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considered as a last resort and if we can't secure the access for the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
UN that we -- they are seekhng and we are supporting in trying to | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
achieve, we will have to return to that possibility. Will the Leader of | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
the House give us the busindss for next week? The business for next | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
week on Monday the 13th of June we will have the conclusion of the | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
remaining stages of the polhcing and crime Bill. On Tuesday the 04th of | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
June we will be debating thd second reading of the Wales Bill. On | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Wednesday the 30 -- 15th of June there was an Opposition Day under | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. Then, Mr Spdaker, | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
the House goes into recess tntil after the European Union referendum, | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
said he has one be sitting on Thursday and Friday. We rettrn on | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Monday the 27th of June when we will be debating motions to approve ways | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
and means resolutions on thd Finance Bill, followed by the first day of | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
committee of the whole housd on the Finance Bill. On Tuesday thd 28th of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
June we will have the concltsion of that bill followed by ways to | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
approve the resolutions of that bill. On one server 29 therd will be | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
an opposition half day debate followed by a debate on the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
centenary of the Battle of the Somme. On Thursday, that will be | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
decided by the backbench business committee. On the Monday thdre will | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
be the first allotted day for the debate of estimates. At 10:00pm on | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
that day, the House will be asked to agree all outstanding estim`tes Mr | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Speaker, let's start with a brief quiz. What is the shortest piece of | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
legislation? The act which dnabled women to stand for Parliament for | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
the first time in 1918 in only 7 words. As we commemorate thd 10 th | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
anniversary of the founding of the campaign, it is worth remembering | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
that the campaign is often long but the moment of justice is often short | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
and sweet. What a week. Thunder and lightning, damp in the late, clearly | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
God is very angry with the Leave Campaign and we had the Prile | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Minister on the terrace enjoying a sneak you fag and then very | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
congenial company. Well, he was mostly chatting with the Labour MPs | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
because the Tories when spe`k to him any more. And in fact, therd has | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
been so much blue on blue action this week that the air is gdtting as | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
blue as the culture Secretary's DVD collection. We have had the leave | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
remain -- the Leave Campaign MPs touring the campaign in the | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
blunderbuss like dastardly `nd Mutley and the thing about Das | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Dudley and Mutley is that although they cheated, and boy did they | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
cheat, they never won a racd. On the one occasion when they nearly one, | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Dick dastardly stuck -- paused to have his picture taken just before | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
the finish. How very Boris. As he said, drat Ahmed drat and double | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
drat. When will he publish the procedural debate. The housd is | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
hoping that the Government hs serious about democracy herd and | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
reform. Can the Government dxplain something? He has announced 13 days | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
for the consideration of Prhvate members bills but the first one this | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
year isn't until October. In previous years that his alw`ys been | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
in September, so why so latd this year? It makes it virtually | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
impossible for any member to get a bill through the comments bdfore the | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
end of January let alone through the House of Lords. Is the Government | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
deliberately sabotaging Private members bills even before they have | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
started? On the 14th of Jantary my honourable friend, the mothdr for | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
periods out, asked the membdr whether the rules of the Hotse could | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
be changed to allow Welsh to be used by Welsh members when it fits here. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
I understand the language of this House is English but Welsh hs the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
mother tongue of many of my compatriots and my constitudncy is | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
it not time we allowed Welsh in the Welsh grand committee? We are about | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
to consider emergency legislation for the referendum. It is obviously | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
a delight that they many new people have tried to register. 4.5 million | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
people have tried to in the last three months alone. Even allowing | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
that the fact some of those will be checking they are already | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
registered, that is the equhvalent of 63 extra seats in areas of | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
students and high ethnic minorities. Would it not be bizarre in the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
extreme to insist that the boundary commission use the old register to | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
determine the boundaries or is this just gerrymandering? | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
A debate will be on the UK's mentorship of the EU. The l`st thing | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
our fragile economic recovery need is the prolonged uncertaintx and | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
self inflicted recession Brdxit would inevitably bring. We `lways | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
achieve more by our common dndeavour than going it alone. John Donne was | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
right, no man is an island `nd these islands are not a sealed unht. If we | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
want to tackle climate change, environmental degradation, hf we | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
want a seat at the table whdn the major decisions affecting otr | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
continent are made, if we w`nt to shake Europe and fashion ard | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
destiny, we have to lead Europe not believe it. Is it not fitting that | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
the Wednesday after the refdrendum we shall be commemorating the Battle | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
of the Somme in which there were at least 200,000 French, 420,000 | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
British and 620,000 German casualties? The continent that has | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
been at war in every generation and in every century, that had spilled | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
quantities of blood on the season oceans, | :06:21. | :06:32. | |
on the beaches, on the landhng grounds, on the streets, in the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
field and on the hills is now at peace, thank God. We should never | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
risk our children's future. Remain, Remain, Remain. Can I start by all | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
so marking the anniversary of the campaign to get votes for women and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
to get women into Parliament? I would like to commend everyone who | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
has been involved in the art exhibition, the new work of art in | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Westminster walks and all of those who came together last night in this | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
chamber for the photograph to mark the occasion. It is a very hmportant | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
development in our history we should never forget. It is not so lany | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
years ago that inexplicably women were not given the vote and did not | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
have the right to sit in thhs house. Too large and rich and that is | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
incompetence books, it is a change that way should have happendd and I | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
am very glad it did. Can I offer my good wishes to the | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
English, Welsh and Northern Irish football team for the Europdan | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Championships due to start this weekend? I very much hope all of us | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
in this house will be cheerhng on all the home nations as thex play | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
their matches in the weeks `head. I wasn't aware of other things he said | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
was to do with the business of this house. Talk about pots and kettles! | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Can I also shut him up for ` moment and actually confirmed to this how | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
something you would like to hear, that we will be flying the rainbow | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
flag from the top of portcullis house to mark Pride weekend. | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Something I think is right `nd that has shut him up! On the boundaries | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
issue, can I just remind thd House that the current boundaries are | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
based on the figures from the 2 01 census. In no way is that f`ir, in | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
no way is that right and proper In future the boundaries will be based | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
on updated figures every five years and it is right and proper given | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
concerns raised by the nature of our register, reforms should be put in | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
place to make sure it is robust appropriate and honest in a | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
democracy. In answer to the question about the private members Bhll | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
report I can say we will be responding shortly to that report as | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
his due process. On the comlittee, I have given this careful thotght In | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
my judgment, given the fact English is the language of this house, and | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
given the fact it would cost taxpayers money to make a change at | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
this moment in time, if somdone rides in this house who cannot speak | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
English, we may need to look at that issue again. But I have considered | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
it carefully and I think we should retain the situation where Dnglish | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
is the language of this house. You mentioned the debate they are | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
holding next week. I would simply say this, I am delighted to see that | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
notwithstanding the lively debate we are having in this country `t the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
moment, that the figures for April from a new factoring sector showed | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
an improvement, which is assigned the economic improvement we have | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
presided over in government since 2010 is continuing, notwithstanding | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
that debate. Can I also say to the shadow leader, I am delightdd he | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
paid a visit to my constitudncy this week, to my local Labour Party. He | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
is always welcome in Epsom `nd York. I would say in the events things | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
become too tough, in the evdnt that the threat from Plaid Cymru becomes | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
too great, my Labour Party would be delighted to welcome him as their | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
candidate in 2020! Following repeated poor performance | :09:57. | :10:09. | |
by Thames Link, which affects thousands of my constituents, can | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
the Minister make a statement on what is being done to improve | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
services on the Thames Link line-up? First of all I am well award of that | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
concern my honourable friend raises. They have been raised by a number of | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
members from across this hotse. It is a matter I know the rail minister | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
is concerned about and the company should be immensely concerndd about. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
It is a difficult time becatse of the improvements taking place at | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
London bridge. The Secretarx of State will be here later thhs month, | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
and I would expect my honourable friend and others to raise this | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
question then because I know it is raising concerns that many | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
constituents. I would like to thank the Ldader of | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the House for his statement on the business of next week, although I do | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
anticipate that of the 27th of June may be more interesting than | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
currently build. This week linisters appear to have been working | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
tirelessly, it is just a sh`me they spend all their energy attacking | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
each other and not effectivdly running this country. That hs why we | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
need an urgent debate on thd abject failure of this government to manage | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
the online voting system. In amongst this disaster the primary stills | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
called shameful and out of touch. Imagine what the rest of us think. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Let's also have a debate on immigration policy. Some current | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Tory ministers have been totring the country, do declaring when Brexit is | :11:41. | :11:52. | |
done, immigrants will be out. At the same time government ministdrs to | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
deport people who are from `nother Commonwealth country. Whilst this | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
has been going on, the Justhce Secretary stated he wants to crack | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
down on immigration to the TK altogether. They are saying one | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
thing to one part of the cotntry and telling another to the other. Just | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
to our people to believe, Mr Speaker question what finally, you will be | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
aware that some contributions to the investigation powers Bill ddbate | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
this week contained a range of patronising and condescending | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
remarks from Tory backbenchdrs, directed particularly at wolen on | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
these benches. This was repdated, unfortunately, at a Westminster Hall | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
debate yesterday which I was participating, on the sale of arms | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
to Saudi Arabia with the continuing suggestion we don't underst`nd. Can | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
we have a debate on how mald backbench Tory MPs are not the only | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
ones elected to this house with an understanding of difficult `nd | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
complex issues? You will find women really are very good at this. I | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
would be happy to elaborate further for the Leader of the House, if he | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
needs any help in explaining this to his backbenchers. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Mr Speaker, I might start bx reminding the honourable lady if I | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
am not mistaken a few days `go the leader of her own party criticised | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
the European referendum campaign she was part of. I am not sure the SNP | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
is entirely aligned on this one In terms of the work that this house | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
has done this week, Mr Speaker notwithstanding the fact we are | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
having the most serious deb`te in this country we have had for a | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
generation, this house is gdtting on with important business, about | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
protecting this country frol the security threats we. The | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
disappointing this thing thhs week, although I am grateful to the Labour | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Party in the constructive w`y they approached this debate, it was | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
disappointing on a matter of national security seeing thd SNP | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
lined up against measures wd think are essential to protect our | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
citizens. The position on mhgrants, since we are having this debate it | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
is worth being Claire about what the position is. Under the Vienna | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Convention, regardless of the circumstances of the referendum the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
position, the legal position of anyone who lives in another country, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
if the nature of the residency arrangements in that countrx | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
changes, their residency is protected. I don't think anxone in | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
this debate should give an alternative opinion to anyone who is | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
worried about their position. I would never in any way condone | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
patronising comments towards women in this house. What I would say is I | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
think it is perfectly fair to say the Scottish National party does not | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
understand the importance of defence issues to this country. Thehr | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
policies make no sense, thehr arguments would do damage to | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Scotland economic Lee and in defence terms, and if we challenge them on | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
it, it is right and proper to do so. -- economically. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Can I come back to the thorny issue of Avon and Somerset police force. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
The Chief Constable is under investigation. The PCC Chief | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Constable tried to come and see me and are trying to influence MPs | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
about what is going on with the serious sexual allegations `gainst | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
the Chief Constable. He is still in the post and is causing problems for | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
the Avon and Somerset policd. I think we need a debate to fhnd out | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
what is happening. This is ` sizeable police force coverhng | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
Bristol and Somerset and unless we get to the bottom of what is | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
happening, we will have a problem with justice and possibly a travesty | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
of justice. My honourable friend makes his point | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
in his customary robust way and raises issues which will be a very | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
great concern to his constituents and others elsewhere in the county. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
I would say the Home Secret`ry will be here on Monday, so he will have a | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
direct opportunity to raise this issue with her and I am surd he will | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
do so. May we have a debate in the near | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
future on the political sittation in Northern Ireland? Thankfullx not | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
because of any crisis, but to celebrate the fact we are now | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
embarking on the third term of uninterrupted devolution in Northern | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
Ireland, very successful assembly elections, as far as our party is | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
concerned, and also to allow us time to debunk the nonsense being spoken | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
today by the former Prime Mhnister Tony Blair, about the peace process | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
and political process in Northern Ireland being under threat hf we | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
vote to leave the European Tnion. Surely this is the most | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
irresponsible sort of talk which can be perpetuated, in terms of Northern | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Ireland. Very dangerous, destabilising and should not be | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
happening. Mr Speaker, I think I would like to | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
pay tribute to all the political parties in Northern Ireland. I think | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
the elections are characterhsed by being immensely dull. That, I have | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
to say, is a real tribute to the progress that has been made | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
politically in Northern Ireland The fact there was an election campaign | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
based on detailed discussion about detailed issues... I congratulate | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
the honourable gentleman on his success. He will agree with me that | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
having a routine election c`mpaign about local issues, without the | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
controversies of the past, hs something we should be immensely | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
proud of. Even though the shadow leader can't shut up and recognise | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
the progress that has been lade in Northern Ireland. I commend everyone | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
who has been involved in it. All this shouting for the sddentary | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
position is for it on statesman-like. Not the sort of | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
thing I would ever have Child and adolescent mental health must be a | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
priority for local health sdrvices and every Local Authority. Can we | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
have a debate on the extra leasures we can implement to make sure the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
framework is effective in providing necessary support to some of the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
most vulnerable in our socidty? I think this is an area where the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Government has a good record to boast about. We are already | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
implementing measures which will deliver additional childcard for | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
children, very young childrdn, which will give their parents the | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
opportunity to get in the workplace and bring a sense of directhon and | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
purpose to their household. We are bringing forward motions th`t are | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
about to take place that will help tackle issues around the adoption | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
and care system. I think we have a good message to tell about what | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
we're doing and I hope everx Local Authority up and down the country | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
will give this issue the important my right honourable friend says it | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
should have. Could I thank ly colleague for the update on the | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
business update. Can I welcome the debate on the commemoration of the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Battle of the Somme. I myself will be travelling to the Somme on that | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
date to join many members of the North London Fusiliers, havhng been | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
heavily involved in the first few days with Italians like Tyndside | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
Irish and Tyneside British. -- with the Italians. Could I also `sked the | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
House to note that the membdrship of the backbench committee has now been | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
concluded, in today's order paper and can I welcome the new mdmbers of | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
the committee. Can I also plays on record my personal thanks to the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
honourable members the Kettdring and Wellingborough for their service to | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
the committee on this house in the last 12 months. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Can I echo the Banksy has jtst made to my two honourable friend and also | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
say that I wish all members of the honourable committee well and | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
congratulate him on returning to his position. They will be many | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
opportunities for members of the South to come to see his colmittee | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
and I look forward to seeing the range of topics they bring forward | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
for debate. I also want to pay tribute to him and all thosd who | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
will go to celebrate and Mark, because it is not a celebration it | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
is a marking, of the Battle of the Somme. We should do everythhng we | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
can to prevent conflict likd that ever happening in Europe ag`in and | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
we should note particularly the role played by the Nato alliance over the | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
last 75 years. The transatl`ntic alliance, the role our Amerhcan | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
friends have played in keephng the peace in Europe and long max that | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
this continue. 72% of all sticides are men. Nearly 5000 a year, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
affecting the age group mostly from 45 to 59. Could we have a ddbate | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
about what more local counchls and health authorities can do to reduce | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
this alarming rate? This is a subject which is of increashng | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
importance. The rise in suicide amongst young men in partictlar is | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
deeply alarming and I can s`y that the Secretary of State take this | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
issue very seriously indeed. He is working now on up dating and | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
upgrading the National suichde prevention and we will do everything | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
we can to try to tackle this and other problems. It is something we | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
are working immensely hard to tackle. As regards parliamentary | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
representation for women, would it not be worthwhile to remembdr that | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
in 1912, a feature Labour C`binet member George Lansbury resigned his | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
London East End seat in protest against women being denied the right | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
to vote and be represented hn the House of Commons and fought a | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
by-election. Unfortunately he didn't win but he obviously came b`ck in | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
due course. And I asked the Leader of the House would it not bd useful | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
very shortly to have a debate on what is happening abroad regarding | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
women? Yesterday, a 17-year,old woman in Pakistan was burned to | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
death by her family because they agreed with her marriage -- they | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
disagreed with her marriage. It is said that 1000 women a year in | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Pakistan are murdered in thd same way. Shouldn't we recognise that the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
-- despite all the progress fortunately we have made in this | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
country, the suffering that goes on and be murder of women is something | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
which should be remembered `nd fought over and debated and tried in | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
every way possible to end? Ht is great to find something which the | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
honourable gentleman and I `re entirely agreed on. The tre`tment of | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
women in some societies arotnd the world is totally atrocious `nd it is | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
something which, as the leading nation in the world, we shotld seek | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
to try to improve, using wh`t influence we can around the world to | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
change regimes and countries, creating a world that is more | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
enlightened and supportive towards women, treating them in the way they | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
should be treated. Can we h`ve consideration of a debate on the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
issue of blood cancer? Next week, I'm pleased to be starting ` new or | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
parliamentary group on blood cancer on Tuesday at two o'clock, room ten, | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
portcullis house, and I would be grateful for time for discussion of | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
this. I wish my honourable friend well for the new group which he is | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
establishing. The great strdngth that all-party groups bring is to | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
strengthen the ties between this House and those outside who are | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
affected by issues like blood cancer. It is an extremely hmportant | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
part of the work that indivhdual members do and I commend wh`t he is | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
doing. Mr Speaker, when I w`s a minister at DTI I was given a draft | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
of an answer to a question, saying they would be a full answer by the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
end of autumn. Given the Prhme Minister's long-awaited dechsion of | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
the airports commission that is still awaited, yesterday he said in | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the MPs that we would get a decision in this summer. Can he clarhfy if | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
the September fortnight is part of the summer session or the attumn | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
session? Formally summer will depend upon the weather but I can `ssure | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
him that the decision will come shortly. The reason that we have | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
taken time over this decision is because, rightly, members of this | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
House and members of the fund bench opposite -- front bed opposhte have | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
asked us to take immense care about the issue of air pollution hn the | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
United Kingdom, so we have been careful to look at nitrous oxide | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
condition around Heathrow to make sure that we get the final decision | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
right between the two choicds. The tobacco and related products | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
directive is being dealt with is a strategy incident and the n`tional | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
procedure. Despite its provhdence, much of it is commendable and will | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
help the fight against tobacco related disease. Can we havd a | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
debate on the causes related to the aping since Ashe, Cancer Research UK | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
and the Royal College of phxsicians are concerned that these catses will | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
be unhelpful in reducing thd coal that tobacco takes? I am aw`re of | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the issues that my honourable friend raises concerns about. I will of | :25:40. | :25:52. | |
course note the concerns he has raised and make sure that the | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
Secretary of State understand the concerns on these benches. We are | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
less than four weeks away from the publication of the Chilcott report | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
and the Pope -- the former Prime Minister is back haunting the | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
television like some unwantdd poltergeist, getting his excuses in | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
first, all of which should give us some hope that the verdict of the | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
report will be damning, as he has seen it, which of course it should | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
be. Will we have a statement on the publication of the report? Will | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
there be the operative vision - or the opposition have the report to | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
site about the report? The Government has had a long, long time | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
to think about this and may be the Leader of the House can enlhghten us | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
on the parliamentary response to Chilcott? Mr Speaker, and ldt's be | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
clear about this, they will need to be discussions between parthes about | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
exactly how we handle the shte of the document but of course ht is | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
essential for this House to be able to question and discuss the report, | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
even though it is not a Govdrnment report, and of course those | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
opportunities will be provided. In terms of the reappearance of the | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
former Prime Minister in thd media, it is noticeable that he has been on | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
the present recently and yot might have noticed his comment today, | :27:22. | :27:33. | |
accusing that the current ldader of the party has taken from a party of | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
opposition to party of protdst. That is something I agree with. | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
Constituent of mine with severe mental health problems find that | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
their family want to be close to them and support them in anx way | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
they can but they are frustrated with regards to the confidentiality | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
which prevents them from discussing with their medical help. Can we have | :27:57. | :28:05. | |
a debate on the need for confidentiality but also falily | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
wanting to help in anyway they can? This is a very difficult issue. A | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
relative that wants to do the right thing, which may or may not be the | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
right thing, and the diffictlt judgments that professionals have to | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
make about giving access to information or not. It is an issue | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
to which there is no right or wrong answer but I will make sure the | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
Secretary of State is aware that he has raised those concerns and | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
perhaps respond to him directly Can I remind the Leader of the House as | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
someone who has taken the in leading -- joining this House in both | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
English and Welsh, I would `sking to look again at the proposals to use | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
Welsh in the Grand Union. Some of us did not speak English until we were | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
five and we are bilingual. The Welsh language and status is very | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
important. I do absolutely understand the need to protdct the | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
Welsh language and indeed across different administrations, dxtensive | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
steps have been taken to protect the Welsh language, to make it very much | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
a part of routine life in W`les My question to her really is at a time | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
of financial pressure, is it really sensible for us to be spendhng | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
taxpayers money in a house where the main and official languages English, | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
when we have members of this House who are able to talk in that | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
language? As long as that is the case, I have considered it | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
carefully, but I don't belidve we should change things. The Prime | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Minister has said that the DU budget has been cut, so I thought H'd check | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
with the House of Commons lhbrary and I don't think these figtres have | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
been published, but according to the House of Commons library, otr net | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
contribution to the European Union will increase by over 2.7 bhllion | :30:04. | :30:18. | |
pounds this year. 2700 -- 272,0 0 million pounds. That doesn't seem to | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
be a cut, so can we have a statement next week expending the sittation? | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
Fortunately the opportunity will be there next Wednesday to both | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
question and make a speech `bout these issues in this chamber and | :30:34. | :30:43. | |
given his assiduous this about this matter, I am sure he will do so Or | :30:44. | :30:54. | |
even assiduity. Mr Keith ours. Will you join with me in congrattlating | :30:55. | :31:04. | |
Diabetes UK on diabetes awareness week next week? Can we have a | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
statement next week about the Government's responds to di`betes | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
awareness week and could he personally showed his support, and | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
this has got nothing to do with the excitement of the referendul | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
campaign, could he visit a pharmacy or a GP in his constituency and have | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
a diabetes test as a way of encouraging others to do so? The | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
honourable gentleman makes ` very important point. This is a condition | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
which affects very large nulbers of people, and a number of people are | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
not aware that they suffer from diabetes, and actually yes, I will | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
give him that assurance, but probably not in the next two weeks. | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
There is quite a lot on, but at some point over the next few weeks, I | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
will give him the assured that I will do that. We as member 's | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
parliament could well follow the suggestion he has made in order to | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
raise awareness of diabetes in our aim constituencies. That thd Leader | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
of the House arrange for a statement to be made by the Prime Minhster of | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
Foreign Secretary about the Government's position on Turkish | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
membership of the EEA? In 2010, the Prime Minister said he was there to | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
make the case for Turkey's membership of the U and to fight for | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
it and then he said he supported in 2014, but last night, the Ttnstall | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
of the Exchequer who seems to be prepared to say anything at all to | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
secure and remain vote, said that Turkey will never join the Duropean | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
Union, they can we have a statement to clear up this... A difference in | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
opinion between the Prime Mhnister and Chancellor, and could they also | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
confirm that it is the other Government's opinion that Ttrkey | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
should be able to join the Duropean Union and British money is being | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
used to help that assertion? I am sure the comments will have been | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
noted by the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary and the Prime | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
Minister will be back in thd House next Wednesday before we gohng to be | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
set but notwithstanding questions about timing, it is still a | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
Government's policy that in due course, Turkey should join the | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
European Union. I have been recently contacted by several constituents | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
who were looking to purchasd the freeholds on their propertids which | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
were built a few years ago. My constituents then found that the | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
builders who built the comp`nies had sold the freeholds on to prhvate | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
companies who were now asking for three or four times the original | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
asking price to purchase th`t Freehold. I know there is a process | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
in place to resolve this but that is lengthy and expensive, they can we | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
have a debate on how we can supply by this process and give people | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
reassurance that they are not being used as some kind of specul`tive | :33:52. | :33:52. | |
investment strategy? This is clearly an issue th`t | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
affects large numbers of people It should not be possible for `ny | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
freeholder to exploit an individual leaseholder beyond the rules that | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
apply, the amounts that are payable, they are set to a formula enshrined | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
in law and should not be exploitable. If there are c`ses | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
where this has not happened, please can I ask him to write to md and I | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
will pass on to my colleagud to look at the problems he has identified. | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
Can we please have a debate on how this house response to the very | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
diligent work of the Europe`n scrutiny committee? At a tile when | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
the nation is two weeks awax from taking the most important ddcision | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
in a generation it is inexplicable why there were no less than eight | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
documents... LAUGHTER No fewer than eight documents | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
covering a range of important issues like free movement of the Etropean | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
Union Charter of fundamental rights, all of which have been recolmended | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
by the European scrutiny colmittee for debate on the floor of this | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
house. Mr Speaker, I have a propos`l for | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
the House. We know the shadow leader is a champion of charities. May I | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
suggest we'll sponsor him in his sponsored silence to raise funds for | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
his chosen charities? On thd subject of European scrutiny committee | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
timetables, there will be opportunities in the next fdw days | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
to debate those issues. We have sought to make more time av`ilable | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
for the debate and I will look again to make sure we can do that in the | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
coming session. Could we please have the debate | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
about the excellent work ch`rities such as Kids in Hull do, thdy have | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
services commission from Hull City Council. But what I'm concerned | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
about, with the cuts to loc`l charities, charities are finding | :36:03. | :36:05. | |
their funding is being cut or reduced on those services to the | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
most vulnerable in our commtnities are going to disappear. | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
It is or is a great disappohntment when we hear about Local | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
Authorities, all too often Labour authorities, that are not innovative | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
enough when it comes to dealing with financial pressures. There some | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
great councils around these this country dealing with those pressures | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
in a thoughtful way, avoiding the kind of cuts to front line services | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
she's describing. I would urge her to ask her Local Authority to look | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
at that. The Leader of the House of Lords | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
just confirmed it is the policy of Her Majesty's government to allow | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
Turkey into the European Unhon. We are paying ?170 million a ydar to | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
help Turkey and four other applicable countries join. Hn the | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
borough of Kettering Veretott about 5000 migrants from Eastern Durope, | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
from a population of 72 million 12 years after accession. Given the | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
population of Turkey is 76 lillion, that means the people of Kettering | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
face the very real prospect of having at least 5000 Turkish | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
migrants ten or 12 years after Turkey's accession. Something that | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
would transform the borough of Kettering. Can we have an urgent | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
statement from the appropri`te minister about why we are spending | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
?170 million in year on proloting this madness? | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
My honourable friend I know feels passionately about these issues and | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
is making these points during the course of the campaign he is part | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
of. There will be an opporttnity next week in this house to debate | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
matters relating to the European Union and I am sure he will take | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
advantage of that opportunity to raise the issues he has brotght up | :37:45. | :37:54. | |
today. This is the constitudnts of Motherwell and Wishaw have waited | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
well over a year for a decision on their asylum applications. | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
In that time they have placdd no financial burden on the UK. May we | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
have a debate in government on the length of time still being taken to | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
process and make decisions on asylum applications? | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
Of course it is not true to say asylum seekers placed no burden on | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
the United Kingdom, because we do both provide accommodation for | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
asylum seekers and support for asylum seekers. That money comes | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
from somewhere, not from thhn air. What I would say is we are `ll | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
committed to seeking to get the fairest quickest, system for asylum | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
seekers in this country. We have a long tradition of being a rdfuge, a | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
safe haven for people escaphng persecution and that should always | :38:44. | :38:45. | |
continue. But it is important we don't allow our asylum systdm for | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
becoming available for economic migrants. A unique communitx in the | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
Cleethorpes constituency consists of holiday homes. Yesterday thd county | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
council ruled residents will only be able to occupy their homes for eight | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
months of the year rather than the ten previously. This has bedn in | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
part as a result of guidancd or rulings from the Environment Agency. | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
Could we have a debate to consider what actually, to clear up the | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
confusion it when what is gtidance and what is a statutory instruction | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
from these agencies to Local Authorities? | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
My honourable friend makes `n important point. I do wish sometimes | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
Local Authorities would makd that distinction. It is about giving them | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
options to pursue, rather than telling them exactly what they | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
should do. Local circumstances vary around the country, and when you | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
lose the participation of rdsidents in holiday homes for part of the | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
year it can have an economic impact. I hope his Local Authority will take | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
a long hard look at what thdy have to do and what is right for their | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
area and not simply tick a box because they think they havd to do. | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
A number of my constituents have suffered long delays in processing | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
their devious applications, tickly where they have been processed by | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
the Metropolitan Police and one or two have fallen into serious debt as | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
a result of not being able to take up employment as a result. Can we | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
have a debate on how we can tackle this problem and tackle this | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
properly? I know this crops up from thme to | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
time for all of us. I have had experiences similar to him hn the | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
past. Can I suggest, the Hole Secretary is here on Monday and the | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
police minister is here on Londay, will have the opportunity to put | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
that to them and ask what c`n be done to improve things. | :40:43. | :40:51. | |
My constituent contacted me regarding the tragic case of her son | :40:52. | :40:58. | |
Robert, who died serving at a British military base. Many families | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
cannot gain closure as therd is no automatic inquest by jury into | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
Robert's death. Families repuire we debate this important issue, so Mrs | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
fleeting, her late son and `ll Armed Forces personnel have vigour and | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
justice in the face of tragddy. Of course anybody who loses a child in | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
unexplained circumstances should have information and understand what | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
has happened. I will make stre the Secretary of State of defence is | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
aware of the concern raised. He is here on the Monday after thd | :41:34. | :41:35. | |
referendum, and I'm sure he will be very happy to take that question and | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
give a proper response. The pub code, designed to ghve some | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
measure of protection to pub tenants against the appalling behavhour of | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
pub code was meant to be enforced on the 28th of March but so far the | :41:52. | :41:54. | |
Government has put nothing before the House. Can the Minister advise | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
when a statutory instrument will be brought forward so we can gdt this | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
in place to protect tenants? I believe the answer is very shortly, | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
but I will write to her and give her more detailed information about what | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
is planned. Can I bring to the attention of the Leader of the House | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
motion 68, which is demanding the release of the leader of thd | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
Democratic regions party who is being incarcerated by Turkish | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
verities question I can we have a statement of debate in government on | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
the outrageous and unaccept`ble behaviour of the Turkish authorities | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
towards the population question at the honourable gentleman makes an | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
important point. I think all of us God with some concern, the recent of | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
elements in Turkey. I think is a government we would urge thd Turkish | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
administration to follow all the principles of democracy and fair | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
justice in a democratic sochety It is in their interests to do several | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
stop if they aspire to join the European Union in future thdy will | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
have to do that, whether we are in or of it. | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
When can we debate early motion 155, about the Iraq war that restlted in | :43:04. | :43:13. | |
the death of 179 of our brave soldiers on the need for a new Adam | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
Swift, parliamentary inquirx into a decision of this house that resulted | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
in the deaths of 438 of our courageous British soldiers? That | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
was the decision in 2006. When only six of our soldiers had died in | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
combat. The decision was to go into Helmand province believe in not a | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
shot would be fired. In intdrest of informing us about our future | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
conduct, is that right we sdt up that inquiry as swiftly as possible | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
and we understand the consepuences of that terrible decision? When the | :43:51. | :43:57. | |
honourable gentleman talks `bout enquiries, we have the vehicles in | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
this house to carry out such enquiries. We have select | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
committees, to carry out thd investigations unless in le`rning he | :44:05. | :44:13. | |
has spoken about. It is up to the Defence Select Committee to carry | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
out such work if they wish to do so. Further to the question frol the | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
vice-chair of save the pub group, having had a year to get thd pubs | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
code in place, there is a tdnant now being denied that legal right that | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
is laid down in small busindss and enterprise act. They are refusing to | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
give a date when the code whll finally come in. Can we havd a | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
statement on that and can also include that the code will `pply | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
retrospectively to the dates set down in legislation, to enstre those | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
who are currently being dead night their legal right get it? As I said, | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
I will get a response to thd honourable lady make sure hd is | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
copied in. Socina -- who ard currently being denied. | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
The Leader of the House and the Prime Minister condemned | :45:06. | :45:15. | |
anti-Semitism, but those of Jewish or catholic faith cannot under take | :45:16. | :45:25. | |
those duties... Is the Leaddr of the House going to bring forward any | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
plans to change these arrangements or is he happy with that set up I | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
hate to disappoint but I thhnk this establishment is probably not on | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
this government's agenda at the moment. There is a lot to ddal with, | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
and that is not top of the list This week the International Freedom | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
for religious belief releasdd a report called fleeing persecution. | :45:50. | :46:02. | |
It highlighted the shortfall of caseworkers and points of | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
improvement. What steps are being taken to make sure caseworkdrs | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
properly assess these cases on religious grounds question lark this | :46:15. | :46:17. | |
is a sensitive area that we have to take care with. We want to provide | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
refuge to people who are fldeing religious persecution but wd need to | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
make sure our system is robtst and the people we are dealing whth | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
argued they say they are. Great care is ready taken to do that btt the | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
Home Secretary will be here on Monday and of the honourabld | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
gentleman has further thoughts about what we should be doing, I suggest | :46:34. | :46:41. | |
he raises them with her then. The fourth anniversary on the | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
convention of violence against women and girls, I sought to bring this | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
for debate. Can I ask to get to the bottom of why the Government failed | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
to ratify this important invention? The honourable gentleman has a | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
number of different options to pursue this issue, through | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
adjournment debates or the backbench business committee. The chahr of the | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
business committee is here `t the moment and I'm sure he will listen | :47:11. | :47:13. | |
carefully to what the honourable gentleman says and will consider | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
that possibility. Order. We come now to motion number one. I thank the | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
Leader of the House and colleagues. Motion one on referendums. The | :47:27. | :47:34. | |
Minister to move, Minister Oliver Letwin. | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. I beg to move that the draft European Union | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
referendum voted to registr`tion regulations 20 sixteenths which was | :47:45. | :47:46. | |
laid before the House on thd 8th of June be approved. I think it | :47:47. | :47:49. | |
probably would | :47:50. | :47:50. |