct voice

as far as tourism is concerned? Mr Speaker, here it presents one of

the most beautiful parts of England, my family came from close to the and

I used to spend many times walking in the Rebel Valley as a child. I

will make sure that his concerns are drawn to the attention of the

Minister. We know that she is an active supporter of the tourism

industry in England and Eagle of the United Kingdom and she will not be

taking session lightly and will not want to see decisions that adversely

affect his constituency and discourage people from visiting it.

-- Ribble Valley. Can we have a debate on the

practices of big businesses? Marks Spencer 's need to challenge

premiums regarding flowers. Guilt lanes are also a problem. They have

refused to meet me about appalling treatment of workers. They are kept

on insecure contracts exploiting loopholes in the EU law to pay staff

less than others do in the same work. But he agreed that it is

unacceptable for a brand that is on its British ideals to treat its

staff and customers in such an irresponsible manner?

I have not looked at the details of Marks Spencer but I would tell you

that I think every company today benefits from being a responsible

employer and irresponsible organisation. I think she has made

the point that she wishes to make very articulately.

Mister Glyn Davies. Thank you, can I ask the reader of the House if he

can settle the debate in this House, in this Chamber, on the

protection and status of the motion of the Welsh language? Every

department has a statutory duty to comply with the Welsh language

legislation, the DCMS has a statutory duty to enshrine the

public bodies build and ensure public finance. Britain must not

lose this beautiful culture and treasure and we need a debate to

ensure it does not happen. What I would say to my honourable

friend as I know every government department takes this issue very

seriously, I know from my time into government departments that we were

always careful to make sure the proper information is provided to

Welsh language speakers in Wales, and I agree, it is part of

protecting the diversity and culture of the United Kingdom as a whole

that we will protect the Welsh language, but actually, also, if one

things further north, of the need to make sure we have a culture that

represents some of the areas that have no Scottish National Party

representatives, traditional language is in Scotland, traditional

areas of Scotland, we have a duty to protect the whole diversity of our

United Kingdom. Can I pay childhood to your

Herculean effort just that, I do not know how you got through it. I took

part in Prime Minister 's questions last week. I questioned the Prime

Minister after the statement last Thursday, I took part in the

Backbench Business Committee on Monday and I always raised the issue

of how we protect the ancient minorities in Syria and that part of

the world because history shows us that our plan must, absolutely must

include protection for minorities who have a history of fleeing

whenever a military invasion takes place. That is the big hole that I

saw in the plan of the government and I do not wish to go over those

arguments again, but will the Leader of the House schedule a debate,

particularly on that part of the world and how we protect the many

religious and linguistic minorities? In a sense he is making the point

for our site of the argument yesterday. The Kurds were seeking to

protect the issue. We need to protect citizens of Syria and when

we come back we will give an update on what we are doing. We cannot

rescue these people without delivering military support which is

what he is opposed to. Many members were disappointed not to be able to

vote on the first day in the education Bill. Regardless of the

rights or wrongs of individual bills I think it would be really useful if

we could have a full debate on reform of the private bills system.

First and foremost I think this is a matter for the procedure committee.

I would not be to intrude on the work carried about why him and his

colleagues. Can he raise this with the committee and give consideration

to it? On the matter of Syria I welcome the fact the government are

going to make quarterly reports. If the reader able to confirm those

will be oral statements from the Foreign Secretary? Will these focus

particularly on the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are making

in terms of diplomatic initiatives and the willingness to tackle

extremism? The four that had he had a request from the Prime Minister to

come to this House? He has said he will look once again at the question

of orphans, as the row minister had time to consider that and will he

tell us what his deliberations have led to? We have indicated we will

provide quarterly reports but this is why I was able to say to the

House this morning it was appropriate to have a further

statement before Christmas updating on the matters raised yesterday, not

simply military action but the humanity alien issues which are to

be addressed as well. I intend it will be an opportunity to put those

questions to government. As colleagues will know, unfortunately

there was an extremely tragic incident in my constituents we

recently, the matter which is now subject the day, I know this

government takes the issue of online grooming seriously and that the PM

has led on this issue but can we have a further debate on how social

media is used as a vehicle for sexual grooming and set out what

further measures we can take to protect vulnerable young teenagers

from sexual predators? I think we are all aware of the horrible

incident which to lease in his constituency and all of us would

want to give our good wishes and condolences to the family of the

victim of this horrible crime. We cannot discuss the details of that

case but suffice to say I know ministers will have noted what

happened and will want to learn any lessons. The Justice Secretary who

is often responsible for such legislation will be here on Tuesday

and will listen carefully to any ideas he wants to make. I first

raised with the leader of the house the wind call each and in the

complements and sector five colleges were announced but not one for the

Humber area in wind. I wondered if we could have a debate in government

time on the debate on renewable energy, particularly on shore, and

wonder why the whole of the Humber seems to have been missed out yet

again. I am not sure there is any intention to miss out Hull on the

Humber and it is the heart of the wind industry which is a centre of

the local economy. I will pass her concerns to the Treasury. Having

visited more than one of the centres of education in the Humber area in

the last few years, I think she is already well served by some extra

professionals who are well skilled in delivering skills to young

people. On both sides of the House there was disappointment and some

members were not able to speak in the important debate yesterday and

also on the restricted line cash time-limit that had to be imposed. I

hear what the SNP and Labour Party say, we could have voted for

extended time and we could have removed the moment of interruption

which would have solved the problem. The only problem with removing the

moment of interruption might have moment of interruption might have

been your bladder! But with the leader of the House, with the leader

of the house make a statement next week on when we have major issues

where the whole country is concerned that we do not put a time limit on

those debates? We thought long and hard about this and believed that

2.5 hours being set aside yesterday as part of 20 hours of debating

questions over a period of nine days, seven business days in this

House, was the right balance. It was open to every member, the party

opposite, the Scottish Nationalists and backbenchers if they disagreed

with us and nobody chose to do so. Last week I drew the attention of

the leader of the house to the Business Secretary's commitment to

the report on the three working groups that he set up to the steel

summit to the actions they will take urgently to support the steel

industry in this country. The leader of the house helpfully said he would

take that up with his right honourable friend. We are running

out of time and I have heard nothing. We are running out of time

for the Business Secretary to come to this House and report progress.

The Business Secretary will be here on Tuesday week in any case, I have

passed on the request. I will make sure he is able to address the point

on what is a very serious matter for him, his constituents and the

region. In a recent report Public Health England stated e-cigarettes

are 95% safer than smoking, have no identifiable risk to buy standards

and should not be treated in the same way as by-products yet in many

public and work places the users of e-cigarettes two, are in almost

every case, people who have given up using tobacco are in every case may

to stand in the same place as smokers and get the same risks as

smokers. I wonder if we might debate the use of e-cigarettes across the

Parliamentary debate? This matter has been previously considered by

the administration committee. A decision was made rightly or wrongly

to have in place the current policy as he describes it. I would suggest

he rights to the honourable member who sheers that committee to make

the point is that he does. I do think that is a matter for

the matter of debate but his views the matter of debate but his views

will be carefully considered. The leader has on a couple of times

today stressed the important of different questions. Will he give

further concern to the questions I raised that the procedures

committee, the departments that he questions before PMQ 's, to give

them more time and perhaps during the convivial atmosphere of a

Thursday morning rather than let them get drowned out as often

happens before PMQ 's? In the 15 minute section before leader of the

house sections before I did pose the question on whether it was important

to have a leader of the house section and impose that on business

questions and whether that's what should we used to extend the time

available for another Avia, I have sympathy for what he says. On the

same subject can we have a short debate on this whole issue on all

questions because this would give members an opportunity to suggest

changes and also the possibility of the electrode you'll commission

because at present members who may want to question more than one body

at the same time are unable to do so and there may be other bodies as

well we ought to be questioning at all question Time. I think these are

important points and I am going to give careful consideration to them.

We have to use the time available in the best possible way and while he

says he wants to hear from me every day I suspect it will not be me he

wants to hear from everyday! Earlier this week the Welsh Labour

government ground breaking organ the nation bloc came into effect and

with more than 12,000 people across the UK waiting for an organ

transplant can we have a question on presumed consent so England can

follow the Welsh lead? It is a really important point and well

worth consideration but what I would say, this does feel like something

the backbench business bring to this House and that debate would give the

government an indication as to where the balance of power is in this

House. I think perhaps that is the best way of doing it. The football

club in my constituency has recently been awarded a ?60,000 grant to

install new flood lighting by the Premier League and if the facilities

fund. I am sure the whole House would like to congratulate them on

that reward. Can we have a debate on sports funding and what more the

government can do to support sports in our schools? This is one reason

why we have sought to ensure that funding for sport is actually

available and rejected in the spending plans we have. I would like

to thank the Premier League clubs for the work they do. Many Premier

League club foundations do excellent work promoting that sports bash

grassroots sports. I wish his club well and I also wish the big club in

his constituency well in sorting out their problems. On Saturday I shall

be visiting some of the excellent small businesses in my constituency

including red Star Brewery, Roxy 's treasures and others but will he

join me thinking gradually gained those responsible for this success

that small-business Saturday has had over the last few years including

the Federation of Small Businesses and the small-business Saturdays

team and the honourable member for Streatham which was instrumental in

bringing the concept to this country? Can we have the debate his

honourable friend asked for at the start of business questions so that

we can discuss the importance and support we should be getting to

small businesses all year round, not just on that one day of the year? We

always work to support and encourage small businesses. I think the work

done by members on all sides, not just on small-business Saturday but

across the year to support small businesses is absolutely right. He

will now that the job of running a small business is the cover one,

often seven days per week and 18 hours per day. It is tremendously

valuable to our society that people are willing to commit that effort to

running small businesses in our communities. The whole communities

together. We will celebrate them on Saturday but I commend all members

for the work they are doing on the small businesses in their

communities. In this of this, the honourable

member for Bournemouth East, following the publication by the

second report, he read the report on UK involvement in Syria, the role of

committee is to scrutinise current government policy, not set

conditions on any future policy. Standing order 152 says that select

committees appointed to look at the policy of government departments,

how they do that is up to them, the reason committee said in its second

report on the effectiveness, that Select Committee should influence

policy and have an impact upon government departments and that the

extent of this influence and impact is the primary measure of the

effectiveness of the select committees. On the 5th of November

the honourable member asked an urgent question on human rights in

Egypt expressing the hope that he was speaking as an individual and

not the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Chairman

must look at the urgent questions and they have a mandate elected by

the all house and it seemed a discourtesy to that mandate for a

minister to try to dismantle it -- diminish that authority. Through the

Foreign Secretary, and as Parliamentary Secretary, I drew his

addition bat-mac his attention -- his attention to this matter.

that private assurance it has not that private assurance it has not

been forthcoming and I regret I need your clarification that my

understanding or standing orders and the appropriate courtesy of the

Chamber is correct? I am grateful to the honourable

member for giving me notice of this point of order. Firstly, I can

confirm that it is entirely a matter for select committees to interpret

the terms of reference set by the House and to decide for themselves

what subjects of inquiry to pursue. I would suggest that it is both an

appropriate and unwise for ministers to comment on such matters. To put

it bluntly, they should stick to their own responsibilities, and it

is to be execution of those responsibilities that they should

dedicate themselves. They need not and should not stray beyond that.

Secondly, I can confirm that the Liaison Committee has recommended

that select committees should seek to influence government policy and

indeed, the House has endorsed that recommendation. I would go further

and kill you it is a matter of some concern that if there are ministers

who are unaware of that important fact, and hopefully, from now on,

they will not be. Thirdly, I can confirm that the cheers of

departmental select committees, including therefore obviously the

honourable gentleman, have been directly elected by the House. That

gives them a particular status and authority. -- chairs. Of course, on

many occasions they will want to speak in a personal capacity and not

in that role. Once again, we do not need ministers telling Select

Committee chairman what they should or should not be doing. The terms of

support is orderly conduct any house and they can leave that to the

chairs. May I take this opportunity to thank the honourable member for

his foible contribution that has committee and report on the

extension of offensive military operations to Syria have made to the

discussion in the House over the past few weeks. I believe and I hope

I can say this without fear of contradiction, that members on all

sides of the House, whatever their views on that matter, have found the

committee's exposition of the issues very helpful indeed. If there are no

further points of order... We will continue.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, if you have been of us who have raised issues

about children and care leavers. The group meets, which I chair, every

three weeks and books the Boothroyd room and because of the high

interest and the fact that 95 people travel from all over the country to

its meetings with additional adults in support, the room is invaluable

standing room only. -- invariably. I have been advised that the room

booking has been taking for next week's meeting by the Liaison

Committee, I understand the process by which these things happen. But

there is not another room in the House that can accommodate these

large numbers and as you will know, this is an incredibly important area

and supporting these young people is of something of great importance to

all members, I am sure. I wonder what advice you might be able to

give me and the secretary for the all-party group for children in care

and care leavers as to how we should address this, otherwise it will be

very difficult for those young people and those supporting them in

the meeting next week. I am grateful to the honourable

gentleman for his point of order. As a matter of fact, I should say to

him that committees always take precedence in terms of the

allocation of such rooms, so there is nothing untoward or indeed

unusual about that, however, I recognise the very considerable

inconvenience and potential dilemma caused to the honourable gentleman

and his colleagues, as well as those planning to attend such a meeting

that has been caused. What I can tell him is that the Administration

committee is reviewing the room booking system and given what he has

said to the House today, I would strongly encourage the honourable

gentleman to make representations to the administration Committee and

indeed, perhaps directly to its chairman in order to address

matters. A conversation with the honourable gentleman regarding this

might be useful in addition to any written evidence he wishes to

submit. As far as next week is concerned over the question as to

whether a room can be found, if he needs such for next week, I think he

probably better have private discussions and we will see if

anything can be done is that need remains. If there are no further

points of order, perhaps he can proceed to the main business. Just

before the minister is asked to move the second reading of the ball, I

have to tell you the following, I remind the House that I have

certified the charity 's protection and social investment Bill Lord's

and order number 83 giant, in relation to England and Wales, our

Father remind the House that this does not affect proceedings in the

debate on the second reading, or indeed in committee or in report

stage. After the report stage I will consider the bill again for

certification if it has been amended. The relevant committee will

be asked to consent to certifying provisions. The clerk will proceed

to read the orders of the