Results 1-20 of 2,981 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Nick Brown
- Business Before Questions: New Writ (21 Jul 2009) has video
Nick Brown: Object.
- Business of the House (20 Jul 2009) has video
Nick Brown: claimed to move the closure ( Standing Order No. 36).
- Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill: Clause 11 — Rates of alcoholic liquor duty (12 May 2009) has video
Nick Brown: claimed to move the closure ( Standing Order No. 36).
- Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill: Use of the Chamber (United Kingdom Youth Parliament) (16 Mar 2009)
Nick Brown: claimed to move the closure ( Standing Order No. 36).
- Orders of the Day: Data Protection and Freedom of Information (24 Nov 2008) has video
Nick Brown: Hear, hear.
- Business of the House (12 Nov 2008) has video
Nick Brown: rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put. Question put, That the Question be now put:— The House proceeded to a Division. Ms Dawn Butler and Mr. Dave Watts were appointed Tellers for the Ayes; but no Member being willing to act as Teller for the Noes, Mr. Deputy Speaker declared that the Ayes had it.
- Deferred Divisions: Banks and Banking (14 May 2008) has video
Nick Brown: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Given the proportions in the last vote, would it not be reasonable for this to be carried by acclaim rather than by a formal Division?
- Olympics and the North-East (10 Dec 2007)
Nick Brown: Mr. Speaker, you are presiding, Sir, over what I think is a pioneering parliamentary event. I believe that I am the first of the newly appointed regional Ministers to come to the Dispatch Box and respond to a debate under that portfolio. I am also responding under that of my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Olympics. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, South and East...
- Remploy Factory Closures (13 Jun 2007)
Nick Brown: It is a pleasure to participate and make a short contribution to this short and timely debate under your chairmanship, Mr. Caton. I have been a Member of this place for 25 years now, and occasionally one feels that there is a danger of being drawn into the establishment and into a complacent world of public administration. However, I have only to attend a debate and listen to my hon. Friend...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: It is a rare pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) in debate, as it is unusual for a Labour Member to speak immediately after another Labour Member. It is worth pausing to reflect on why that has happened. In fairness to the Conservative party, it is being consistent. Conservatives do not like bus travel, they are not wedded to...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: I fully accept that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I wish to observe that the conditions that pertain to today's debate pertain for all Members equally. It is not easier for Labour Members to get to the House than Conservative Members—or easier even than Liberal Democrats. However, I shall follow your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and return to the subject of buses. The case for public bus...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: It will come as no surprise whatsoever to the hon. Gentleman to learn that I will have quite a lot to say about that issue later. Indeed, I have asked questions of the Minister about it, met various Ministers to discuss it, had an Adjournment debate on it and introduced a ten-minute Bill in an attempt to remedy the problem. So it is not as if I have been silent on the matter, and nor will I...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: The hon. Gentleman—I hope that I do not do him any harm in saying this—is absolutely right. An appropriate sum of money was allocated to the policy; it is the way in which it has been distributed to individual authorities that has given rise to the problem. Some authorities were given too much money and were reluctant to give it back. That is understandable, but the area that I...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: No, I have made my point about unfairness, and other hon. Members, at least on this side of the House, wish to speak in the debate. I do not want to use up their time. Nexus has tried to deal with the problem by drawing down its reserves to bridge the funding gap. That might be a reasonable short-term strategy, but it can only do it once. The reserves cannot be drawn down again, so some other...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: I have listened to the hon. Gentleman's address to the House with considerable interest, but, apart from cutting public expenditure, I have not heard a single policy proposal from the Conservative party. What are his policy proposals on bus travel?
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: I do not see what is wrong with any of that.
- Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: I think that I answered the hon. Gentleman's point. My argument is that we can confidently rely on NATO's nuclear deterrent because we are members of NATO and that we can trust our American allies.
- Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox). When he referred to the danger posed to us by Russia, I at first thought that he was using an old Conservative party speaking note, but as he developed the argument I could see that he was referring to contemporary circumstances. My judgment of the current situation is not the same as his. The 20th century has not been kind...
- Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)
Nick Brown: I fully understand and acknowledge my hon. Friend's constituency interest in these matters, and I accept what she said about the Defence Committee's views. I shall make a similar argument myself. It is also argued that the independent strategic nuclear deterrent affects our status in the European Union and with America. Although I think those are the real arguments that underpin the views of...
- [Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Energy Costs (23 Jan 2007)
Nick Brown: I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) on securing the debate. He has a distinguished career as a parliamentarian in championing causes that matter very much to the poor and disadvantaged. I am thinking particularly of his private Member's Bills that became the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986...