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Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Hospital Services: Trafford (16 April 2013)

Graham Brady: I welcome the Minister’s undertaking to meet local Members to discuss these important matters and I endorse the comments made by the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) about the importance of a timely resolution. The longer this goes on, the greater the cost will be to local health services.

Tributes to Baroness Thatcher (10 April 2013)

Graham Brady: Thank you for your advice, Mr Speaker. We have had some warm and dignified tributes from both sides of the House, led admirably by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. I hope that we can now return to tributes in that spirit. Briefly, I want to pay tribute in three different ways. As chairman of the 1922 committee, I want to pay tribute on behalf of Conservative Back Benchers...

[Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] — backbench business — Post-2015 Development Agenda (21 March 2013)

Graham Brady: Order. Before I call the next speaker, it may be helpful to note that only three hon. Members now wish to participate before the wind-ups begin at 3.56 pm. The time pressure has abated a little, but Members should not feel obliged to fill the available time.

Business without Debate — Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill: Clause 1 — The Intelligence and Security Committee (7 March 2013)

Graham Brady: The right hon. Gentleman makes a valuable point. We are engaged in a process here. There has been a considerable amount of reform. The hon. Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick) alluded to the history: 25 years ago there was no oversight, then we got an oversight Committee and now we have a proposal to allow a parliamentary veto of its membership. Like him, I find it hard to believe that...

Business without Debate — Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill: Clause 1 — The Intelligence and Security Committee (7 March 2013)

Graham Brady: I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick). I am sure I have agreed with him on previous occasions, but I am not sure on what issues. I agree with the thrust of his remarks. Like him, I start by saying that I have the highest regard for those of our colleagues who currently serve on the Intelligence and Security Committee and those who have done so in the past. It...

Maritime Surveillance (7 February 2013)

Graham Brady: It is always advisable to use temperate language, especially in the Chamber. I am sure that Sir Gerald will wish to do so.

Maritime Surveillance (7 February 2013)

Graham Brady: Before I call Sir Gerald Howarth, I want to say that I hope the wind-ups will start at or by 4 o’clock.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (5 February 2013)

Graham Brady: The level of interest in this subject, and the respect that has been shown by Members on both sides of the debate, are strong arguments for more free votes to take place in the House. I am delighted to see the manner in which the debate is being conducted today. We have heard that this matter is not the highest priority facing the country at the moment, and I agree with that. We have also...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: High Speed Rail (28 January 2013)

Graham Brady: I warmly endorse the proposed station at Manchester airport, but may I also stress the importance of the point that compensation for those living close to the route should be not only generous but creative in ensuring that we can move as quickly as possible towards realising the new high-speed rail route?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 December 2012)

Graham Brady: The Prime Minister has rightly said that we are locked in a global economic race. Does he share my concern that having the highest aviation taxes in the world makes it harder for business to compete and increases the cost of living? Will he ask the Treasury to conduct a full review of whether aviation taxes cost Britain more than they bring in?

[Mr Graham Brady in the Chair] (6 December 2012)

Graham Brady: Order. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for keeping his remarks so brief. Given the large number of Members wishing to participate in the debate, I am going to reduce the time limit to five minutes. I apologise for that.

Backbench Business: Air Passenger Duty (1 November 2012)

Graham Brady: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Paul Goggins), with whom I share an interest in the importance of Manchester as a key driver of growth, jobs and prosperity in the north-west of England, particularly in the part of Manchester that we both represent. I am pleased to follow the good and cogent case he made about the importance of the airport and...

Backbench Business: Air Passenger Duty (1 November 2012)

Graham Brady: That is absolutely right. It is also important to note, as the hon. Member for Belfast East (Naomi Long) did, that the Government have recognised the strength of this argument, not just in general terms about levels of taxation applied to business but specifically in relation to APD. They understand that in the case of Northern Ireland competing against the Republic there was an unanswerable...

Backbench Business: Air Passenger Duty (1 November 2012)

Graham Brady: I do not always agree with the hon. Gentleman, but I am pleased to agree with him about that. This tax precisely targets investment and international trade, which are exactly the things that the United Kingdom needs to focus on if we are to grow our way out of the problems we face.

Backbench Business: Air Passenger Duty (1 November 2012)

Graham Brady: That is absolutely right. Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I hope we will not be competing internationally with Scotland in the near future, but if we are, I hope we have lower aviation duty. The regional effects—on Scotland and Northern Ireland, but also on airports in the north of England—are clear. There is a plain and unanswerable case. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Witham...

Building Regulations (Electricity and Gas) (6 September 2012)

Graham Brady: May I advise the Minister that I understand that the Chairman of the Select Committee would like a brief opportunity to respond at the end of the debate?

[Mr Graham Brady in the Chair] (6 September 2012)

Graham Brady: Order. I remind the Minister that we have only one minute left for the debate.

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 July 2012)

Graham Brady: I am delighted to follow the Chairman of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee. I share much of his analysis but arrive at the opposite conclusion. The Deputy Prime Minister builds his case on three broad themes. First, there is his claim about the manifesto commitments. It is clear, however, that the Conservative manifesto contained no commitment to legislate—the Prime...

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 July 2012)

Graham Brady: The hon. Lady is absolutely right. The case is compelling. Ministers really cannot have it both ways. Much of what has been said about the Bill, however, concerns not party commitments but calculations of party advantage. We spend too much time here pursuing party advantage. To do so in changing our constitution would be not just wrong but contemptible. Let me turn to the other parts of the...

House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 July 2012)

Graham Brady: The right hon. Gentleman should be patient. Let me turn to the most important pillar of the Deputy Prime Minister’s case: that those who legislate for the people should be chosen by the people. Many of the opponents of the Bill, on both sides of the House, reject that. They rightly point to the expertise of the upper House. They highlight the obvious truth that an elected or...