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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Peter Bottomley: I am not trying to make a party point about the three organisations with acronyms, given that LINks did not follow CHCs, because something else came in between. However, the LINks decision has not worked. We recognise that the hon. Member for Wyre Forest has done very well, but in most places one cannot get ordinary people to make the LINks system work as well as the CHCs did. Will the...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Peter Bottomley: It has been interesting to listen to today's speeches and some from yesterday also repay reading. I would particularly like to commend the speech of the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), which showed what a model Member of Parliament can cover in not that many minutes after 17 years in Parliament. It was an inspiring speech, which I commend to anyone elected to this Parliament...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Peter Bottomley: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it be possible to have the extra electrons that have been added to the Secretary of State taken away so that he can become less negative and more neutral? That is the answer to his question, by the way.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: MPs' Expenses and Allowances (4 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: In joining hon. Members in thanking Sir Christopher and his colleagues, may I ask the Leader of the House please to reconsider her answer to the question on a "take note" debate? There are various issues that many people would like to discuss. Two that I can think of are, first, whether allowances could be set for a Parliament and not changed each year, as the report has recommended, and,...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 8 — Special Advisers code (3 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: That was 12 years ago. At the time, what was the proper way for people to raise that issue and say that the situation was either ineffective or improper, or both?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Could the Deputy Leader of the House confirm that we are talking about an independent body that will be supervised by the members of the Committee that we are discussing and that it would be open to them not to change, or indeed to change, any recommendations that Kelly makes?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: I am not sure who is advising the Leader of the House or the House authorities, but can we have an assurance—if not now, in a written statement later—that what would be required of an employer elsewhere in terms of the interests of the staff will be fulfilled here?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Yes must be the House's response to what you have said. That might not be a point of order under this motion, but to make a point of order to the occupant of the Speaker's Chair about the salary of the chairman of the board is probably covered, because it is part of the arrangements for the salary of the chairman of IPSA, which is in the hands of...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order to use the word "tainted" about someone who takes on a position of responsibility in a party in Parliament?

Opposition Day: Business without Debate — Parliamentary Election Rules (27 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I did not want to interrupt the passage of this motion, which I think is an elegant solution to a problem, but I do want to draw attention to paragraph 10 of the protocol on this matter. I hope that it will be noted that if the matter were to come up in future, it would be better to allow for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to observe...

English Libel Law (Parliamentary Proceedings) — [Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] (21 Oct 2009)

Peter Bottomley: I do not think that this is a libel case. Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be helpful if Trafigura spelled out what was the subsequent court action for which the injunction and super-injunction were contemplated?

English Libel Law (Parliamentary Proceedings) — [Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] (21 Oct 2009)

Peter Bottomley: My hon. Friend is making his point reasonably, but it is worth pointing out that the PEN and Index on Censorship briefing, which is available today, but which he may not have seen, gives a full chronology. It is not clear exactly what court issues still had to be determined, other than the injunction itself.

English Libel Law (Parliamentary Proceedings) — [Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] (21 Oct 2009)

Peter Bottomley: By way of a declaration of fact, I should say that I have had four successful claims against newspapers for libel, but that was in cases where what was said was untrue, damaging and not privileged. As I understand it, there is not really a question of whether what is in the Minton report is untrue. To say that hydrogen sulphide in low concentrations is easily detectable, but that at high...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Will the hon. Gentleman refresh the House's memory on the time scale the ombudsman had in mind and on how much of that time is gone? While I am intervening, may I put it on the record that although I am an Equitable policyholder I would give any compensation, were I to get any, to some good cause?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (14 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Carter-Ruck, experts in reputation management, are reported as saying that their original injunction gave them the power to prevent what was said in Parliament from being reported. No court should grant such an order and I intend to report the solicitors to the Law Society for asking for the injunction. Will the Prime Minister see whether it is possible that any court that grants a secret...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Sale of Government Assets (12 Oct 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Columns 586 to 588 in Hansard on 9 July 1987 contain the acceptance by the Labour spokesman that the Dartford bridge—effectively the first privately funded, operated, designed and built public works—would, as I said as Minister in the previous column, have tolls for 15 to 20 years. How can we have trust in Parliament if both sides accept something and then one side says, "We'll...

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons (20 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: The Minister confirms that since another sub-paragraph was included, paragraph (1)(d) has become (1)(e), and I think that is what she is referring to. Does she agree that it would have been slightly more elegant if the Committee had been allowed to elect its own Chairman?

Prayers: Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill (12 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Again, the Minister may or may not know the answer to this question off the cuff, and I do not mind getting a letter later. Will that power apply retrospectively if a company already has the word "co-operative" in its title and it is challenged as being misleading?

Prayers: Swine Flu Update (12 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: Will the Secretary of State consider preparing for the issue of a written statement on Monday? It could answer some of the detailed questions to which I am not sure the House has heard the answers this morning. What is the telephone number, either now or then, that someone should ring if they believe that someone in their household might have one of these respiratory conditions?

Prayers: Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill (12 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: If the Bill reaches the other place, perhaps it might be possible to unpack in public what the words "the Treasury" mean. Otherwise, perhaps the Minister could write to me. I accept his point, but do those words mean that an official can do it or is a Minister required to do it? That would be useful information to have at some stage.