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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

Harry Cohen: I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. On Iraq, he will know that the Government refused to give out the number of Iraqi civilian casualties who died in that war. Will he be prepared to give out the number of Iraqi civilian casualties who have died in this war?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Work Visas (26 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: If he will make it his policy to allow those whose applications for work visas are under consideration to work until final determination of their case is made.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Work Visas (26 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: My advice surgeries are filled with people who are going to be granted the right to stay but are not allowed to work. If we take Mrs. Pierre-Louis, who is married to a British citizen and has an eight-year-old British son, we find that her only mistake was to fill in the wrong form at the Home Office. She has now received the sack, even though her employer, the council, acknowledges that she...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (26 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Although I support the Government's legacy programme, cases are being taken out of sequence, dealing with families first. This will result in an onerous burden on local authorities and the Benefits Agency. How will the Government mitigate this problem? Will they move back to taking cases in sequence, and will they allow people to work ahead of their decision?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Personal Accounts (19 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Will the Minister ensure that employers contribute their share to the personal accounts of their employees and do not, under false pretences, get their employees to opt out when it is not appropriate?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (19 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Has the Minister seen the recent report from the TUC stating that if a person loses their job, their out-of-work benefits are just 10 per cent. of the average salary? They were 19 per cent. in 1970. Does that not show that it would be wrong to launch another assault on benefit levels, as the Tories want to do, when they are already difficult for people who lose their jobs?

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Harry Cohen: My hon. Friend started with a cricket metaphor, so will she recognise that the friends and family of Mr. Biggs are sad that he is not out? Will she also confirm that the parole board recommended that he be released—that he be out—and that the decision by the Secretary of State for Justice against that is not a judicial one, but a political one?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Harry Cohen: rose—

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Harry Cohen: I wish to raise the case of the prisoner, Ronnie Biggs. A fortnight ago the Secretary of State for Justice made a decision on his case. His son, Michael Biggs, invited me to visit him in prison, HMP Norwich. I applied to the governor to visit. I wanted to see if this 80-year-old was a threat to society. His son said that his health was frail, so I wanted to see what sort of condition he was...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (21 Jul 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: In 2006, the Information Commissioner's Operation Motorman referred to hundreds of journalists who had got information on people from private detectives by illegal means. Those journalists, and the newspapers that they work for, have not been named. Has the Justice Department been involved in that cover-up? Can they be named, so that the people who were the victims of those illegal activities...

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: May we have a full-scale debate about the media in this country—not just about the Coulson illegal phone-tapping affair, but about BBC pay and pensions, which far exceed those of Members, the vile bile that is written about Members and, paradoxically, the need to save local journalists' jobs? May I put this question to the Government and ask the Leader of the House about Government...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (9 Jul 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: There is very poor availability of information to compare the prices and performance of the different energy companies. A very nice lady from Centrica British Gas, Catherine May, told me it leads the way in implementing the Government's scheme for insulation in the homes of the elderly, but it has halted the processing of new applications and other companies do not do anything at all. When...

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

Harry Cohen: What recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart to seek to achieve progress towards Tibetan autonomy within an overall China.

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

Harry Cohen: Will the Minister urge his Chinese counterpart to end the outdated rhetoric of hostility towards the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan supporters? Will he tell him that that autonomy is a genuine and workable concept within an overall China, that it is not independence, as the hardliners pretend, and that it can help to provide an important degree of self-determination and can protect the unique...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Is not the Secretary of State being mealy-mouthed in saying that many thousands of Iraqis died? Was it not 1 million? Cannot he at least confirm that?

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Hundreds of thousands?

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: Will the Foreign Secretary give way?

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Harry Cohen: On a point of clarification?