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Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Syria (20 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: Was the intervention by Israel helpful?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Under-occupancy Penalty (Wales) (20 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: How many households in Wales have been affected by the under-occupancy penalty to date.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Under-occupancy Penalty (Wales) (20 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: BBC Wales reports that for every 70 victims of the bedroom tax, only one alternative unit of accommodation is available. That means that 69 out of every 70 will have no choice but to endure this tax, which is unfair, impractical and will further impoverish the already poor.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (20 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: For many, retirement is a welcome liberation from demeaning drudgery. For others, it is an unwelcome end to their useful lives, often leading to ill health. What are the Government doing to ensure more choice in the age of retirement?

Business of the House (16 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: When can we have a debate on who runs Tory Britain? The Queen’s Speech did not contain a Bill to reduce the effects of smoking or excessive drinking. The promised Bill on lobbying is again not included, despite the Prime Minister saying in an impassioned speech a fortnight before the general election that this would be the next scandal. Is not the answer to “Who runs Tory...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Religious Freedom (16 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: I am afraid that the hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) is one of the very gullible Members of this House who have been seduced by a cult that is a tiny part of the Plymouth Brethren. Their real name is the Exclusive Brethren, or Hales Brethren, and they were, rightly, the only religion of 1,178 to be refused charitable status by the Charities Commission. This was the most egregious...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Petrol Prices (15 May 2013)

Paul Flynn: What is the Secretary of State doing to prevent another rip-off by Électricité de France, which has an atrocious record in cost overruns and delays, and which demands a 40-year guarantee of twice the current price for building Hinkley Point, at a time when abundant sources of energy are being discovered throughout the world? Will he guarantee that the House debates that before a...

Sergei Magnitsky Case: Visa Restrictions (16 April 2013)

Paul Flynn: The hon. Gentleman is to be warmly congratulated on the subject of this debate. Does he not think, though, that his party would be better working in groups such as the Christian Democrats, its natural home, rather than being allied with groups that often contain many members of Putin’s party and other right-wing parties? Would that not be a way forward for his party so that it could...

Business of the House: Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April) (16 April 2013)

Paul Flynn: It is a daunting prospect to follow two speeches that do great credit to this Chamber. I look forward to the next election when the voters in many lucky constituencies will have the chance of putting right the major defect in this House. We are elected here to represent how the country looks: at the moment there are more women here, but not enough of them; there are more ethnic minorities...

Tributes to Baroness Thatcher (10 April 2013)

Paul Flynn: Unwisely, I once put down a written question to Prime Minister Thatcher, asking her to list the failures of her premiership. The answer was disappointingly brief. Another MP tabled a question asking her to list the successes of her premiership. The answer cost £4,500 and filled 23 columns of Hansard. Modesty was never her prime virtue, but she had many virtues and I would rank her as one...

Points of Order (26 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is the third point of order about Members trying to bring the Executive to account. There were stories in this morning’s paper that, contrary to the coalition agreement, large subsidies will be paid to the nuclear industry. There is a motion after the ten-minute rule Bill entitled “Financial Assistance to Industry” on which there can be...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: With all the voodoo economics and fiddles that have now been exposed, is not the Treasury exposed as the most disreputable massage parlour in Britain?

Business of the House: Afghanistan (21 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: I thank and congratulate the Government and the staff at Brize Norton on the very sensitively conceived new facility for receiving the fallen from Afghanistan and on providing some consolation to their loved ones. Frederick and Kimberly Kagan were at the right hand of General Petraeus during his time in Afghanistan, and they had access to all the secret documents and secret meetings. They...

Business of the House (21 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: When can we debate the subject that is being discussed in almost every television studio, newspaper and pub in the country—that is, Britain’s decision 10 years ago to join Bush’s war in Iraq? A timely request for such a debate was made by two Tories, a Green Member and a Labour Member, yet it has not been timetabled. Is it not of paramount importance that we discuss the...

Fuel Poverty (Wales) — [Mrs Linda Riordan in the Chair] (19 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: I am reminded of a debate that took place when I was the Opposition spokesman on pensions—if hon. Members can remember that; it was in the dark age of Thatcherism—in which the then Minister suggested that elderly people should go to jumble sales and buy coats to put on, saying that they would get good value. That was only a few months after Edwina Currie suggested that the elderly...

Fuel Poverty (Wales) — [Mrs Linda Riordan in the Chair] (19 March 2013)

Paul Flynn: Fuel poverty is about the cost of the fuel. I am sure that there will be great cheers in the main Chamber tomorrow if we hear the expected announcement that the price of petrol and diesel will be frozen—[Interruption.] Hon. Members will be cheering and it will be welcomed. The consequence, however, is that fuel will be cheaper, so there will greater congestion, more pollution and more...