Results 1-20 of 1,083 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Jimmy Hood

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Devolution Settlement (14 Oct 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention to the Hansard for 16 July? In answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) as to when he would be given an opportunity to vote for a Scottish Grand Committee to be held, the Leader of the House answered that "there needs to be an opportunity for the Scottish Grand Committee to meet, and I will look for an...

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: I was in the States last week with the NATO Science and Technology Committee, visiting the Harvard JFK school of government in Boston and discussing topics that dealt with the priorities of President Obama's Administration and developments in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. We also examined scientific advances, such as soldier nanotechnologies and cyberterrorism, and talked to experts in...

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: Is my hon. Friend's argument that the people of France are living in danger because 77 per cent. of their electricity is generated from nuclear power?

[Mr. Jim Hood in the Chair] — Railways (North of England) (1 Jul 2009)

Jimmy Hood: Order. We now come to the next debate.

Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill: Clause 7 — Charge and main rates for financial year 2010 (12 May 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.

Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill: Clause 8 — Small companies' rates and fractions for financial year 2009 (12 May 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 6, page 3, line 23, at end insert— '(1A) The Treasury may by regulations provide for the introduction of a very small companies relief from the small companies' rate under subsection (1) for businesses with a rateable value of less than £25,000. (1B) Regulations under subsection (1A) shall be made by statutory...

Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill: Clause 7 — Charge and main rates for financial year 2010 (12 May 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: Order. May I ask the hon. Gentleman to speak a bit more about the amendment as opposed to the generality of corporation tax?

Transport (North-West) (21 Apr 2009)

Jimmy Hood: Order. We now come to a debate on the capital programme at Canterbury college.

Transport (North-West) (21 Apr 2009)

Jimmy Hood: Order. The hon. Gentleman is not giving way.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Credit (18 Mar 2009) has video

Jimmy Hood: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the decision of two English local authorities to sue RBS in American courts is welcome? Will he encourage Scottish local authorities that have similar concerns to do the same? Will he assure me that the Government will be as accommodating, if necessary, to any future extradition application from America for RBS bankers as they were in the case of the...

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Hood: I have come to the end of the list of the hon. and right hon. Members who requested to speak in the debate. Thanks to their brevity, I am minded to take Front Bench speeches at about 12 o'clock. We have room for one or two brief contributions from Members who want to speak but did not put in a letter.

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Hood: Order. I know that there is great interest in the debate and a lot of hon. Members are in attendance, but I hope that hon. Members will restrain themselves and allow the hon. Lady who has secured the debate to make her case without putting her off with comments or laughter.

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Hood: Order.

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Hood: Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. Interventions should be short.

Equitable Life (25 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Hood: Order. Interventions should be brief.

Deferred Division: European Scrutiny (Standing Orders) (12 Nov 2008) has video

Jimmy Hood: I do not know whether I am feeling nostalgic or whether the hon. Gentleman is, but I want to correct him on one point and to disagree with my hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick). The Folketing committee is not the best scrutinising committee in the EU. It was always my argument that this Parliament had the best scrutinising Committee in the EU. The Folketing committee mandates...

Deferred Division: European Scrutiny (Standing Orders) (12 Nov 2008) has video

Jimmy Hood: The right hon. Lady knows that no other Committee deliberates in public. What is so special about the European Scrutiny Committee that it should do so in public, and what effect would that have on the advisers to the Committee? Is it not the case that the real scrutiny is done when legislation undergoes further scrutiny in the European Committee or Select Committee?

Business of the House: Regional Accountability (12 Nov 2008) has video

Jimmy Hood: I welcome the regional Select Committees. Given that the motion says that they will come into effect from 1 January 2009, may I invite my right hon. and learned Friend to treat as a matter of urgency the calling of the Scottish Grand Committee, which has not met for some time and needs to meet to discuss some very important issues concerning Scotland? I look forward to seeing that on the...

Business of the House (12 Nov 2008) has video

Jimmy Hood: Or the last.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Banking Sector (29 Oct 2008) has video

Jimmy Hood: May I first congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new appointment as Secretary of State for Scotland? I am delighted to see him at the Dispatch Box. Does he agree that the Scottish banking situation is so important that we cannot just leave it to Adjournment debates in the House of Commons? Will he therefore have a word with the Leader of the House to have a Scottish Grand Committee called...