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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Why have countries like ours with good relations with Israel allowed the blockade on Gaza to continue for so long? It is denying Gazans the essentials for life, including reconstruction materials, and denying them a good living throughout this very cold winter.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (2 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Does this saga not indicate that what we need in this country is a straightforward and honest debate about whether the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, now almost 40 years old, and the A, B and C classification that is wrapped up in it are fit for purpose in this century? Please can we have a debate on drugs policy? It is a long time since we did so in the House.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (29 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: The announcement about what the Scout Association called the rain tax was very welcome, especially in the north-west. However, in applying discretionary relief, will my hon. Friend take note of the plight of all political clubs? If the scheme is applied to such clubs, as originally intended, it might result in further closures. I do, of course, declare an interest in this question.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Asylum Applications (26 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: My hon. Friend will know from his own casework that many of the people in the legacy stream have been waiting for a considerable number of years, and their lives are on hold because there is nothing they can do to progress their current status. Is the July 2011 date a firm one, and can he bring forward some of the cases?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Road Deaths (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: What percentage of road deaths involved collisions with heavy goods vehicles in the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Road Deaths (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Of those 40 to 50 lives lost per annum, 15 could be saved if the European Community directive on fitting retro-reflective conspicuity tape to HGVs were immediately implemented. Why, therefore, has my hon. Friend decided to postpone the implementation of that directive until the very last minute, in 2011? The Freight Transport Association said in Commercial Motor last month that the impact on...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Small Pharmacies (13 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: First, I thank the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for publishing its new guidelines on the sale of codeine-containing products recently. However, will my right hon. and learned Friend admit that the person paying for codeine-containing products at the checkout would not get the same advice in a supermarket containing a pharmacy as they would in the sort of small pharmacy...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Israeli Settlements (21 Jul 2009)

Brian Iddon: Does the hon. Lady not think that the Prime Minister of Israel is in a very difficult position when his own Foreign Minister is an illegal settler on the west bank?

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Free Theatre Initiative (20 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: How many tickets have been distributed through the free theatre initiative.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Free Theatre Initiative (20 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new appointment, and I look forward to working with him. The Bolton Octagon theatre hopes to give away 4,000 tickets during the lifetime of the scheme. Will he congratulate it on the fact that by the end of the summer break it will have allocated a total of 718 tickets of its 790 ticket allocation, which I think is pretty good?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Bank Lending (Small and Medium Businesses) (14 Jul 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: I have a medium-sized company in my constituency that distributes white goods to shops. Recently it has had to lay off a number of its work force because of the difficulty of acquiring trade credit insurance. May I ask my right hon. Friend what good news he may have for firms such as that, which are having such difficulties?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Illegal Drugs (6 Jul 2009)

Brian Iddon: Has my hon. Friend had an opportunity to assess Portugal's great success over the past eight years in reducing drug misuse? Will he transfer some of that best practice to the UK?

Archer Inquiry (1 Jul 2009)

Brian Iddon: Will my hon. Friend give way?

Archer Inquiry (1 Jul 2009)

Brian Iddon: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. When I compared the Irish situation with the UK situation in the House the other day, she said: "I cannot accept the comparison with Ireland, because the Irish blood transfusion service was found to be at fault, and that was not the case here."—[ Official Report, 23 June 2009; Vol. 494, c. 656.] However, will she admit today that the Irish paid out...

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

Brian Iddon: I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Ms Smith) on gaining this important debate. I am able to participate only because my Select Committee sitting this morning was cancelled, so I am here at short notice. The Bolton-Manchester rail corridor is one of the busiest in the country. I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham...

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

Brian Iddon: My hon. Friend is right: that is the crux of the debate. I have been the Member of Parliament for Bolton, South-East for 12 years and I have been writing to successive Ministers and Secretaries of State, pointing out the chaos that existed in 1997 when I was elected. With increased rail use, one can imagine that the situation has now become extremely demanding for my constituents, and they...

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

Brian Iddon: Indeed. I was coming to that very point, and perhaps I will pick up on it before I conclude. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Many constituents who are left on the platforms then have to find an alternative route to work. They either have to take a gamble and stay on the platform for the next train, which will probably also be overcrowded, or they have to take a local bus into...

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

Brian Iddon: Rail should be the safest form of travel, but a disabled person or an older person standing in the middle of the crush on a train will not think so. Older people need to sit down, and disabled people certainly need to, but it is not possible to sit down on these trains. Nobody will give up their seat, although it probably would not be possible to get to the seat in any case. Hon. Members have...

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

Brian Iddon: Then I am even more surprised. My hon. Friend did not mention the reduction in numbers on the TransPennine Express. My figures—she may have different ones—show a reduction from a promised 42 extra vehicles to 24. I say to my hon. Friend the Minister that if this situation continues, the Government will face increasing criticism. Things are already so bad in my constituency that...