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Public Transport (Disabled Access) (10 Nov 2009)

Tom Clarke: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on introducing an extremely important debate, and I am grateful to him for giving way. One of my constituents who has a disability and uses a wheelchair lives on a bus route served by four different drivers. She said that three of them are excellent, but that the other one has told her more than once that she is a pest. Would the hon. Gentleman agree that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: International Development (3 Nov 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Development on proposals to ensure the Government meet a target of allocating 0.7 per cent. of gross national income to overseas development assistance by 2013.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: International Development (3 Nov 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Is my hon. Friend aware of any discussions involving those who recognise that ODA funding has also got to be matched against the need for increased resources to combat climate change, and will we set out our stall ahead of the Copenhagen summit?

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

Tom Clarke: I am listening closely to the hon. Gentleman's arguments. Will he define how one becomes and remains a senior Member of the House?

Sri Lanka (IDP Camps) — [Dr. William McCrea in the Chair] (28 Oct 2009)

Tom Clarke: Thank you, Dr. McCrea. I shall choose two points from the speech that I was going to make. Incidentally, many of them have been covered in the excellent introduction. My right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, North (Joan Ryan) set the tone, and it is fair to say that it is a tone of anger. We are angry about what is going on and that it has taken so long even to get where we are. I will...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: HIV Vaccine (Funding) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Will my hon. Friend and his ministerial colleagues use their influence to ensure that people, particularly in east Africa, including Uganda, are not encouraged to pull out of the necessary treatment because of the terrible picture in terms of the food shortage?

Business of the House (16 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: May I put to my right hon. and learned Friend what is the biggest issue at my constituency surgeries, and which was the subject of my Adjournment debate a couple of weeks ago and was raised by Members on both sides of the Chamber earlier today? It is the banks and their lending policies. Can we make it clear to them before the recess that much as we supported the Government's attitude to them...

Business, Innovation and Skills: Steel Industry (16 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: In congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Newport, East (Jessica Morden), let me say that her campaign goes well beyond Wales, vital though that is. In my county of Lanarkshire we have men and women with the skills and potential to do still more, but we would like to know what Corus's strategy really is?

Vaccine Damage Compensation (8 Jul 2009)

Tom Clarke: I apologise for arriving two minutes into my hon. Friend's speech. We all welcome the fantastic job that he has done in this field, but will he comment on the problem of vaccine-damaged children who become adults, but whose families continue to fight on their behalf?

Petition — Hospital Parking Charges (Cheshire): Bank Lending Policies (1 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: May I express my thanks to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to raise the subject of the debate and take the opportunity to congratulate you on your election to your distinguished post? Many of my constituents will be pleased that I am taking the opportunity to highlight what history will surely judge to be a financial injustice perpetrated by the power of some banks against individual...

Petition — Hospital Parking Charges (Cheshire): Bank Lending Policies (1 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: I very much welcome my hon. Friend's remarks, and I assure her that in my constituency, many small businesses in particular take the same view. Meanwhile, there is no moratorium preventing the banks from continuing to levy the charges I have mentioned, which I find completely unfair and also unnecessary. I have been very critical of the banks on this subject, as is evident on my website and...

Petition — Hospital Parking Charges (Cheshire): Bank Lending Policies (1 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: I will but I hope my hon. Friend will be brief because I am under a time limit.

Petition — Hospital Parking Charges (Cheshire): Bank Lending Policies (1 Jul 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: My hon. Friend has made an excellent point, and I am very glad that he has put his views on the record. It seems to me eminently sensible to take appropriate action and prevent more customers from being overcharged. No other company would get away with imposing massive penalty charges, and the banking institutions must be pressurised into stopping this malpractice, as it is crippling the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iran (30 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: As one who visited Iran during a period of great tension, when we had nobody at our embassy and the American embassy was similarly closed—this was prior to the release of Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan—may I gently urge my right hon. Friend, despite the fact that I welcome everything he had to say, to accept that there is a difference between rhetoric and diplomacy?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Humanitarian Assistance (Pakistan) (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: What steps his Department is taking with international partners to ensure the direct delivery of aid to internally displaced persons in the autonomous tribal areas of northern Pakistan.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Humanitarian Assistance (Pakistan) (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: In view of the importance of security in northern Pakistan to NATO's efforts in Afghanistan, does the Minister share my concern that the aid agencies and NGOs are clearly underfunded? Can we give some thought to ensuring that proper resources are made available?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Can the Prime Minister tell the House of his reaction to recent events in Burma? Does he agree that the imprisonment, illegal as it is, of pro-democracy campaigners and the shameful, farcical and sham trial of Aung San Suu Kyi does nothing for Burma's standing in the international community?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Local Authority Finance (17 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Mr. Speaker, may I join those who pay tribute to you in saying that I am extremely grateful for your many acts of kindness to me, which began when I made my maiden speech from the back row of the Opposition Benches? Will my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State confirm that allocations to local authorities will still be made by the devolved Executive in Holyrood, and that they remain twice...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Debt Reduction (9 Jun 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Since debt reduction is of the utmost importance to developing countries, will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government remain absolutely committed to achieving the millennium development goals?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Tom Clarke: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?