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Points of Order (2 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I ask for your clarification, because yesterday we heard a Minister from the other place on broadcasts such as the "Today" programme, in particular, making a very clear announcement—I know, because I have checked the transcripts—that the Government were essentially going to nationalise the company running the east coast main line franchise....

Business of the House: Speaker's Statement (2 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Business of the House (2 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: May I take the right hon. and learned Lady back to a point made by the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Sir Robert Smith), which I fully support? The right hon. and learned Lady is meant to be the defender of this House, yet, rather shamefully, yesterday and the day before we allowed an unfinished and very untidy Bill to go through to an unelected Chamber with no further...

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: Clause 3 — Transfers (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understand that the statement is now due to follow the business that we are considering. I wonder whether the Speaker has taken it into consideration that, during earlier points of order about the Government's not coming to the House to discuss the nationalisation of a particular rail franchise and our having to wait for the statement to be made in...

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: Clause 14 — Short title and commencement (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: I intend to be very brief indeed. I completely disagree with the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan), as I cannot understand how anyone in the House would want to deny it the right to revisit legislation. That runs contrary to the whole point of being elected, so I hope that he has time to rethink his comments.

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: Clause 14 — Short title and commencement (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: No, the hon. Gentleman has had his turn. I support my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan), who moved the amendment, and I hope that the Lord Chancellor will look at it carefully and understand why we need it. The measure worked perfectly well in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, as we were able to make sure that we constantly revisit legislation we may have...

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: Clause 4 — Dealing with claims under the scheme (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: Does my hon. and learned Friend not agree that amendment 7 is a classic illustration of what happens when we try to rush such legislation through? That such a basic reality had been missed in the original drafting makes one's jaw drop at the bad legislation that we are now witnessing.

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: Clause 7 — Investigations (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: I do not want to interrupt my right hon. Friend's train of thought, but, having been a member of the Committee that introduced the Committee on Standards and Privileges, I have yet to hear from anyone that there is an urgent need for the arrangement to be changed. I know that we are not specifically discussing the case in question, but I have yet to understand that any other than the Leader...

Points of Order (1 Jul 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: Further to the point of order of my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack), Mr. Speaker. You said that you thought that the Minister on the "Today" programme did not refer specifically to the action to be taken about the company. I listened to the programme, and he made it clear and explicit that the Government would take over the responsibilities for that...

Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation: Schedule 2 — Commissioner for parliamentary investigations (30 Jun 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: Chingford.

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

Iain Duncan Smith: May I return the Minister to the central issue? It is not about the war itself, but about how we inquire into it. Whether one is in favour of it or not, the reality is that the Minister must come back to the House with a substantive motion, as the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) said. Sir John Chilcot could be told to do everything that we have described, but is it not important...

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

Iain Duncan Smith: I want to follow up on one point about which the hon. Gentleman has not spoken. I and others noted earlier that the political representative on the committee is from the other place. Does he think that an elected Member of Parliament or two should be on the committee, so that the opinion of the Chamber can be represented? After all, we voted on the matter. Why should someone from the other...

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

Iain Duncan Smith: I am grateful to the right hon. Lady—I do not think that she will lose any time by taking this intervention. On one of the big questions about the row between the State Department and the Pentagon and what was going on at the White House, was she aware at any stage that the Government made strong overtures about what was going on explicitly to require that a different system be put in...

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

Iain Duncan Smith: First, I draw attention to my declarations of interest and apologise to the Government and Opposition Front Benchers for not being able to be here for the opening speeches. I am grateful for your tolerance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in allowing me to speak in the debate. I was at a meeting with a charitable foundation that could not be changed. My apologies to the House for that. May I say at the...

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

Iain Duncan Smith: The hon. Gentleman's record on these matters is impeccable and I apologise for interrupting him in mid flow, but when I was Leader of the Opposition we called for a full public inquiry. That was before the Opposition adopted the present position—and, by the way, we did not use Franks as a caveat.

UK Deaf Sport (16 Jun 2009)

Iain Duncan Smith: The Minister is being helpful and lucid, but the complaint is that more help was needed to find other sources, and that help was not as forthcoming as it should have been. I agree that many of the contacts that he is suggesting, such as the Football Association and others, should have been included, but the help should have been forthcoming, and it was not. I hope that he will be able to...

UK Deaf Sport (16 Jun 2009)

Iain Duncan Smith: I am enormously pleased to have secured this debate in the ballot because, as I will come to in the course of my comments, this issue is not just about athletes, but about the way that we treat people with hearing disabilities generally. I am also pleased to have secured the debate because, until a couple of years ago, we had a remarkable school called Hawkswood school in my constituency. It...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Iraq (15 Jun 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: As someone who supported the war, I unashamedly continue to believe that history will record that what was done at that time will turn out to be a cause for good, and that a stable and democratic Iraq will be a force for good in the region. On that basis, I hope that the Prime Minister will consider some slight adjustments to this welcome inquiry. The first is that it could have a slightly...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Constitutional Renewal (10 Jun 2009) has video

Iain Duncan Smith: Many in the House, on both sides, agree that it is now time for radical change to the way in which this place does its business. In the discussions that I have had, many Back Benchers have agreed that one of the biggest problems is that the Executive have become part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Is not the point today that the Prime Minister has come forward with a...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Insolvency: Greater London (8 Jun 2009)

Iain Duncan Smith: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many businesses in (a) Chingford and (b) Woodford Green have entered administration in the last 12 months.