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

Frank Dobson: I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. I...

Bill Presented: Coroners and Justice Bill (9 Nov 2009)

Frank Dobson: My hon. Friend is a lawyer and understands these things rather better than I do. Does he share the concern and puzzlement of quite a few people that in the de Menezes case, where some of the evidence was clearly related to national security, the existing law worked, whereas in the Azelle Rodney case, where we are told that national security is not at stake, we are also told that there is...

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: Will my right hon. Friend make sure that the reduction in the time taken up by the planning process is not portrayed by the nuclear industry as guaranteeing that nuclear power stations will be completed shortly? The fact is that apart from at Sizewell B, the principal cause of delay in getting electricity out of nuclear power stations was the vast delay in construction. For instance,...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: On international trade and opportunities for profit, surely the frameworks in Germany and Spain that the hon. Gentleman suggests are superior should be able to attract investment from British entrepreneurs and people in the City, who are apparently falling over themselves to fund green developments.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: Does my hon. Friend agree that the success of the high-speed link to the channel tunnel and the high-speed rail connections beyond it, along with the newly improved St. Pancras station in my constituency, demonstrate that the best way to deal with the demand on capacity at Heathrow is to ensure that people do not want to make short-haul flights to Europe? The sooner we build high-speed...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: You are a global lukewarmist.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: Today's debate is general and wide-ranging, and I will leave it to others to deal with many of the issues involved. It is clear that the climate is changing and that in most parts of the world it is changing for the worse. I wish to concentrate my attention on the one place that is most vulnerable to climate change and has the largest population at risk—Bangladesh, a country a little...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: I understand the hon. Gentleman's point about 10 per cent., but what we really need is a commitment from all parties in this House that any help given to developing countries coping with climate change must be over and above the aid that goes to them for poverty relief.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to remind the Tories that they need to be consistent?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: Will my right hon. Friend remind the Opposition that when the reduction in VAT was announced, they said that it would have no effect whatever? They cannot really claim that its reintroduction will be damaging.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: Will the differential aspect of the scheme mean that payment for getting someone into work in an area of high unemployment will be higher than for getting someone into work in an area of low unemployment?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: Can the hon. Gentleman give a single example of anyone from the Tory Front Bench calling for more regulation of the financial services industry in the past 12 years?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: It would appear that today's debate has confirmed what was said at the Tory and Lib Dem conferences. The Tory answer to the black hole that the bankers have blown in the public finances is to cut public investment now and keep on cutting, and the Lib Dems turn out to be not much better—they want to savage public servants' jobs and freeze the pay of those who survive. Both the...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: I will certainly give way so that the House can contrast what the right hon. Gentleman says with the wisdom of Paul Krugman.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Frank Dobson: I assure the right hon. Gentleman that I will get on to that issue later in my speech. We now need further exemplary steps. For a start, we must get away from this mad idea which dominates the news media, and dominated the Tory party conference, that the primary function of the Government after the forthcoming general election will be to reduce the deficit. Some even seem to believe that the...