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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Russell Brown: The hon. Gentleman lost me somewhere during his argument, but I shall take him back, because I recognise that he is at odds with my good friend, the Secretary of State. The hon. Gentleman will not answer the Secretary of State's question about 2010-11, so will he clarify for others, with whom he may not be at loggerheads, his party's exact position?

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Russell Brown: I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. I also want to thank the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies), who took time to meet me and two members of the Solway Firth partnership about the very issues that my right hon. Friend is raising. The Government's proposals were warmly welcomed, and the meeting...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Digital Television Switchover (20 Jul 2009) has video

Russell Brown: What lessons learned from digital switchover in the Border TV region will be used in planning for switchover in other regions.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Digital Television Switchover (20 Jul 2009) has video

Russell Brown: As my right hon. Friend has said, in two days switchover will be completed in the Border TV region. I sincerely hope that my good lady wife will ensure that everything is in order when that happens in my absence. I believe that the digital switchover help scheme initially caused concern. Has the uptake that we budgeted for been as great as my right hon. Friend expected?

Business, Innovation and Skills: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (16 Jul 2009) has video

Russell Brown: I fully recognise that my hon. Friend and other Ministers are doing the best they can, but there are still significant difficulties out there with some of the main banks. Are my hon. Friend and his colleagues making abundantly clear to Treasury Ministers and officials that small and medium-sized enterprises are, regrettably, still suffering at the hands of the major banks?

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage (9 Jul 2009) has video

Russell Brown: What recent representations he has received on the development of carbon capture and storage technology; and if he will make a statement.

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage (9 Jul 2009) has video

Russell Brown: I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Companies such as Scottish Power have a strong interest in CCS technology. Has he estimated how many green jobs and what likely investment there will be for the UK economy off the back of the technology, if it moves forward?

Vaccine Damage Compensation (8 Jul 2009)

Russell Brown: I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on securing this debate. Far be it from me to steal his thunder, but the Minister said that he would endeavour to work closely with Ministers in the Department of Health. On a previous occasion, my hon. Friend met two Secretaries of State to push the case for advances on payments for vaccine damaged children. If there...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Building Britain's Future (29 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: I welcome the Prime Minister's announcement of the £150 million innovation fund, which has the potential to lever in private sector funding that—as he hopes, and as we all hope—will generate a fund of about £1 billion. Does he have a time scale in which we will be able to achieve that?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd). He speaks with great sincerity, but he and I are coming from opposite sides of the argument. I come from a background where, if something has gone wrong, the duty lies with the individual or individuals who have got it wrong to start to put things right and to mend— [ Interruption. ] He says from a...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: I accept, to a certain extent, what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but let me go back to the point made by the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) in opening the debate. There is a clear indication that at the moment people are fixated—justifiably so—on the allowances and the expenditure that falls into the hands of elected Members, and on the way in which some people have...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: There was undoubtedly significant wheeling and dealing—grown-up politics, but fundamentally different from delivering on pledges and commitments to the people. The Scottish Administration have failed on police numbers, prison overcrowding and support for first-time buyers. I am only disappointed that I could not get hold of the Scottish National party's election leaflet so that I could...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: No, as I have only two or three minutes. At general elections, people deserve to have manifestos laid before them.

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: No, as I am not taking any more interventions. People deserve to have policies and manifestos laid out before them, but before I finish I want to take up the earlier reference to 1979. My late and good comrade Bob Cryer began his contribution to the debate on 28 March 1979 at 8.20 pm by saying: "That is characteristic of the Tories. They are not acting from principle. Their principle is...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: Given that the hon. Gentleman is bigger than me, I will give way very briefly to him.

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: Let me say to the hon. Gentleman, above the guffawing that is going on, that I expected a honeymoon period, but it has gone beyond that and what the Scottish National party has had is more than a fair wind; it has been a love-in that John Lennon and Yoko Ono would have thought brilliant. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) says from a...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: No, because, in spite of all this, I wish to finish by paying a compliment to the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague). I want to share a secret with him and everyone else in the House—nobody else is really going to know this. At the time his party was selecting its last leader, I was in a room with about 15 other people who were all members of a Conservative...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: Let me say slowly, so that the hon. Gentleman can understand, that Labour is a party of the Union; we do not believe in independence. As my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) said, we would much have preferred to see a different form of words used today; the nationalists could have used this Opposition day debate in a much more constructive manner. They have failed, and...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Russell Brown: The SNP Administration has been in Holyrood for just over two years. The fact is that in those two years this House has passed more legislation for the people of Scotland than the SNP Administration in Holyrood have.