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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — amendment of the law (24 March 2010) has video

Colin Burgon: May I preface my remarks by paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire (John McFall) and echoing his comments about the staff? Like him, I am standing down at the next election, and I should like to thank all the staff of the House of Commons, especially the ladies in the Tea Room. I hope that that will get me a few more chips the next time I go in. I shall...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — amendment of the law (24 March 2010) has video

Colin Burgon: I am not sure that I have always bought into that analysis, but I will try to deal with the state and structure of the British economy during my speech because it is central to the debate. Another letter to the Financial Times on 18 February from a further group of respected economists said: "History is littered with examples of premature withdrawal of the government stimulus, from the US...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — amendment of the law (24 March 2010) has video

Colin Burgon: I share the hon. Gentleman's analysis. Indeed, we share a common analysis of the problems at Leeds United, but we had better not go there. It is interesting to see that we share that economic analysis as well. As Joseph Stiglitz explained last month-this picks up perfectly on the hon. Gentleman's intervention-we need "investments in technology, education and infrastructure . . . In short,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Lobbying and Paid Advocacy (22 March 2010) has video

Colin Burgon: Is the Leader of the House aware of the revulsion that is felt by many Labour MPs about the attitude of so-called Labour colleagues? Surely, the answer to all this is to cut the Gordian knot and make sure that all MPs, especially Labour MPs, have no outside work at all when they are MPs. On a lighter note, will she at least say that this could mark the final nail in the coffin of the new...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 March 2010)

Colin Burgon: Is the Prime Minister listening to the growing number of voices calling for investment, not cuts, in next week's Budget? Does he agree that the Budget should serve not the interests of the speculators in the City of London, but those of the British people as a whole?

Colombia (Human Rights) — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (27 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: On that point, would the Minister clarify whether unanimity across all member states would be required to trigger that suspension? If that is the case, does he not think that it would be virtually impossible to achieve?

Colombia (Human Rights) — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (27 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) on securing the debate. I have been described as many things, but I have never been described as part of Labour's glitterati. When I look round at Members from places such as Barnsley, Paisley and Renfrewshire, and Bradford, I know that those are the places where the real glitterati hang out. My hon....

Colombia (Human Rights) — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (27 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: The hon. Gentleman talks about stability in the region, but have President Chavez's troops interfered in any other country in the way in which Colombian troops did in Ecuador?

Colombia (Human Rights) — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (27 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: Answer the question.

[Mr Mike Hancock in the Chair] — Leeds (UK Economy) (20 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

[Mr Mike Hancock in the Chair] — Leeds (UK Economy) (20 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (John Battle) on securing the debate. I want to speak for two reasons. First, I am a Leeds MP. Secondly, I am proud to say that I was actually born in Leeds-I am quite a phenomenon-and I have lived my whole life there. Over the years, I have watched the changes that have taken place in the city, and it has changed quite...

[Mr Mike Hancock in the Chair] — Leeds (UK Economy) (20 January 2010)

Colin Burgon: Yes. I am all for the intervention of councils, RDAs and the Government, because the market will not deliver for the citizens of Leeds. The Conservatives in our city may well practise free-market capitalism, but if we are subjected to it, it will be bad news for the citizens of Leeds. On the wider question of poverty, the RDA has produced an excellent briefing, which says: "On average 25 per...

Bills Presented — Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill: Christmas Adjournment (16 December 2009) has video

Colin Burgon: I shall try to follow the speech of the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) and the Christmas cheer that so obviously emanated from it. Over the past 18 months we have lived through a financial and economic crisis of international capitalism that is unprecedented since the great depression of the '30s. Historically unmatched levels of state intervention have been required to...

Nato: Royal Mail (20 October 2009)

Colin Burgon: The Minister, in his disappointingly one-sided statement, talked about the need for productive industrial relations. How can there possibly be productive industrial relations with a management who sabotaged the fourth phase of the agreement and who he knows, in his heart of hearts, have no commitment to keeping the service in the public sector and want to privatise it so that they can put...

Royal Assent (21 July 2009)

Colin Burgon: I understand that the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) is currently visiting a couple of countries in Latin America. Will my hon. Friend the Deputy Leader of the House use her powers to direct him to visit Honduras to lecture the military junta on the bad steps that they have taken?

Royal Assent (21 July 2009)

Colin Burgon: Neville Chamberlain once talked about "a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing." That could apply to the subject that I want to raise today-the recent military coup in Honduras. People probably do not know much about Honduras, but the journal Business Week tells us: "Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Two-thirds of its 7.8...

European Court of Justice Judgments (21 July 2009)

Colin Burgon: I am conscious of the time, and I do not want to go over ground that has already been covered. I asked the Minister several specific questions to which, given the time, he obviously will not be able to respond verbally. Could I have his assurance that he will come back to me with written replies to the questions that I put to him?

European Court of Justice Judgments (21 July 2009)

Colin Burgon: It is good to see you in the Chair, Mr. Martlew, and to see that the Minister is present. I would like to use our last day before the recess to discuss an issue I have raised in the past: the free movement of labour and the impact of that policy on working people in this country as enshrined in the EU, which, as we all know, is dominated by neo-liberal ideas. More specifically, I want to look...

Forensic Science Service (30 June 2009)

Colin Burgon: Will my hon. Friend confirm, and does this not betray where the Government are heading, that the notes to candidates state that the creation of a GovCo “is intended as a precursor to evolution into a private sector entity”? Do they say that, or not?

Forensic Science Service (30 June 2009)

Colin Burgon: Like my hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle), I declare a constituency interest. There is a Forensic Science Service laboratory in Wetherby in my constituency. My hon. Friend has covered the ground well. He is right to say that MPs have been treated shabbily. However, the work force have been treated in an even more shabby manner. The trade unions have been frozen out of many of...