14/07/2016 Business Questions

future are enormous and I look forward to being able to promote UK

PLC in the world. ! THE SPEAKER: Order, business

question, Mr Paul Flynn. Will the Leader of the House give us

the business for next week? The Leader of the House, Mr Chris

Grayling. Mr Speaker, the business for next week on mopped 18th July

we'll have a debate on the motion relating to the UK's nuclear

deterrent. On Tuesday 19th July will be the second reading of the higher

education and research bill. On Wednesday, 20th July there will be

an Opposition Day on a motion to be announced on Thursday, 21st July,

there will be a debate on a motion relating to a ban on manufacture,

sale and possession and use of snares. Following that, I'm sure

everybody will be delighted to hear, a general debate on matters to be

raised before a forthcoming adjournment. Then we will begin the

summer recess, turning on Monday, 5th September, when were visional

business includes, on the Monday of that week, the remaining stage of

the Finance Bill. That will be the first day.

When can we have a debate on re-Sid vichl. This is a problem that hasn't

been reduced by any Government in the past 43 years -- recidivism. And

the cycle of repeated offending goes on and on. It is now affecting

politics. Yesterday's Prime Minister committed political suicide by

giving in to his party and ordering a referendum that guaranteed the

destruction of his Premiership. Are we seeing the same thing repeated

today? The MP for Uxbridge might have made a perfectly adequate

Minister for the import of second-hand water Cannon. But he's

now the Foreign Secretary. Eespecially for his services to

europhobia. The member has been sacked twice from previous jobs for

not telling the truth. He's insulted the President of the United States.

He's attacked people from all parts of the world from Liverpool, from

pappia new Guinea. I mean does these qualities mean that he's going to be

see prepare in the area where the qualities of diplomacy and

truthfulness are in demand. The member for North So Somerset is

returning to the Government -- for North Somerset is returning to the

Government without any explanation of why he was disgraced and sacked

from his previous appointment. Sir Philip Moyers, in the year he was

sacked was the independent advisor on ministerial conduct, said the

member should have been investigated for what happened at the Ministry of

Defence. The Prime Minister refused to refer the case to the advisor,

and Sir Philip resigned. What the member had was absolution

by resignation. And I believe that means, and it is a matter of concern

to the Leader of the House because it is his responsibility, that that

return of the member for North Somerset to the Cabinet is a degrow

gauges of the probity of this House and the advances made in previous

government. We are seeing a Government being created, not for

the best interests of the country but in order to deal with the

perpetual internal war in the Conservative Party between

Europhiles and europhobes. Chilcot has given its verdict and it

is a thunderous verdict of guilty, not just to one man, but to this

House, to the past Government, to the Opposition. And to three select

committees of this House. We are guilty and we are judged to be

guilty of commanding our valiant troops into a vain, avoidable war.

The leader is uniquely qualified and responsible for answering the

charge. My honourable friend, the member for Islington North has

apologised on behalf of the Labour Party. 179 of our gallant British

soldiers died. Their loved ones have a wound of grief that will never

heal. 3,000 were maimed in body and mind. Uncounted Iraqis were killed.

And made homeless or exiled. The cycle of terrorism continues to this

day. All because of of an act of folly, incompetence, vanity in this

House. Will the Leader of the House take his responsibility for this,

because it is his job to do it and to arrange a formal apology,

preferably face-to-face with the relatives of the bereaved and the

surviving jemplted this is the least a grateful nation can do to those we

have grievously wronged. Snril come back to that point in a moment, I

should start by congratulating, we both still here, he is in his third

week in a job. He has not acquired a new job. He may have a new job to

shadow. A third job. If the Labour Party front bench was a football

team, it would have Paul Flynn in goal, defence and attack, lots of

people on left wing, nobody willing to play on the right and endless own

goals. Hear, hear. He talks, Mr, speaker, about the

Foreign Secretary. I'm not going to take any lessons at all from a party

that has the honourable member honourable member for Islington

South and Finsbury at its Shadow Foreign Secretary. Absolutely. What

we have in those benches Mr Speaker is oar party that is not fit to be

in Opposition, let alone to be fit in as an alternative Government to

this country. We have heard over the months from people who hold senior

positions on those benches, views that undermine our Armed Forces, our

defences and are wholly unaligned with the national interests of this

country. Now, he made reference to matters reprieted to propriety. I

remind him, he has raised this at business questions before, from the

backbench, if he has complaints by any member of the House there are

channels to pursue them. He has not done so. He talks about internal

war. Mr Speaker, this week of all weeks, for a Labour politician to

talk about internal war in a political party, they have been

trying again and again and again to get rid of their leader, they just

can't do it. He is on the ballot paper. He will probably be winning

again and they will be resigning all year. A complete shambles, a

complete disgrace to the party politically, I can take no lessons

from them about internal wars. He mentioned Chilcot and he tells me it

is my responsible to answer the charges. Can I simply remind him

that it was a Labour Prime Minister who stood in this House and

explained to this House why we should support him and his decision

to go to war in Iraq. It was a Labour Prime Minister. It is for the

Labour Party to explain itself, not for us as the op significant at the

time. Hear, hear. -- Opposition at the time.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, last weekend I attended, together with a group of

members from across the House, a rally for the national council for

resistance in Iran. Unfortunately we have to go to Paris to meet those

good people and the very brave leader. Why can we not have a

position where with we can issue an invitation to the leader of the

resistance to come to this country, so we can help free Iran from the

shackles of the mullahs? Well, Mr Speaker my honourable

friend makes a point about which I know he believes passionatedly. I'm

sure the new Foreign Secretary will have heard his comments, and will

want it give careful thought to the issue he raises. Can I also just say

to him, as the deputy chair, we have the chair of the backbench committee

here, can I thank him for returning the tradition of a prerecess

adjournment debate. It is something this House values and I'm glad they

have done it. Can I thank the Leader of the House

for announcing next week's business. The night and the morning of the

long silver spoons a fwhags gripped to the TV, what would Grayling yet,

with a the question that perplexed the nation? The man that designed

and fashioned the new Prime Minister's leadership coronation

would surely get a top jo, but he is back here with us this morning, Mr

Speaker and a nation can only breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Mr Speaker, we thought the new Prime Minister didn't have a sense of

humour. She has only gone and proven that one totally wrong by ape

pointing the right honourable member for Uxbridge as the Foreign

Secretary, you could almost have heard the gulfs of laughter from

Parliament and ambassadors last night as the news got around that

Boris was in charge of the UK's foreign poll sane indeed MI6.

Perhaps the Leader can tell us a little bit about how this new

restructured Government is going to work? When will we see the new

departmental questions and how is this going to come together? Isn't

it ironic that the first motion this new Prime Minister will put to this

House is for a new generation of weapons of mass destruction on

Monday, and that will be opposed by myself and my honourable friends

rows salutely and we hope the Labour Party will join Usmanov. When this

country is facing the disaster of Brexit and further austerity, in

what world is it right to spend billions and billions on new nuclear

weapons and rearmament? At what point Mr Speaker, do they

fail to meet their obligations as the official opposition is clearly

set out, can we have a debate about what is expected from positions and

maybe the lead of the house will support a rearrangement of the

furniture so this government and he can experience some real opposition?

Mr Speaker, I am slyly surprised that he talks about the role of

leader of the house of not being a top job. Because of course, he is

the SNP equivalent. So I take it he is a junior member of his front

bench team. On the issue of department or questions, the

government is in the middle of restructuring and we will make

further information available shortly. Household authorities will

set out a schedule for questions in this house, it will be in place for

the start of the sitting in session of September. Next week is a fairly

routine collection of questions, I don't think there will be any need

of change there. He and his party have been very clear about their

view on this. I am delighted to say that I am sure a large number of

members on the Labour benches will be supporting us on Monday and I am

grateful for that support. The thing that puzzles me, the Scottish

National party reposed to Trident. But are they arguing that their

facility should be transferred south of the border? Are they suggesting

that? The facilities in Scotland, should they be transferred south of

the border, are they suggesting that or not? I suspect a lot of people

who work in the nuclear sector in Scotland who support those

submarines who will be deeply distressed if their jobs disappear.

Mr Speaker, on the question of the Labour front bench, that is an issue

we can agree on. It is an extraordinary situation, we have

multitasking and people who resigned from the Labour front bench 26 years

ago making a comeback as he has done. Over the next few weeks, will

they be able to get it back together again or will it continue month

after month? Thank you Mr Speaker, one of the reasons many people voted

for Brexit was they believed it would give this country and our

communities more opportunity to change their own futures. But we

have a debate on regional strategy for transport infrastructure to sit

alongside other provisions such as health and education? So that any

additional housing can be sustainable? She has made a similar

point before and she feels strongly about the devolution of powers to

the regions. I am sure there will be more opportunity for that to take

place and there will be more powers heading for Scotland as well I

expect, as well as for Wales and Northern Ireland. She makes an

important point, the Secretary of State will be here on Monday and it

is something she may want to bring to the floor of the house in the

debate. Can I thank the honourable member for Harrow East for filling

in for me in the last two weeks. Two weeks ago I visited the song, which

seemed like the Sea of tranquillity compare to this place. We of course

had the opening of the A-1 in Gateshead, which brought immense

calm to the town centre at Gateshead and removing traffic, we are

grateful for that. Could the leader of the house please confirm that we

will have Thursday the 8th of September for backbench business? If

we are going to put any business on that day, we need to consider that

do it next Tuesday and without that confirmation, we won't be able to do

so. I welcome him back to his place, we have missed him in the last of

weeks. I am delighted by the opening of that road. Tenures ago, I was

Shadow Transport Secretary and I visited sites around the country,

areas with industrial development. But the Central transport projects

were not happening. Everywhere I go, they are being built and developed.

The A-1 is one of them and it will bring bonuses to the north-east. A

sign that we care about those areas that are important to this country

and the north-east. That date in September, I will look at that, we

have only planned business up to the first day back but I will give

careful thought to whether we can accommodate him on that matter. Can

the leader of the house Fach for whoever will be the minister

responsible, unlikely to be me, about the status of the green belt?

My constituency faces a planning application to build 500 houses on

the green belt in that village. My constituency faces similar proposals

on the green belt, the whole point of having the green belt is it

should be immune from house-building. My constituents

don't trust Bradford Council to look after their interests. They look to

the government to make sure they are protected, can we have a statement

on the protection of the green belt? I am sorry he is so pessimistic

about his prospects for the reshuffle. We would all value his

contributions if he appeared at this dispatch box. What I would say is

that Monday is the opportunity for those questions and for his

constituents. He is a powerful advocate for Yorkshire. Has the

leader had a request to provide government time for the fantastic

contribution the leisure industry makes to the UK economy. Such a

debate would allow government ministers to set out how UK

manufacturers will fulfil demand for major new infrastructure. A

transcontinental network is it wise to allow our new Foreign Secretary

to travel cheaply and with low environmental impact and in the

style he is accustomed to around the world? It is an interesting idea but

I think we will be investing in infrastructure more used for cars,

trains and buses. The outgoing Chancellor was a quick proponent,

great proponent of the Northern Powerhouse, that initiative is vital

to constituency such as my own, can we have an early debate on how new

ministers will develop the northern powerhouse concept? I have to say

the new Chancellor will be taking questions on Tuesday. What I say to

my honourable friend is that there isn't a question of change of focus

on the development we have for the northern part of the country and

encouraging new growth and investment. That will remain a new

priority for the government and we will see the progress we have made

continue. I have a private constituent currently detained, she

suffers ill health and doesn't feel her health concerns are being

addressed and there is evidence to corroborate this. A recent report

from the National Audit Office is 35% of recommendation from the Chief

Inspector of prisons are yet to be implemented. Can be currently do the

house urged an urgent debate for this to be addressed? I don't know

about the individual constituency case and I am sure she will raise

that with the new Home Secretary. There are lessons to be learned from

the inspections to be carried out in places like Yale 's Wood. We need to

detain people decently but we was those who have a serious question

over their right to be in the country and that is right and

proper. Last night, GHA coaches in the constituency of Wrexham which

has two depot in my constituency went into Administration with the

possible loss of three or 400 jobs. I would be grateful if the leader of

the house could encourage the new secretary of state to liaise with

the Minister for transport to see what support can be given to those

who may be facing redundancy at this time? I am sorry to hear what must

be difficult and distressing news for her constituents and those in

the next constituency in Wrexham. All our good wishes go out to those

affected. One always hopes that when a business is put into

Administration that it can be saved. The Department for Work and Pensions

the business departments and the Welsh office will do everything they

can to provide appropriate support where they are able to do so. Life

in Iraq, imagine if your phone rings and the question is are you a

Christian and is the second one, are you in the police, yes you are. This

is what happened to a man and his family, he was a policeman in

northern Baghdad and they fled the next day. No one is safe from this

in a row, murdering the Christian faith in Iraq is a reality for many.

Would the leader of the house agreed to a statement on this matter as

soon as possible? Can I start by saying that I have every sympathy

with the issue that the honourable gentleman raises. The tragedy is

that parts of the Middle East used to be beacons of stability with

religions living side by side. They had done so for hundreds of years,

some of the persecution of the Christian faith by extremists is

absolutely unacceptable and the tragedy. I know that his comments

will have been listened to by the new Foreign Secretary. It is

something that as a government we will continue to encourage an end to

this persecution. We face extraordinary difficult security

situation is there and we will do our best. As the government prepares

to negotiate Brexit which will quite rightly secure the future of EU

nationals in the UK and UK citizens living abroad. Does the leader of

the house agreed that it is an opportunity to settle the issues of

foreign nationals working in universe did who have been

disconnected in the conditions for many years. -- University. Can we

have a statement from the government that this will be dealt with in

Brexit negotiations. It would be satisfying on the EU -- by leaving

the EU that we have not been able to address while being within the EU.

He has raised this issue with me before in business questions. The

Foreign Office continues to make representations on this with the

Italian government. It should remain unacceptable for discrimination of

this kind to take place. Last week this house debated claims made by

the vote leave campaign that an extra ?350 million would be

available for the NHS if we left the EU. The problem with that debate is

that none of the honourable members who made that claim attended the

house to answer for their claims. Can we have that debate again please

but can those members associated with that claim actually attend and

answer for their actions? Mr Speaker, it is the job of the

government to respond in this house. People who stand at this dispatch

box speaker for this government, they don't speak for either side of

the referendum debate. The growing concerns in childhood obesity, can

we have a statement on what the government is going to do to tackle

the problem and if it will include a childhood obesity strategy? It is

taking place on the Department of Health to find such a strategy. I

also hope the decision we took to introduce a sugar tax in the budget

will help improve the situation with childhood obesity. I am delighted

the leader of the house is still here but we know that soon one of

the great offices of state will undoubtedly be his. In the meantime,

can we congratulate through him, the Prime Minister on her choices and

the quality of her sackings and dismissals from government over the

last 24 hours. We can agree that on a cross-party basis. The new

secretaries of state, honourable members for Alton price, shall be is

serious politicians have their own departments of State or will they be

answering to the new Foreign Secretary? Mr Speaker, I can simply

say to the honourable gentleman that of course, these new secretaries of

state will be accountable to this house in the usual way. In the head

of Department, and the department that will take us out of the

European Union, that has been clearly and expressly designed by

the new Prime Minister to be a separate department. That Secretary

of State will be accountable in the normal way. Mr Speaker, will the

government be making a statement on the implications of select

committees in this house of any changes in the organisational

structure of government? This is also something we will have

to address probably during the September fortnight. As new

Government departments are established or reshaped or renamed,

so the Select Committee structure will have to change and that is

something we will address, I think over the course of the next few

days, in preparation for us to be able to either rename or appoint new

members to those Select Committees once rereturn over the summer

recess. Thank you, Mr speaker, I for one am extremely pleased to see the

Leader of the House in his position, because in April I advised him that

a primary school in in my constituency with their powerteam

had won second place in the Jaguar Formula One race, demonstrating the

great capabilities of stem teaching in race. Well, I bring the looed of

the House good news. They won the national Championship. So, could we

have a statement from the Leader of the House of his support and

congratulations to the primary school's power team for their great

success in demonstrating the importance of stem teaching across

the UK, and before I sit down, can I just on behalf of myself, the First

Minister of Wales, my Assembly Member Carwyn Jones and the leader

of our local authority, the Armed Forces champion, say that in our

view, the Labour Party strongly supports our Armed Forces.

Well, first of all Mr Speaker on that last point I agree with her.

I'm grateful for what she says. There are those within the Labour

Party who don't, she knows that, or who have misgivings about the way

our Armed Forces work, many sit on the frerge r front bench but across

the ranks of the backbenches there are as many committed to our Armed

Forces. Can I say I'm able to respond on the

latest success. I remember her asking the question, and me saying

what a great achievement it was, to win a national prize is excel in.

They must be enormously proud. I'm sure everyone on all sides of the

House wish to send their congratulations to the school. She

has every reason to be proud of her young constituents.

Mr Speaker, death toll from recent protests in Indian-held Kashmir

continues to grow with hundreds injured in the violence, mostly

young people. Many face losing their sight after being blippeded by

shotgun pellets, given the widespread concern about the

situation of Kashmir in the UK, can we have an urgent debate on the

current violence? Well, Mr Speaker, of course, the reports we have had

in this country of the disturbances there of the injuries and of the

deaths are very worrying and concerning. And, to so many of the

Kashmiri community in this country, they will be a malter of very grave

concerning indeed. Of course, the Government will continue, as it

always does, to provide support, encouragement and pressure on

governments where they have this kind of disturbance taking place,

this kind of ongoing trouble we'll continue to do everything we can to

facilitate peace in what is a troubled part of the Asian

subcontinent. Mr Speaker, earlier when the Leader

of the House was talking about Chilcot he said the issue of why we

went it war in Iraq is for the Labour Party to explain, not us, but

this is not entirely true because the Government of which he is a part

is refusing to release could havep dense advice, Whitehall officials

gave to Gordon Brown about the remit of the inquiry and this advice made

it impossible for Sir John Chilcot to rule on whether the 2003 war was

illegal. The Government's refusal flies in the face aven information

tribunal ruling, ordering the materials released and it means that

the public can't see what options were considered, when deciding on

the nature and scope of the inquiry when it was established in 2009. Can

we have a statement about the reasons for the refusals to release

this advice. Here, here. Well, the one thing I would say, we can see it

sitting there, the one thing that cannot be said about the Chilcot

Inquiry is it was not ex-White Housive. What we have seen emerge

over the past couple of weeks, is a really detailed piece of work about

what happened, lessons learned, mistakes that were made and I think

we should be grateful to Sir John for the work he has done. I don't

think there is any shortage of evidence about what took place.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Could we have a debate on four-lane running of

motorways without a hard shoulders following the excellent report of

the Transport Select Committee a few weeks ago. I've recently had some of

this motorway, I welcome the investment put in my constituency

and I agree with the safety concerns they have, especially as we are

about to have at least 20 miles more in Staffordshire in the coming

years. Well, Mr Speaker, of course, I

absolutely understand the point my honourable friend is making,

four-lane running can make a real difference on our motorways

particularly given the fact that cars are so much more reliable today

than they were a generation ago but I am aware of the concerns raised by

the committee. The Government will respond to that report in due

course, and of course will always want to put safety right at the

forefront of its consideration. Mr Speaker, may we have a debate on

Islamic extremism in UK prisons after the recent report This

worrying report says the national offender management service doesn't

have a coherent strategy to deal with this threat. Well, Mr Speaker,

I'll certainly make sure that the new Justice Secretary is aware of

the concerns he has raised. It is an issue that I tracked closely myself

when I was Justice Secretary. I looked very hard, talked to people

in the frontline, made some significance changes, I believe to

the way we handled Islamic extremists in our prisons but

clearly this is something we need to keep a continual watch over to make

sure that all lessons are learned, that the recommendations in that

report are studied very carefully, and lessoned learned from it as well

and I'm sure the Justice Department will do that.

Thank you Mr Speaker, both Corby and Kingscliff in my constituency are

suffering at the moment as a result of Post Office branch closures, can

we have a debate next week on the importance of getting alternative

arrangements in place before branches are closed and would the

Leader of the House join me in calling on the Post Office Limited

in sorting out this mess as a matter of priority. My honourable friend

makes an important point and I join him in expressing the hope that the

Post Office will be very careful and proactive in the way it approaches

closures in looking for places with alternative provision can be made,

particularly from an older generation who want to depend on

local Post Offices. I'm sure the leadership of the Post Office will

have heard his comments today and will want it take note.

-- to take note. Mr Speaker, the Government has recently closed a

consultation on reforms of the Civil Service compensation scheme which

has seen significant reforms, claimed by the Government to be fair

and affordable in the long-term. Well we know what the Government's

track record on pensions is like but can we have a debate on this, given

I have a constituent, Libby can I who transferred within the Civil

Service from Northern Ireland with Scotland with 11 years' service and

was told she could not transfer, losing ?25,000. Can I also ask the

minister of the Cabinet Office, whoever that will be, to carry out

an impact assessment and publish its findings and also respond to the

letter I sent to him some weeks ago? Well, Mr Speaker, I clearly don't

know the detail of the case concerned, if she has written to the

Cabinet Office I will ask for that to be chased up. On pensions, I

reminder it is us who reeled the state pension attorneyings and

created the triple lock guarantee, doing more for our pensions than

previous Governments for a very long time.

Mr Speaker, on Monday frshgts Despatch Box, the BWP secretary said

there is a a very real systemic risk with defined benefit schemes and we

need to look at this. I think he is right. 5,000 of the 6,000 defined

benefit schemes in the UK are in deficit. The pensions regulator has

raised concerns of additional risks to these schemes following the vote

to leave the UK. We are talking about real risk to pension fund

members, can we have a debate on Government time on this crucial

issue? Well there is no doubt that defined benefit schemes face

enormous pressures because, most fundamentally to the change of life

span that has taken place over the last few decades. It is a good thing

we are living longer t makes it much more difficult to fund a pension

fund through what is vast and long period of retirement than previously

would have been the ka.s he makes an important point. Something I know

the Department of work and pensions monitors carefully and he will no

doubt take advantage of the opportunities in this House early in

oral questions or on the floor of the House from the aGeoff Hoonment

debate to raise this issue directly with ministers.

Ful Public health England have recently reported a dramatic rise

incidents of sexually tramsmitted diseases in the UK since 2012. These

figures should set alarm bells ringing about the availability of

sexual whaelt services and the strong link between poor sexual

health and higher levels of deprivation. Can we have an urgent

debate in Government time on the provision of sexual health services

and investment in prevention to begin to address this growing health

crisis? One of the reasons that we devolved be responsibility for

public health to local authorities is that it provides the opportunity

for them to put in place tailored decisions, tailored approaches to

suit the needs of their local communities. I think, actually, wise

and smart councils can address very well now, precisely the kind of

problem she's talking about. Mr Speaker, yesterday during the

adjournment debate, the honourable member for Dundee West made an

excellent case for a deal for the Tee cities area, and the minister

was positive in response for that. Stirling also has an application for

a city deal. Can the Government make a decision on that, and the time

scales, given the recent Brexit decision? I think city deals are a

positive thing and the Secretary of State will be here on Monday for

Select Committee for Communities and Local Government questions. He has

been very heavily involved in the process of city deals. Of course, it

is worth just remembering that, of course, if Scotland were independent

from the United Kingdom, there would be no city deals.

Mr Brennan. Does the news as well as sacking the Justice Minister,

Chancellor, and the kaedgecation secretary. Would this be a good

opportunity on a debate on teaching geography and classics. It I would a

lout Leader of the House to allow the difference about fas lane and

the appointment of the Foreign Secretary must be the most

spectacular since Caliugula appointed a horse.

Well I'm still that the Scottish National Party would struggle around

the communities adjoining the basin of fas lain lane to convince them

that it is a jolly good idea to lose that facility somewhere else. It

makes no sense at all. In terms of the learning of classics one thing I

will remind him, one thing I will remind him, there are more than 1

million children being educated in good and excellent schools more than

there were in 2010, something I'm very proud of.

Mr Speaker, we now have a Prime Minister, who as Home Secretary led

the charge on scrapping the human rights act. People will be

concerned, now, given her promotion, that this assault on human rights

will continue, and possibility although a faster rate. Can we have

a debate on the matter which would be a chance for the new Cabinet to

clearly spell out their intention s? Clearly the honourable lady didn't

listen to her speech when she launched our campaign when she said

she was not currently planning to pursue that option.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, can we have a debate regarding the powers of

Trading Standards officers, in particular to deal with unscrupulous

builders? I have had a number of cases now where people have been

ripped off. Well, Mr speaker, I know that this

is a matter of concern that has happened on one or two occasions in

my constituency. Certainly I believe trading standards officers have the

powers to intervene but if he has specific ideas about where those

powers could and would be strengthened, if he wants to right

to me, I'll pass those to the appropriate minister.

Was the honourable lady present at the start? No.

In that case, I'm afraid the honourable lady's words of wisdom,

which I don't doubt will be just that, will have to be put into

storage and used on another occasion, to which occasion we all

look forward with bated breath and beads of sweat upon our foreheads in

eager anticipation. Mr Speaker, at Westbourne House it is a hostel run

by Humber Care in my constituency and deals with people of a variety

of issues. When it was set up the Chief Executive decided not to

consult with the local community and since then, despite effort - and he

also didn't tell me about what was happening - since then, despite the

good efforts of the police and frontline staff in the hostel there

have been ongoing problems with antisocial behaviour. I wonder

whether it would be possible to have a debate about the responsibilities

of people who hold office, Chief Executives of charities and

organisations, for when they take decisions which cause real problems

in local communities, because it seems very difficult to actually get

any action taken in cases like this? Well, Mr Speaker, the honourable

lady makes her point in a customary forthright way. I know this will be

a matter of great concern to her constituents. It is, of course,

essential that when fass I willities of this kind are established they

are established in the right place. I think all of us over the years

have discovered occasions when that has not happened. -- when facilities

like this are established. I will say to her, this is something that

will have to be dealt with by by the local authorities. I understand the

point she is making and she has made it very well. Mr Speaker n recent

weeks, Clydebank group has brought to my attention that request for

workplace to HMRC for those suffering from msyotheliomiia

condition, such as my constituents has reached over a year. Could we

seek a early conqueueing to workplace history question for those

suffering from life-threatening conditions and bring to the floor of

the house. I understand Howedes separately difficult it is for

people suffering from this horrible condition. What I would say it him

the new Chancellor will be here on Tuesday and I would encourage him to

come here and make that point, it is a very important one.

Can I draw his attention to early day motion 310 on civil servants

compensation scheme and government oppose all is to drastically cut

them, can we have a debate on government time on this issue as it

is affecting civil servant's morale. This is one of the difficult

challenges we have faced as a government in the last six years.

The fact is that the compensation schemes, ever since we took office

in 2010, they have been out of kilter with what would happen in the

private sector. There comes a point where we have a duty to the taxpayer

as well to have a system that is balanced and consistent with what

people would face in other employment. I am sure the whole

house agrees that the UK Government should support the families of

service personnel who have died while serving. A group of UK

military widows are prevented from receiving pensions if they were

married before April last year. How can we close this illogical and

deeply unjust loophole? I know this is a point she has raised before and

other members as well, I understand the point she makes. I will make

sure the Defence Secretary is aware of the concern she has raised this

morning and ask him to write to her. Mr Speaker, can we have a debate on

Cabinet appointments? It strikes me that despite insulting Boris, he has

tabled no written questions to the Foreign Office, no oral questions to

the Foreign Office and has only bothered to turn up for four SCO

statements, should we move to a situation where parliament approves

Cabinet appointments as we do in Holyrood than at the discretion of

the Prime Minister? There must be quite afraid of his appointment by

how much they are going on about it. Last week I asked a question to the

leader of the house about the House of Lords and I got the worst answer

I have received in this place to date. I can tell the honourable

member that is it quite an achievement, I did government

position was saying that we should have brought forward private members

bills. His government has refused to implement the recommendations,

therefore I will try again. Will the leader of the house and say whether

it is acceptable to have 26 members of the Church of England in the

House of Lords and be able to vote on issues that affect Scotland? I

will give the same answer again. It is not time to start reforming the

House of Lords, why have we had no private members bills, they talk

about the issues but they simply don't pursue them. Point of order,

Paula Sheriff. As a matter of record, in