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Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Home Schooling (12 Oct 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: The Minister must be aware of the real worry felt by people who home educate; there is a feeling that this is the beginning of the thin edge of the wedge—I use a cliché—and a move towards the German system of banning home education altogether. Will she give a categorical assurance that that is not the Government's intention?

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: US-UK Extradition Treaty (15 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: I take the Home Secretary's point that there was a need to examine this whole area, but does he not accept that at a certain stage it became clear that the system was not working in terms of natural justice, in the contexts of both public confidence and individuals? Can he not spend a little time telling us how he feels that it could be changed in order to end ridiculous situations, which the...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: US-UK Extradition Treaty (15 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: The Home Secretary is a very down-to-earth, reasonable and sensible person with common sense. Does he not accept that, whatever he might want to say and whatever briefings he has been given about how simple this is and how similar these definitions are, the reality is that to the ordinary lay person, including the Attorney-General, they are not the same?

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: US-UK Extradition Treaty (15 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: Clearly, the concern that is felt in the House about the high-profile cases is also strongly felt in the country. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is the mark of a strong Government, rather than a weak one, to recognise that mistakes have sometimes been made? I hope that many of my colleagues will join others this afternoon in supporting this very sensible move to review an Act that is...

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 1 — Implementation of section 1 (7 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: I support new clause 1, which bears my name. If my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) presses his motion to a vote, I will support it, because I believe that this is our last opportunity to say clearly to the Government that what they did initially was wrong. We then thought that they had accepted that it was wrong, because they made some changes which we welcomed....

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 1 — Implementation of section 1 (7 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: The hon. Gentleman is right. The problem is that whenever we say that we want something to be changed and we know that that is the right thing to do, a reason is given for it not to be done which makes many of those who have supported the measure in question change their minds and decide not to vote for it. They can all examine their consciences, and it is perfectly right for them to do so.

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 1 — Implementation of section 1 (7 Jul 2009)

Kate Hoey: I am not an economist, and I am sometimes quite glad that I am not, but I see things in a common-sense way. I find it incredible that we should not pass a measure asking the Government to find a solution to the problems of the 1.3 million people who have been so badly hit. The Government have had months and months in which to sort those problems out. It is not up to the official Opposition,...

Business of the House (2 Jul 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: Will the Leader of the House find time next week for those of us who disagree with the Justice Secretary's decision to overrule the Parole Board on the Ronnie Biggs case to discuss that, given that we allowed hundreds of terrorists and murderers to go free in Northern Ireland, and we also allow murderers who have done much worse things than Ronnie Biggs to go free? The Justice Secretary...

Forensic Science Service (30 Jun 2009)

Kate Hoey: Does my hon. Friend agree that not only did the previous Minister meet us to talk courteously about the matter, to try to get us to understand where the Government were coming from, but she also offered to go with us to visit some of the facilities, particularly the one in my constituency in Vauxhall?

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

Kate Hoey: I am sure that the public will welcome very much the measures being taken to speed up the process of sorting out the terrible expenses scandal, but is there not something missing from the statement? It does not deal with the fact that, although we are trying to make the Executive more accountable to Parliament, roughly 75 per cent. of our laws are still made in Europe, where we have no real...

Bill Presented: Stroke Services (3 Jun 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: I am very pleased to be able to make a short contribution to the debate. I also welcome the expertise that was so clearly demonstrated by my hon. Friend the Minister, by the shadow Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley), and by my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt). I speak not with any expertise in the matter, but as someone...

Bill Presented: Stroke Services (3 Jun 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: I welcome the increased investment that the Government are putting in, but the danger to which my hon. Friend refers is there. There is always a danger that large super-duper elements in any provision will tend to take away from what most people want, which is good local services. I go back to the point about central London that I made in an intervention on the hon. Member for South...

Bill Presented: Stroke Services (3 Jun 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman about the arbitrary nature of the proposed number of acute units, and I hope that that will be reconsidered. Has not another issue been overlooked? The millions of people who come into central London during the day, including tourists, will also be affected by the proposed arrangement. It seems even more arbitrary that Guy's and St Thomas', which is in...

Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment): Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [ Lords] (2 Jun 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: In making all those changes to our border controls, will the Home Secretary consider creating a new channel of entry for people carrying British passports, so that we do not have to queue up behind hundreds and thousands of people who are coming from other countries? Surely if we are coming into our own country with a British passport, we should have our own way of coming in.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Speaker's Statement (11 May 2009)

Kate Hoey: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order to point out that many of us—I hope from all parts of the House—feel that bringing in the Metropolitan police, who have a huge job to do in London at the moment in dealing with all sorts of problems, to try to find out who has leaked something, when, as has been pointed out, the newspapers have handled the personal details very...

Council Rents (Lambeth) (24 Apr 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: In a few weeks I will have represented the people of Vauxhall as their Member of Parliament for 20 years. When I was elected, I promised to speak out loudly about their needs and concerns, and to represent them powerfully, whoever was running Lambeth and whoever was in government. My constituency, covering the north of Lambeth, is a wonderful diverse community with very many people deeply...

Olympics: Operation Pathway (20 Apr 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: Given the real threat to this country from international terrorism, does the Home Secretary agree that the language that the Home Office and the Government generally use must be very carefully chosen? The public do not understand when something that is quite clearly not an issue of national security is treated as it has been. I refer, obviously, to the case of the honourable Member of this...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: I welcome this debate on Africa and the wide-ranging opinions and views that have been expressed across the House. In particular, the Foreign Secretary's speech and those of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat shadow Ministers showed how much agreement there is on many issues to do with Africa. I will follow on from my vice-chairman of the all-party Zimbabwe group— the hon. Member for...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

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Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Kate Hoey: The Secretary of State spoke about Gleneagles, at which there was a very useful meeting. Will he say a little about the other side of the coin—about good governance, what Africa's responsibility was, and what has been achieved, as regards its side of the bargain?